Recommend me something that's in the same vein as Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs

Hey get back here, you scenester you.

Some early-70s British Folk has the same haunting, lysergic effect. Try Trees, Stone Angel, the aforementioned Agincourt. Sandy Denny of course, in Fotheringay and Fairport Convention.

Ron Geesin's hazy, slightly oppressive arrangements on Songs for the Gentle Man make it a standout, but even without Geesin, Bridget St. John has a very Perhacs-like feel. her later albums get rockier (and more uneven), but don't miss Thank You For's "Fly High," a dreamy girl-folk gem glistening with John Martyn's Echoplex-ed guitar.

yes, i've been trying to start a grassroots hipster campaign with her "patterns" album but i don't have the cachet of a darvandra. or doc severinsen. so hey everybody let's pitch in 'n' get cracking...

i'd definitely recommend DLing that karen dalton before rushing out to buy a (by now probably ridiculously expensive) copy - unusual voice, but really dreadfully boring material.

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Track listing:
1. Carol Batton - Beeing (Intro)
2. Kathy Smith - It's Taking So Long
3. Sarofeen & Smoke - It's Love
4. Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte
5. Linda Perhacs - Hey, Who Really Cares?
6. Breakout - Usta Me Ogrzej (Warm Up My Lips)
7. Musica Dispersa - Cefalea
8. Poppy Family - Shadows On My Wall
9. Wendy & Bonnie - By The Sea
10. Bonnie Koloc - My Aunt Edna
11. Heaven & Earth - Jenny
12. Erica Pomerance - You Used To Think
13. Audience - Man On Box
14. The Roundtable - Scarborough Fair
15. Sidan - Gobiath
16. Sidan - Ar Goll

Okay, so what's good on this thing?

Only listened to all of it once, but the stand out tracks IIRC are 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 12

and i've always been underwhelmed by Pearls Before Swine :(

shit, i didn't realize how much was released on that label
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a few other albums that would fit into this folky, light psych category are the first Gal Costa, the first solo Rita Lee (of Os Mutantes) "Build Up", Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges "Clube Da Esquina" and the s/t Arthur Verocai.

Actually, Bebel Gilberto is the daughter of Joao a different wife after he and Astrud were divorced.

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it's real good, though there are a couple of less-hot tracks.

a while ago i found that Bonnie Koloc album. it's good, but the song on FINAFLW is by far the best thing on the album.

Reviving since Ms. Perhacs' Parallelograms is now in its third CD version, this time on Sunbeam. Liner notes are now a full essay of hers on her life, the making of the album, etc.; all very enjoyable. Two extra tracks to add on to the 2003 bonuses -- a 2005 BBC interview and a song called "I Would Rather Love" from 1978.

(I hadn't realized that Michael Piper, who had first reissued the album and finally tracked down Perhacs, had passed away earlier this year. Very sad. A nice remembrance here.)

Anyone heard the Propinquity LP with Carla Sciaky on that got reissued the other year??

will check out

that whole heaven & earth lp, which i bought thanks to this thread, is tremendous. better than the (recently reissued) jan & lorraine album that gets more props

i love lots of the stuff suggested on this thread

but lily & maria is pretty crap

wow this linda is somethin!

Never heard her before? Yeah the album kills. I like it better than Vashti Bunyan's, if we're talking the era/cult status etc.

Have you guys heard the Collie Ryan reissue that was done recently? Compiling tracks from her three self-released LPs. It's very nice and psychedelic and mystical but without any really overt studio effects or self-aware psych tropes.

the perhacs album is one of those that makes you search out stuff in a similar vein and you just end up frustrated. she is at the top of the heap imo.

