Linda Perhacs - The Soul of All Natural Things (2014) [FLAC]

  Genre: Folk
  Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Folk
  Source: CD (log + cue) 
  Codec: FLAC
  Bitrate: ~ 1,000 kbps
  Bit Depth: 16
  Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz

  01 The Soul of All Natural Things 
  02 Children 
  03 River of God 
  04 Daybreak 
  05 Intensity
  06 Freely 
  07 Prisms of Glass 
  08 Immunity 
  09 When Things Are True Again 
  10 Song of the Planets 

  Forty-four years is a long time between albums, but for singer/songwriter Linda Perhacs it has been exactly that. The Soul of All Natural Things is her sophomore recording. Her first, the 1970 psych-folk masterpiece Parallelograms, has a storied history (see her bio if you need it recounted). In its own way, this set picks up where her hallucinatory classic left off. Her collaborators are a younger generation of L.A. musicians. Perhacs wrote all the lyrics, several melodies, and co-produced with Chris Price and Fernando Perdomo, who also perform. Julia Holter and Nite Jewel's Ramona Gonzalez assist with vocals, keyboards, and arrangements. The sound is modern yet keeps Perhacs' essential musical nature at the fore. Her voice at 70 is a bit thinner than the throaty mezzo-soprano she displayed at 27, but serves the material unconditionally. The title track commences with her careful vocal phrasing, fingerpicked guitar, subtle strings, and near plainchant backing voices. Then the bridge erupts with flamenco handclaps and guitars before the quieter melody returns, somehow changed as a result.