Annette Peacock

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Annette Peacock (née Coleman) (born 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA) is a female composer, arranger, producer, musician, poet, singer - pioneer of live performance of electronic music, and of the synthesizer, the free ballad, jazz-rock, prog-rock, rap, and the freeform song.

Biography

In 1960, age 19, she married jazz bassist Gary Peacock. At the beginning of the 60's she toured with Albert Ayler, studied Zen Macrobiotics with Michio Kushi, and was a close accociate of Timothy Leary at the psychedelic center in Millbrook. In 1964, pianist Paul Bley first began featuring her compositions - ultimately on over 60 records. At the end of the 1960s she and Bley became strongly associated with the musical possibilities of the newly-emerging synthesizers. Given a prototype by Robert Moog,they performed and recorded. Bley on the traditional keyboard set-up of the instrument, while Annette externally processed her own voice through the synthesizer, as well as playing electric bass, elec. piano. and elec. vibraphone - most notably at Town Hall, and the concert produced by Annette at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center (New York City) which she promoted with guest appearances and spots on late nite TV.

In 1972 she recorded her solo album I'm The One for RCA. Six years later she was recording her next album X-Dreams, and was also recording with Allan Holdsworth on Bill Bruford's first solo project Feels Good To Me. Her own label ironicrecords in the UK issued four albums from 1981 to 1988 (see discography).

In 1987 her vocals featured prominently in the track Goodbye Mr G on the Andrew Poppy album "45 Is" (released on the ZTT label). Here, Peacock performs her characteristic mixture of spoken, sung and sprechstimme vocals on a text provided.

Her song My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook was included in the soundtrack of director Kevin Smith's film Chasing Amy in 1998. In 1997, Marilyn Crispell recorded a double CD of Annette Peacock's songs, " Nothing Ever Was, Anywas / Music of Annette Peacock". At the same time, compositions for string quartet, piano, and voice were commissioned by Manfred Eicher and ECM released An Acrobat's Heart in 2000.

At the beginning of 2006, subsequently after her release 31:31, again on her own label ironic. Just For The Kick, the result of her collaboration with Coldcut was released on their current album Sound Mirrors.

Her music has also been recorded by: David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, J-Live, Brian Eno, Pat Metheny, Al Kooper, Mick Ronson.

Selected Discography

Studio Albums

Compilations

Back To Mine - Morcheeba (2002)
''My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook (2004)

EPs and Singles

Don't Be Cruel single (1978)
Sky-skating single (1981)

External links

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