Beyond Skin is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality...

. 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

Robert Oppenheimer

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi, he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first...

 quoting the Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita

The ' , also more simply known as Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the ancient Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata, but is frequently treated as a freestanding text, and in particular, as an Upanishad in its own right, one of the several books that constitute general Vedic tradition...

 - "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 and Beyond Skin."

Track listing

1. "Broken Skin" (Sanchita Farruque, Nitin Sawhney
   Nitin Sawhney
   Nitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality...
   
   ) — 4:05
2. "Letting Go" (C. S. Gray, Sawhney) — 4:49
3. "Homelands" (Nina Miranda
   Nina Miranda
   Nina Miranda is both a singer and songwriter who was part of the English group, Smoke City, and more recently, Shrift.Nina Miranda's father is Brazilian, her mother is English and she was born in Brazil, and educated in Brazil, England and France...
   
   , 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