Ilyah Ahmed: Closer To Stranger - VINYL LP

Ilyah Ahmed: Closer To Stranger - VINYL LPTitle: Closer To Stranger Artist: Ilyah Ahmed Label: Mie (For409) Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 769791968707 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2018 02 23 Number of Discs: 1 Closer To Stranger is the new solo album by Pakistani born dream folk musician Ilyas Ahmed. Drawing on a wide range of influences, his songs incorporate classic singer songwriter gestures alongside more experimental leanings. Recorded to tape in the studio by Justin Higgins in the fall of

Title: Closer To Stranger
Artist: Ilyah Ahmed
Label: Mie (For409)
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 769791968707
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2018-02-23
Number of Discs: 1

Closer To Stranger is the new solo album by Pakistani-born dream-folk musician Ilyas Ahmed. Drawing on a wide range of influences, his songs incorporate classic singer-songwriter gestures alongside more experimental leanings. Recorded to tape in the studio by Justin Higgins in the fall of 2016 and finished in the spring of 2017, Ahmed's instrumental palette includes: acoustic and electric six- and 12-string guitars, Fender Rhodes, multiple keyboards, tanpura, and percussion. Closer To Stranger stands as a meditation on uneasy identity politics during times of unreason, seeking peace amidst chaos. Jonathan Sielaff (of ambient duo Golden Retriever) cameos with guest saxophone on "Zero For Below", but otherwise the album is a solo affair, alternately feverish, tense, hazed, hypnotic, and narcotic. A slowly unfolding inward journey of late night lullabies and contemplative electric drift.

Tracks:
1.1 Meditation on the Split Self
1.2 False Front
1.3 Passing Lines
1.4 Zero for Below
1.5 Fever Pitch
1.6 Cancel to Reveal
1.7 Untitled 1
1.8 Sleepwalker
1.9 Untitled 2
1.10 Furtherness
1.11 Two Steps Away