Recordings
** "Out Of Our Mouths" High Two Recordings – Release Date - August 21, 2007

On August 21, 2007 High Two Records will release illuminea's Out of Our Mouths. The Philadelphia chamber pop band's second album features 12 new songs, including "Build Your Own" and "Homewrecker."

With three distinct singers/songwriters in the band, Out of Our Mouths plays like a mix CD, albeit one that was created by a close group of friends intent on sharing their individual experiences with love and loss as a collective work. Though there are frequent sonic and tonal shifts throughout Out of Our Mouths—it is at turns epic, intimate, stormy, playful, pensive, and jubilant—each song remains inherently illuminea. "In Retrospect" introduces itself sweetly with pizzicato strings and woodwinds before revealing a caustic heart; "Build Your Own" wobbles along with drunken tuba, guitar, and percussion until it bursts into a choir of la-la-las; turbulent rocker "Sleep It Off" evokes both "Fiddler on the Roof" and Ennio Morricone; "Out of Our Mouths" floats on twinkling harp, swelling gradually as gorgeous orchestration tumbles in; and "I Can’t Wait" closes the album with spiky piano, round robin vocals, and a lurching brass ensemble.
Produced by Joel Hamilton (Tom Waits, Sparklehorse) and illuminea, Out of Our Mouths was recorded in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Harpist Zeena Parkins (Bjork), singer Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu), and saxophonist/clarinetist Colin Stetson (Tom Waits) contribute musical gifts. – written by Dana Buoniconti

** "Nightlight" Self Released – Puffed Wheat Records - November 28th 2004

Nightlight is our first full-length album, recorded under our previous name illumina. Entirely self-produced, it was released Thanksgiving of 2004 under our label Puffed Wheat Records. Recording for Nightlight began at Strange Weather Studios in the winter of 2003 and continued into the spring of 2004. A handful of musicians lent their efforts to Nightlight including Evan Lipson on bass, Dan Blacksburg on trombone, Tim Thompson on trumpet, Hanah Johnston on French Horn, and various handclappers. It was mixed in a four-day session that summer at Studio G in Brooklyn by Joel Hamilton (Shiner, The Book of Knots) and Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, The Book of Knots). Two highly anticipated Record Release Shows followed Nightlight's release in Philadelphia at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Fishtown, and in New York at the Mercury Lounge. Nightlight is available for purchase online at iTunes, www.insound.com, and www.cdbaby.com/illumina. It is also available in Philadelphia at Repo Records, Spaceboy Records, AKA Records, The Sound of Market, and Music on Main.