Ifrits Habitent

by O Morto

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1.	Marrakesh Vertigo 01:31		buy track
2.	Out of the Atlas pt.2 (dreaming of mattresses on fire) 03:20		buy track
3.	“Fait attention, pas de confiance” 12:00		buy track
4.	Ali Baba! 05:54		buy track
5.	Tetfout radio loop 02:10		buy track
6.	Pista de Olhinhos — 08.08.17 20:30 Frogs and people in Ain Tamda Park, Zaouiat Cheikh 01:15	info	buy track
7.	09.08.17 21:08 On the road to Ouarzazate (olympus) 01:50	info	buy track
8.	10.08.17 17:55 Festivities in Boumalne du Dadès 07:37	info	buy track
9.	11.08.17 16:36 Raining in the desert, Ziz Valley 05:01	info	buy track
10.	11.08.17 18:58 Raining in the desert plains, N13 road, middle way between Rissani and Merzouga 06:23	info	buy track
11.	12.08.17 13:52 Street shop with a radio in Merzouga 01:12	info	buy track
12.	15.08.17 10:05 Morning in the mountains by Chefchauen 01:00	info	buy track
13.	16.08.17 23:56 Stranded in the port of Ceuta 01:51	info	buy track
14.	Out Nowhere — 16.08.17 05:17 Ferry between Ceuta and Algeciras 02:57	info	buy track

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Boomkat Product Review:
Outstanding fever dream collage of Moroccan field recordings and curiously pitched synthesis by Portugal’s O Morto - an addendum to his new album that surely holds up on its own, riveting merits - RIYL Metal Preyers, Christos Chondropoulos, Muslimgauze, Sublime Frequencies, Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force

One of many good reasons to keep a close ear on Discrepant and its Sucata Tapes sublabel, ‘Ifrits Habitent’ is proffered as a more free-flowing sibling to O Morto’s new studio album ‘Dans la Gorge d’un Monstre’, itself a follow-up to 2016’s ‘The Forest, The People and the Spirits’. Typically drawing on his background as a composer and sound artist for film, dance, performance and theatre, O Morto specifically applies his techniques to the riches of Moroccan music here in a heavily satisfying hour of impressionistically skewed and warped field recordings that nevertheless impart a strong feel for the sweltering sound fields of Moroccan streets and marketplaces. The results are acutely comparable to Metal Preyers’ similarly spirited incursions on Kampala, also taking the license of Muslimgauze’s sound-scaping, but with a humid sense of actually being there (as opposed to Manchester) that reflects the lingering psychedelic after effects of his time in Arabic North Africa.

With keen attention to the rhythmic psychedelia of Moroccan percussion traditions and polyphonic cacophony of its built-up areas, augmented by a spellbinding taste for curdled discord and bittersweet Non-Western synth tone, O Morto plunges us into his memory banks with a grippingly impressionistic sort of surreality. We are utterly intoxicated from the front by his dense thicket of horns and crowd holler in ‘Marrakesh Vertigo’, and it’s a rare pleasure to follow his logic across the 12 minutes of trampling, ritualise drums and chant in ‘Fais attention, pas de confiance’, thru wavey flutes that sound like a screwed grime riddim in ‘Ali Baba’, to Raï keyboard melodies of ‘Tefout Radio Loop’, gonzoid Sublime Frequencies snapshots of drum batteries in ‘Festivities in Boumaine du Dadès’, and the eerie evocation of ‘Out of Nowhere Ferry Between Ceuta and Algeciras’ that leaves us with the oddest sensation of time travel.

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released March 10, 2023

Cover design by Desisto

Released by Sucata Tapes

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Dweller of Dystopia, O Morto generates immersive torrents of sonic ectoplasm. An acousmatic psychopomp, taking us through our own surrealistic subconscious.

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