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Linda Perhacs

70–100 BPMacid folkpsych folk

1970 west coast psych folk from the 1970s: fingerpicked steel acoustic, stacked vocal harmonies, tape-phased voices, dreamy and shimmering in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

Style: Acid Folk · Related styles: Psychedelic Folk, Progressive Folk, Folk, Baroque Folk

History

Linda Perhacs is known for one record that almost nobody heard when it came out. Parallelograms, released in 1970, is a hushed and strange piece of Californian psychedelic folk: close-miked voice layered into shimmering harmonies, fingerpicked guitar, and on the title track a collage of overlapping vocal lines and treated sound closer to experimental music than to a coffeehouse set. Perhacs was living in Topanga Canyon and working as a dental hygienist in Beverly Hills when one of her patients, the film composer Leonard Rosenman, heard her demos and produced the album. It made no impression at the time and she went back to her dental work. From 1998 onward reissues found a new audience among collectors and later the freak-folk generation, and her songs were sampled by hip-hop and electronic artists. That rediscovery brought her back to recording: The Soul of All Natural Things appeared in 2014 with collaborators including Julia Holter, and I'm a Harmony followed in 2017. Her soft, airy, multi-tracked voice and her pull towards nature and geometric imagery stand out first.

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