Parallelograms [Import]

Linda Perhacs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wild Places
• ASIN: B0001XTIUO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Chimacum Rain

2. Paper Mountain Man

3. Dolphin

4. Call Of The River

5. Sandy Toes

6. Parallelograms

7. Hey, Who Really Cares?

8. Moons & Cattails

9. Morning Colors

10. Porcelain Baked Cast Iron Wedding

11. Delicious

12. If You Were My Man (Demo Version)

13. If You Were My Man (Studio)

14. Hey, Who Really Cares (With Intro)

15. Chimacum Rain (Demo Version)

16. Spoken Intro To Leonard Rosenman

17. Chimacum Rain (Demo With Sounds)

Editorial Reviews

Remastered & expanded version of 1970 from the mysterious Linda Perhacs. Includes 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks, 'If You Were My Man' (demo & studio versions), 'Hey, Who Really Cares' (with intro), 'Chimacum Rain' (demo), Spoken Intro to Leonard Ro

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite!, April 12, 2005

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William Timothy Lukeman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parallelograms (Audio CD)

Here's a superb long-lost gem from the end of the 1960s, a perfect example of the more thoughtful & optimistic sensibilities of that time. Linda Perhacs' voice is haunting, playful, yearning, sensual, or soaring, just as each song demands. There's intelligence & a certain otherworldliness in her songs, along with an occasional streak of whimsy & mischief. An album just made for solitary listening, it will take you to a sunnier place (with patches of cool, mysterious shade) ... and isn't that what we all need at times? "Chimacum Rain" & "Hey Who Really Cares?" are standout tracks, along with the wonderfully spacey title track, which just shimmers with eerie beauty. Highly recommended!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really special record, November 12, 2006

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Elliot Knapp (Seattle, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Parallelograms (Audio CD)

Parallelograms, Linda Perhacs' one and only album is well worth the price of admission. It's great if mutual interest allows you to get into Perhacs, but other than that, pay no attention to the Joni Mitchell comparisons. This album grooves on something really separate from Joni--there's something spacey, ethereal about Perhacs' delicate vocals, the music's subtle, trippy arrangements, and the way she deals with the subjects of her songs. My personal favorite highlights are Chimacum Rain (check out the overdubbed vocals . . . this track really sets the tone for the album as reflective, and tinged with psychedelia), Paper Mountain Man (real groovy character sketch), the almost modal chant of Parallelograms, and the immediately accessible Hey, Who Really Cares? Throughout, the music matches the lyrics--Call of the River verges on tone poem, and on the rest, acoustic guitar flourishes illustrate moods and Perhacs' idiosyncratic observations. The bonus tracks (as bonus tracks usually are), are not essential, although they do add to the singer's mystique, encompassing ALL of her recordings, EVER. I recommend this album to fans of acoustic singer/songwriter fans, and especially those who like when performers bend the genre and get a little weird--Parallelograms certainly isn't content to rehash what's already been done. It looks like the CD issue is getting scarcer--I'd urge prospective buyers to pick up a copy before it's prohibitively expensive--I think you'll find it's worth your money.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something special, November 29, 2004

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Ms. Felicia Davis-burden (Staines, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parallelograms (Audio CD)

This album is a breath of fresh air away from the current crop of talentless people in the charts and headlines. An intoxicating set of songs, beautifully sung and created with real attention to detail which we haven't heard since Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark or perhaps Judee Sill's Heart Food. Sometimes one gets the sense that certain substances had been consumed - particularly on listening to the opening Chimacum Rain, Linda intones 'I'm spacing out...' - but it's really on the title track Parallelograms where we hear something wonderfully otherworldly. But the entire album is a multi-faceted gem, well worth anyone's attention. Beautiful.