Description
Free-wheeling live improvisers Ill Considered open a new chapter with their first studio album
on New Soil, Liminal Space, featuring Tamar Osborn, Sarathy Korwar, Theon Cross and more.
Having exploded onto the scene with 9 self-released albums between 2017 and 2019, UK based outfit Ill Considered are breaking new ground with their first fully produced studio album
and an interactive audio/visual performance residency at Southbank Centre's Purcell Room,
this autumn.
In fact, far from taming the untethered improvisation of the group’s live shows - which have
garnered them a cult following and sold out every one of their nine records along the way -
Liminal Space represents an expansion in scope, framing their intuitive approach to
performance within the structure and arrangements of the studio environment.
For a group that
breathes like a single organism in sound, inviting new energy into the recording process has
resulted in what Emre Ramazanoglu describes as “a rebirth of the band in the image of what
came before.”
He continues: “The compositions are still heavily rooted in unadulterated improvisation, but we
have taken the raw recordings that would previously have been released as they were and
added complementary arrangements as well as inviting incredible guests to perform on them.”
The individual members of Ill Considered are also no strangers to working within the context of
the wider music world; Ramazanoglu has played alongside Steam Down and Ali Farke Toure,
Donin with Mulatu Astatke and Chrissie Hynde, and Rahman as part of Wildflower and
Soothsayers. As Ill Considered, they have gained a legion of fans, from Brian Eno to Gilles
Peterson, David Holmes to Sun Ra Arkestra’s Juni Booth.
