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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S2E28: Nitin Sawhney

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy meet producer, composer, artist and Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award winner Nitin Sawhney.

Nitin discusses his diverse career that includes collaborations with Paul McCartney, Sting, Jeff Beck and Anoushka Shankar to name a few. He also shares a story on his meeting with Nelson Mandela and how the recent Pink Floyd track ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’ – which he plays on came about.

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Stuart Elmore for Gimme Sugar Productions.


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0:00.0

Right, hello Gary. Hello guy. Have we ever said goodbye? No. I'm wondering, was that the sort of

0:09.8

of hysterical laughter of despair? Yeah, how long I mean this the tour has been nearly 12 weeks now isn't it so it's

0:16.7

It's really 12 weeks. Yeah, it's yeah, but we're near the end. Although you mustn't start you mustn't think like that no you must know

0:23.2

yeah we're still on top four yeah you know the gigs are getting better would be the

0:27.7

shows are fantastic it's you know there's a no the gigs have always been perfect

0:31.2

they've always been perfect. Don't say that because

0:32.8

then people who saw at the beginning think, well, hang on a minute. What did I see?

0:35.8

That's true, but that is true. But you and I know that the little things that really, you know,

0:42.3

grow as a tour goes on are getting stronger.

0:46.0

That's true.

0:48.0

We are in Barcelona today.

0:50.0

We after a long drive down from germany where we've spent a thousand miles

0:55.7

about a thousand miles we drove yeah where we spent the last

0:58.7

last week uh... and now we're in the very hot Spanish city of Barcelona and it's going to be Madrid coming up in a couple of days, Portugal and then back home.

1:11.0

Then home, yeah. So there it is but today today we have fantastic I mean incredibly

1:16.7

God if you want to feel like you've been lazy in your life just look at this guy's

1:20.6

career and yeah amazing polymath and so everything really. Polymath was the

1:26.8

word I was after because Nittinsawny is just good at everything isn't he?

1:31.0

I mean he's he's a C be he's won 20 international awards

1:36.8

an Ivan Novello lifetime achievement award he makes his own solo albums

1:40.9

which are incredible eclectic mix of different world music. I know he doesn't

1:45.6

like that term world music, but music from different cultures combining together in a sort of

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