Beyond Skin

by Nitin Sawhney

Beyond Skin cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1999
  • Label: Outcaste
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 58:48
  • Community rating: 2.9/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize, 'Beyond Skin' tackles profound themes of cultural identity and the geopolitical implications of nuclear proliferation. Nitin Sawhney expertly weaves classical Indian instrumentation and complex South Asian rhythmic structures directly into contemporary drum and bass and downtempo frameworks.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Broken Skin (4:07)
  2. Letting Go (4:51)
  3. Homelands (6:02)
  4. Pilgrim (4:31)
  5. Tides (5:08)
  6. Nadia (5:07)
  7. Immigrant (6:23)
  8. Serpents (6:19)
  9. Anthem Without Nation (5:50)
  10. Nostalgia (3:43)
  11. The Conference (2:55)
  12. Beyond Skin (3:48)

Credits

  • John Schoonraad - effects [live cast]
  • John Davis - post production
  • Zip Design - sleeve
  • Shri - electric upright bass [electric double bass]
  • Sanchita Farruque - lyrics by [additional lyric contribution], vocals
  • Aref Durvesh - tabla
  • Jayanta Bose - vocals [as featured on bengali song]
  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee - vocals [vocal sample]

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