PRESS:
Billed as a sequel to 2022's '7.37/2.11', 'The air outside...' diffuses its predecessor's ambiguous synthscapes with loose-limbed slowcore improvisations, prioritising vulnerability and falibility. RIYL Laila Sakini, Grouper, Bianca Scout or Ulla.
If Perila's immense, immersive double album 'Intrinsic Rhythm' was too much to swallow in one sitting, this one's a little more digestible. The prolific Berlin-based assembled 'The air outside...' from sessions recorded between 2021 and 2023, but they play remarkably coherently, revealing a more fragile, serendipitous side of her personality. Made mostly using guitar and voice, it's music that's not overthought or overproduced, as if we're getting a direct line into Perila's reality - even the title betrays its unpretentious approach. On opener 'Over Me', Perila loops reversed guitar notes, picking out a rough, detuned bassline and barely singing. Her faded voice mouthes out a wordless, improvised lullaby descends into a well, reverberating as she stumbles across the notes. Not ambient exactly, it's more like evaporated, decelerated post-rock - day zero Grouper crossed with Bark Psychosis.
And that description holds on 'Barefeeter', even when Perila switches to piano, playing unsteady, muted phrases as the room rattles around her. A song begins to materialize as she sings textured coos, but never completely emerges. 'Gooshy' is more surprising still, playing out like Jandek with dissonant strums that quiver around dissociated vocal expressions, and on 'Fossil', she uses the same philosophy without resorting to live instrumentation, disrupting oozed pads and whisper-singing over the horizontal soundscape.
-Boomkat
Word by Perila about the record:
This archival collection is very dear to me
Grateful for Vaagner to release a sequel edition of memories in a physical form
Each track feels like a door to a heavy feeling felt so clearly and processed lightly through sounds
Here in my favourite state: talking through strings and keys, touching the instrument
No one feels me better then guitar
Hearing all these tracks bring sweetest nostalgia and reinforces desire to talk more and more through this mad resonance and quite acoustics as its pretty cathartic always
Space which has no time when you enter it.*°
- 1. Over me
- 2. Barefeeter
- 3. Gooshy
- 4. Wanting is a substance derived from unexpressed
- 5. The air outside is crazy right now
- 6. Fossil
- 7. Everyday hope
- 8. Unseen