Ilyas Ahmed
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Tuesday, Nov 28 › 9pm › $5
ZOE KEATING, with ILYAS AHMED with GROUPER, and MUGWORT
Zoë Keating, the experimental cellist who brought such weight to recent recordings from chamber-pop darlings Rasputina, has recently relocated to our fair city and quietly released one of the finest examples of solo neoclassical looping-pedal music of which I am aware. She will elucidate onstage how this bewitching music comes to be; joined by spirit blues crooner Ilyas Ahmed (with Grouper) and electroacoustic ambient gypsy trio Mugwort.
About the artist
Ilyas Ahmed is a mysterious character. From what little information exists online, I've discovered that he's self-released a pair of CD-R albums as well hooking up with Time-Lag Records for his current disc, Century of Moonlight, and a vinyl-only album for later in the year. He also lives in Portland, so look him up next time you're in the area.
Ahmed's music is organic, primarily guitar-based, and often includes his own vocals - both wordless and lyrical. Closer to the drone-folk of Six Organs of Admittance than the more "proper" ambient I've been posting in the Ambient Series, his songs are meandering and ghostlike but also very intense.
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