
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 [...]