The Outsider: Nitin Sawhney
Andrew Smith, Guardian, The, 19 September 1999
Nitin Sawhney says he feels like a stranger in England, where he was born, and in India, the land of his parents. The tension has inspired him to create an album that plays like a soundtrack to Y2K, a record that is about us all.
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