Ilya (band)

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Ilya
Origin	Bristol, England
Genre(s)	Electronica Trip Hop Downtempo
Years active	2004–present
Label(s)	Virgin Records, Universal Records
Website	http://www.ilyasounds.com/
Members
Joanna Swan Nick Pullin

Ilya is 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. In 2006 Somerset was released.

On one hand the band is often compared to Zero 7 and other post-2000 downtempo acts, on the other hand Ilya is considered as continuing the trip-hop tradition originated in Bristol in the 1990's.^{[citation needed]} While their first album probably fitted better in the Zero 7-esque downtempo category, their recent album is a lot more organic and rowdier than the first.^{[citation needed]}

1 Trivia
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Trivia

The song "Bellissimo" was used by Revlon in their advertising.

Martin Freeman from The Office is in the Bellissimo video.

Soleil Soleil, from Ilya's first album, is in the film Mr Brooks, starring Kevin Costner, William Hurt and Demi Moore.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

2004 They Died For Beauty (Virgin Records)
2006 Somerset (Universal Records)
2007 Hootchi Cootchi (Chrysalis Music) (released under name Jo Swan)

The third Ilya album, Hootchi Cootchi, was released early 2007, through online orders only. But due to its very different sound, which explores a rougher, sometimes darker, and definitely more electronic and experimental side of Ilya, the pair decided to release it under the name Jo Swan, so as not to disturb early fans, used to the jazzy Ilya sound.

Still in 2007, Joanna Swan from Ilya has recorded an album with Belgian female artist Lunabee. Eventually released in November 2007 after a few months of postponing, it is simply titled Lunabee & Swan. Also only available online.

Joanna Swan has recorded an album with French composer Francois-Elie Roulin, which should be due out sometime in 2008.