What debut album created by a musical artist who has performed with Aref Durvesh was nominated for a Mercury Prize?
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Aref Durvesh Aref Durvesh is a celebrated and prolific tabla artist who has recorded and performed with Badmarsh & Shri, Sting, Susheela Raman, Cheb Mami, Jeff Beck, Visionary Underground, and is also one of the longest-serving members of Nitin Sawhneys band, having performed on all of his albums as well as all his UK and international tours. His father was a musician, a disciple of Bismillah Khansahib, and a world-renowned shehnai player. Aref grew up with Indian music all around him and fell in love with tabla. Aref has taken traditional tabla performance into a new dimension by integrating it into contemporary urban music, jazz, hip hop and fusion, as well as being a virtuoso in the traditional skills. He is now extending his talents to producing his own album and performing live under his own name, while continuing to tour with Nitin and Shusheela.
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Susheela Raman Susheela Raman (Tamil: சுசீலா ராமன் ; born 21 July 1973) is an acclaimed British Indian musician. Raman has released five albums since 2001 and was nominated for the 2006 BBC World Music Awards. Raman's debut album "Salt Rain" was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001. Raman is known for energetic, vibrant, syncretic, and uplifting live performances built on the sacred Bhakti and Sufi traditions of India and Pakistan. She is married to Sam Mills of Real World Records.
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Nishat Monsur Nishat Monsur (Bengali: নিশাত মনসুর ; born 28 November), better known by his stage name Nish, is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist of Bangladeshi descent. He made his official debut in a Bengali refix of Mumzy Stranger's original song, "Jaan Atki" which became the first Bengali track to reach number 1 in the iTunes World Charts. He is an urban Asian artist known for his ability to provide a contemporary twist to popular music, describing his career as "pioneering a new brand of urban Bengali music and creating mixes of popular Hindi, English and Punjabi songs with Bangla lyrics". He released his debut single "Manja" on 24 March 2017 which instantly became number 1 on the iTunes World Charts for a number of days.
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We Are Pilots We Are Pilots is the debut studio album by American electronic rock band Shiny Toy Guns. After previously being independently released throughout 2005, it was officially released on October 17, 2006 through Universal Motown in the United States and Mercury Records in the United Kingdom, with linear notes of the album referring to it as "version 3.0". Production, recording, and writing dates back as far as the early 2000s, with several songs being written during founding members Gregori Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson's previous project, Dangerous Insects. Musically, "We Are Pilots" primarily uses influences of both rock music and electronic music whilst also incorporating elements of alternative rock, indie rock, pop, electropop, post-punk revival and disco, with the band receiving comparisons to The Killers and Franz Ferdinand.
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Diamond Duggal Diamond Duggal, also known as DJ Swami, is a music producer, DJ, songwriter and guitarist. He is also the leader of UK pop/electronic/Bhangra band Swami. An Ivor Novello and Mercury Prize nominee, he has produced and played alongside Mutt Lange on the Shania Twain double Grammy-nominated 2002 album "Up!". He has won the Best Producer category twice (2005 and 2008) at the UK Asian Music Awards. He also won Best Mixed Album at the South African Music Awards in 2010.
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Mercury (Madder Mortem album) Mercury is the debut album by the Norwegian dark metal band Madder Mortem. The members involved on this release left shortly after, leaving only BP and Agnete M. Kirkevaag. The music is described as "dreamy" with folk elements. Following this release the band's music took an extreme turn towards heavier elements.
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OK (Talvin Singh album) OK is the debut album from English music producer Talvin Singh. The album won him the Mercury Music Prize for 1999, but had sold only 90,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2011, charting at #41, making it one of the smallest sellers in the award's history.
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Duh (album) Duh is the debut full-length album released by the punk rock band Lagwagon.
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Agnes Obel Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel (born 28 October 1980 in Gentofte, Copenhagen) is a Danish singer, songwriter and musician. Her first album, "Philharmonics", was released by PIAS Recordings on 4 October 2010 and was certified gold in June 2011 by the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) for sales of 10,000 Copies. At the Danish Music Awards in November 2011, Agnes Obel won five prizes including : Best Album and Best Debut Artist. "Citizen of Glass", her third album, received IMPALA Album of the Year Award 2016.
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Ricky Kej Ricky Kej (born 5 August 1981) is an Indo-American composer, music producer and conservationist. In 2015, he won a Grammy at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards for his album "Winds of Samsara", a collaboration with South African flautist Wouter Kellerman, in the Best New Age Album category. The project, his 14th studio album, had made a debut at #1 on the US "Billboard" New Age Albums Chart in August 2014, a first for a person of Indian origin. The album also peaked at #1 on the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart in the month of July 2014.
