Most eerie psychedelia: Linda Perhacs, 'Parallelograms'

Linda Perhacs is a singer-songwriter known for her only album, "Parallelograms" - a piece of delicate psychedelic folk. First released in 1970, it sunk without being noticed, but later gradually became - despite very bad sound quality - a sought-after collector's item. (It was remastered and reissued in 2003, so now it's possible to enjoy it without looking for pricey originals.) The album has many beautiful songs, like "Moons and Cattails" or "Paper Mountain Man", but the most remembered is the title track.

This 2005 re-recording is different from the original, which had a less full, more "airy" sound. Still both versions are very spacy and eerie, far from the standard for a folk-rock song (even in the lyrics: "quadrehedral, tetrahedral, monocyclocybercilia..."). Perhacs says about the new version: "the song now really goes out into the universe and surrounds you with circles and semi- circles and parallel sounds. It is kind of a journey into the ethereal and the beautiful as this song was always meant to be, a moving sculpture of sound and color".

After over 30 years, she's writing songs and recording again, so let's hope her second album will be ready soon. More Most Eerie Psychedelia coming soon!