Annette Peacock

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Annette Peacock (2014)

Annette Peacock , b. Coleman (* 1941 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American musician ( singer , keyboardist and composer ) who is considered a pioneer of synth-pop and live electronic music .

Live and act

Peacock played the piano as a child, but never took instrumental or composition lessons. Shortly before signing the contract as an actress in the studios of United Artists in 1960, she withdrew to marry the jazz bassist Gary Peacock . In 1964 she advised Gary Peacock, who briefly represented Ron Carter at Miles Davis , to prefer to play with outsiders such as Albert Ayler and Don Cherry , and in 1965 she accompanied Ayler's band on a European tour. In the same year she became involved with the newly founded Jazz Composer's Orchestra . With Paul Bley , whose band Gary Peacock belonged from 1962, she began a love affair and followed his wife Carla Bley . She proved to be just as strong and idiosyncratic as this composer and composed numerous pieces for him at Paul Bey's request.

When Robert Moog gave Annette Peacock one of his synthesizers for studio work in the late sixties , she performed live with it. With her partner she formed the Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show , one of the first electronic jazz bands, in which Robert Wyatt and Han Bennink were at times involved. She sent her voice through a ring modulator , experimented with rock rhythms and recited her lyrics as raps as early as 1968 . In 1972 she released her solo debut with I'm The One . Al Kooper covered it Been and Gone . In 1998 this album was included by The Wire on the list "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)" . Her highly condensed poetic texts, then as later, dealt sarcastically with ecology, politics, sexuality and feminism. During this time Peacock performed live with Iggy Pop , acted in a film by Salvador Dalí and studied at the Juilliard School of Music .

Between 1974 and 1978 Annette Peacock lived in seclusion in England to raise her daughter. In 1977 she made a guest appearance on Bill Bruford's solo debut, the jazz rock classic Feels Good To Me (released 1978). She then founded her own record company ironic , on which four albums were released from 1981 to 88. After the LP Abstract-Contact (1988), Annette Peacock largely withdrew from the music scene, apart from a few appearances with the drummer Roger Turner . In 1995 the composer moved to Woodstock ; she appeared on concert stages with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips . In 1996, Marilyn Crispell recorded a double CD with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian with Annette's compositions ( Nothing Ever Was, Anyway ). In 1997, ECM boss Manfred Eicher commissioned Annette Peacock to compose a composition for strings and piano, which she completed in 2000 after three years of work and 12 years of absence from the studio in Oslo's Rainbow Studio under the title An Acrobat's Heart . It then fell silent for another six years until the album 31:31, which was released in 2006 (without advertising).

Discography (albums)

  • Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show: Revenge - The Bigger the Love the Greater the Hate (Polydor, 1968; reissue on ironic, 2014 under her name as I Belong to a World That's Destroying Itself )
  • Annette & Paul Bley: Dual Unity (Freedom, 1971)
  • Annette & Paul Bley: Improvisy (America, 1972)
  • I'm the One (1972, with Paul Bley, Glen Moore , Barry Altschul , Airto Moreira , Dom Um Romão ) (RCA, 1972; reissue on ironic, 2010)
  • Bill Bruford: Feels Good to Me (EG, 1978)
  • X-Dreams (1978, with Ray Warleigh , George Khan, Chris Spedding , Brian Godding , Jeff Clyne , Bill Bruford) (Aura UK, 1978)
  • The Perfect Release (Aura UK, 1979)
  • Sky-skating (ironic, 1982)
  • Been in the Streets Too Long (ironic, 1983)
  • I Have No Feelings (with Roger Turner) (ironic, 1985)
  • Abstract Contact (ironic, 1988)
  • To Acrobat's Heart (ECM, 2000)
  • 31:31 (ironic, 2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting (Guardian)
personal data
SURNAME Peacock, Annette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coleman, Annette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician (singer, keyboardist and composer)
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , USA