ILLAY Music

You can recognise ILLAY as a glowing mane of curls holding an electric bass, a cello with loop machine or a megaphone. The songs that she writes, on the other hand, are much darker but wrapped in a warm, rich texture of strings, guitars and a drop of electronica that make the medicine go sweetly down. ILLAY sings in Hebrew, English and French in the genre of oriental-indie-pop.

ILLAY is active in the independent music scene in Berlin and Tel aviv. She cooperates with many other artists such as Astrid North, composes for films and dance and a founding member of the elctro-acousti trio MOJOY. Her freshly released album “Sabotage” was described in TAZ :

"Eine Musik, die alle Gefühlslagen kennt, das ließe sich über womöglich jede Musik sagen. Doch dabei nicht in Kitsch zu ertrinken, fällt schon schwerer. Der israelischen Cellistin Illay gelingt das aber perfekt. In ihren komplexen Kompositionen und direkten Lyrics entfaltet sie eine Parallelwelt, in der sich lachen lässt, ohne das Weinen