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Linda Perhacs releasing 1st LP in over 4 decades on Sufjan's label (new song ++ belated pics & video from her NY debut)

photos by PSquared Photography, words by Andrew Sacher

Linda Perhacs @ Mexican Summer 5
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One of my personal favorite rediscovered gems from the late ’60s/early ’70s psych-folk era is Linda PerhacsParalellograms, an album quite literally ahead of its time that mixed the contemporary folk sounds of that era with eerie layers of dissonance that didn’t become commonplace in folk music until decades later. Linda’s been slowly gaining recognition and reigniting her career in recent times, having just made her NY debut at the Mexican Summer 5th Anniversary that took place in October. I unfortunately missed that show, but BV’s Bill Pearis was there and said she had probably the biggest crowd of the day, seemed taken aback by all the love from the audience, and sounded great. Durga McBroom, who has also done backup for Pink Floyd, sang with her at the show, and some of Linda’s well-known fans like Devendra Banhart (pictured below) were in the audience. Pictures and videos of her set from that show are in this post.

Now, after talking about it for some time, Linda has finally announced that she’ll release The Soul of All Natural Things, the loooong-awaited followup to Parallelograms, on March 4, roughly 44 years after its predecessor initially came out. The album is coming out via Sufjan StevensAsthmatic Kitty label, and as discussed, features contributions from Nite Jewel and Julia Holter. The new album’s first single is “Freely,” a song that picks up right where Parallelograms left off and still sounds entirely of the moment considering artists like Marissa Nadler, Jessica Pratt, Mariee Sioux and others are keeping this sound alive. Her voice is still in fine form too.

Watch the video for the new song, along with the album’s tracklist and more pics/videos from Mexican Summer 5, below…

Linda Perhacs – “Freely” (new song)

Linda Perhacs – “Parallelograms” at Mexican Summer 5

Linda Perhacs – “Prisms of Glass” at Mexican Summer 5

Linda Perhacs – “If You Were My Man” at Mexican Summer 5

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Linda Perhacs – The Soul of All Natural Things Tracklist:
1. The Soul of All Natural Things
2. Children

3. River of God
4. Daybreak
5. Intensity
6. Freely

7. Prisms of Glass

8. Immunity

9. When Things Are True Again

10. Song of the Planets