The artist you've been searching for is named Sibylle Baier. Like Linda Perhacs, she made 1 album in the early 70's. And like Linda Perhacs, you have a totally unique singer/songwriter/musician who has created an album that is spellbinding front to back. Personally, I've listened to every artist that was suggested in this thread and it's not even close. Outside Joni Mitchell, there aren't 2 other female artists from that time that combine the vision, creativity, feeling, melody, and musicianship as Linda Perhacs and Sybille Baier did. The only big difference between Linda and Sibylle's record is Sibylle's lack of psychedelia. The album is called Colour Green. Sit back and enjoy. It will take to all the places you want to go...

i dunno, i checked out baier a little while back and it's decent but i didn't find myself getting into it all that much. perhaps it is the aforementioned lack of psychedelia

I loooooove the Sibylle Baier record. It's a bit sparse and dreary, but the songs are just great.

I dunno if you guys are into Mary McCaslin at all; i think we talked about her on another thread. Maybe scott's thread of underappreciated hippie goddesses. "Way Out West" is a killer album, tho with a rootsier feel than what is being discussed in this thread. Also like the record after that, but I forget the name right now.

Or how about Kate Wolf? She's more a country/folk-rock singer-songwriter without even a dash of psychedelia, but I've been getting into her records lately. On kaleidoscope records! (distributed by flying fish!!)

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Susan Christie is along these lines, and this re-issue is awesome. The title track is beautiful and creepy and "Ghost Riders in the Sky" is also deeply haunting.

(there's an almost funk-y element to it, too - similar to that Kathy Smith tune on the "Folk is a Four Letter Word" comp.)

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vinyl reissue is one of the most quality i've seen for anything

ian, Kate Wolf is very big out here in Oregon (xp). There's even a memorial music festival!

woah. that's awesome. i wanna move to oregon. unless i move to rhode island. somewhere where people have an appreciation for life, and living.

Great pull M.V.C. - Thought i heard them all. Interesting tidbit i found researching her an her album:

One word of warning about this album: because of the nature of the source recording the sound gets a bit ropey at some points. In 1970, only three copies of the album were pressed and, although not stated in the press release, I’m guessing the master tapes were lost. This reissue was made from one of the three vinyl copies and in a few places the vinyl is worse for wear. Some of the songs have a lot of scratching on them which at times kill the mood. Still, beggars can’t be choosers.

Apparently 1 of those 3 albums was used for the source of the re-issue. Unbelievable when you think about it.

Hi everyone, btw. I'm new here. This is only my 2cd post. Nice to be here. I really appreciate everyone's insights and stuff, I love stuff!

i'm quite surprised to read that - i'm pretty fussy about the quality of reissues and i didn't notice any obvious sound quality issues.. tis a pretty nice little record anyway

Yeah, I think it sounds fine - I've certainly heard WAY worse! (and welcome, d-day)...

"kills the mood" lol audiophiles

the susan christie album doesn't get enough props. it almost seemed like it got a backlash before it got "popular" among the 500 people who bought it. it's quite solid. and the kinda bad trip epic tune rules.

What kind of backlash did it get? That's interesting; it's one of my favorites of its type. (I picked it up after hearing the depressing title track, which is a sort of "carnival leaving town" narrative). The "kinda bad trip epic tune" is this weird 9-minute semi-spoken word/semi-sung called "Yesterday - Where is My Mind?" that's bananas. The rest of it is this really nice folk/country/funk gentle hybrid.

damn that emmanuelle parrenin reissue is really expensive

alright, i'll take back my statement about backlash because i can't seem to google up anything that goes further than mildly disapproving of the lack of funk in the backing band.

damn that emmanuelle parrenin reissue is really expensive

worth it though. it actually feels like a really awesome old record you're buying new as opposed to a reissue. heavyweight jacket, beautifully cut vinyl, even the labels are the admired. closest comparison i could think of would be the vanguard vinyl reissues of their robbie basho titles that were available for way too short. and actually, throw him in this thread as well.

labels are *to be* admired

btw, as a fan of the Wayfaring Strangers -- Ladies From The Canyon cd, I just came across a copy of Becky Severson's album "A Special Path". It's a little scratchy but a very good copy altogether. Outstanding! and highly recommended.

