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Artist | Linda Perhacs
Title | I'm A Harmony
Genre | Psychedelic Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 52:58
Label | Omnivore Recordings Store | 2017
Catalog | OVCD-239 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 225 kbps Size | 89.40 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Winds Of The Sky (Feat. Nels Cline) 5:49
02. We Will Live (Feat. Julia Holter & Devendra Banhar) 5:16
03. I'm A Harmony (Feat. Julia Holter) 8:06
04. The Dancer 3:59
05. Crazy Love (Feat. The Autumn Defense) 4:10
06. Take Your Love To A Higher Level (Feat. Durga McBroom & 3:08
Michelle Vidal)
07. Eclipse Of All Love (Feat. Pat Sansone) 2:50
08. One Full Circle Around The Sun 2:53
09. Beautiful Play (Feat. Julia Holter) 4:12
10. Visions (Feat. Julia Holter) 7:11
11. You Wash My Soul In Sound (Feat. Mark Pritchard) 5:24
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Linda Perhacs is a California-based singer/songwriter whose first - and for
decades, only - album, "Parallelograms", is regarded as a psych-folk
masterpiece, highly influential among songwriters including Opeth's Mikael
Akerfeldt, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and many others. Perhacs was a
purposeful but very private songwriter living on Topanga Canyon Boulevard
and working as a dental hygienist when Grammy- and Emmy-winning composer
Leonard Rosenman (Rebel Without a Cause and Barry Lyndon) walked into her
office for an appointment.
After ten more, he inquired about what she did with her spare time. She
revealed only then that she was a songwriter. He asked to hear what she
wrote, and was impressed when he did. He arranged a record deal for her
with Kapp, a Universal subsidiary, hired the players (including drummer
Shelly Manne), and produced the recording sessions that resulted in
"Parallelograms".
Perhacs' story sounds like the plot for a Hollywood movie: Dental hygienist
who writes songs in her spare time is discovered by a music biz bigwig
while she cleans his teeth. She makes a brilliant album that sells zilch,
and drops out of the music industry. Decades later, record collectors and
freak folkies rediscover the album, and it's reissued without the
songwriter's knowledge. Eventually the visionary hygienist is found, and
learns she has an audience. If this were a movie, the scenario would likely
end with the vocalist playing for a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall after
her new album became a hit, though that hasn't happened in real life yet.
Still, the fact that Perhacs has returned to duty and is creating
compelling new music 47 years after her cult classic "Parallelograms" came
and went is more than remarkable in itself. At the age of 74, Perhacs has
released her third album, 2017's "I'm A Harmony", and the passing of nearly
half a century has made a difference, though not as much as you might
think. Perhacs' voice is more fragile and whispery than it was in 1970, and
she doesn't hit the notes as reliably as she once did. That said, her
instrument is surprisingly functional given how long she avoided singing in
public, and the many collaborators who help her on "I'm A Harmony" are both
generous and knowing in their musical and vocal support.
As a songwriter, Perhacs' muse has barely aged a day, and the playful but
heartfelt hippie-style visions and soaring melodies that dominated
Parallelograms are still here in abundance; if the craft here feels more
21st century, the heart and soul are very much the same, and Perhacs has
remained loyal to the musical vision she first documented in 1970. And
Perhacs' partners on "I'm A Harmony" serve her very well; the album was
produced by Pat Sansone (of Wilco and the Autumn Defense) and Fernando
Perdomo in collaboration with Perhacs, with appearances from Julia Holter,
Devendra Banhart, Nels Cline, and Mark Pritchard, and the results are
graceful and powerfully atmospheric, individual while flattering the style
of the headliner.
"I'm A Harmony" isn't the revelation that "Parallelograms" was, but it's
not a letdown, either; this is the work of an artist whose singular
creative viewpoint hasn't dimmed with time. She still has a great deal to
say, and those who loved her debut will discover she hasn't lost her touch.
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