Ilya

A budding talent on the Kansas City-based Second Nature label, San Diego’s Ilya uses myriad instruments to produce minimalist sounds. Each mild percussive tap, stardust-sprinkled note and delicately plinked piano melody fits unobtrusively into a particularly comfortable sonic quilt. Singer Bianca Rojas employs elfish enunciation that conjures images of a heavily sedated Bjork, while her backing quintet spikes trip-hop-tinged jazz with occasional guitar-rock wake-up calls. The group’s full-length debut, Poise Is the Greater Architect, delivers lush, low-volume pleasures, to which its live show adds Rojas’ considerable charisma and stretches of ambient improvisation.