Birth name Adem Ilhan Also known as Adem Name Adem Ilhan | Role Musician · adem.tv Years active 2004–present | |
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Adem Ilhan (Turkish: Adem İlhan, [ˈɑːdem ˈilhɑn]; ) is an English musician of Turkish descent from South London. He is the bass guitarist in the post-rock band Fridge, alongside Kieran Hebden, and is part of the electronic duo Silver Columns with Johnny Lynch. His solo music is released under the name Adem.
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- Megan wyler the fraying feat adem ilhan
- Recording history
- Albums
- Singles
- Other work
- Personal life
- References
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Recording history
Ilhan's debut solo album, Homesongs, appeared on Domino Records in 2004. Mixed by Kieran Hebden, the album found critical acclaim with limited commercial success. The album includes the song "Statued", which featured on the soundtrack of the film Dead Man's Shoes.
A second album, Love and Other Planets, was released on 24 April 2006 to generally favorable reviews.
In May 2008 Ilhan released a collection of cover songs called Takes. The album includes tracks originally written and performed by Yo La Tengo, The Smashing Pumpkins, Björk, dEUS, and Bedhead, among others.
In 2008 Ilhan along with Jeremy Warmsley & Mystery Jets contributed the song "Grains of Sand" to the Survival International charity album Songs for Survival.
In 2011, Adem collaborated with folk music group Lau to create the Ghosts EP under the name Lau vs Adem.
Since 2014, Ilhan has been performing with Philip Selway's band and opened for Selway on his 2015 US tour.
After years of collaborations by production and session-playing, Adem released a new solo album, seconds are acorns, in October 2015. The first single from it, "Snow in April", received its first radio airplay on BBC 6 Music in August.
Albums
Singles
Other work
Personal life
Ilhan attended the University of Warwick. In December 2006, Ilhan played a free concert in Barrhead Community Library, commenting "I love libraries. [...] The existence of public libraries is one of my favourite achievements of human kind."
Ilhan is deaf in one ear.