Annette Peacock

   
Artist: Annette Peacock

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Alternative
   Rock
   Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 The Perfect Release

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 8


   
 31:31

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 5


   
 I have no feelings

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Been in the streets to long

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


   
 An Acrobat's Heart

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 15


   
 X-Dreams

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 7


   
 Abstract Contact

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10


   
 Paris-Live

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 5


   
 Perfect Release

   Year:    
Tracks: 1


   
 I'm The One

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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Annette Peacock's work as a singer, pianist, and composer is austere, deep, laconic, minimalistic, and relentlessly item-by-item. Her dry speech and predilection for double-dyed, stripped musical "environments" have made her something of a cult physical body and an icon of the avant-garde. An early player (1961-1962) in Dr. Timothy Leary's psychedelic acculturation experiments and a longtime adherent of Zen Macrobiotics, Peacock has been releasing albums since 1968. But her life history has been marked by clean tenacious periods of silence; this part explains her relative obscurity.


Away from a brief full stop of formal study at Juilliard during the 1970s, Peacock is entirely self-taught. Born in Brooklyn, she began composition by the time she was five-spot. Her number one professional association was with saxist Albert Ayler, with whom she toured Europe in the 1960s. She before long began to compose in an artistic style she calls the "free form birdcall," which emphasizes the utilization of space in demarcation to the busy, cacophonic tendencies of free jazz. During this period she met and marital her first married man, the double bass virtuoso Gary Peacock. She as well began to write material specifically for the van piano player Paul Bley and his trio. For decades, Bley has remained one of her most devoted interpreters.


Among her other accomplishments, Peacock is an unsung pioneer of electronic music. Years earlier the commercial outgrowth of synthesizers, she received a epitome from discoverer Robert Moog. This prompted her to synthesize her own voice, which according to most reports had ne'er been done before. Ultimately these experiments brought about an innovative 1971 album, The Bley/Peacock Synthesizer Show.


Contempt her decidedly maverick profile, Peacock has had several interesting points of contact with mainstream culture. In 1978 she panax quinquefolius trey songs on Feels Good to Me, a minor classic by progressive rock candy drummer Bill Bruford. Her song "My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook" appears on the soundtrack of Kevin Smith's 1997 celluloid Chasing Amy. And a sample from Peacock's song "Survival" crops up in "Say 'Em Yu Madd" by Militant the Madd Rapper featuring Busta Rhymes. Most notably, David Bowie has shown interest in Peacock's work over the years. On his 1999 album Hours, the rock caption makes a middling denotative reference to Peacock's song "I'm the One." Bowie afterwards invited Peacock to collaborate.


Pianist Marilyn Crispell saluted Peacock with a 1997 ECM record coroneted Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: The Music of Annette Peacock. Peacock's one-track guest performance on the album ended a 12-year recording abatement (her longest withal). But her official render to the studio came in 2000 with her possess An Acrobat's Heart, as well on ECM. Although many of her compositions appeared on Paul Bley's ECM titles through the eld, Peacock had never herself previously recorded for the German-based mark.