AWK WAH

Awh Wah is the solo project of Shark Fung, a veteran of the Singapore experimental music scene whose constantly shifting musical outlook has drawn on an array of styles and influences in a compellingly unpredictable manner.

A prolific Mandopop songwriter in his youth, he later spent time playing drums in bands such as Engineered Beautiful Blood, Amino Acid Orchestra and I\D. Described by The Sound Projector as “a bound man sewed up in a mailsack trying to wriggle free with nothing more than a small nail file to make his escape”, Awk Wah doesn’t give you too much to cling on to before he has moved on to something else sound-wise. New album, Ava, builds on the dark and distressed avant noise and electronics of earlier work and creates a hazy cacophony of unsteady rhythms and mutating textures that are quick to leave their mark even when quickly shifting away to something new.

"Fung gives us a solid collection of some rhythm-based weirdness, sure filled with drums, but mostly sounds of scraping and chattering noises as if he sent a contact mic down the bug filled secret passage from Temple of Doom... halfway between a more nuanced Black Pus and the drum heavy Merzbow albums." - Foxy Digitalis, review of 'Opera Box'

"Crippa pulls you into his sepulchral world. The atmosphere is cold, almost debilitating. A sound of late night wakings, wakings brought on by a chilling dream or a shrill distant cry. At times Reverse is difficult to digest, but this is an LP of severe scenarios and almost inhuman environments. Hag-ridden echoes from machines that don’t dream." - Igloo Magazine, review of 'Reverse'