Linda Perhacs
Linda Perhacs is an American singer- songwriter who is attributed to the psychedelic- folk.
Life
She graduated from the University of Southern California and only discovered in 1969 as a 27 -year-old their musical skills that provided enough material for his own album recording within nine months. The trained dental hygienist took 1970 her first and only album, Parallelograms, and then returned to the music industry 's back. The record company had made a poor-quality pressing from the technically good studio recordings and hardly cared about the sales. Parallelograms went at the time of publication under completely, but was then traded as rare cult plate, which achieved maximum prices regularly. A re-release as Remaster failed, first, that the artist remained untraceable. Appeared in 2005 at the New York label The Wild Places a remastered version after Perhacs finally still put their master tapes available. There is also a Korean vinyl re-release, which also includes bonus tracks from the original material.
Parallelograms vaguely reminiscent of early Joni Mitchell, but takes decidedly psychedelic elements and subsequent to György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen sound experiments on. The plate is quoted by artists of the New Weird America, Devendra Banhart like, Animal Collective and Diane Cluck as an important influence. Among other things, on Daft Punk's Electroma is comprised of her music. From documentary filmmaker Jeff McCarty was published in 2010 a short film parallelogram, the musician Perhacs or her album on the subject had.
After its rediscovery began Perhacs, Vashti Bunyan similar after more than three decades of working on a new album, which was released in 2014.