The inimitable (thankfully) #zot2017 review suggests:
Linda Perhacs - I'm A Harmony (Omnivore Recordings, September 22, 2017)
The story of Linda Perhacs is curious. She released an album in 1970 that became a cult object ("Parallelograms") and was reissued and rediscovered in 2010 by Mexican Summer and Sundazed Records. The music world discovers its own guilt, and in 2014 Sufjan Stevens, let's say, catches wind of the deal and produces her second studio album "The Soul Of All Natural Things" after more than thirty years, produced by Chris Price and Fernando Perdomo. Two or three years later, she releases another album "I'm A Harmony" (Omnivore Recordings), and nobody cares. To be intellectually honest, neither this nor the previous one reach the heights of "Parallelograms," not to mention that Linda Perhacs's sound is not exactly commercial nor does it lend itself to easy listening. But this album (which still features the valuable collaboration of Julia Holter) is at least interesting. Linda is an artist who continues to challenge herself; the album is a series of vocal experiments that create very particular suggestions ("I'm A Harmony," "Visions," "Eclipse Of Love," "We Will Live"...) and with unique arrangements influenced by tropicalism in "The Dancer," "Take Your Love To A Higher Level," and French touches in ("One Full Circle Around The Sun"). The rest is classic repertoire from an artist who may or may not appeal to you, but who still has something to say.
Linda Perhacs - I'm A Harmony (I'm A Harmony 2017)
#folk #psychedelia #newage
Linda Perhacs - I'm A Harmony (Omnivore Recordings, September 22, 2017)
The story of Linda Perhacs is curious. She released an album in 1970 that became a cult object ("Parallelograms") and was reissued and rediscovered in 2010 by Mexican Summer and Sundazed Records. The music world discovers its own guilt, and in 2014 Sufjan Stevens, let's say, catches wind of the deal and produces her second studio album "The Soul Of All Natural Things" after more than thirty years, produced by Chris Price and Fernando Perdomo. Two or three years later, she releases another album "I'm A Harmony" (Omnivore Recordings), and nobody cares. To be intellectually honest, neither this nor the previous one reach the heights of "Parallelograms," not to mention that Linda Perhacs's sound is not exactly commercial nor does it lend itself to easy listening. But this album (which still features the valuable collaboration of Julia Holter) is at least interesting. Linda is an artist who continues to challenge herself; the album is a series of vocal experiments that create very particular suggestions ("I'm A Harmony," "Visions," "Eclipse Of Love," "We Will Live"...) and with unique arrangements influenced by tropicalism in "The Dancer," "Take Your Love To A Higher Level," and French touches in ("One Full Circle Around The Sun"). The rest is classic repertoire from an artist who may or may not appeal to you, but who still has something to say.
Linda Perhacs - I'm A Harmony (I'm A Harmony 2017)
#folk #psychedelia #newage
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