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Becoming a Jackal Becoming a Jackal is the debut album by Villagers. In 2010 it was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Vinyl editions of the album contains 2 discs, with tracks on the first three sides and an etching on the fourth.
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Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie is a Canadian musician, whose debut album "Round Dance & Beats (Powwow)" was a shortlisted nominee for the Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017.
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Sohail Sen Sohail Sen (born 24 June 1984) is an Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood. He debuted as a film composer with the Hindi film "Sirf" (2008), which went majorly
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Durella (musician) Oluwadamilare Okulaja, popularly known as Durella (King of the Zanga) is a Nigerian recording artist, performer, songwriter and businessman. With his notable hit singles like "Enu Ose" "Shayo" "Wizkolo Wiska" "Club Rock" and "GaGa" featuring Wizkid, Durella is no doubt a part of the Nigerian music industry. He's also featured with prominent stars like Dbanj, Femi Kuti, Duncan Mighty, Terry G, Olamide, and Dammy Krane, and has performed live with Wyclef Jean in South Africa. In 2008 Durella was awarded "MTV Base Advance Warning Artist" of the year. He also is the first Nigerian artiste to own a shoe line: Durellasneakers, named after his popular slogan "2Gbaski". Durella issued his first debut album "King Of The Zanga" under TC- Record Label, and the second album, "Reconfigurated".
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Good Night (Reece Mastin song) "Good Night" is the debut single by British-Australian recording artist Reece Mastin, who won the third series of "The X Factor" (Australia) in 2011. It was released digitally on 22 November 2011, shortly after the show ended, as the lead single from his self-titled debut album. The song was written by Hayley Warner with Anthony Egizii and David Musumeci of the songwriting and production duo DNA Songs. "Good Night" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics, most of whom noted its similarities to Pink's "Raise Your Glass" (2010). The song debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart, and became the first number-one winner's single for "The X Factor" (Australia). It was certified five times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), denoting sales of 350,000 copies. "Good Night" also peaked at number one in New Zealand and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ).
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Sisyphus (album) Sisyphus is the debut studio album from Sisyphus, a collaborative hip hop project consisting of Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux, and Serengeti. It was released on March 18, 2014 through Asthmatic Kitty. The project was commissioned by the Walker Art Center and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's "Liquid Music" series to accompany an exhibition of the work of visual artist Jim Hodges, scheduled to run from February 14 through May 11, 2014.
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M.I.A. (rapper) Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (born 18 July 1975), better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and activist. She is of Sri Lankan Tamil origin. "M.I.A." is a play on her own name and a reference to the abbreviation of Missing in Action. Her compositions combine elements of alternative, dance, electronic, hip hop and world music. M.I.A. began her career in 2000 as a visual artist, filmmaker and designer in west London before beginning her recording career in 2002. Since rising to prominence in early 2004 for her singles "Sunshowers" and "Galang", charting in Canada and the UK and reaching number 11 on the "Billboard" Hot Dance Singles Sales in the US, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, three Grammy Awards and the Mercury Prize.
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You Are (Colton Dixon song) "You Are" is the debut single by American Gospel-Rock recording artist Colton Dixon. It is the second overall single. Written by Dixon and busbee while the songs production was handled by Sparrow Records.
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MF Doom Daniel Dumile (pronounced ; born 9 January 1971) is an English hip hop recording artist and record producer. Best known for his "super villain" stage persona and unique lyrics, Dumile has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF Doom, stylized as "MF DOOM". He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Madvillain (with Madlib), Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse), Doomstarks (with Ghostface Killah), JJ Doom (with Jneiro Jarel), and NehruvianDoom (with Bishop Nehru).
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Freddie Foxxx Is Here Freddie Foxxx Is Here is the debut album by East Coast hip hop artist, Freddie Foxxx. It is produced by Foxxx himself as well as Eric B. of Eric B. & Rakim.
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Borrell 1 Borrell 1 is the debut studio album by English musician and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell. It was released in July 2013 under Universal Music.
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Yerself Is Steam Yerself Is Steam is the 1991 debut album by Mercury Rev. The title is a malapropism of the phrase "Your self-esteem," and is taken from a recurring lyric in the opening "Chasing a Bee." "Car Wash Hair" was released as a single to follow the album. "Very Sleepy Rivers" is supposedly about a serial killer, with the river acting a metaphor for the killer's relative calm and sudden tendency to snap.