O Morto & Ayoub ElAyady - Lila [Cassette]

Format: Cassette
Catalogue No.: SUC61 
Barcode: 653387796983
Release Date: 14 Nov 2025
Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Field Recordings / Tape Collage 

Originally commissioned by TBA during the COVID pandemic of 2020 as part of their Curfew programming O Morto, aka Mestre André now presents the full length version of his Lila composition, a collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ayoub ElAyady and Khalid Boulhamam.

Lila is the Arabic word for night and is also the name of the liturgic ceremony manifested in a trance, as a process of healing and therapy, through a ritual of sensory immersion conducted by music (gnawa), incense, colour and dance. From sunset to dawn, seven colours are revealed, associated with different rhythms and stages of ecstasy.

In LILA, Ayoub ElAyady, Khalid Boulhamam and O Morto summarily travel through the seven colours of the nocturnal ritual in all its scope – using both the form of tradition and electronic manipulation.

Tracklist
1. Lila

Discrepant 2025
Pressed in Portugal