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4 unusual facts about Linda Perhacs


Chimacum, Washington

Linda Perhacs's 1970 album Parallelograms contains the poignant "Chimacum rain," a song inspired by Chimacum's natural beauty.

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.

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

Matt Lincoln

The show's theme tune, "Hey, Who Really Cares" was written by Oliver Nelson and Linda Perhacs, and a full version of the song appears on Perhacs' legendary album Parallelograms.


Emmanuelle Parrenin

She has not achieved the sort of widespread notoriety of the likes of Françoise Hardy, but she is well acclaimed and respected for her accomplished blending of traditional, ethereal folk styles with experimental, avant garde percussion pieces, which often draws comparisons with the likes of Brigitte Fontaine, and to a lesser extent Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs.


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