Annette Peacock, classic or dud?

The title track on i'm the one is classic.

finally heard "I'm The One" last year. I don't love 100% of the songs, but overall I'm hooked... the way the last two tracks drift away and disrupt everything that's come before make for a perfect album.

http://www.imtheone.net/annettepeacock/BLEY-PEACOCK_SYNTHESIZER.html

did that ever come out on cd? anyone want to burn me a copy?

i don't know how much Morcheeba have added )apart from the opening "morcheeba" noises, i'd like to think they've added nothing (
-- it's a set of "influences"/ role models/ idea acknowledgement -- pretty cool -- how many bands admit they even copied an idea, let alone producing a set of tracks they feel deserve a fresh hearing

ok, i read about morcheeba on the old AMG, but a friend played me this peacock synth modulated track off "some compilation" and i'm assuming this is "the one".

yeah, i really love the idea, a really twisted sort'a jazz+ delivery -- i'd really like to hear all of the bley/peacock sessions

i read an old articled by Mark S in The Wire (green sonic youth cover) about Bob Moog, and Mark claimed Annette Peacock was one of the first musos to get/use the old gigantic modular Moog made circa'70

that means she's the jazz W Carlos i suppose, though it seems Annette's Modular Moog ended up with someone else, got shared around (or maybe at the pawn shop) pretty quickly), since she seems to have abandoned that synth stuff after those early albums

is it called "alimony" ? playing your ex-wives works in caddish strictly-royalty "still-think-of-you-to" response to "i'm the one" ?

i read an innterview with Annette years ago where she said "oh yeah, Paul was totally pomiscuous, he slept around so much ..", hence two ex-wives to support, i assume

I think one problem with her is that it seems like she couldn't decide whether to be a straight ahead smooth jazz-pop singer, or a strange one.

this is exactly why i like it. really reminds me of a funked up Patty Waters (haha, i first typed alice waters)

has anyone heard the 'synthesizer show' albums yet?

Described as: "car music.....inspired by & conceived for the car environment - a uplifting, trippy ride of songfeels - arranged for layers of synths, horns, guitars, vocals, bass, drums, & percussion - from this enigmatic artist whose avant-garde contributions to the disparate genres of: rap, freejazz, rock, prog-rock, electroacoustic, the use of synthesizers - have identified her as a truly radical and existential presence."

...which ordinarily wouldn't be too encouraging, but in her case that seems to really be the way she talks.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/apeacock3

Met her at an in store some years ago...she must have already been late 40's to early 50's. Sexy as hell, and I was still a wee lad at the time. She must have been overwhelming during her heyday.

she should be playing a show in engerland in the next few months, if everything works out.

she reissued 'I'm The One' on CD in a signed edition of 500. it's expensive but it's the one

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/apeacock4

Posted by Dennis Cooper at 3:09 AM:
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2010/07/dreadful-flying-glove-presents-annette.html

has anyone heard this one:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e3BsDt7_O88/TCckTF0HJuI/AAAAAAAAw24/SMdTp8mZSwg/s1600/AP-ironic4.jpg

that cover art is awful

haven't heard a single note off it and it's my favorite new album, because of that cover

because the cover is so awful, or because you actually like it?

i really like both the cover and the record!! bought it from jaxon iirc

what do you like about the cover?

i feel like it isn't good enough to be good painting, but it isn't incompetent enough to be so-bad-it's-good painting.

it wouldn't be a good album cover if it were called something like 'Annette Peacock 4' or 'The Colors of My Thought' or anything, but given what the album is called, we are simply going to have to disagree because that is a perfect album cover

ok this is completely my speed. the way the 80's sax / piano / flute sample presets come in LOUD at the most awkward moments: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/apeacock2

'The Cynic'!

it would only be the perfect album cover if the album was called "Mediocre Paintings of Me"

CDBaby Purchase Confirmation

I Have No Feelings

CD-R Purchase
Total: $30.07

<3

i guess there is something after all that is an innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry

light in the attic reissue of i'm the one
*adds item*

She's so hot on that cover, yet petulant, stubbornly clutching. "I Have No Feelings"?

