Ilana (The Creator): Vinyl LP Meshuggah produced by ben hillier (blur

produced by ben hillier (blur

Pressure makes diamonds

Slip out quiet

The music concentrates heavily on instrumental and blues-oriented material

and how difficult this makes it to tell an actually true story

Ilana (The Creator): Vinyl LP Meshuggah produced by ben hillier (blurMdou trades in unrelenting grit and has no qualms about going full shred. A long time coming, Ilana is Mdou's first true studio album. Recorded in Detroit at the tail end of a US tour by engineer Chris Koltay (who met after bonding over ZZ Top's Tres Hombres), Mdou lived in studio for a week, playing into the early hours and accompanied by an all star band: Ahmoudou Madassane's (Les Filles de Illighadad) lighting fast rhythm guitar, Aboubacar