Leandro Serizo – “Mosteiro do Abismo”: A Sounds and Colours video premiere

Sounds and Colours is proud to present the video premiere of Brazilian singer-songwriter Leandro Serizo’s “Mosteiro do Abismo”.

Serizo brings together elements of progressive rock and contemporary Brazilian popular music by mixing reality and psychedelia. The track is built around textures that are reminiscent of Radiohead and Dead Can Dance, the musical language of Dominguinhos and Gilberto Gil, as well as the sonic traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean. “Mosteiro do Abismo” is rooted in the ability to make different emotions resonate within a simple arrangement built on layers and repetitions with zones of rhythmic instability. “The idea of what a ‘monastery of the abyss’ might be came to me as a territory where silence and noise coexist,” the artist explains.

Serizo is a self-taught musician from Campinas, São Paulo. He has studied music from the Mediterranean, Latin America, and Arab traditions, focusing on modal systems and polyrhythms. He founded the band Egrégora Mundana and his band FORRÓBAILE have a strong presence in the forró scene with a sound that investigates the Arab and Mediterranean roots of forró pé de serra in dialogue with contemporary experimentation.

The release is accompanied by a music video that expands on this imagined world. Set in an abandoned 19th-century building, the video is directed by Stephanie Rios and draws on the ritualistic cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Sergei Parajanov. In essence, “Mosteiro do Abismo” functions as a visual metaphor for this inner space where silence, noise, chaos, memory, and movement coexist and continuously reorganize.

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