has anyone heard the 'synthesizer show' albums yet?
― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― bobby bedelia (van dover), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― draining the pool for you (get bent), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
she should be playing a show in engerland in the next few months, if everything works out.
― george bob (george bob), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
that cover art is awful
― sarahel, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
haven't heard a single note off it and it's my favorite new album, because of that cover
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
because the cover is so awful, or because you actually like it?
― sarahel, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
i really like both the cover and the record!! bought it from jaxon iirc
― 69, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
what do you like about the cover?
― sarahel, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sarahel, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
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'!
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
it would only be the perfect album cover if the album was called "Mediocre Paintings of Me"
― sarahel, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
CDBaby Purchase Confirmation
I Have No Feelings
CD-R PurchaseTotal: $30.07
<3
― Milton Parker, Friday, 27 May 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
i guess there is something after all that is an innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry
― sarahel, Friday, 27 May 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
light in the attic reissue of i'm the one*adds item*
― buzza, Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
She's so hot on that cover, yet petulant, stubbornly clutching. "I Have No Feelings"?
― dow, Monday, 28 May 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I wouldn't back off. Nyeah, the dame's trouble, see? Too bad.
― dow, Monday, 28 May 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
fuck yeah
you know her daughter avalon, who is a country musician, is a looker too
― the late great, Monday, 28 May 2012 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
i've been waiting for this reissue since, oh, about a million years ago
(well, fifteen years anyway)
― the late great, Monday, 28 May 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
"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
― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 May 2012 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
wyatt's wife iirc
― 3am hardman (buzza), Monday, 28 May 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.disco-robertwyatt.com/images/Robert/interviews/DreamMagazine_Spring05/photo1.jpg
― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 May 2012 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Crackle Box, Monday, 28 May 2012 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
"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
― dow, Monday, 28 May 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
to be such a 'dude' about it i think you mean
― geeta, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
i think you really meant "bro"
― sarahell, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
She's playing live in NY:
http://whitney.org/Events/AnnettePeacock
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
favorite music site
http://thequietus.com/articles/15423-annette-peacock-interview
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Best thing on the internet...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
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
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 5 June 2014 07:57 (nine years ago) link
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 Onehttp://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/adventures-in-sound-and-music-26-june-2014
― dow, Saturday, 16 August 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
Seems like two sets of hands on them keys
― dow, Saturday, 16 August 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 25 August 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― dow, Sunday, 31 August 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/i2_OGN-vod4
This is so great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Annette-Peacock-My-Mama-Never-Taught-Me-How-To-Cook-The-Aura-Years-1978-1982/release/1102949wish I'd been aware of how good she was when this was still available.
― Stevolende, Friday, 7 April 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― Wimmels, Friday, 7 April 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
feel that i'd never get tired of a whole genre spawned from the closing minutes of 'i'm the one'
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
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
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 April 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
"i'm the one" from 3:35 on is like the best thing ever recorded
― Treeship, Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:45 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Treeship, Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
And not just bc of r2 d2. her vocal performance is incredible
― Treeship, Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 June 2021 12:07 (two years ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
Those are both great records, but I definitely prefer The Perfect Release for its Rhodes-y fusion aesthetic
― J. Sam, Monday, 7 June 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlHECcQGfo
― buzza, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:50 (one year ago) link
oh, i guess that is the same as what was posted above, no embeds
― buzza, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:51 (one year ago) link
I love her!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:10 (five months ago) link
That's good!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:33 (five months ago) link
i'm the one
― treeship., Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:59 (five months ago) link
my favourites are x dreams and i have no feelings but i'm getting into the earlier collaborations with bley etc
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 11:44 (five months ago) link