because you re indian, 0h, he must be the bhangra guy . there was an assumption. but that kind of changed, and a lot of us made an effort to change that by getting into the club scene in london, by trying to make music that felt like it fitted in with more of a cool scene that was more mainstream. and so there were quite a few bands that were doing that myself included, badmarsh & shri, talman singh, cornershop, fundamental, asian dub foundation. it would be greatjust to give a flavour of what you are doing, and perhaps from one of your most successful projects beyond skin was the album. we re just going to have a quick look at a little flavour of one track that you then played again 20 years after the release of beyond skin. this was homelands, where you performed and it s an indication of how successful you ve become at the royal albert hall. let s have a look. music plays
The world has changed since 1999, but, as it transpires, not a great deal. That was the year that British artist of Indian heritage Nitin Sawhney released Beyond Skin, a fascinating and beautiful synopsis of immigration, borders, nuclear armament and division.