Anglo-Indian singer Sheila Chandra is one of the most original and successful singers in the twilight zone between Western and non-Western music. In the 1990s she developed a very personal style: Chandra explored the boundaries of vocal expression by creating long wordless embellishments or percussion sounds with her voice, occasionally accompanied by a bourdon tone sustained in one tone. With this
… effect - also applied in raga music - Chandra created magical sounds with a hypnotic effect. The explanation in her latest album This Sentence Is True suggests that Chandra has taken a new path: "I've gone a great way into that territory - voice as an instrument, voice as an effect, voice changing its culture within a single phrase - [...]. And now it 'more
