Rainfall - Nitin Sawhney

Got today's tasks done. And I wanted to go somewhere to grab a great coffee. But alas, it rained suddenly. So I had to drink instant coffee-mix. Again. In this mood. Bah!!

CrewCut and Gramps are out on a survey, and Boti is somewhere doing who-knows-what, while Doyok is of course playing an online games. I've harvested my crops and cooked some dishes. And I don't know what else to do. Facebook is getting boring these days. And I don't have any ideas to twit on Twitter.

Then I remember. I am the only notebook user in this office and it means I can browse and download to my heart content with no shared wifi. Oh bliss!! And it's what got me to play all those videos on Youtube. From one musician to the others, and I landed on Nitin Sawhney's world. Was checking the #nowplaying on Twitter, and found this girl hashtagging #nitinsawhney. I must say I could love that girl's tweets. Hahaa.

So here I am, playing his songs one after another without any disturbance. No loading, no usual shits. All smooth and lovely. And set my mood to right. Anyways, the first song of his that I've ever listened to was Rainfall. He collaborated with Urban something, I guess it must be a hip hop group or whatever. And I fell in love instantly with that song. Then I waited until his album came out here in Indonesia. I didn't even care about the price. He's my key to India. Before his songs, I'm sorry to say, I kinda looked down on everthing Indian. I always associated India with countless Bollywood ugly movies and songs and poverty, dungs on the street, etc. No offense. I wasn't cruel, but I was ignorant. And now, I would grab the first opportunity to visit the country.

I started by looking up his name on the internet. Then I was curious on how he could make his music so beautiful. Despite his British background, his music is influenced by his homeland. That is definite. And one thing led to another, one search pushed to another search. I started to look up India history. I fell in love with their myth. I started to read Indian literature. I dream of visiting all those historical and beautiful places scattered all over the country. And it's all because of Nitin Sawhney. Maybe he should get an award for influencing people to get the positive aspects of his country?