Thursday, July 05, 2007

Annette Peacock has been making music for thirty years with some big names (Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Bill Bruford), but her own music is overlooked and next to impossible to find. Not only was she one of the first people to play a Moog synthesizer, she also was first to patch her voice through a synth. A feminist balladeer, jazz-funk sex goddess, queen of the avant-garde... She's not an easy musician to categorize. So here's a few of her albums: the moog jazz/soul classic "I'm the One" (which is on my list of all time favorite albums), "The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show" (all songs written by Peacock, with her husband Paul and ex Gary Peacock on bass) and the more recent "An Acrobat's Heart", which uses sparse instrumentation to let her amazing voice shine through. Currently, "I'm the One" is selling on ebay for a starting bid of $99 (and that's for a copy that looks like a dog chewed on it). anyone want to buy it for me? didn't think so.


2 comments:

whelkpoint said...

this is great. thanks

Anonymous said...

Hello Good Boy,
thanks for this posting, I am looking forward to hearing all three albums. Very interesting blog, that you started here.