Also, Sly and the Family's Stone entire set at Woodstock has been released in a double cd package with the the studio album Stand. Watching the movie always left me yearning for more as they only shown "I Want to Take You Higher". I can honestly say if i could only have 1 album and 1 album only, it would be "Stand" by Sly and the Family Stone. A bold statement, but the record always takes me to all the places i want to go. Not to be disappointed, the Woodstock set includes the unfucking believable "Sing a Simple Song", 'You Can Make it if You Try", "Everyday People", and "Stand". The fact that you get both cd's is bonus city.

A great day for d-day! Curious, what would be everyone else's 1 and only 1 album? I totally get it if you can't pull just 1.

I'm stuck on a lyric. A Special Path.

A special path has been shown.
That very special seed has been sown.
This path i walk is not ____________.
It's walked by the faith of the son of god.

Anyone know?

Hello:

Psych-folk singer Linda Perhacs, whose unsung 1970 classic, Parallelograms, was reissued last year, will perform music from the album for the first time ever at Redcat at the beginning of October. Perhacs, who is now a dental hygienist, has been popping up at miscellaneous Dublab events from time to time, wowing a new generation of freaky folkies looking for inspiration. The evening, co-presented by Draw-Pictures, will be part of the Dublab collective's 10th anniversary celebration, which is slated to run from October 1 through October 10 at various venues around town.

Tickets will be $30 through http://redcat.org when they go on sale.

that will be fascinating, hope it goes well

I would love so much to see that...

Nice to see some love for Emanuelle Parrenin in this thread, Maison Rose is such an amazing record.

been listening to these trails again lately, bloody hell this is an incredible disc. the moog bass is just genius.

friend on perhacs at red cat:

doood, if only you had been there! her lovely voice + amazing psychedelic visual projections + inventive choreography + inspired covers by various LA luminaries = mind blown. she even gave a shout out to daft punk who was apparently there
in the audience with a 15 person entourage. It was quite an evening.

Yeah I was very bummed not to be able to make that, sounded amazing. Hopefully it was recorded for release on DVD or the like.

me 2

a year ago, i interviewed Ms. Perhacs for an article in the LA Weekly, which was videotaped by the woman who ultimately put this entire night together, so it was kinda mind-blowing to be back in town and see this convergence of so many talented folks. 'twas a special night, indeed.

I like Mary McCaslin but can't find a copy of "Way Out West." Did find LP of "Sunny California" for 50 cents at an estate sale this fall. Caroline Peyton played a sold-out show in Bloomington, Ind. in May 2009 with two other Bar-B-Q Records alumns, Mark Bingham and Bob Lucas. Lucas sat in on "Fishin' Blues" (banjo) and a drummer joined for "White Teeth," and the rest of the show was stuff from "Mock Up" mainly. Did a new song about the Needmore Commune that the crowd of aging hippies appreciated, and during Bingham's set a woman streaked thru the audience. Just like the olden days. Still in great voice.

live Perhacs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmOKXq6aJM

Hmmm, was this mentioned somewhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rFmXzvq6TQ

great voice

She's playing London next month.

And, it turns out, a new album is out soon:

Linda Perhacs’ 1970 album Parallelograms has enjoyed a special classic status and long-eduring afterlife among music fans; a rediscovered gem that never fades back into obscurity. Perhaps, the American equivalent to Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day. Parallelograms is an uncanny mix of Aquarian folk and ethereal, avant-garde treatments, Parallelograms was created in the heart of hippy country, LA’s Topanga Canyon, by a dental hygienist named Linda Perhacs who was inspired by nature and by the cultural revolution going on around her.

In the internet age, though, obscurity can be discreetly transformed into a kind of niche immortality. As the 21st Century began she learned that Parallelograms had become a cult album. A CD reissue on The Wild Places imprint followed in 2003, but Perhacs’ reputation only continued to grow. Devendra Banhart was particularly evangelical, and tempted Perhacs back into a studio in 2007 to provide backing vocals on his reconstruction of the vintage Topanga vibe, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon.

