MUMBAI: Saregama released 'Breathing Under Water'– an album by Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale, accompanied by Sting, Norah Jones, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Shankar Mahadevan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Medieval Punditz and Salim Merchant on 14 January 2008.

The album, a new fusion of culture and music, is the soundtrack of the journey created by two of the most visionary talents pioneering the hip and fertile overlap of today's world music scene. The album boasts some of the finest guest artists on the order of Ravi Shankar – who created the nucleus of two climatic pieces for the album (Oceanic Parts 1 & ) plus Sting, Anoushka'a sister Norah Jones, Midival Punditz, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Noah Lembersky, Shankar Mahadevan and Sunidhi Chauhan.
Given their markedly parallel paths and the common thread of a Indian classical repertoire, Anoushka Shankar, a sitarist and composer got together with producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Karsh Kale for this album. Both of them were raised in America and for the first time have a shared credit on a recording. For this album, Shankar expanded her talents as an electronic producer, keyboard/pianist, composer and lyricist, and Kale as a composer and singer, while playing guitars, tabla, drums, keyboards and bass. With Indian music at the center, Breathing Under Water expanded beyond cultural and traditional borders to reach a panoramic view of their world.

On the launch of the album, Karsh Kale said, "The songs on Breathing Under Water were conceived organically, written mainly on sitar and acoustic guitar before taking them in all different directions. Travel inspires a lot of song and a lot of these songs are literally about being a traveler at sea." Talking about her experience, Anoushka Shankar addsed, "There were two ways that we composed for the most part, some songs came from an acoustic space, coming up with the melody and then orchestrating around it. And there were a few pieces like 'Slither'and 'PD7,'which we started creating and programming on the computer first, and layered on top of later."