This album, the third in the trilogy for Real World, gives you the fullest access possible to Chandra's imagination - the melodies are in the bones of the drones.
The album is beautifully performed, recorded, mixed and compiled with intelligence and a strong sense of structure. It makes good use of a listeners valuable time while issuing a challenge to hear in a fresh way.
For Sheila Chandra, the power of the drone holds no limits.
Press review from: Billboard (USA)
There is a continuity of development in her ideas, a refinement, maturity and, importantly, focus...On ABoneCroneDrone, Sheila Chandra is fashioning a vocal music which is intellectually stimulating, engaging...without reliance on linguistic meaning. A little night music for followers of her musical journey and journeying.
October 1996
Press review from: Folk Roots (UK)
..Chandra goes in search of melodies of the imagination in quite mesmerising fashion...
10 October 1996
Press review from: Stratford Observer (UK)
..with this final part of her trilogy, shes produced her bravest, if least commercial, album yet.
4 October 1996
Press review from: The Guardian (UK)
...Chandras work is literally entrancing: simultaneously eerie and soothing, ancient and modern.
5 October 1996
Press review from: Daily Telegraph (UK)
..a kind of somnambulistic heaven...a quiet kind of beauty...
October 1996
Press review from: Q Magazine (UK)
...continues her spiritual adventures in what is now a very distinctive and individual style, both vocally and within the strong spiritual nature of her music.
27 July 1996
Press review from: Music Week (UK)
Chandra has created the DIY album, but you can only get out of it as much as youre prepared to put in. Like it or not, itll leave you speechless.
October 1996
Press review from: Mojo (UK)
Startling and revelatory in its execution.
September 1996
Press review from: Top (UK)
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