Anoushka Shankar - photo by Pamela Springsteen

New Ways to Breathe

Global Beat Fusion

Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale

Breathing Under Water

(Manhattan)

US release date: 28 August 2007

UK release date: 10 September 2007

[31 August 2007]

by Derek Beres

Breathing Under Water, a collaboration between sitarist Anoushka Shankar and tablist Karsh Kale, is not only where music is going, it's where it's at.

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