For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
Let Me Be Water — Madame Gandhi
Best New Age, AMBIENT, OR CHANT Album
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“Gandhi’s art is jubilant and thoughtful. She demonstrates that you can make people think and move their hips at the same time.”
— Billboard
Official Music Video for “Let’s Begin (I’m Soarin’!)” Out Now
Let’s Begin (I’m Soarin’!) by Madame Gandhi is an uplifting, percussive anthem to get the day going by affirming a positive mental attitude supported by music and community.
Highlights
An uplifting percussive musical meditation of positive affirmations and introspective mantras.
Gandhi traveled to Antarctica herself, using hydrophones she built at Stanford CCRMA, to record the sounds of glaciers melting for this album.
In collaboration with music non-Profit We Make Nose, this album is co-written by 40+ different women songwriters and producers.
Gandhi partnered with GRAMMY® Award–winning artist, Brian Eno’s music climate organization, Earth Percent, to credit NATURE as an artist, therefore donating a portion of streaming royalties back to nature conservation efforts.
About Madame Gandhi
Madame Gandhi is an artist and activist who has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Music, received the Songwriters Hall of Fame Abe Olman Prize for Excellence in Songwriting, and began her career drumming for GRAMMY®-nominated artist M.I.A.
Gandhi has since reached new milestones: she appears on the cover of climate culture magazine Imagine5. She also supported GRAMMY®-nominated artist Femi Kuti on his 2025 summer tour and debuted Let Me Be Water at the inaugural SXSW London 2025. This month, she also performed live alongside GRAMMY®-Award winning artist Brian Eno at Wimbley Arena for Together For Palestine.
Artist Statement
Created alongside We Make Noise, a music education non-profit that supports women and gender expansive producers, Let Me Be Water is a musical meditation that invites listeners into a journey of emotional fluidity, inner healing, and self-connection. The album’s creation is rooted in the idea that, like water, we are constantly in motion—adapting, shifting, and flowing through life’s challenges and triumphs. Every track is a musical mantra exploring themes of surrender, acceptance, and growth.
As an artist and activist, WMN and I intentionally created Let Me Be Water to serve as that uplifting body of musical work to rise, train or meditate to. Let Me Be Water is a meditation on the importance of resilience, compassion, and the courage to recognize that being soft and open-hearted requires great strength.
Working closely with producer Colby Lapolla, we chose to embrace a global sound that bridges multiple genres, blending elements of electronic music, Indian sarangi, ambient soundscapes, glacier samples I recorded myself in Antarctica and eclectic beats, while maintaining a delicate balance between introspective stillness and vibrant movement.
This album is not just a sonic exploration but a reflection of a deeper, universal truth: that to be human is to experience constant transformation. Just as water shifts and reshapes, we too are shaped by our environments, our relationships, and our dreams. Through these songs, I share my personal journey toward emotional healing, and in doing so, I hope to inspire others to find beauty in their own flow and transformation.
Seeking the nomination for Best New Age Album, Let Me Be Water represents not just a musical evolution for me as an artist but a collective vision of the healing potential in music and the creative process. It is my greatest hope that this album resonates with those seeking solace, empowerment, and a reminder that, no matter the obstacle, we can always return to our flow.
Listen & Explore
This album draws from spiritual and ancestral traditions of India, grounding the music in deep cultural resonance. It incorporates original field recordings of Antarctic glaciers melting, captured with custom-built microphones, weaving the voice of nature directly into the soundscape. Group chanting with conscious, uplifting messages amplifies themes of connection and intentionality throughout.
Album Credits
Produced by Colby Lapolla and Madame Gandhi
Additional production by Erin Barra, Nan Macmillan, Andrea Turk, Maddie Cody
Engineered by Colby Lapolla, additional engineering by Erin Barra
Mixed by Colby Lapolla, additional mixing by Erin Barra
Mastered by Piper Payne
Executive Producer: Erin Barra-Jean
Associate Executive Producer: Nan Macmillan
In Partnership with Salt Lick Incubator and She Is The Music
Created at The Music District and Arizona State University
Photographed by Lindsey Byrnes
Album artwork by Sara Cifuentes
Title track “Let Me Be Water feat. NATURE” released in collaboration with Brian Eno’s climate organization Earth Percent to donate streaming royalties to nature conservation
Special thanks to: Barenya Das, Tunecore, Fancy Publicity, Shaunna Heckman
Press Highlights
A millennial with a voice that matters, Gandhi’s onstage persona thrives on bringing her art and activism together. Young and defiant, sassy yet serious, she uses wordplay and wit to empower women.”
— Vogue
“There’s more to Madame Gandhi’s music than foot-tapping beats and catchy rhythms– there’s purpose to inspire change.”
— ELLE India
“The hyphen-rich vocalist-percussionist-speaker-producer-activist’s vibe isn’t so much ‘singer-songwriter’ as ‘icon of empowerment.’ Her frenetic odes to feminism, fluidity and freedom — carried off with the assistance of an entirely female or nonbinary band — endless swagger.”
— NPR
“The multi-talented musician, drummer and activist sources 100% organic sounds from nature, mixing them into her music in a call for climate action that resonates with every beat.”
— Imagine5
Inside the Let Me Be Water Songwriting Camp
We Make Noise (formerly Beats By Girlz) hosted a 3-day songwriting and production camp at The Music District in Fort Collins, CO, featuring artist and activist Madame Gandhi. Over 40 women and gender-expansive artists collaborated in groups to write and pitch songs directly to her.
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