Bourouissa, Mohamed: LILA LP

Critically acclaimed photographer, Paris-based Algeria-born artist Mohamed Bourouissa has long fostered a deep, enveloping interest in sound. "LILA" is his solo debut, a self-styled "musical object" that inventories the important relationships in his life; each of the album's tracks is dedicated to (and named after) a person he was thinking about as he composed the record. Featuring appearances from Franco-Senegalese artist Le Diouck and Italian avant-garde figure Valentina Fanigliulo (aka Mushy and Phantom Love), the album plays like a diary of hypnagogic reflections that uses weightless synths, heartbroken AutoTuned vocals, and dissociated beat sequences to sketch a likeness of Bourouissa's inner reality. Emotionally charged and rooted in the aesthetics Bourouissa pegs to his bonds with sound, people and art, it's as complex and multi-layered as any of his celebrated installations or exhibitions.