Weekly Special #148b: illease

ill ease is the one-woman-band from Brooklyn, NY with Elizabeth Sharp playing a whirlwind of guitars, bass, loops, drums, shaker, tambourine, xylophone, Rhodes and sometimes car horn. Ill ease was initially a recording project, born sometime around 1998, when an old 8-track, a haunted piano and a guitar amp with no off-switch for the vibrato were left in an abandoned auto shop in Brooklyn. Ill Ease has released several studio albums, the most recent of which have been released on Too Pure/Beggars Banquet, Cochon Records, and Ionik Records. Over the past 2 years, ill ease has toured extensively around the US, Canada, UK and Europe, opening for bands such as Deerhoof, Battles, Peter, Bjorn and John and No Age. Prior to ill ease, Elizabeth Sharp played drums in New Radiant Storm King (Homestead Records) and bass in Skinner Pilot (Goodsin Records). - read Edan Wilber's interview with the artist here.