Linda Perhacs
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Perhacs in a 1970 publicity headshot
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| Birth name | Linda Arnold |
| Born | Mill Valley, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1969–1970, 2012–present |
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| Website | www.lindaperhacs.com |
Linda Perhacs is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her first album, Parallelograms, in 1970 to scant notice or sales. The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and reissued numerous times beginning in 1998, growing in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet. In 2014, she released a second album titled The Soul of All Natural Things.
Perhacs was born Linda Arnold in 1944 in Mill Valley, California. In the late 1960s, Perhacs had relocated to Topanga Canyon, and was working as a dental hygienist in Beverly Hills, California under a former professor she had met while a student at the University of Southern California. In her spare time, she wrote songs. One of her dental clients, Oscar-winning film composer Leonard Rosenman, was impressed by one of her demos and brought her into a studio during 1969-1970, producing Parallelograms. When the album failed to make an impression, she returned to her dental career.
Michael Piper of folk label the Wild Places, who had first reissued the album in 1998 sourced from the LP, located and contacted Perhacs in 2000, leading to expanded reissues of Parallelograms on CD and vinyl in 2003, sourced from tapes in Perhacs' personal collection. It was reissued again by Sunbeam Records in 2008, by both Mexican Summer and Sundazed Records in 2010, and by Anthology Recordings in 2014.
Following her rediscovery and the reissues, Perhacs returned to recording. In December 2013, Asthmatic Kitty Records announced the March 4, 2014 release of Perhacs' second album, The Soul of All Natural Things. The album was recorded in 2012 and 2013 with co-producers Chris Price and Fernando Perdomo. Other collaborators on the album included Julia Holter and Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel.
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