Beyond Skin

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Beyond Skin
Studio album by Nitin Sawhney‎
Released	September 13, 1999
Genre	Rock, Jazz, Hip hop
Length	58:22
Label	Outcaste
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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

1. "Broken Skin" (Sanchita Farruque, Nitin Sawhney) — 4:05
2. "Letting Go" (C. S. Gray, Sawhney) — 4:49
3. "Homelands" (Nina Miranda, Sawhney) — 6:00
4. "The Pilgrim" (Sawhney, Hussain Yoosuf) — 4:29
5. "Tides" (Sawhney) — 5:06
6. "Nadia" (Sawhney) — 5:05
7. "Immigrant" (Sawhney) — 6:21
8. "Serpents" (Sawhney) — 6:17
9. "Anthem Without Nation" (Sawhney) — 5:48
10. "Nostalgia" (Sawhney) — 3:41
11. "The Conference" (Sawhney) — 2:53
12. "Beyond Skin" (Sawhney) — 3:48