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The Namesake (Soundtrack)
The Namesake (Soundtrack) (Decca 4759152)
SKU: 11899
Price:
AU $27.22


  
Label: Decca Cat. No.: 4759152 Medium: CD No. Discs: 1

The Soundtrack
The Namesake is an original motion picture soundtrack. The soundtrack consists of half original score material composed by Nitin Sawhney and half licensed tracks that contain elements of Indian folk and pop or Dali music, to hip-hop by artists such as Geeta Dutt, State of Bengal, Susheela Raman, Lakhan Das, The Elements and Mykill Miers, Kartik Das, Federico Aubele, Partha Chatterjee, and includes the track "Falling" written and performed by Nitin Sawhney and Aqualung and featuring the vocals of Matt Hales from the band Aqualung.

The Composer
Over the last decade Nitin Sawhney has carved out a singular niche in British culture melding the musical barriers between East and West, between classicism and popularity, interspersing music from around the world to club-land-culture. His 4th album, Beyond Skin (released in 2000) was short-listed as one of the albums of the year for the Mercury Music Prize and it also won the prestigious South Bank Show Award. Its successor, 2001's Prophesy - recorded in five continents and featuring over 230 musicians - won Nitin further honors including a MOBO, an EMMA and a BBC Radio 3 Award. Sawhney's latest album, Philtre, was released in 2005. Besides his own albums, Nitin Sawhney film scores include Pure (directed by Gilles Mackinnon) and Anita and Me (directed by Metin Husseyin).

The Film
The Namesake is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irrfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.

Produced and directed by the Academy Award-nominated Mira Nair, (Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, Kama Sutra and Salaam Bombay! to name a few) The Namesake is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.

With The Namesake, Mira Nair found ways to link New York and Calcutta not only visually, but via sound as well. Like the story itself, the film's soundtrack traverses both time and cultures. "I love Indian classical music and I wanted to link that classical sound with the pulsating New York sound of today," comments Nair. "So the soundtrack not only crosses 25 years of time but also moves from Bengali folk music, Geeta Dutt's "Jhiri Jhiri Choyetali" to hip-hop, "The Chosen One." And then there is Nitin Sawhney's haunting score mixed throughout."

The film's screen adaptation was penned by Sooni Taraporevala, with whom Nair previously collaborated on Mississippi Masala and the Oscar®-nominated Salaam Bombay!

Composers: Nitin Sawhney.
Tracks:
  1. Shoes to America
  2. The Namesake Opening Titles
  3. First Day in New York
  4. Jhiri Jhiri Choyetali
  5. Flight IC408
  6. Airport Grief
  7. Mo's Affair
  8. Farewell Ashoke
  9. Ashima Becomes a Widow
  10. Aftermath
  11. Ye Mera Divanapan Hai
  12. Baul Song
  13. Taj Mahal
  14. The Chosen One
  15. Max Arrives
  16. Boatman's Song
  17. Postales
  18. Amra Reformed Hindus
  19. The Namesake Reprise
  20. The Same Song
  21. Falling
Medium: CD
No. of Discs: 1
SKU #: 11899
Label: Decca
Catalog #: 4759152
Price: AU $27.22      
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