Not that I wouldn't back off. Nyeah, the dame's trouble, see? Too bad.

fuck yeah

you know her daughter avalon, who is a country musician, is a looker too

i've been waiting for this reissue since, oh, about a million years ago

(well, fifteen years anyway)

"I Have No Feelings" cover was painted by Alfreda Benge, who also painted the cover of Fred Frith's "Gravity" as well as of course most of the Robert Wyatt covers from "Rock Bottom" onwards

wyatt's wife iirc

http://www.disco-robertwyatt.com/images/Robert/interviews/DreamMagazine_Spring05/photo1.jpg

xp

avalon's band at the moment is called the loups, they're very good, in the process of mixing some stuff for them right now

"A loup is a waterfall which a salmon has to leap on its way upstream." Then there's the spooky loup-garou. Both might apply to this song, "Desert Air", which begins right after the sun finally dissolves, the air begins to cool, Avalon's rich trill multiples and courses down and up the mountain. "We changed the oil in your mind/Left the city far behind." So, country in that sense, her and drummer Joe Love (re maybe Speck Mountain, Nina Natasia & Jim White? A fast Mazzy Star, if that's even possible? For a remake of Zabriskie Point?)Anyway, I wanna hear more http://soundcloud.com/theloups

Bought the CD reissue of I'm The One so now I have it on vinyl, cassette and CD. It's a bit like Danny Baker being unable to pass a copy of A Wizard/A True Star without buying it, even though he's got seventeen copies, but it's just a great record.

From the CD sleevenotes I had no idea that Bowie wanted her to play on Aladdin Sane - she couldn't make the recording so Mike Garson, who does appear on I'm The On, was hired to play keyboards - and also to produce Pinups (but by that time she'd decided to enrol at Juillard instead).

pictures of Annette in the new reissue of I'm The One > the pictures in her self-released limited edition

sorry to be such a guy about it and everything but the pictures in the self-released were already enough to melt the sidewalk she was walking on

to be such a 'dude' about it i think you mean

thank you for the copy edit

anyone else heard this one since dlp9001 posted about it five years ago?

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/apeacock3

i think you really meant "bro"

yeah, that's great, a little less jazzy and bluesy than usual, more going towards songwriter pop but still phantastic. her voice alone kills me.

She's playing live in NY:

http://whitney.org/Events/AnnettePeacock

favorite music site

http://thequietus.com/articles/15423-annette-peacock-interview

Best thing on the internet...

I Belong To A World That's Destroying Itself aka Revenge aka Bley/Peacock Synthesiser Show back out on CD? Not in the UK it isn't. Rough Trade/Phonica/etc doughnuts stop stocking £25 Stone Roses vinyl and WAKE UP

Such a sequence! On an archived Wire show: slide the slider to 11:20 for the DJ's intro (if you wanna skip Moondog's "Invocation," a good crisp march, but seems like it should be half as long; and, from Japanese Fisco Records, the sounds of now-banned speed racing x spoken word w lounge Spanish guitars), for AP tracks:
the suggestive, defacto feminist "My Mama Never Taught Me How To", from X-Dreams; the lyrical, rude, Sunday brunch in bed sounds of "MJ," with Paul Bley, analog synths, and drums (from Dual Unity; and the upclose, not-particularly-bothering-with-loud, twisted blue "Pony," spot-on like Joplin, from (oh yeah) I'm The One
http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/adventures-in-sound-and-music-26-june-2014

Seems like two sets of hands on them keys

"i belong to a world that's destroying itself" is available again at cdbaby, i tried to order it a while ago and it was sold-out.

nytimes' Ben Ratliff says it's on her site:

