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ARTiST....: nitin sawhney
TiTLE.....: london undersound
LABEL.....: Positiv-iD/Cooking Vinyl
GENRE.....: electronic
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 55,9 MB
REL.DATE..: oct-19-2008
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01] days of fire feat. natty 03:14
02] october daze feat. tina grace 03:26
03] bring it home feat. imogen heap 05:10
04] interlude 1 - ghost image 00:25
05] my soul feat. paul mccartney 04:03
06] interlude 2 - soledad 00:42
07] distant dreams feat. roxanne tataei 03:13
08] interlude 3 - street sounds 00:09
09] shadowland feat. ojos de brujo 03:31
10] daybreak feat. faheem mazhar 02:34
11] interlude 4 - identity 00:13
12] ek jaan feat. reena bhardwaj 02:14
13] transmission feat. tina grace 03:13
14] interlude 5 - tension 00:15
15] last train to midnight feat aruba red 03:46
16] interlude 6 - ronald gray 00:21
17] firmament 03:52
18] charu keshi rain feat. anoushka shankar 04:02
TOTAL TiME : 44:23 min
The trigger for Nitin Sawhney's latest project
came from a perception he shared with the singer
Natty that the 7/7 bombings and the murder of Jean
Charles de Menezes had effected a fundamental
shift in the capital's atmosphere. As he put it,
"London's heartbeat has changed". London
Undersound attempts to re-emphasise the city's
multicultural character through collaborations
with singers and musicians from all shades of the
cultural spectrum, their contributions linked via
found-sound fragments, such as street sounds,
spoken commentaries and Tube-train noises. "Days
of Fire" opens the album with a skittering
shuffle-groove and discreet acoustic guitar behind
Natty's claim that "Now it's all gone slow
motion... I'm all out of emotion". Roxanne Tataei
contemplates the individual dream-worlds of Tube
travellers in the subtle samba "Distant Dreams",
the dub groove "Last Train to Midnight" deals with
late-night unease, and Imogen Heap offers
thoughtful reflections on movement in "Bring It
Home". There's a satisfying congruence between the
sound-worlds of Sawhney and Ojos de Brujo in
"Shadowland"; less successful is Paul McCartney's
stolen-soul fear of the paparazzi in "My Soul",
which seems too particular to resonate on a more
general level.
Pick of the Album: 'Shadowland', 'Daybreak', 'Days
of Fire', 'Distant Dreams'
Buy me if you love me :)