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
quoted 10 lines Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:22:19 +0200
>Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:22:19 +0200
>From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com>
>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?