- Beyond Skin
Infobox Album
Name = Beyond Skin
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist =Nitin Sawhney
Released =September 13 ,1999
Recorded =
Genre = Rock,Jazz ,Hip hop
Length = 58:22
Label = Outcaste
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:zzen97uakrat link]
Last album =Displacing the Priest "
(1996)
This album = "Beyond Skin"
(1999)
Next album =Spirit Dance "
(1999)"Beyond Skin" is an
album byNitin Sawhney . It was released on the Outcaste label in1999 . The album focuses largely on the theme of Nuclear Weapons; Sawhney states in the booklet that the album "has a timespan that runs backwards", beginning at "Broken Skin" with the India-Pakistan nuclear situation and ending at "Beyond Skin" withRobert Oppenheimer quoting theBhagavad Gita - "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".Sawhney also aims to question what constitutes one's identity - he writes in the liner notes for the album: "I believe in Hindu philosophy. I am not religious. I am a pacifist. I am a British Asian. My identity and my history are defined only by myself -- beyond politics, beyond nationality and Beyond Skin."
Track listing
# "Broken Skin" (
Sanchita Farruque ,Nitin Sawhney ) — 4:05
# "Letting Go" (C. S. Gray , Sawhney) — 4:49
# "Homelands" (Nina Miranda , Sawhney) — 6:00
# "The Pilgrim" (Sawhney,Hussain Yoosuf ) — 4:29
# "Tides" (Sawhney) — 5:06
# "Nadia" (Sawhney) — 5:05
# "Immigrant" (Sawhney) — 6:21
# "Serpents" (Sawhney) — 6:17
# "Anthem Without Nation" (Sawhney) — 5:48
# "Nostalgia" (Sawhney) — 3:41
# "The Conference" (Sawhney) — 2:53
# "Beyond Skin" (Sawhney) — 3:48
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