"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 (ten 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
pretty spot on nilsson sings newman track
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
dunno if people were aware that she's playing at cafe oto this month:
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/annette-peacock-two/
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 11:52 (eight years ago) link
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?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 14 May 2016 08:03 (seven years ago) link
once "i'm the one" gets going it's an amazing song. love that robot thing.
― Treeship, Friday, 7 April 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
yes
― Dominique, Friday, 7 April 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 April 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
What's the best album as an intro?
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 7 April 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
duel unity
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 7 April 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
The Perfect Release is exactly that, imo
― J. Sam, Friday, 7 April 2017 22:12 (six 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 (six years ago) link
― 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
And not just bc of r2 d2. her vocal performance is incredible
― Treeship, Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:52 (six 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 (eleven months ago) link
oh, i guess that is the same as what was posted above, no embeds
― buzza, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:51 (eleven months ago) link
I love her!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:10 (three months ago) link
That's good!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:33 (three months ago) link
i'm the one
― treeship., Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:59 (three 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 (three months ago) link