Liila has been played on NTS in shows including Kaitlyn Aurelia-Smith Presents: TouchThePlants, featured first on 15 December 2020. Songs played include Appa Wú Wéi, Not One Not Two and Frozen Islands.

Portland duo Danielle Davis and Steven Whiteley aka Liila formed during a shared tenure at a Zen Buddhist monastery, bonding over mutual fascinations with deep listening and intersections of sonic futurism and archaism. Soundness Of Mind, their debut, was conceived on synthesizers, samplers, and laptops in “forgotten corners of the monastic grounds” as well with an array of acoustic instruments at their eclectic home studio, both before and during pandemic lockdown.