New video! “Pirates And Diamonds” live at Accidental Powercut for Bowers and Wilkins
Just before I zoomed off to do Big Chill Festival in August, I played solo at the gorgeous St Barnabas Chapel in Soho for a night called “Accidental Powercut”.
It was completely acoustic and was part of a short series of gigs being recorded binaurally for Bowers and Wilkins and the British Library, featuring Talvin Singh, Polarbear and Tinashe among others.
Here is a video of my song “Pirates And Diamonds” from the night, produced by squareimedia. The black device in front of me is a dummy human head, with microphones inside its very realistically shaped ears. So if you watch the film with headphones on, your ears will hear what the dummy head heard as a binaural recording, and you’ll feel as if you were actually there.
Last year I was involved in the making of “Life Goes On”, a film directed by Sangeeta Datta, starring Sharmila Tagore, Soha Ali Khan, Om Puri and Girish Karnad.
I co-wrote some of the film’s music with composer and sarod player Soumik Datta, www.myspace.com/soumikdatta and I also had a cameo role in the film, playing and singing in a bar.
Life Goes On has just been declared the Best Film at the Pravasi Film Festival which concluded on Wednesday. http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article76681.ece Production photo by Vipul Sangoi.
