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| 1. | Burn
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| 2. | Slither
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| 3. | Breathing Under Water
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| 4. | Sea Dreamer
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| 5. | Ghost Story
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| 6. | PD7
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| 7. | Easy
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| 8. | Little Glass Folk
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| 9. | A Perfect Rain
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| 10. | Oceanic, Pt. 1
feat. Ravi Shankar |
| 11. | Oceanic, Pt. 2
feat. Ravi Shankar |
| 13. | Reprise
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Jazz
Anoushka Shankar - Arranger, Keyboards, Piano, Producer, Sitar, String Arrangements, Synthesizer, Tanpura
Karsh Kale - Arranger, Bass, Bass (Electric), Cymbals, Drum Programming, Drums, Drums (Snare), Electronic Percussion, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Orchestral Percussion, Piano, Producer, String Arrangements, Synthesizer, Tabla, Vocals
Norah Jones - Guest Appearance, Piano, Vocals
Pedro Eustache - Flute
Ravi Shankar - Guest Appearance, Sitar
Salim Merchant - Arranger, Keyboards, Piano, Producer, String Arrangements
Shankar Mahadevan - Vocals
Sunidhi Chauhan - Vocals
Vishal Vaid - Vocals
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Mohan Vina
* Brian Montgomery - Engineer
* Chad Lupo - Assistant Arranger
* Evan Adler - Product Manager
* Gaurav Raina - Atmosphere, Engineer, Mixing, Producer, Programming
* Gautam Kaul - Assistant Engineer
* Gordon Jee - Art Direction, Design
* Greg Calbi - Mastering
* Herbert Waltl - Executive Producer
* Jayant Luthra - Assistant Engineer, Programming
* John McCracken - A&R
* John Stewart - Engineer
* Jonathan Dagan - Engineer
* Keith Karwelies - A&R
* Saul Williams - Author
Breathing Under Water is a different animal altogether. The pair co-wrote eight of the 13 cuts together. Another, "Easy," was co-written with Norah Jones -- Anoushka Shankar's half sister -- and sung by her. Ravi wrote a two-part tune with his daughter and appears on the album as well. The other big name guest is Sting (it's a payback for Shankar playing on a few tracks of his in the past). Shankar (sitar, keyboards) and Karsh Kale (guitars, keyboards, live drums) wind Indian classical music, rock, electric atmospheres, and a load of loops and beats (break and otherwise) with a host of collaborators who include the great arranger and pianist Salim Merchant (who also conducts the Bombay Cinematic Orchestra Strings on a few pieces), Vishwa Mohan Bhatt on his mohan vina, vocalists Sunidhi Chauhan, Shankar Mahadevan, and Vishal Vaid, and chamber players on bansuri, sarangi, and other traditional instruments, and programmers of various stripes. What's striking is that while one can imagine how this might sound, because of other attempts at doing the same thing, the end product would frustrate those anticipations to a large degree. Certainly electronic music is deeply rooted here, but so is the sitar, so is rock, so is Western classical music -- sometimes all in the same tune. It's exotic, but it's a another thing too, which feels like, well, coming home. The Sting track ("Sea Dreamer") may have fared better without his breathy vocals intruding. That said, the piano and vocal performance by Jones on "Easy" is what sets it apart -- no matter what one thinks about her singing, she really stretched out here and makes it seem effortless -- and makes it an inseparable part of the fabric of the album. "A Perfect Rain," with Mahadevan singing, is a thoroughly modern track in every way, but his gorgeous traditional vocal adds real depth and dimension to the other aspects of the sounds created here.
The blend of guitars, drums, sarangi, layered keyboards, loops, and live drums is gorgeous. Elsewhere, on the instrumentals such as "Little Glass Folk," Shankar's sitar work is sublime, tighter and more focused than on her other recordings. With orchestral percussion by Kale and Merchant conducting the strings in Western classical fashion, it's deeply moving, and even breathtaking in places as it emerges seemingly from the ether and travels from West to East as the two musics come together in something wonderfully cinematic and enchanting. The two-part "Oceanic," on which Ravi plays, is fantastic. It takes up a little over eight minutes, the first half with Ravi improvising over Merchant's string orchestra -- so moving and beautiful it's beyond all written language. The second part is a duet between the Shankars with accompaniment from Kale on tabla, Ajay Prassana on bansuri, and Pirashana Thevarajah on mindangam kanjira, with Merchant conducting the strings once more. The lyricism here is profound, spiritually moving (and not necessarily in a theistic sense of the term). The final cut, a brief interlude called "Reprise," is just Shankar on her sitar, Kale playing piano, and Merchant's wonderfully understated strings. As the record comes to whispering close, it begs an analysis as to why Breathing Under Water works so well. The answer is that Shankar came on far more aggressively here. Her discipline and sense of harmony and melody are very sophisticated, and she's always downplayed them on her own recordings. Kale, on the other hand, is not so heavy-handed in his writing, playing, or production work, perhaps because he is in the company of so many fine musicians, Merchant not least among them. This is lush and elegant music; it defies genres and pigeonholes. But it is also new, made from many old approaches as well as modern ones. Breathing Under Water is nothing less than delightfully -- and sometimes powerfully -- unique.
--- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Anoushka Shankar
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: Jun 09, 1981 in London, England
Genre: World / Jazz
Styles: Indian Classical, Raga
The daughter of sitar legend Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar began studying under her father at age nine, making her performing debut four years later. Appearing alongside her father as he toured the world, she appeared at Carnegie Hall while still in her teens, and also performed with Peter Gabriel's WOMAD festival. She was the youngest and only female recipient of the House of Commons Shield awarded by British Parliament "in recognition of her artistry and musicianship -- as a pre-eminent musician of the Asian Arts." Shankar made her solo debut with 1998's Anoushka, released when she was still just 17 years old. Anourag followed two years later. The young prodigy added another triumph to her already impressive career in 2001 with her Live at Carnegie Hall album. The fusion- and worldbeat-inspired Rise arrived in 2005, followed by Karsh Kale: Breathing Under Water in 2007.
---Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Karsh Kale
Active Decade: '00s
Genre: Elec
Styles: Adult Alternative, Club/Dance, Contemporary Instrumental, Electronica, Ethnic Fusion
Percussionist/songwriter Karsh Kale (pronounced Kursh Kah-lay) is primarily known for his tabla (the paired hand drums of northern India) and electronic percussion playing skills. Born of Indian parents, Kale grew up in the U.S., but was equally influenced by music of the East and West, resulting in the creation of a highly original style -- where electronic dance and meets Indian folk. Kale's debut on record was as part of Tabla Beat Science (the 2000 release Tala Matrix), while his own debut album, Realize, was issued in July of 2001. The debut featured guest appearances by such notable Indian classical musicians as sarangi player Sultan Khan, bansuri (flute) players Ajay Prasanna and Steve Gorn, as well as Ethiopian pop vocalist Gigi. A few weeks before the album's release, it's first single, "Distance," was issued -- featuring a total of four remixes, one by Kale himself -- plus additional remakes by Banco de Gaia and fellow Asian Massive producers Midival Punditz and Capt. Groove, both of whom are based in India. In 2002, Kale released Redesign, which offered remixes of the songs from Realize by such artists as Bill Laswell and DJ Spooky.
---Greg Prato, All Music Guide |
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