#McCartneyKiest Nitin Sawhney - Sunset
Aan het begin van deze vakantie sloot hij als kwieke tachtiger nog het prestigieuze Glastonbury Festival af. Deze week zoomen we in op zijn favoriete nummers met een paar verrassende keuzes.
Nog een verrassende en fijne keuze van Macca is deze Sunset van Nitin Sawhney, Brits muzikant, producer en comoponist uit Rochester, Kent waar hij al van jonge leeftijd piano, klassieke en flamenco gitaar, sitar en tabla studeerde: "My mum and dad both listened to Indian classical music, but also flamenco, Cuban music, a lot of crooners and a lot of pop. My brothers listened to a lot of rock music. So, I was listening to everything from the Doors to Led Zeppelin and a lot of jazz.”
Na zijn studies rechten aan de Universiteit van Liverpool gooide hij zich helemaal op muziek en intussen al goed voor een twintigtal platen en een resem van minstens vijftig scores voor film, tv-programma’s, docu’s en trailers. Ondertussen ook nog aan de slag als acteur (o.a. in bekroonde BBC-serie “Goodness Gracious Me”.
McCartney en Sawhney kennen elkaar en schreven samen My Soul voor Sawhney zijn soloplaat ‘London Undersound’ in 2008: “Well. So I’ve known Paul McCartney for a long time, and he came over the first time back in the 90s, to the shared flat I was in with Sanjeev Bhaskar actually. It was amazing because he called me up in the morning and said, I’m thinking of coming over and watching what you’re doing. And I was quite worried about that…because we were in a small room and everyone was frantically running around hoovering and doing all kinds of things, trying to figure out what to do with random cardboard boxes. And then he came up to my tiny bedroom, where I had all my studio gear, and he looked around, and then he looked at me and just said, “I used to live in a place like this”. And he said, “I wrote a track called scrambled eggs in a room a bit like this”. And he sat down and played Yesterday on my guitar, which is what that was. It was called “Scrambled Eggs” originally. So I was like, okay, “Paul McCartney is in my bedroom playing Yesterday to me, this is an interesting point in my life”. And so anyway, I got to know him. And then one time I was at his house, and David Gilmour was there, and they decided to have a jam at one point. So I ended up playing piano with David Gilmour on saxophone, and Paul McCartney singing. And then later on, at the dinner, Paul McCartney just started playing a note on the wineglass, just with his finger, just as we were chatting, and I said, “you know what, it would be amazing if you appeared on my next album, but not playing bass or singing, but just playing the wineglass” and he said, “I really like that idea”. So he turned up, but then he brought his bass and we ended up writing a song together, obviously.”
Heerlijk…
Bekijk hieronder een versie van Sunset van Nitin Sahwney met zangeres Nicki Wells.