PEARL CHARLES

BORN IN THE MYTHICAL LAND OF HOLLYWOOD, WHERE THE PSYCHEDELIC FRAGRANCE OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE POPPY LINGERS IN THE AIR, PEARL CHARLES WAS RAISED ON AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC. THOUGH SHE DID FOR A TIME IMMERSE HERSELF IN THE WORLD OF AMERICAN PRIMITIVISM - THE CARTER FAMILY, SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS AND ALAN LOMAX’ ARCHIVAL RECORDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH - HAVING GROWN UP IN LOS ANGELES, THE FOLK CULTURE SHE PERSONALLY ENCOUNTERED WAS THAT OF HER HOMETOWN. A CULTURE THAT ON THE SURFACE SEEMS TO BE COMMUNALLY SHARED WITH THE WORLD VIA THE VAST AMOUNT OF MEDIA EXPORTED FROM HOLLYWOOD, BUT IS ONLY TRULY KNOWN BY THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND BREATH THE SMOG LACED AIR OF THE CITY ITSELF - THICK WITH THE SALT FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND THE DUST FROM THE MOJAVE DESERT.