Last Days of Meaning [Audio CD] Nitin Sawhney [Tracked 24 Post]

Last Days of Meaning [Audio CD] Nitin Sawhney\n\nA Mercury, Ivor, Mobo and Olivier nominated songwriter and composer, Nitin Sawhney releases his ninth studio album, Last Days Of Meaning . It is an eclectic and ambitious record (featuring the legendary John Hurt) which Sawhney launched with an acclaimed sold-out headline show at London s Royal Albert Hall in May. He returned in July to headline the RAH in July, spearheading the Human Planet at the BBC Proms, for which he has just been nominated for a Bafta.It was during sessions for Human Planet - the hugely successful, award-winning BBC series, entirely scored by Nitin - that Sawhney struck up a friendship with John Hurt, the narrator of the flagship programme itself. Conceived by Sawhney as a script before it became an album, and written and recorded in just five months, Last Days Of Meaning traces the character of Donald Meaning (played by Hurt), an embittered old Dickensian man, fearful of immigrants, terrorists and the outside wo!