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Linda Perhacs — Parallelograms
from Parallelograms (1970)
Clear, gorgeous, geometric fingerpicking. And some of the best vocal overdubbing I’ve heard…she sings, with this honeyed voice, “Quadrahedral, tetrahedral… monocyclocybercilia. Semiparabolic, semimetrabolic…radiounicellular.”
And then all of a sudden a hollow drum roll drops you through a trap door to the Overlook Hotel, floating through the halls…Jack Nicholson cursing you through a window. Broken grandfather clocks rattling their chimes, phantoms urging you to “run, run…”
And then the bad dream’s over and you’re drifting back through wet silent forests, bright, clear, strong, guided by Linda’s shimmering voice. “Parallelo-alello-gram. Paralello-lello-lello-lellograms…”
I haven’t been this interested in math in a long time…how did she do it? Listen. And if you listen in the dark, alone, with headphones, as I did, the experience can be kind of terrifying.-
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I was about to post this, and then I saw this post. This is literally my favorite psychedelic folk song. Not even Comus’...
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