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ILYAS AHMED - Goner
Root Strata
MP3 Release // £6.99
FOLK / AMERICANA
Released: May 2009
Catalogue Number: RS30

ILYAS AHMED - Goner, Root Strata

Having impressed on releases via Digitalis and Time Lag, Ilyas Ahmed arrives at Root Strata with an altogether tougher and fuller sound. Warm tape distortion casts a little grime over the jangling arrangements, with Ahmed's swirling acoustic and electric guitars taking up the most space in the mix, providing a bluesy lynchpin for the recordings. organic percussion and filtered out vocals also adorn these songs, but you get the impression that Ahmed is first and foremost a guitarist - certainly that's how the album's been mixed, and it's always great to hear such a florid and accomplished musician rising out of the lo-fi dirge of underground Americana. With great songs like 'Some Of None' and 'Love After Love' Ahmed proves himself as a writer in the traditional mode, while 'As Another' finds him in Loren Connors mode, taking off with ether-dwellng lead guitars and spine-tingling, weightless melancholy. Closing track 'Exit Twilight' is a duet with Grouper, playing out in its denouement like a haunted folk rendition of 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'. Liz Harris' voice could hardly be a better fit for this music - the obscured, smudged out echoes are just sublime, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to petition these two for a full album together. Until that happens Goner will do just fine, and its surely the most solid and advanced statement from Ahmed to date.

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2. ILYAS AHMED : Love After Love 04:32 £0.99 Play ILYAS AHMED - Love After Love
3. ILYAS AHMED : Some Of None 07:02 £0.99 Play ILYAS AHMED - Some Of None
4. ILYAS AHMED : Enter A Shadow 09:36 £0.99 Play ILYAS AHMED - Enter A Shadow
5. ILYAS AHMED : Out Again 05:59 £0.99 Play ILYAS AHMED - Out Again
6. ILYAS AHMED : As Another 04:16 £0.99 Play ILYAS AHMED - As Another
7. ILYAS AHMED : Two Breaths 06:50 £0.99 Play ILYAS AHMED - Two Breaths
8. ILYAS AHMED : Exit Twilight 05:45 £0.99 Play ILYAS AHMED - Exit Twilight
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Total file size: 110.3 MB
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Total file size: 269.4 MB

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