Ecuador's folk ambient/dungeon synth act Urku Llanthu - a solo musical project of Pablo Mesías, which transcends ancestral settings and sounds of hypnotizing atmospheres with gloomy melodies and Andean mystics, has released its fifth full-length, Pichkay (Everything In Order in English), via Pablo Mesías' Takiri Producciones Independiente.

The Pichka is performed when someone dies. The mourners assume that the soul of the deceased has not left for good - it is among them and it can see how much their loved ones do and say. Based on this ancestral Andean belief, three days after the death, the Pichkachiy is performed at the house's doors where the ceremony takes place, with the light of a lantern or a fire. On a table, some of the deceased's clothing is placed, simulating the body of the deceased and surrounding it with candles as if the corpse were present. Friends and relatives watch over it in this way: those present chew the highly prized coca leaf. Everyone praises the deceased's virtues, convinced that the deceased listens to them and needs such praise to be happy and satisfied. Ashes, corn flour or quinoa flour are thrown near the table and in the room where the death took place, to find traces of the deceased's passing in the ashes.

The ancient practice and belief state that if this ceremony called Pichkay is not performed, the deceased's spirit will not leave them in peace as it will continue to wander this world. Link