Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
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Artist: Nitin SawhneyEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-04-04
Music Label: Outcaste Records
Soundtracks:
- Broken Skin
- Letting Go
- Homelands
- Pilgrim
- Tides
- Nadia
- Immigrant
- Serpents
- Anthem Without Nation
- Nostalgia
- Conference
- Beyond Skin
Music reviews of Beyond Skin
Music Review: Beautifully reflective...
Rating: 5 Stars
Almost impossible to classify, Nitin Sawhney's "Beyond Skin" is a bold, deeply personal musical statement. Sounds boring?... well think again for this record is crammed full of haunting melodies, atmospheric arrangements, excellent singing and tight playing. It's subtext - India's testing of its first nuclear weapons (and all that implies for a UK Indian like Sawhney) - provides the backdrop for an innovative and, with one exception in "The Pilgrim" (a bizarre venture into Indian rap), wholly successful fusing of Indian raga & late 90's club mixes. Few "concept" albums really work but this inspired attempt achieves its objective through the sheer quality of its production: in particular, Sawhney's clever use of excerpts from radio & news broacasts to emphasise the album's chilling theme and to contrast this with the often intense beauty of its music. You don't need to share his views or his culture to enjoy it and you won't find much else like it out there but, once it gets its hooks into you, it will repay with enormous listening pleasure. File under "beautifully reflective"...
Description of Beyond Skin
Deeply moving and provocative, Nitin Sawhney's Beyond Skin chronicles this British East Indian's struggle to find his identity as a citizen in a country that is not his ancestral homeland. Sawhney intelligently explores such diverse topics as identity, race, history, and atomic weapons through the eyes of a devout pacifist, while creating a musical backdrop where trip-hop, drum & bass, soul, and world music coexist peacefully. --Kevin ColeA compulsive and unclassifiable mixture of Indian classical music, flamenco, killer acoustic drum & bass, hip-hop, jazz, and soul, Beyond Skin is one of those albums that vibes in its own excellent orbit. A profoundly humanist album, Beyond Skin should further enhance Nitin Sawhney's reputation as one of Britain's most exciting and imaginative musicians. It may be based on concepts--a challenge to ideas of identity and nationality--but it's also a fluid, meditative atomic jam with the string quartet Instrumental, Marque Gilmore, Jayanta Bose, Steve Sheehan, and the nephews of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, among others. Sawhney creates some incredibly moving pieces at a slow, elegiac tempo--"Homelands" is a deep bliss-out tune in which the astonishing playing of Instrumental combines in ethereal beauty with chanting tablas and the call-and-response vocals of Bose. On "Broken Skin" and "Immigrant," Sawhney scales new heights: political songs with exhilarating melodies and sing-along soul hooks. Yes, this is music full of rare invention in which atmosphere and austerity coalesce--a music vividly constructed around textures and rhythms, glimpses, and echoes completely in tune with the tenor of our times. This is a Britpop album from the mold of ADF, Drum FM, Massive Attack, and Primal Scream. --Maxine Kabuubi
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