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Nitin Sawhney Announces New Album: Dystopian Dream

September 2, 2015

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Nitin Sawhney

Announces New Album: Dystopian Dream

UK Release Date: Friday, 6th November

UK Tour Announced – including London’s Heaven Tuesday, 17 November

Nitin Sawhney has today announced the release of his new album Dystopian Dream through Postiv-ID on November 6. His first new studio album in four years and also his tenth, Dystopian Dream brings together the full breadth of Sawhney’s 360 degree global panorama in his strongest and most refreshing affirmation to date. Led by new single, When I’m Gone featuring Stealth, the album is set to become a fully choreographed show with the innovative and hugely talented Wang-Ramirez Company. A raft of UK dates has also been announced in support of the album, including London’s Heaven on Tuesday, November 17.

A distinct departure from Sawhney’s previous 9 studio albums, Dystopian Dream focuses on Sawhney’s familiar motifs of personal identity and swooping world-views, but this time driven by more cathartic themes of loss, isolation, surrender and perseverance. Featuring a bluesier, darker, more contemporary influence, the album is a modern homage to Massive Attack’s classic “Protection” album in its eclecticism and production values. Besides the customary virtuosic instrumentals, this is a true singer’s album, featuring- alongside Stealth- a hypnotically husky performance from teenage newcomer J’Danna, “BBC Introducing” graduate, Eva Stone, and a drum ‘n’ bass turn from Joss Stone. Virtually all of Sawhney’s acclaimed band and singers also feature, fresh from this year’s televised performance at Latitude Festival, and last year’s sell out show at The Royal Albert Hall.

 A gut-wrenching bird’s eye perspective on world events distilled into a personal epiphany, Dystopian Dream origins lie in the loss of Sawhney’s father in 2013 and the deaths of several friends and mentors. Says Sawhney, “I became increasingly disillusioned with the hypocritical world of politics, with immigrants (like my parents) once more being scapegoated and austerity measures being used to bludgeon the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society. I found these feelings of despair about political and social injustices being blamed on immigrants were being amplified constantly in the news.” As Sawhney’s life dramatically darkened, this album emerged – convoluting global events with an inescapable sense of frustration and personal turmoil.

 Nitin Sawhney was always a musical pioneer. From spearheading the 90’s “Asian Underground” movement with his ground-breaking and Mercury-nominated album, “Beyond Skin”, to seminal international collaborations with contemporary dance innovator, Akram Khan, (choreographer of 2012 Olympics) Sawhney is relentless in his pursuit of new sounds and boundless musical vocabularies. Along with hosting 4 BBC2 radio series of “Nitin Sawhney Spins the Globe”, and winning a host of awards since his last album release, Sawhney has also appeared as an “industry expert” on Sky’s flagship series “Guitar Star”, and is currently scoring the entire orchestral soundtrack for Warner Bros’ hugely anticipated film “Jungle Book Origins” (directed by Andy Serkis and featuring Christian Bale, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cate Blanchett).

LIVE

Sun 15th Nov – Brighton, Concorde II              Wed 18th Nov – Birmingham, Library at the Institute

Mon 16th Nov – Bristol, Trinity                         Thur 19th Nov – Glasgow, Art School

Tue 17th Nov – London, Heaven                      Fri 20th Nov – Manchester, Gorilla

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