Justifiably deemed "a magical album" by the folks over at Volcanic Tongue , Karachi, Pakistan-born US transplant Ilyas Ahmed 's new record With Endless Fires is a stunning effort, a superb drone-infused folk masterpiece that is haunting its way into the subconscious. His first full-length since 2009, when Goner was released via Root Strata , the album was written, performed and recorded direct to analog tape by the artist in Portland, Oregon, a surprising fact in view of the rich, expansive compositions that exploit the full potential of the employed guitars, harmonium, organ, [...]
Sur un mot. "Currently". Exceptionnellement, les quatre questions du vent soufflent un mardi. Sur Ilyas Ahmed. Qui, par un enchantement singulier, produit une musique subtile qui s'adresse, tout à la fois, au coeur, aux sens & au cerveau, abolissant les limites de la musique.. On a word. "Currently" & exceptionally, it's tuesday, the wind blows its four questions on Ilyas Ahmed. Who, by a singular delight, produces a subtle music that speaks to the heart, brain & senses simultaneously. Limits of music are abolished. 1. [...]
With Endless Fire is het nieuwste werk van de in Pakistan geboren, in Amerika opgegroeide Ilyas Ahmed , en zijn derde release bij Immune Recordings . Na zijn eerste cdr in 2005 heeft hij een eigen stijl weten te ontwikkelen, dat zich op een primitieve wijze uitstrekt langs folk, blues en drone. Na het enigszins verrassend rockende en bluesy Goner album in 2009, is With Endless Fire weer een stap terug naar de weidse, hypnotiserende melodieën, waarbij de akoestische gitaar de [...]
Ilyas Ahmed & Liz Harris (Grouper) - Live at Aquarius Records (by Ronnie Barrows ) Don't sleep on the new limited collaboration 12" of Ilyas Ahmed & Liz Harris (Grouper) on S ocial Music's Record & Tape Club. Here's a teaser , I didn't know this was captured on video! Amazing session .
Liz Harris, the Portland-based queen of ambient drift who records as Grouper, has teamed up with fellow PDX musician Ilyas Ahmed on a new project that they're calling Visiter. Together, they've recorded a new EP for Social Music's Record + Tape Club . Stream the dizzily pretty untitled opener below. Read More...
Here's a haunted, fragile new one from Grouper 's Liz Harris and her Portland homie Ilyas Ahmed , taken from their new collaborative EP, released under the moniker Visitor as "part of Social Music 's year long record and tape club subscription series." Listen to the bleary-eyed opening track below, and sign up for Social Music's Record + Tape Club - which also includes releases from Ty Segall, Jacuzzi Boys + more - here (thanks to David for the heads up). [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates this weekend. Time Warner conveniently decided that because we transferred our cable bill from one roommate to another roommate, they should kill our Internet connection. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense, right? You transfer the account from one name to another name, why shouldn't they send [...]
It has been a very strange - sometimes fun, sometimes agonizing - week. I don't really have much else to say. Here's your Sunday Mix Tape. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. Of course there's a fucking theme [...]
I have rediscovered Ilyas Ahmed of late, thanks to a Gorilla vs Bear post featuring the more well-known Grouper (Liz Harris). Brad Rose's Foxy Digitalis drew me to Ahmed, a source I cannot fault for this sort of aural grease, and who's given his new album Goner full marks. Similarly, my half-finished pursuit of Grouper has been picked up again. The team-up in this case is great, a powerful antidote to the reams of material from the same framework that slides through consciousness like water off a duck's back: not sticking, [...]
Ilyas Ahmed - Out Again Drenched in lo-fi echo crunch and laden with loops. These tracks have the hypnotic quality of drone while still retaining some of the traditional song structures. Full review on diskant .
