Anju Singh / Knell Henge (Isolated Now Waves) (INW #209) Vancouver, BC ::web/sounds::

Take two talented women in the experimental foray. Give them a side of C30. If you’re lucky you’ll end up with something close to Henge; two sides of atypically-driven drone. Anju Singh (of AHNA) delivers a quarter-hour piece of violin static that patiently builds into multi-feedback noise-scapes; effectively rendering the previous 14 minutes of your existence into a zone of bewilderment. On the flip we have Knell, an interesting side project of Mint Records recording artist Kellarissa, venturing deep within the rarely charted territory of vocal looping. This is not classical choral material; her voice is quickly fractured into subliminal jet-streams of ambience whose minute being coalesces within various meditative drone-states. Both sides of Henge have the same weird attention-sucking immediacy despite being unassuming and “mellow.” Another brilliant addition to the ever-growing Isolated Now Waves catalog.

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Anju Sing – In Suffocation

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Knell – Reserve