Ilya

trip-hop

There is more than one artist with this name: *The artist iyla is incorrectly redirected to this artist page.* 1) Ilya are a duo from Bristol, England. The band consists of Joanna Swan and Nick Pullin. The band released their debut album They Died For Beauty in 2004, receiving a massive critical acclaim. It was followed by Somerset in 2006, after the departure from major company Virgin Records. The pair has been self-producing most of their music ever since then, in their home studio near Bristol. Ilya have often been compared to Zero 7 and other post-2000 downtempo acts, whilst also being considered as continuing the trip-hop tradition, originated in Bristol in the 1990s.[citation needed] If their first album probably fitted better in the Zero 7-esque downtempo category, their second one was an attempt to a more organic and rowdier sound. A musical direction that was to be followed since then, each album being somewhat more radical and bare than the previous. Ilya (a.k.a. San Ilya in the United States) is an English group who released a download-only album Comfort and Destiny in 1998 followed by several EPs and 2004's They Died for Beauty on Virgin Records and the again digital-only Somerset in 2006. They have since re-released Somerset in a self-published physical version, a new album, Hootchi Cootchi, under the name of Jo Swan and a collaboration with Belgian electronic artist Lunabee as Lunabee & Swan. In 2009 the third Ilya album, Carving Heads On Cherry Stones. In...