Email this story Printable version Producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral composer Nitin Sawhney presents the final episode of his critically acclaimed BBC Radio series Nitin Sawhney Spins The Globe on Thursday Jan 26th at 11pm.
Nitin Sawhney joins the dots between music and cultures around the globe in a series which has utilised his eclecticism to explore flamenco, pop, rock, Indian classical, punk, electronica, reggae, drum 'n' bass, orchestral and folk. This final episode of Nitin Sawhney Spins The Globe includes music from Kenya's Jingo, Nigeria's King Sunny Ade, Australia's Gurrumal Yunupingu, India's Lata Mangeshkar, Iceland's Bjork, Japan's Shigeru Umebayashi and the UK's own Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke.
Nitin Sawhney's output as a musician is astonishing. He has scored for and performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, and collaborated with and written for the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting, The London Symphony Orchestra, A. R. Rahman, Brian Eno, Sinead O'Connor, Anoushka Shankar, Jeff Beck, Shakira, Taio Cruz, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Ellie Goulding, Cirque Du Soleil, Will Young, Akram Khan, Nelson Mandela and John Hurt.
Performing extensively around the world, he often appears as Artist in Residence, Curator or Musical Director at international festivals and works tirelessly for musical education, acting as patron of the British Government's Access-to-music programme and the East London Film Festival and as a judge for the Ivor Novello Awards, BAFTA, BIFA and the PRS foundation. He is a recipient of four honorary doctorates from British universities, a fellow of LIPA and the Southbank University, an Associate of Sadler's Wells, sits on the board for London's Somerset House and Whitechapel Gallery and in 2007, Sawhney turned down an OBE for ethical reasons.
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