I BELONG TO A WORLD THAT’S DESTROYING ITSELF

“This is my first record,” runs Annette Peacock’s 14-word present-day liner note to a recording of music made in 1968 and 1969. “It was the right album, in the wrong century.” She is referring to a long out-of-print record called “Revenge,” released under the billing of the Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show. Here it is again, retitled “I Belong to a World That’s Destroying Itself,” and she has released it on her own label, Ironic, under her own name. (It is available at http://www.annettepeacock.com.) This is as it should be. Ms. Peacock’s husband at the time was the jazz improviser Paul Bley, who plays on some of the record, alongside others, including the bassist Gary Peacock (her first husband), the drummer Barry Altschul, the clarinetist Perry Robinson and the pianist Mike Garson, who later played on David Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane.” But this is her sandbox. She wrote all the songs, sang them in a wide-range voice with humor and anger and streety edges, sometimes through Moog synthesizers, making wild sculptural streamers out of long vocal tones. But the gear is not the point. This record contains a rare order of creativity, ambitious and scruffy and hardheaded. (“Don’t tell me that you see nothing wrong,” she sings on the title track. “Let me scare you: We don’t have that long.”) It goes in several directions without establishing a hierarchy among them: blurry funk, free jazz and her slow, long-form, composed songs, which are dark and liquid and totally gripping, a kind of zero-gravity redefinition of the ballad.

http://youtu.be/i2_OGN-vod4

This is so great

pretty spot on nilsson sings newman track

dunno if people were aware that she's playing at cafe oto this month:

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/annette-peacock-two/

Do wish somebody'd reissue the late 70s stuff. Everything's really pricey.
Would love a physical copy.
Dime had a couple of live sets from the time appear a couple of months back.

&is that 1st lp still around?

once "i'm the one" gets going it's an amazing song. love that robot thing.

yes

http://thequietus.com/articles/21949-annette-peacock-interview-2

the bits about how Eno was going to produce a record of hers for Obscure is amazing; too bad that didn't happen, that would have been an amazing combination. the record she did by herself, Skyskating, I haven't heard yet.

What's the best album as an intro?

duel unity

The Perfect Release is exactly that, imo

https://www.discogs.com/Annette-Peacock-My-Mama-Never-Taught-Me-How-To-Cook-The-Aura-Years-1978-1982/release/1102949
wish I'd been aware of how good she was when this was still available.

What's the best album as an intro?

― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, April 7, 2017 5:39 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm The One. Dual Unity is great too but more collaborative. I'm The One is a great introduction to her overall essence / vibe, which is singular and astonishing.

She's the greatest

I didn't realize how much of her stuff had been reissued in the last year or so. Search on Amazon.

Anyway, I'm The One is still where I'd start.

feel that i'd never get tired of a whole genre spawned from the closing minutes of 'i'm the one'

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this. I saw her in a tiny record store around this time, and was pretty knocked out. She's around 59 or 60 in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlHECcQGfo

"i'm the one" from 3:35 on is like the best thing ever recorded

The whole song is great obviously, with its multiple movements, but if she had released a version that was just the last two minutes it would have been the most famous, most beloved song of all time.

And not just bc of r2 d2. her vocal performance is incredible

Just been listening through the 2 lps from the late 70s that got reissued last month.
They're up on Spotify which is about ok. Mainly checking them out prepurchase of the physical cds I think.
Definitely into X-Dreams and possibly the other thing Perfect Release.
Not sure about anything after that.

GOt the I'm The One she put out like 8 years ago or whatever. She looked pretty fine in that brown leather. I hear her photos in the other reissue were even better but haven't seen them.

x-dreams is great and The Perfect Release is very good, although they have been intermittently available over the last few years. The records I'd really like to see reissued are the releases on her Ironic label from the 80s. Of those, I only have Been in the Streets Too Long, apparently her only record never to come out on CD.

Those are both great records, but I definitely prefer The Perfect Release for its Rhodes-y fusion aesthetic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlHECcQGfo

oh, i guess that is the same as what was posted above, no embeds

I love her!

That's good!

i'm the one

my favourites are x dreams and i have no feelings but i'm getting into the earlier collaborations with bley etc

Wooo shit The Perfect Release - what a cool fuckin record. Might even like it better than X-Dreams? Wasn’t expecting such a banger

She is so poorly served by the spotty availability of her back catalogue - if someone managed to put out a solid career overview it would blow many minds I reckon

I'd welcome a survey comp of post the perfect release stuff. Looks like a rich discography.

So i listened to sky-skating and, lol, no bangers here. Meandering naked electric piano and words with occasional drum machine and organ bits that don't really up the velocity. The occasional harmony vocals are beautiful and i reckon some of this is catchy -despite the stark arrangements