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Performer: Anoushka ShankarPerformer: Karsh Kale
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Music Label: Manhattan Records
Product features:
- Anoushka Shankar And Karsh Kale - Breathing Under Water
- Burn
- Slither
- Breathing under Water
- Sea Dreamer (feat. Sting)
- Ghost Story
- PD7
- Easy (feat. Norah Jones)
- Little Glass Folk
- A Perfect Rain
- Abyss
- Oceanic, Part 1 (feat. Ravi Shankar)
- Oceanic, Part 2 (feat. Ravi Shankar)
- Reprise
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Free Music Review: Beautiful Indian-fusion from the sitar-goddess
Hit: 5 Stars
The sitargoddess Anoushka started her career with three brilliant classical albums, showing both ability, talent and spiritual depth. But it was first with her last album "Rise" she really took a giant leap forward and stepped out on her own.
On this beautiful album she has teamed up with percussionwizzard Karsh Kale, probably best known for his great drumming on inummerable Bill Laswell productions. On this album Karsh, who has co-written most tracks with Anoushka, mostly has the role of multiinstrumentalist, playing guitar, bass, keyboards, while his considerable rythmic talents are more downplayed.
The are some illustrious guests in the shape of Sting and Anoushka's (half)sister Norah Jones, and both provide stellar performances on what's clearly two of the best tracks. Elsewhere it's a host of classical trained Indian vocalists and musicians who sprinkle up things, like Vishwa Mohan Bhatt on slide guitar and Jaya Prassana on a very lyrical bansuri (bamboo flute). But the dominant factor apart from Anoushka and kale is the strings arranged by Salim Merchant, a very tasteful Bollywood arranger. Reminding me of Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass' collaboration "Passages".
Most tracks are brilliant Indian electronica-fusion, in the style of Midival Punditz and Tabla Beat Science, but things rise to a transcendental high, when father Ravi joins the procedures on the beautiful "Oceanic", pt. 1 & 2, co-written with Anoushka. Amazing with what mastery he still plays the physical demanding sitar at the tender age of 86, and how Consciousness and Bliss seem to emanate from each note. And the album ends in similar meditative mood with the breathtakingly beautiful "Reprise".
I fell in love with the sitar, like many in my generation, via George Harrison (and Brian Jones), and few plays it better than Anoushka, so it's great that there is actually a lot more sitar on this album than on "Rise", and that she seems to have developed even further as instrumentalist, realy utilizing the instrument in non-classical settings.
All in all highly recommended for all lovers of Indian music and of visionary and inventive music in general.
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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.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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