From Paddy Grove Sent Thu, Sep 9th 1999, 13:19
It was the Mercury Music prize for best album of 1998, and it's fairly meaningless IMO (although not to Mr Singh, who gets £20k). A few albums from widely-varying genres are selected by a group of music business types, then they argue amongst themselves as to which is best. Others shortlisted include Manic St Preachers, Blur, Beth Orton, Chem Bros, some folky woman (Kate Rusby), a jazz saxophonist (Denys Baptiste). It all seems a bit apples and oranges to me. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_441000/441303.stm The above article describes OK as Talvin Singh's debut album, but wasn't Calcutta Cyber Cafe his debut album? Or did he only produce that one or something? Paddy >Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:22:19 +0200 >From: "Irene McC" <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> >Subject: (idm) talvin's ok > >Hmm, so I hear on the radio this morning that "after some >acrimonious debate amongst the judges" they decided to award >Talvin Singh the Technics Rotary prize (is it?) for OK. > >Is the British press eating this one up? Who else was on the >shortlist?