Beyond Skin | ||||
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Released | 13 September 1999 | |||
Genre | Downtempo, drum and bass | |||
Length | 58:22 | |||
Label | Outcaste | |||
Nitin Sawhney chronology | ||||
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Beyond Skin is an album by English musician Nitin Sawhney. It was released on the Outcaste label in 1999. The album focuses largely on the theme of nuclear weapons; Sawhney states 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 Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita – "Now I am become Death, the 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, beyond religion, and Beyond Skin."
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NME | 8/10[5] |
Beyond Skin was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[6]
Chart (1999) | Peak position |
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UK Albums (OCC)[7] | 44 |