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Breathing Under Water | 
| Creators: Anoushka Shankar, Karsh Kale
Label: Manhattan Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 20681
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 95392
UPC: 094639539222
EAN: 0094639539222
ASIN: B000RPCEV6
Release Date: August 28, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | 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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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 More from Anoushka Shankar 
Rise | 
Live at Carnegie Hall/I> | 
Anoushka | 
Anourag | 
Healing the Divide: The Concert fo Peace and Reconciliation [various artists] | 
Concert for George [various artists] |
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 30
 Excellent Album December 24, 2009
DK (USA)
A previous reviewer stated something to the effect that the artist has
somehow been connected to the positive reviews of her (or their) album.
What pure codswallop!
I will spare you the details which other positive reviewers have already stated.
I just want say that the title track "Breathing Under Water" (instrumental) that
so seamlessly flows into the next track "Sea Dreamer" (w/Sting) is quite
inexplicable. Those two songs by themselves are well worth the price of the CD.
The instrumentals on the album are superb. But then again EVERYTHING, music included,
is purely subjective.
 Good but trendy October 9, 2009
Vicki Kurasz (WI USA)
This album gets to trendy for me. Sting amoung others are on it. But there are songs that are great on it. I just expected more. I do plan on buying more of her stuff though.
 completely overrated March 2, 2009
NY reviewer (New York)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
The "Concert For George" [Harrison] is an amazing album of the live concert. I generally find new music by following sources that I have enjoyed. On the first part of the CFG Anoushka Shankar and backup perform some amazing Indian fusion pieces. I highly expected more of this when I purchased Breathing Under Water and Rise.
I was sadly disappointed.
Both Breathing Under Water and Rise are completely self-indulgent albums offering nothing to extend the sounds from the CFG. I am inclined to agree with a previous reviewer that the Artist herself has written or has caused the writing of many of the reviews.
Wow February 27, 2009
KV Trout (Los Angeles, CA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a fan of sitar music and that's how I came to this album, through Anoushka's earlier sitar album, and of course through her father, Ravi's albums.
When I heard this was "electronica techno" music I was afraid. I don't like techno music nor electronica music.
But this is so well put together, so MUSICAL (something I would say most techno and electronica music is not), it grabbed me right away. The techno aspect of it is actually pretty subtle and there is a lot of Indian vocals and sitar music for the traditional Indian music lover to appreciate.
But this album goes beyond genres. It is a new form of music. It is perhaps "music of the gods". It is as if Anoushka and Karsh Kale have taken all their influences and perfectly melded them into something beautiful and new.
This is an amazing album! If you love MUSIC you pretty much have to like this album.
 Has some good tracks November 30, 2008
Sassafras
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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