Perila - Intrincis Rhythm Perila

Released: 20/12/24

With her second album for Oslo’s Smalltown Supersound, the St. Petersburg-born, Berlin-based sound and visual artist, DJ, poet and performer Perila takes aim at the harnessing rhythms both internal and external with a format-specific double album with 21 discrete compositions. In terms of medium, Intrinsic Rhythms is fundamentally a double album. However, it is less like the classic conceptual 70s variety and more like the outsider experimental 90s double album, such as Royal Trux’s Twin Infinitives or Lake by R!!!S!!. 

Clocking at 64 minutes, Perila opts for more tracks with less playing time, eschewing long-format psychedelic exploration for more potent, condensed blocks of ecstatic introspection interspersed by a sonic palette cleansing of five-second breaks in between. The result is an album of rhythmic ambient, spectral electronics and intimate vocal exploration that strikes an elusive balance between intentional and aleatoric elements; between the rhythms and melodies generated and those harnessed from the environment; between abstract melody and concrete language; and between the complexities of life and spiritual regeneration.