Härkä - Ox

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 426.

Carnassial - out now

 

01. Carnassial
02. Impaled Firmament Fragment
03. Wound Cut Off
04. Sylvan Doors to the Odd
05. Granite Shepherd
06. Phobic Seizure
07. Progeny Cremated in Her Eyes
08. Utterly Human Path
09. Endochaos
10. Queen of Windswept Aurora

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8TiFmE85EQ
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com

The 32nd album by Rinta-Perälä. Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, November - December 2023.

Dedicated to the night atmosphere in Perälä and Gerby.

Progeny Cremated in Her Eyes

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6ByDaD__c

Carnassial, February 16, 2024.

New project - album out February 16, 2024

 

Wound Cut Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAWf8DLDNE

Grallochery is feral black metal with vocals and a drum kit in the mix. Rawness with full clarity.

This project contains some elements from Vengeful Semblance and Vortice Neuro.

Carnassial is the 32nd album by Rinta-Perälä. Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, November - December 2023.

Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Album out February 16, 2024.

Verenhimo - Bloodlust

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 425.

The Tearful Portal - out now

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZqy_t5gAAc

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/the-tearful-portal

1. Seven Truths Rush from the River
2. Poison Apple Frozen in Sand
3. More Than Meets the Mind
4. Ash Candles
5. Realm of No Inner Life
6. Distant Times Deaden
7. Black and White in the Flesh
8. Cognisant Funeral March

No separate category for anti-fascist art

 

I am anti-fascist. Everything I have done creatively and politically has been anti-fascist. There is no need for a separate category when it comes to fighting far-right insanity and dictatorships.

Instead of labeling other people constantly, you have to ask yourself: what kind of approach do you have? How much emphasis do you put on counter-extremism as a way to fight extremism?

Anti-fascist commitment becomes apparent in different ways. It doesn't have to be tattooed on your forehead. Not every ground-breaking album has to be called Fascism Sucks.

Creativity is so much more interesting. It can't just be rhetoric, counter-propaganda or naively black-and-white dabbling. You can't just do the exact opposite of something you don't like.

Anti-fascist art should be a universal movement and a sentiment. The more creative you are, the more you realise how stupid fascism is. All we can do is unite against it.

If you're obsessed with categorising other people, you don't feel anything anymore.

The illusion of guaranteed views

 

The reason I'm creating art cannot be reduced to numbers. I am not online or on Youtube to make money. Art is a realm where ideas have a life of their own. All that is completely eliminated if people just look at numbers.

We decide what is on platforms online. It is completely up to us. We also decide what we choose to talk about or focus on. Worrying about a mass audience is a waste of time. That's not what reality is. And yes, we still exist in reality.

The illusion of guaranteed views has been created by people who want to make money on Youtube. It's not the platform. It's not even the algorithm.

The algorithm doesn't care about anyone or anything. It doesn't care about your interests, struggles, your family, your friends, "community", supporters or whatever is currently keeping you on that platform.

Hopefully you care. No algorithm in the world cares about what I genuinely care about. They are time-wasting machines.

Same goes for marketing machines and the sellouts who worship them. Most of these marketing lunatics assume that you are the biggest consumer who is only concerned with popularity. Who are these imaginary people? Do you really just want the same popular stuff over and over again? I don't think so.

The whole thing turns into a hamster wheel. They pay you, you do stuff, they pay you, you do stuff. It doesn't matter if you call yourself independent. Anyone can make these mistakes.

Millions of people are wasting their lives shooting fish in a barrel. Doing the bare minimum and obsessing over numbers. Smart people can also make the mistake of being fame-obsessed. You can't just point at the worst stereotypes. They are a distraction. Pointing to the fact that so many people are fame-obsessed doesn't work as an argument.

Cognisant Funeral March

 

Cognisant Funeral March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-gIFVkvqJA

From The Tearful Portal, out January 15, 2024.

The Tearful Portal - new album out January 15, 2024

 

More Than Meets the Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTlZoQs04k

The Tearful Portal is the 31st album by Rinta-Perälä. This is the first release with a full drum kit in the mix.

Written in January 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, February and October 2023.

Album out January 15, 2024.

jazz / prog / classical

PS. I'm not going to release ten albums this year.

Creative holidays from NCU

 

Especially to every unknown artist with intense ambitions.

The world sometimes thinks that your works don't count, but as long as you're doing this for the right reasons, you'll be fine.

More works from NCU are coming your way next year. Whether the world likes it or not.

Joki - River

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2023.

Drawing 424.

My audio commentary for The House with Laughing Windows

 

The House with Laughing Windows (1976), a film by Pupi Avati.

Audio commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKjzgnbBJZg

This is a written commentary. I tried to create the best track and I learned a lot.

Italian films top 50 - 1911-1988 - From Inferno to Paradise

 

1911 Inferno
1946 Rome, Open City
1948 Bicycle Thieves
1954 La strada
1960 Black Sunday
1962 Boccaccio 70
1963 Il demonio
1963 8½
1963 The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963 Black Sabbath
1964 The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
1964 Castle of Blood
1964 Blood and Black Lace
1964 Red Desert
1964 A Fistful of Dollars
1965 Fists in the Pocket
1965 The 10th Victim
1966 The Battle of Algiers
1966 Kill, Baby, Kill
1966 Blow-Up
1967 The Harem
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 The Great Silence
1968 Death Laid an Egg
1968 Diabolik
1969 Satyricon
1970 The Conformist
1970 Violent City
1970 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970 Clowns
1970 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1971 Sacco and Vanzetti
1971 A Fistful of Dynamite
1971 A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
1972 Black Belly of the Tarantula
1972 Don't Torture a Duckling
1972 Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1973 Amarcord
1974 Arabian Nights
1974 The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1975 Autopsy
1975 Deep Red
1976 The House with Laughing Windows
1977 Suspiria
1977 Anima Persa
1979 Zombie Flesheaters
1980 Cannibal Holocaust
1982 Tenebre
1983 Zeder
1988 Cinema Paradiso

Audio commentary delayed again - new date is December 8, 2023

 

Difficulties keep piling up. New date is December 8, 2023.