Beyond Skin
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| Beyond Skin | ||
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| Studio album by Nitin Sawhney | ||
| Released | September 13, 1999 | |
| Genre | Rock, Jazz, Hip hop | |
| Length | 58:22 | |
| Label | Outcaste | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Nitin Sawhney chronology | ||
| Displacing the Priest (1996) |
Beyond Skin (1999) |
Spirit Dance (1999) |
Beyond Skin is an album by Nitin Sawhney. It was released on the Outcaste label in 1999. The album focuses largely on the theme of Nuclear Weapons; Sawhney claims 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 with Oppenheimer quoting the hindu scripture - "Now I have become death, 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."
[edit] 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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