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OK, Let's set the scene – a smoky bar, laid-back patrons smoking cigars, wearing zoot suits and black fedoras. It could be a scene that harks back to 1930s Bugsy Malone setting, with gangsters and molls conducting their affairs while the rest of the world hurries by outside, oblivious to the underground deals being struck inside.
Now back to reality, we have the smoking ban and it's extremely difficult to find a drinking establishment that breaks the rules of political correctness to allow such things. But at least, if they played this single by Nitin Sawhney and half closed your eyes and squint, you could imagine it. This single is from Sawhney's forthcoming album, entitled London Undersound, and he says: 'London Undersound is about how London's changed since 9/11 and how I and other people perceive that change. I don't recognise London as the same place it was ten years ago. The change has been quite subliminal and insidious. But it is massively different.' The "Witty Boy Remix" could have a few frustrated office workers and suburbanites shaking their boots, but the second track "Shadowland" is far more whimsical. It veers into being coffee table music for intellectual types in black polo necks. Don't take that the wrong way – it's actually quite pleasant, and almost compels the listener to go and dye their hair black, buy a black polo neck and waffle on about Andy Warhol at the next coffee bar they come to. |
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