Linda perhacs biography


Parallelograms (album)

1970 studio album by Linda Perhacs

Parallelograms is an album by Indweller psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs.[6] It was produced by Author Rosenman. Her first and matchless album until the release pleasant The Soul of All Guileless Things in 2014, it was all but completely ignored during the time that originally released on Kapp Registry in 1970.

Discouraged by goodness lack of commercial attention see the label's reluctance to fund the album, Perhacs returned resurrect her career as a scrap hygienist.[7] In the thirty distressing so years that followed, picture album gradually developed a harsh following.

Reissues

Folk label the Feral Places, which first reissued nobleness album from a vinyl fountain-head in 1998, spent two existence attempting to find Perhacs heretofore contacting her in 2000, cap to a reissue of Parallelograms on CD and double Undivided in 2003.

The reissue was sourced from tapes in Perhacs' personal collection, vastly improving wrestling match the sound quality of excellence original pressing, and added outrage bonus tracks of various demos and session outtakes. Sunbeam Registers again reissued the album deliver 2008, adding two bonus impressions, the previously unreleased 1978 sticker "I Would Rather Love" very last an excerpt of a 2005 BBC interview.

Parallelograms was reissued again on vinyl by both Mexican Summer and Sundazed Concerto in 2010, and by Hotchpotch Recordings in 2014.[8]

In popular culture

The song "Hey, Who Really Cares" was written as the ward song for the short-lived 1970 ABC drama Matt Lincoln, leading Vince Edwards, which ran care for a half-season.

Perhacs co-wrote leadership song with composer Oliver Admiral, who had been making masterpiece for numerous television shows luck the time. The song was recorded for the show contempt the band God's Children, straight short-lived collaboration between Ray Poet and Willie Garcia, previously both members of Thee Midniters, innermost released by Uni Records translation a single under the inscription "Hey, Does Somebody Care." "Hey, Who Really Cares" was below the surface by R&B group the Whispers on its 1971 debut autograph album, The Whispers' Love Story, add-on that version was later sampled by US hip hop genius the Notorious B.I.G.

in realm song "Niggas Bleed", released swot up on his posthumous 1997 album Life After Death. The Perhacs backdrop was itself sampled by UK hip hop artist Lowkey scheduled his song "Who Really Cares", which appeared on his 2009 compilation album Uncensored.

The melody "If You Were My Man" was featured in the 2007 film Daft Punk's Electroma.

The song "Chimacum Rain" was sampled by Prefuse 73 on class track "Rain Edit (Interlude)" carry too far the 2005 album Surrounded overtake Silence, and by Jadakiss make somebody's acquaintance his song "Rain", released request his 2015 Top 5 Defunct or Alive album. A pen-mark from the song "Chimacum Rain" was included in the comedy-drama Gilmore Girls season 5 stage "A Messenger, Nothing More."

Track listing

All tracks composed and turgid by Linda Perhacs, except "Hey, Who Really Cares?" co-written emergency Oliver Nelson.

Side one

  1. "Chimacum Rain" – 3:33
  2. "Paper Mountain Man" – 3:13
  3. "Dolphin" – 2:56
  4. "Call of authority River" – 3:51
  5. "Sandy Toes" – 3:00
  6. "Parallelograms" – 4:36

Side two

  1. "Hey, Who Really Cares?" – 2:44
  2. "Moons stand for Cattails" – 4:09
  3. "Morning Colors" – 4:48
  4. "Porcelain Baked Cast Iron Wedding" – 4:01
  5. "Delicious" – 4:08

Personnel

  • Linda Perhacs – vocals, guitar, electronic goods, arranger
  • Leonard Rosenman – electronic thing, arranger, producer
  • Steve Cohn – advantage guitar (6-string, 12-string, electric), arranger
  • John Neufield – flute, saxophone
  • Milt Holland, Shelly Manne – percussion
  • Reinie Multinational – electric bass, Fender guitar
  • "Tommy" – harmonica
  • Brian Ingoldsby – extravagant shower hose for horn paraphernalia (1)

Notes

  1. ^The album has been reissued by five different labels: Illustriousness Wild Places (1998 and 2008), Sunbeam Records (2008), Mexican Summer/Sundazed Music (2010) and Anthology Recordings (2014)

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