Ilyas Ahmed
Ilyas Ahmed is a guitarist and singer born in Pakistan who grew up in New Jersey and later lived in Seattle and Minnesota before settling in Portland, Oregon. His music joins psychedelic folk, drones and dreamlike songwriting built from layered guitar and voice. He is known for a long series of solo records on small experimental labels and for his work with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Liz Harris of Grouper. Ahmed began with self-released CDRs in 2005 and 2006, then recorded for Time-Lag, Digitalis and Root Strata, which issued Goner in 2009.
Aliases: Ilyas Ahmed
You Can See Your Own Way Out
** Edition of 500, Clear Vinyl, Gloss Laminate Sleeve ** You Can See Your Own Way Out is the first collaborative record between Ilyas Ahmed and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Long-time friends and satellites orbiting the same communities and scenes, You Can Se…
Closer To Stranger
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 t…
I Am All Your Own
Ilyas Ahmed's songs exist in a sublime moment of suspended animation, calmly dwelling in between modes of music making both timeless and contemporary – deeply imbued with stillness and peace. On I Am All Your Own, his first album in three years, Ahme…
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Goner
2009 release. Portland, OR. bedroom wanderer Ilyas Ahmed emerges from the shadows and offers up his first new batch of songs in some time. Over a year in the making, Goner sees Ahmed telescoping his previous acoustic wanderings into fuzzed out roc…
Between Two Skies / Towards The Night
Restocked, now out of print: Pakistani-born musician Ilyas Ahmed traffics a sound that borders on the folk/drone/raga/rock axis, one that Scottish critic David Keenan has called “gone”. Currently residing in Portland, OR, Ahmed has released recording…