Evidently, Hendekagon is a side project of Signalstoerung, who I have previously reviewed and enjoyed, so I was interested to hear this project. And for those of you wondering, I’ll save you the Google search: a hendekagon is an 11-sided polygon (hendecagon in English).
The concept of the album is interesting, and manages to come through in the tracks. The notes provide the following quote by Emma Goldman: “the concept God, Supernatural Power, Spirit, Deity, or in whatever other term the essence of Theism may have found expression, has become more indefinite and obscure in the course of time and progress. In other words, the God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.” So let’s see how this plays out in the music itself.

We open with “The New Religion, That Divides the World in Consumer and Exploiter is Ending,” which has a mystical feeling, but is still somewhat raw, with crackling static throughout, and a hint of choral voices throughout. We then move on to “The Attempt to Eliminate the Natural Instinct to Think for Oneself and to Care for Others is Dissolving,” with slightly distorted drone and a simple synth line. Quite nice. The disc ends with “A Holistic Approach to Extinguish Thoughts About Gods in Oneself, So to Become an Independent Individual is Here” This is a melancholy piece that is a little less gritty, while still maintaining the feel of the previous tracks.

Overall, I really enjoyed this disc. Well worth picking up if you like ritualistic music without the ethno-ambient slant. This disc is limited to 42 copies and weighs in at around 19 minutes.