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Per Flaschenpost sei er von Pakistan an die Küste New Jerseys geschwemmt worden, inzwischen hat er sich in Portland, dem Mekka des experimentellen PsychFolk, bestens eingelebt. Und verdient trotz Aufruf zu innerer Emigration spätestens mit seinem neuen Album die Ehrenbürgerschaft. Auf "Goner" klingt der Mittdreissiger streckenweise wie Thom Yorke auf Valium, wobei der Tranquilizer hauptsächlich auf die im Hintergrund wimmernde Stimme wirkt. Instrumental bzw. Gitarren-technisch zeigt er sich trotz LoFi-Verzerrungen grooviger denn je. Wenn man dem so sagen kann. Dennoch bleibt's ein düsteres, besinnliches, hypnotisierendes Werk, das in angenehmen Dämmerzustand versetzt. Da passt die Zusammenarbeit mit seinem [...]
When I woke up and read this morning that a character on Nicci's favorite TV show had a sex tape leaked, I immediately assumed it was those two dudes who are totally gay for each other. As it turns out, it's one of the ugly chicks in the cast giving an ex-boyfriend a "footjob". Shit, even in real life the cast of Gossip Girl sucks. Oh well. One of these days evidence will arise which will once and for all shut Nicci up whenever I interrupt her TV watching with quips like, "Those dudes are totally gay!". [...]
Amoeba Records - Hollywood 1.) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 2.) Mandy Moore - Amanda Leigh 3.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Buy) 4.) Eminem - Relapse 5.) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us 6.) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 7.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! 8.) Passion Pit - Manners 9.) Silversun Pickups - Swoon 10.) St. Vincent - Actor As of 5/25/2009 [...]
" Exit Twilight " is the hypnotic final track from Portland "bedroom wanderer" Ilyas Ahmed 's new album, featuring haunting vocals from the inimitable Liz Harris : mp3: ilyas ahmed :: exit twilight (feat. grouper) [taken from ilyas ahmed 's limited (1000 copies) new full-length, Goner , out now on root strata ] *********** related awesome photo, via Reverend Green 's tour blog: [...]
Woke up at 10am this morning and slowly readied ourselves for a day at the beach. By we I mean myself, Nicci, and my friends Ken and Kt who are visiting from Jersey. We were planning on taking surfing lessons. We're pretty much all first-timers, so we had no idea a) how expensive it was and b) that appointments for groups needed to be scheduled in advance. Who knew!? We thought it would be the kind of thing you could just roll out of bed and do as a spur-of-the-moment activity. LA is supposed to be such a laid [...]
Another absolute stunner from Ahmed, this time bringing his sun-baked psych to the folks over at Root Strata. Where The Vertigo of Dawn lingered in hazy and at times hushed tones, Goner introduces some bite to Ahmed's palate this time 'round. Starting things off with a rusted twinge of distortion over his obscured vocals, the album proves that its not all deft picking in Ilyas' arsenal. He doesn't leave those in favor of verdant acoustic psych wanting though, the album cools its electric burn and returns to caressing the strings by the third song. Striking [...]
Dès le mois de mai j'ai commencé à sentir que cette année ne ferait pas l'affaire, Xiu Xiu et son Women as Lovers appartenait plus à 2007 et Bon Iver et Fleet Foxes restaient seuls, à tourner, en boucle. L'ennui avec ce top 2008, c'est qu'il n'a connu aucunes hésitations, aucun dilemme déchirant. Faire ce top c'était un peu réaliser combien l'année avait vu défiler de disques sur la platine, et bien peu y revenir. 2008 a eu ses moments de grâce, ses albums superbes et inattendus, mais 2008 a aussi cruellement manqué d'attente fébrile. Je l'ai constaté [...]
In May of 2007 I attended the Bottling Smoke Festival here in Los Angeles, and Ilyas Ahmed performed on the festival's opening evening, and I was instantly taken with his codeine-slow experimental folk compositions. When I had come down from the euphoria of the weekend's amazing performances, I found myself seeking out many, many recordings from artists I'd just heard for the first time. Century Of Moonlight was the first album I found, and it's the one I have listened to the most. Especially alone. At night. While out of my head. This is the way that experimental [...]
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