Parallelograms

What a great one shot at a musical career for Linda Perhacs. The songs are very deep in thought and the music is smooth. The way this album came out it is to bad that Linda did not record more. To find this title remastered was a treat for me. The 60's were very creative with or with out the help of other substances. If your looking for a Psych / Folk album then this one is worth buying. I rather listen to vinyl then cd because it sounds better, but that is my choice. A very enjoyable album and worth a couple of plays everytime I bring it out.

Wow ! Where was I! Missing out! Ahead of her time!

What a terrible loss it was that she made only this LP in 1970 and then receded from view. Her writing, delivery and exceptional production values make this an entrancing, compelling, even necessary work. The title song, written around geometric terms, swirls around the listener literally (if you have four speakers, at least). "Cimacun Rain" is an extraordinary, tender track and several others keep the quality level high. Only a couple of songs disappoint but even they are interesting. So much talent, so little recorded.

My copy of this was one of the limited edition collectors series and sadly the only thing I can play it on is the computer. My Philips system refuses to recognise the disc. To hear the album I have had to burn a copy to play on my Stereo system. This appears to be a problem with the disc as nothing else creates this problem.The music itself is pure beauty. I would highly recommend that everyone finds a way of hearing this album but be wary of the numbered collectors edition.

Brilliant album of hypnotic psych folk, a seminal debut from a brilliant, underrated and visionary artist. Unfortunately, this LP pressing from Sundazed is VERY noisy, to the point that I find it nearly unlistenable. I bought this record because I love the music and really wanted to own it on vinyl, but the sound quality here is so poor, that I find myself returning to my crummy mp3 rips because they actually sound better than this LP. Very disappointed in the pressing quality. ☹️

My only unhappiness was the condition of the CD case, which arrived with a large crack across the front. The CD was unharmed and the music is beautiful.

This album is a great gem and should be more widely known than it is. "Delicious", in my book is one of the greatest, sexiest love songs ever written.I'm actually surprised to find it available in any format, and am looking forward to hearing the tracks that weren't on the original album

Or so we thought. Life got complicated since then, but Perhac's vocals equal or better the rise and fall of those of Grace Slick, Joni Mitchell, and It's a Beautiful Day.

Une belle petite bombe dans le genre folk de la fin des années 60. Mais à vrai dire, le disque est totalement intemporel. D'une beautée racée, l'album éblouit constamment: sa force est qu'il allie le bucolisme champêtre habituel à des arrangements très modernes. Usant d'une instrumentation économe mais bien choisie et toujours inventive, les compositions sont surprenantes, relevant d'audacieux paris harmoniques. A ce titre, le morceau donnant son nom à l'album est le sommet incontournable de l'album, joyau parmi les autres sublimes chansons, une douce dinguerie rêveuse et enchanteresse qui marque à jamais. La voix de la dame est claire et fruitée, pas très originale car bien dans les tons des donzelles folk de l'époque, mais elle est toujours très habitée. Un disque très riche, qu'on peut réécouter de très nombreuses fois sans se lasser. Pour ma part, je trouve que c'est, et de loin, le meilleur album de Joni Mitchell. Une perle.

Linda Perhacs career in many ways is the American mirror of Vashti Bunyan's. Both are young gwomen driven to writing music and both released albums in 1970 to a deafening silence and indifference. Vashti lost herself in Scotland whilst Linda carried on equally forgotten as a dental technician for the next three decades. If Vashti discovered via a web search that she was a cult, Linda clearly didn't even use the internet as it was only recently she was tracked down. The result is the first proper release of Parallelograms, only this time you can actually hear the tracks: the legend is that the only pressing in 1970 was so poor as to be unplayable. However Linda had the original tapes from which this reissue was mastered.It's easy to dismiss this as sub Mitchell and indeed in 1970 the world was swamped in such singer songwriters. But a listen will convince you that Parallelograms stands up on its own rights. The title track is a joyful play on words and soundscapes and was the sort of `spaced out' sound that was more the preserve on English psychedelic bands. Not a girl composing songs totally isolated in a dentists. Put it on repeat and its prescience becomes clear. Chimacum Rain if anything is better, a spacey song which will bring back languid afternoons with a lover. The variety of music on the tracks throughout shows a surprising range. Linda was not a one trick pony. Indeed the one unreleased song, If You Were My Man is even pure Carpenters! For me the standout track is also the simplest song, Hey, Who Really Cares?, a short lament on loneliness which touches all the buttons. If ever there was a song that deserves to become a classic, this is it.Linda is currently recording again. Whether she can triumphantly return like Vashti will be interesting to see. Whatever the future holds, this is a gem.

A hidden gem from the flower power era, A creative blend of Joni Mitchell style folk and the harmonics/ chimes from a relaxation CD. Linda Perhacs sings to your heart, soul and subconscious in her one and only published album. This is perfect if you have had a bad day or feeling low, probably needs to be listened to alone and in an environment where one can relax for the best effect.

A acheter si vous aimez Blue de Joni Mitchell.La qualité des chansons y est aussi bonne, la voix moins irritante, le tout est plus varié et mieux produit aussi...la qualité de l'enregistrement est incroyable quand on sait que c'est son 1er album et qu'elle n'avait donc pas une grosse major pour payer le studio.Tout ca ressemble a Rodriguez Sugar Man!

Gorgeous album. Its a dream.