Annette Peacock
“Idiscovered annette Peacock by chance. I was listening to the radio – John Peel, I think – and Pony came on. the sleazy psychedelic bass and the moving texture of her voice combine to make a mad, acid trip of a song. as a woman I felt particularly inspired by her.
“she finds beauty in the most unpromising sounds. she was the first person to combine vocals with
a moog. robert moog apparently gave her a synth to mess about with and she experimented with it fearlessly. that was a pretty bold thing to do in the male-dominated music landscape of the late 60s. the results she achieved were innovative and pioneering. Bowie noted her as an influence. Jaco Pastorius, rZa and Busta rhymes sampled her. an album like I’m the one sounds out there even by today’s standards. she released that in 1972.
“the Perfect release is sensational. there’s a track on there called summer; listening to that takes you on a journey from Billy cobham’s stratus, to the mahavishnu orchestra, right on back to a grimy jazz club basement. and survival is essentially a 15-minute beat poetry dissertation. In one go it’s unabashed, mindbending, sexy, relaxed and mad.”