Music : Breathing Under Water
from: Manhattan Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094639539222
Label: Manhattan Records
Manufacturer: Manhattan Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Manhattan Records
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Sales Rank: 11764
Studio: Manhattan Records
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Album Description:
Breathing under Water is the soundtrack of a journey created by two of the most visionary talents pioneering the hip and fertile overlap of today's world music scene. Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale expanded beyond cultural and traditional borders of music on their new collaboration. With the help of featured guests Ravi Shankar, Sting, Norah Jones, Midival Punditz, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and others, the duo has succeeded in blending Indian classical, electronica, dance, and folk into a genre hopping triumph.
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Like her father before her, Anoushka Shankar is a musical eclectic experimenting with forms far beyond those of Indian classical music. Going even further than on her previous disc, Rise, Shankar, along with co-producer Karsh Kale, explores the meeting of electronica and India. "Burn" starts out as a romantic Bollywood theme before turning into a sultry soul tune with electronica beats, squiggly analog synths, and an impassioned vocal by Noah Lembersky. Shankar's sitar stutter glitches over a tabla-draped electronica rhythm on "Slither," courtesy of the Midival Punditz' Gaurav Raina. Guest singers appear on several tracks, including the ubiquitous Sting, who contributes his overly earnest voice to a power ballad called "Sea Dreamer." Shankar's sitar occasionally becomes a sidelight on her own album, leaping out for rock guitar-like breaks. She doesn't so much duet with Sting as accompany him. Her song for half-sister Norah Jones, on the other hand, integrates the singer's voice into a textural track of snaky sitar, as Jones mixes ethereal chorales and impassioned pleas. Much of Breathing Under Water recalls Bombay Dub Orchestra and their mixture of Bollywood strings, Indian musicians, and electronic grooves and textures. Both Kale and Shankar have writing credits on all but one composition, with their computer-concocted tracks often bridged by rhapsodic strings arranged by Bollywood composer Salim Merchant. His co-composition, "Little Glass Folk," brings an uncharacteristic Western classicism to the album, while the Anoushka and Ravi Shankar-composed work, "Oceanic," is the only piece aspiring to Indian classicism. Breathing Under Water is an ambitious album, although it has elements of pastiche, designed to expose Anoushka Shankar to a wider audience. --John Diliberto
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I ordered this and Chillounge together. This is by far the better CD. There are a couple of tracks that aren't as smooth as the others, but in general this is a good CD which you'll play more than once. I love the Sting track.
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Lovely music. Nice Indian flavor yet contemporary. Dreamy. Great addition to have Sting accompany on the one track. Ravi gets it going fast on his tracks. Love Karsh Kale on this.
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Being an avid fan of indian music , and owning a sitar myself. I thought Ravi shankar was the best , but he should be very proud of his daughter for in my opinon ,being the most beautiful woman in the world, not just by her presence , but especially in the music she presents , that makes her talent as beautiful as she is. I didn't know what to think when I saw this cd. I always wanted her to be just a solo artist, but I really was wrong. I hope she and Karsh kale do more projects together , this in my opinon is the best music she has ever done and this disc is by far the most beutiful piece of work I have ever heard.
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Anoushka is Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar's daughter.
After "Rise", which was released two years ago, got her a Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary World Music category she has been experimenting with forms far beyond those of Indian classical music to reach a wider audience.
Anoushka's album, made in collaboration with musician Karsh Kale, blends Indian classical, electronica and folk.
London-born and New York-raised, Kale balances his Indian heritage with rock 'n' roll, hip-hop and atmospheric pop.
"I am pushing the envelope on a personal level and trying to see how far I can go", Anoushka said. "It means so much to me to explore the Indian classical music my father taught me, yet I am so deeply excited to be discovering my own creative voice".
Imagine living in a world where psychedelic raves follow classical recitals and rock and roll dives become Bollywood hangouts. A world where one finds West Coast yogis immersed in Eastern culture and the New York underground drawing inspiration from the Mumbai club scene, where globalization is an internal state-of-being and borders were made to be crossed.
This is the world Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale live in and journey through.
"Breathing Under Water" is the soundtrack of this journey as created by two of the most visionary talents pioneering the hip and fertile overlap of today's world music scene.
The album is carefully constructed and composed, boasting some of the ... Read More
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Awesome music all the way! It must take 2 geniuses to come up with something like this. It took me a couple listens to get the music but after that I simply got hooked. Traditional Indian classical music takes a lot to get into, but this one melded with awesome beats and soothing traditional classical is what is the highlight of this CD. It is like hamburger cooked with spices, this music is spicy. Track #2 Slither and #10 Abyss are my favorite. Norah Johns with her half sister on track # 10 is simply amazing. Ravishankar and Anoushka's oceanic part 2 is addictive. Stings song is mediocre but still blends well. My least favorite of all is Little Glass Folk. All in all an amazing fusion music that has all the potential to be next generation indo-western sound. A classic fusion.
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