Linda Perhacs (psych. folk / USA)

Linda Perhacs, born as Linda Jeanne Arnold is an American psychedelic folk singer,  from a long line of British Isles people,  and was raised in the beautiful Mill Valley area just north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. 

Music and nature was a constant in her life, even as a child. These were forces that have shown up throughout her life and are as natural to her as breathing.  Coming from a very traditional family, it was difficult for her parents to understand her and her very early love and reverence for the natural universe. She was fascinated by everything and by the age of five, six and seven had written fairly complex compositions and was understandably excited to show her parents and teachers her little creations. She was met with resistance, and was reprimanded by the teachers and adults for “disrupting” their curriculum and what they thought was a “normal and proper” way of life. 



With her hauntingly beautiful album, "Parallelograms," (1970) Linda Perhacs offers each listener a stunning gift: a magical journey into the world of psychedelic folk music as the gods meant it to be. Her lyrics and music mirror a love of nature, along with the personal and most intimate parts of her soul. Listening to her, one is continually struck by the perfection of Linda's voice; you cannot help being emotionally moved. This wonderful CD personifies perfection...with taste, warmth, sensitivity, feeling, perception, and all the womanly virtues. 


Source: http://www.timelesslindaperhacs.com/About.html



"Parallelograms" was reissued on CD and 2-LP in 2005, and again in 2008.

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 Colours
10. Porcelain Baked Cast Iron Wedding
11. Delicious



Her songs have been featured in soundtracks to many films, most recently and notably in Daft Punk's Electroma. 

More info about the film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk%27s_Electroma

Daft Punk's first self directed movie about sad robots (Including the song "If You Were My Man", written and performed by Linda Perhacs):

Perhacs also sang backing vocals on "Freely" from Devendra Banhart's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon and features in Prefuse 73's track "Rain Edit" (Interlude) from the album Surrounded by Silence. 
Encouraged by the newfound attention to her work, she has reportedly recorded two new albums with Ben Watt as of 2007.