ABoneCroneDrone, by Sheila Chandra

ABoneCroneDrone

by Sheila Chandra

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Lasse Ö Aah, drones. Contemplative and soothing. Love it.

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Sheila Chandra - ABoneCroneDrone
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Sheila Chandra's ABoneCroneDrone first vinyl pressing. Includes a fold out insert with a new Sheila Chandra interview, original sleeve notes edited by Chandra herself and unseen pictures taken from the 1996 sessions. Limited to 500 copies, no digital this time. Worldwide distro by Cargo UK.

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Few albums have treated human voice and drone as a whole entity like ABoneCroneDrone, the third in a trilogy for Real World Records that this record closed back in 1996. In Sheila Chandra's own words “it was about the gateways between vocal techniques from different cultures and how it was possible to cross between them within a single word or phrase.” 

Indipop Recordings founder Steve Coe, probably best known for helping to popularise the term World Music in the early eighties, produced and worked with extreme accuracy along with Chandra on all drones and set a new industry standard of what was possible in the treatment of voice. With the help of bagpipes, didgeridoos and guitars, ABoneCroneDrone puts drones under the microscope and encourages listeners to retrain their ears to hear the nuances that musicians have always heard in them. Emitting low, chantlike waves, Chandra sings deep spaced atonal words while haunting chord sounds flow and drones slowly interact with listener.

This is the first vinyl pressing. It includes a fold out insert with a new Sheila Chandra interview, original sleeve notes edited by Chandra herself and unseen pictures taken from the 1996 sessions. Limited to 500 copies, no digital release this time.

“The artistry of ABoneCroneDrone is in the attention to detail. The album is beautifully performed, mixed and compiled with intelligence and strong sense of structure. It makes good use of a listener's valuable time while issuing a challenge to hear in a fresh way.” John L. Walters, The Wire issue 150

Listen to ABoneCroneDrone 2 here: youtu.be/DGlqEiWsrPc

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released July 26, 2019

Words by David G. Balasch
Artwork by Jotateam

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