A personal note is insights and thoughts from the label:
Perila is very special to me, she is an artist I have followed almost since day one when I heard her first couple of tracks on Soundcloud, I immediately understood that here we have music coming out of someone who is very special.
She has a very strong vision and we as a label dont have to interfere or help with anything - she just knows what she wants - her vision is complete. Because it is all her.
For me this album is a what I would refer to as an outsider double, with this I mean it has the same feel and approach as the great outsider double albums of the early 90s: Royal Trux’s Twin Infinitives, Dead C’s Harsh 70s Reality and Lake by R!!!S. These albums gave the middle finger to the classic double albums of the 70s rock megalomania, and they made their own weird version of, and a new definition, of what a double album could be. In all fairness it has to be said that Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth all build a bridge between the big/epic 70s dinosaurs and the 90s outsider doubles. Anyway, Intrinsic Rhythm has the same feel. Its 64 minutes long and 21 tracks spread over 4 sides with each side having its own title and theme.
For me this is the definitive Perila release, here it all coming together: her art, her bodymovements, her influence of nature. This album is the sonic personifisation of who Alexandra Zakharenko aka Perila is as a human. For me this music is Perila. Like an imaginary sountrack to Tarkovsky’s The Mirror. Deep and hauntingly beautiful.
Joakim Haugland, Smalltown Supersound
