ISHQ

Matt Hillier is the not only the UK’s, but one of the world’s most accomplished and prolific Ambient artists. Most widely known for music produced under his Ishq moniker featuring Jacqueline Kersley, Matt has also released music on classic electronic labels such as Dakini, Interchill and Aleph Zero. Matt also launched and runs the Virtual Records label, primarily as an outlet for all of his varying projects, under pseudonyms such as Omni Vu Deity, Elve, Ishvara and Yunomi. Virtual Records has also served as a vehicle to introduce us to artists such as Sinepearl, Vataff Project and Neil Butler’s Experiments In Silence.

In the past 20 years Matt has collaborated with many of today’s leading ambient composers such as Lee Antony Norris and Matt Coldrick, he now boasts an impressively varied catalogue of over 50 albums in every area and sub-genre of ambient music. It matters not which Ishq project you approach, the listener is rewarded with music that takes the head on a truly fantastical journey.  Sometimes cold and distant, sometimes warm and lush, often synthetic and cosmic, the constant to all Virtual and Ishq related releases is the sense of the “Other” an immersion into worlds at once connected yet paradoxically estranged from the here and now. Seriously psychedelic music for the serious listener!