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.