Disparate and unlikely fans revealed themselves: Swedish death metal group Opeth covered “Parallelograms”; Daft Punk placed “If You Were My Man” in their Electroma movie. “I first bought Parallelograms on vinyl when I was in New York on tour,” remembers Ramona Gonzalez of the LA group Nite Jewel. “I carried it under my arm to a crowded party, shut the door to the room that had a turntable, turned it on, and laid on the ground. I probably listened to it a dozen times while tears filled my eyes.”

And slowly, Perhacs began making music again. In 2010, she performed live for the very first time, at a tribute show (organised by the internet radio station, Dublab) that connected her to a new generation of LA musicians supernaturally attuned to her vision.

Perhacs fell into auspicious and hip young company, tentatively negotiating a return to musical activity with the help of Gonzalez and Julia Holter. Inspiration came, too, from listening to “Francisco”, a Milton Nascimento song that Devendra Banhart had passed on to her, and from watching Inside Björk, a documentary which showed the Icelandic singer escaping from the pressures of performance by sailing up close to a majestic iceberg.

Then came an email from Fernando Perdomo. I get a lot of messages but something said, ‘Answer that email right away.’”

Perdomo, it transpired, was a skilled musician and producer who’d just moved from Florida into Perhacs’ LA neighbourhood. Along with another dedicated and gifted Perhacs fan, Chris Price, the trio began recording the eclipse song, “River Of God”, and what became the new album’s title track, The Soul Of All Natural Things. It’s a remarkable follow-up album, one that sustains and extends the aesthetic mission of its 43-year-old predecessor. Julia Holter and Ramona Gonzalez contribute, too, on a set of 12 new songs which Mojo has already called “a spectrally hypnotic work of prismatic beauty.”

As a consequence The Soul Of All Natural Things, for all its apparent serenity, is also a subtly polemical album, full of exhortations to take a step out of our frantic everyday lives. “We get too far out of balance and we must find a way to get back to our polestar,” Perhacs says. “I felt that people needed to be reminded of that. My music isn’t just recreational, it’s not just entertainment. I have a deeper purpose. My soul is giving itself to the people; I want them to be helped, I want them to be lifted.

Lofty aspirations, perhaps, but they typify this new age of Linda Perhacs’ music. “Linda,” says Sufjan Stevens, who is releasing The Soul Of All Natural Things on his Asthmatic Kitty label, “has a prophetic voice that speaks beauty and truth with the kind of confidence and hope that has been lost for decades.

“There is nothing more real in music today.”

Track Listing:
01. The Soul Of All Natural Things
02. Children
03. River Of God
04. Daybreak
05. Intensity
06. Freely
07. Prisms Of Glass
08. Immunity
09. When Things Are True Again
10. Song Of The Planets

Plus a video for "Freely"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n-nWy6fB00

great

https://soundcloud.com/asthmatickitty/linda-perhacs-river-of-god

And we got full stream:

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Enjoying this so far. Her voice still sounds great!

absolutely gorgeous

ahh i was just thinking about her recently, this timing could not be better

the production and her voice are gorgeous but there is something in the lyrics and songwriting that is so far not clicking with me. i do really like "prisms of glass" and the final track though. maybe i will buy a copy for my hippie brother.

"Prisms of Glass" is really great. Surprised how good this album turned out actually, although I will agree their are some lyrical cliches going on, but that isn't the biggest hurdle to cross. She sounds great and the productions/arrangements are very sympathetic.

There are some stellar tracks - like "Prism of Glass" - but I found it a mixed bag. Very 90s take on new age in places. But the best songs are very good indeed.

anyone seen her play live? she's playing here next week and I'm curious but def wary about stuff that sounds 90s new age

i feel like the 'new age' thing is v much overstated if one is a fan or parallelograms

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For the most part, my issues with the record have nothing to do with her and more to do with the musical accompaniment. That's what sounds new age and oddly dated.