Linda Perhacs (acid folk)

I'm a bit busy but I think I'll review it soon.

Okay, I listened to the whole album last night and again this morning and I have to agree she belongs here somewhere.  I think maybe the waffling is more around whether the music has a folk or a psych genesis, and I personally think psych is the more appropriate place.

That said, she clearly belongs on the site so I went ahead and added her.  

Another bump

I don't want to re-open a dispute, but I'm listening to parallelograms in this moment. The playing track is "Call of the River" and it's halfway between Sallyangie (for the acoustic guitars) and some early Renaissance or Pentangle. 

Greg, I've listened to her album "Parallelograms".

Indeed as you've mentioned, this is a great, guh-reat Acid Folk album, that's amazed me strongly.
And at the same time I've felt it's simple Acid Folksy, not close to "Progressive Acid Folk" as our definition says ...
Similar to a pioneer of Japanese Acid Folk, ZUNOH-KEISATSU (a very great band indeed!), but also ZK is NOT considered as a progressive rock band.

Sorry I cannot help having a negative opinion whether she should be in progressive rock category or not, but formally will take her to our office and get the other members' opinions.

Again thanks Greg for your wonderful input!

P.S. Again sorry I cannot follow this thread enough, regardless of lots of opinions here ... after work I'll check them out.

Regardless her inclusion, I like her. Thanks for introducing me to her music. 

Hugues, you make it sound like I was deliberately trying to deceive/ mislead you with Shelagh McDonald, which if true, is strangely disrespectful and ungenerous to my character, but then you, like me, are not always the most tactful. I asked what people thought of her in Prog Folk, and posted the music that I thought would be most appreciated by people at this site (since I don't just like to mention acts/ people here in order to get them into PA, but also if I enjoy the music and think there may be a case). I also provided links to the rateyourmusic page which has reviews.  I assumed that your team would check the other youtube clips if/ when you took it to evaluation (if you didn't know her already, which I thought at least one of your team likely would -- I guess she's more obscure than I thought). I apologise for not specifically saying that there were more on youtube, and I was hoping to solicit the opinions of people who knew her (I've known music of hers for many years, and hadn't thought that she was that obscure). I was in a hurry when I created the topic, but had planned to discuss it further with people, and your team, when they posted in the thread. I didn't expect her in, I merely raised the possibility and asked for people's opinions. At he least, I hoped people would enjoy the music (I do).  I never said she should be in Prog Folk, I asked the general membership "How would people feel about her in Prog Folk" and then posted tracks that I thought would be of most interest from her two albums.  If I had brought it to your team, then I would have said much more. She is a singer/songwriter and it even says that on the rateyourmusic page that I linked to.  musically, I think she is at least Prog Related, but  I could not care less if she's in or out, same with Perhacs.  I enjoy the music, but I'm not a reviewer, and I loathe preparing additions. I do, however, greatly enjoy discussing such cases; however, you never even posted in the thread so I could discuss it with you. Incidentally, I would prefer that team discussion be held in the suggestion threads as much as possible/ feasible, but that's my preference, and is another issue.

Regarding Perhacs, which I would rather focus on in this thread rather than other acts/ people, I think I made it clear when Bob, a team member of yours, suggested that I might try Psych that I did not think it appropriate to Psych, but that's up to the Psych team to decide. When Octopus seemed to suggest Psych, I re-considered because I may not understand the parameters well enough since ones that I would have  considered for Prog Folk as Acid Folk acts have been rejected for Prog Folk and accepted into Psych.  I'm okay with that, since I know that people have different "prog" expectations (some are more inclusive than others), and often "prog" is in the ear of the beholder, and if I were on a team, if I thought something suitable to PA, then I would accept it even if I didn't my category the best fit (had it been rejected where I would have thought it fit best). I'm very inclusive, and if a case is borderline, then I lean to yes for PA.

When you write that Crossover is farcical, that is way over the line, and shows real disrespect for that team.  And underlining "the samples of her music that were given to us were actually quite misleading, and I suspect this was voluntary."  Is that a deliberate jab at me underlined to make sure I did not miss it? What do mean "voluntary?" That I was deliberately trying to mislead you? One reason why I didn't embed every youtube track I found of hers is because I find posting a lot has caused glitches in the past (and my ten year old computer can seize in such cases). I often do like to provide such a link as this: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Linda+perhcs&aq=f and then embed the tracks that I think would be of most interest, but while in the Eclectic team, if someone posted youtube tracks, I automatically made it a habit to check youtube for more tracks to form an opinion. Again, though, I wasn't just asking your team's opinion, I wanted to know generally if people thought she had a case (I genuinely thought some people here would know her albums already).

Anyway, this thread has become negative, and I'm not helping.

If people wish to discuss Perhacs further then do so in this thread, but let's not discuss other artists here, unless really relevant to her case (though I'd rather they be discussed in other threads). Thanks.


Edited by Logan - August 26 2010 at 12:56

^ what about Jackie McAuley (ex-Trader Horne) ?

Hey guys, there is non prog folk in the site : fotheringay, trader horne or sallyangie. So, WHy no Linda Perhacs : she is just as prog as the previously mentioned folk acts.

Logan wrote: It definitely has psych qualities, which is why I labeled it acid folk (psychedelic folk).  I felt it better suited to the Folk Prog category.  That said, I have noted ones that I thought would be shoe-ins for Prog Folk as Acid Folk albums that ended up being accepted in Psych. In this case the Prog Folk team felt it not Proggy enough for admission to their category, nor to recommend to the Psych team itself.  In such cases, I treat suggestions as controversial. However, perhaps I will mention it to psych since they have accepted Acid Folk ones that I thought obvious Prog-Folk candidates.  But first I will add a suggestion of mine to Prog Folk that was approved last week. That first track I listed is awesome, I think, and if the rest of her material were up to that, I'd be really pushing this.