Madame Gandhi Unveils New Album 'Let Me Be Water' - A Percussive, Uplifting Soundscape of Liberation and Flow

Kiran Gandhi, who performs as Madame Gandhi, is an award-winning artist and activist known for her uplifting, percussive electronic music and positive message about gender liberation and personal power. She began producing music in 2015, after her story of running the London Marathon free-bleeding to combat menstrual stigma went viral around the world. She has been listed as a TED Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Music, and BBC 100 Women.

Today (May 16th), award-winning artist and activist, Madame Gandhi, is releasing her highly anticipated full-length album, Let Me Be Water. Inspired by We Make Noise, a non-profit dedicated to gender inclusivity in the music industry, the album was co-produced and performed by Gandhi and composed by 50 women and gender-expansive creatives with the intention of appreciating both the expansive beauty of nature and humanity’s role in our environment. The result is an album celebrating collaboration at its finest. Whether you’re dancing, celebrating, working out, or just getting your day going, the organic symphonic wonderland of Madame Gandhi champions the spirit of undeterred love, gender liberation, connection, and empowerment.

Let Me Be Water is an ever-evolving ode to Madame Gandhi’s artistic transformation. She says of the album: “It is about flow. It is about acceptance. It is about existing without pushback. I do feel very much like a butterfly out of the cocoon on the other side. I feel more in my power energy, and when we show up for ourselves, it ends up being medicine for others.”

Madame Gandhi is a beacon of light, opening her listeners to the power of self-discovery. The album opens with Gandhi’s signature uplifting percussive electronic sounds in “Let’s Begin (I’m Soarin’)” and “Take Your Time!” which captures the roles of introspection and manifestation that come along with shooting your shot and taking bold steps.

Madame Gandhi says of “Take Your Time!”:

“It’s a message for the modern moment to prioritize our inner peace and protect practices that strengthen the connection to our authentic selves! The melody in the song is beautiful and uplifting and laying down all of the percussion on this track was a true joy.”

Bouncing with an Afrobeats-esque rhythm, “The Universe Expands With Me” is an unabashedly danceable anthem and mantra within itself, proclaiming “I am the light / I am divine”. The track is followed closely by the balancing “Morning Meditation (I Am)”, swirling with echoey vocals and spoken word affirmations that flow like water.

Moving from the personal to the collective, “Illuminate” sparks with reminders of our ability to help one another heal, highlighting the power of taking the inner journey of self-exploration. The title track, “Let Me Be Water Feat. NATURE”, is a deceivingly effortless track that mingles spoken-word samples and mantra-like house vocals that meld together over glistening samples of melting glaciers recorded by Madame Gandhi herself. The song is a musing on the album’s greater theme of appreciating the grandeur of nature and recognizing our collective role in this greater force

Reflective and tender, “Luminescent” and “Letter From A Higher Self” take on a softer tone, letting in cracks of light on a dark path and reminding the listener that vulnerability is freedom. Fully coming into her own, “Pisces Knockout” is an agile powerhouse of a song paced to a steady flow of power-hook shots and intoxicating Indian Sarangi, an ode to Gandhi’s time spent training in boxing with a team of 10 women under her partner and Team GB gold-medalist boxer, Lesley Sackey.

Madame Gandhi boldly proclaims: “See with my mind’s eye, I’m awake / I’m alive and it’s no mistake / The Universe givin’ me the signs / That I woke up ready to be the light”.

True to Madame Gandhi’s ethos of empowerment, “Rise!” closes the album, taking uplifting, percussive electronic music to a spiritual level, emphasizing the grit, strength, and beauty of gender liberation and personal power. All in all, her ability to fuse conscious messaging with infectious beats has made her a global rallying voice for equality, and Let Me Be Water continues to solidify her ongoing mission to inspire action and amplify empowerment through music.