Madame Gandhi Flows Into Empowerment With Her Transformative New Album LET ME BE WATER
- blrbmag
- Oct 6
- 2 min read
Award-winning artist and activist Madame Gandhi returns with her highly anticipated full-length album, Let Me Be Water, a genre-fluid celebration of nature, empowerment, and collective creativity. Co-produced and performed by Gandhi, the album was created in partnership with fifty women and gender-expansive artists through We Make Noise, a nonprofit advocating for gender inclusivity in the music industry. Its soundscape—ranging from shimmering electronic percussion to organic, ambient textures—encourages listeners to flow freely through emotion and movement. From the ecstatic rhythms of “The Universe Expands With Me” to the meditative calm of “Morning Meditation (I Am),” Gandhi invites her audience to honor both their personal evolution and their place in the larger world.
Each track on Let Me Be Water reflects a facet of Gandhi’s artistic transformation and spiritual growth. The title track, featuring NATURE, captures the album’s essence—fluid, reflective, and deeply human—melding spoken-word affirmations with actual recordings of melting glaciers from Antarctica. “Pisces Knockout” pulses with strength and resilience, inspired by Gandhi’s time training as a boxer, while “Rise!” closes the project with a triumphant anthem for liberation and personal power. The result is a lush, visionary body of work that transforms conscious intention into sonic art, celebrating what Gandhi calls “medicine for the modern moment.”
A trailblazer in both music and activism, Madame Gandhi first made waves as the drummer for GRAMMY®-nominated artist M.I.A. before becoming an acclaimed solo artist known for her message of gender equality and empowerment. Named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Music and recipient of the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Abe Olman Prize for Excellence in Songwriting, Gandhi continues to break boundaries in both artistry and advocacy. Her work has been featured on the cover of Imagine5, and she recently supported GRAMMY®-nominated artist Femi Kuti on tour while debuting Let Me Be Water at SXSW London 2025.
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REVIEWS
"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 — mash together fragments of electro-pop, trap, Afrobeat and R&B, carried off with endless swagger."
—NPR
"Kiran Gandhi—professionally known as Madame Gandhi—has effectively combined her talent as a musician with her passion for advocacy. [...] While a performer by trade, there was no performativity, no false pretense."
"But the beauty is in how she acknowledges that peace comes from within, once you can finally drop things that no longer serve you. It's a socially conscious bop worth every groovy second, and then some, for its empowering message."
"There’s more to Madame Gandhi’s music than foot-tapping beats and catchy rhythms– there’s purpose to inspire change."
"From the blissed-out, spacey “queer femme love song” that is “See Me Thru” to the non-conformist Brazilian trap banger “Top Knot Turn Up” to the impish synths and shuffling rhythms of the Fela Kuti-inspired “Bad Habits,” Visions aims high."
"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."
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