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Story: Jack Foley
NITIN Sawhney fans eager to get a first listen to his forthcoming
album, Philtre, should check out the iTunes Store on
Monday, April 4, when five tracks will be exclusively available
to download, four weeks ahead of the album's official release!
The sampler will cost £3.95 to download, and the first
500 customers will receive an exclusive, limited edition three-track
CD promo of previously unreleased live tracks from Nitin Sawhney:
Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2001.
Philtre, Nitin's seventh studio album in 11 years, is
already being hailed as his finest work to date - better even
than his excellent last album, Human.
Inspired by elements of all his recent projects, in particular
his return to DJ’ing, Sawhney collated ideas for the album
over several months last year and by the time he locked himself
away to record, found the music flowed more easily than ever.
The result is an astonishing collection of songs that take the
listener on a journey through global club culture, Indian classical
music, Bengali folk, traditional flamenco, blues, old soul and
R&B.
On Philtre, drum’n’bass beats rub shoulders
with sitars, flutes float over classical piano. Hip-hop, scratching,
trip-hop, castanets and flamenco guitars sit alongside hypnotic
strings and funky basslines.
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Renowned for the quality of his vocal
collaborators, Sawhney has sourced his strongest line-up to date
for Philtre.
Philadelphia-based Vikter Duplaix, Bollywood soundtrack star,
Reena Bhardwaj, Spanish collective Ojos
de Brujo, Ninja Tune’s Fink and human beatbox, Jason Singh,
join regular collaborators, Tina Grace, Jayanta Bose, Taio and
the soulful Sharon Duncan, as well as striking new discovery,
Jacob Golden and, on Rag Doll, even Sawhney’s mum.
In order to claim the free Nitin Sawhney: Live At The Royal
Albert
Hall CD, purchasers must forward their proof of purchase
email to receipt@v2music.com
On May 2 all 17 tracks of the new album will be available on
iTunes for £9.99 and the sampler will be deleted.
The five tracks available from iTunes on April 4 are:
1. Journey (Vocals - Victor Duplaix)
2. Mausam (Vocals - Reena Bhardwaj & Murtaza Khan)
3. Dead Man (Vocals - Fink, Jayanta Bose & Reena Bhardwaj)
4. Noches En Vela Part 2 (ft. Ojos de Brujo)
5. The Search (Vocals - Reena Bhardwaj)
Nitin will also be playing a series of live shows with full live
band as detailed below:
May
3 & 4 - SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE, LONDON
5 - THE LEMONGROVE, EXETER
6 - THE SAGE, GATESHEAD
7 - ACADEMY, MANCHESTER
9 - THE ARCHES, GLASGOW
10 - PHILHARMONIC HALL, LIVERPOOL
11 - DE MONTFORD UNIVERSITY, LEICIESTER
12 - ARTS CENTRE, WARWICK
14 - COLSTON HALL, BRISTOL
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