“I’m the one, you don’t have to look any further. I’m the one. I’m here, right here for you,” oozes jazz, rock, and electronic music pioneer Annette Peacock on the leadoff title track of her solo debut LP. The album’s wide range of vocal emotions and diverse sonic palette (featuring Robert Moog’s early modular synthesizers, which the singer actually transmitted her voice through to wild effect) places it firmly at the forefront of the pop avant-garde. Originally released by RCA Victor in 1972 to widespread critical acclaim, I’m The One found itself amongst good company. Both Lou Reed and David Bowie had recently signed to the label—Bowie in particular was enamored with Annette—and artists ranging from ex-husband and jazz great Paul Bley, along with notable Brazilian percussionists Airto Moreira and Dom Um Romao, guested on the album itself. Writing and arranging I’m The One’s nine passionate tracks—bar a unique cover of Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender”—the disc grooves easily from free jazz freak-outs and rough and rugged blues-funk to gently pulsing synthesized bliss.

An extension of Annette’s late 1960s work with her Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show combo, I’m The One is filled with strength and power, as well as a tender, sensual, and seductive side, born of a life surrounded with music and culture. Composing by age four, Peacock’s mother was a professional violinist. By the early 1960s, Annette had also collaborated with first husband, jazz bassist Gary Peacock and toured with legendary saxophone player Albert Ayler. Studying under Zen macrobiotics educator Michio Kushi and a confidant to Timothy Leary at the Millbrook psychedelic center, Peacock later worked, post-I’m The One, with rock stalwarts like guitarists Mick Ronson and Chris Spedding, Yes/King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford, as well as surrealist artist Salvador Dali.

The second release on our Future Days Recordings imprint, I’m The One will be available on CD and LP, re-mastered from the original tapes with a booklet containing beautiful unseen photos from the vaults of Sony Music and extensive liner notes from NYC-based writer and musician, Mikey ‘IQ’ Jones. The LP is limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies and sports a deluxe Stoughton “Tip-On” jacket with a unique spot UV gloss and includes the same booklet as the CD plus a folded 18″ x 24″ poster of a never-before-seen photo of Annette. Indeed, she’s the one! Available for pre-order now!

Deluxe is free quarterly newspaper put out by the fine folks at The Drift Record Shop in the UK. We Ran into Drift owner/Deluxe editor, Rupert Morrison, at SXSW this year and he handed us a copy. One of my favorite parts of this issue is the “Deluxe Transatlantic Recommended Retailers,” a hand drawn map to all the best record shops in the world (well, the USA, U.K., and Ireland).

Drawing by Anika Mottershaw

Rupert told us this map was greatly inspired by our “Record Store Of The Week” Column (which will be back in action very soon, so stay tuned!).

Check out the mag if you get the chance, and take a look at the map to find a cool spot near you!

Summer is here and what better way to beat the heat than a swanky new Light In The Attic family tee?!?! Yup, now whether you’re at a Sunday BBQ, beach bummin’ it or crate digging at the flea market you know you always have your family with you!  Sharing the same Drew Christie (who also drew the “Melody Nelson” tee art and the Free Basin’ logo above) illustration as the latest Light In The Attic Zine (#4), the shirt features Lee Hazlewood, Gabor Szabo, Karen Dalton, Rodriguez, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Shin Joong Hyun, Wendy Rene, T.L. Barrett, Eddie Spencer, The Monks, Kearny Barton, Wayne McGhie, Pat Wright, Lou Bond, Kevin “Sipreano” Howes, Noel Ellis, Jackie Mittoo, Overton Barry, Calvin Law, Robbie Hill, Betty Davis, Doug Randle, Michael Chapman, The Free Design, Charles “Packy” Axton, Stephen John Kalinich, Lloyd Delpratt, Michael Hurley, Donnie & Joe Emerson, The Vagrants, Jim Sullivan, Jim Ford, The Louvin Brothers and Kris Kristofferson! It’s a gaggle of godly geniuses!

For this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re giving away one of these very tees to a lucky winner. Winner’s choice of size and color of course! For your chance to win, leave a comment below about your favorite Light In The Attic artist (include your name and email address) and we’ll announce the winner next Friday, May 18th at 12PM PST. Can’t wait until then, well you can also order a shirt at LITA-LTD right now!

Can’t be in UK this week for the Listen, Whitey! tour? This interview/DJ set on Mathieu Schreyer’s (pictured above on the left with Pat Thomas) KCRW show from April 8, 2012 is the next best thing. And if you are in the UK, be sure to check out one of the Pat’s events here.

Pat Thomas at speaking at Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA, April 4, 2012

For the last few months, Listen, Whitey! compiler/author Pat Thomas has been on an epic tour promoting the book and soundtrack hitting book shops, radio stations, record stores, and of course a few bars, and everywhere in between. This week, Pat is in the UK for a string of dates. Full list below…hope to see you there!

Thursday, May 10, 8PM
SPONSORED AND PRESENTED BY
THE WIRE MAGAZINE
Cafe OTO
18 – 22 Ashwin St.
Dalston, LONDON E8 3DL
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/wire-salon-listen-whitey.shtm

Friday, May 11, 6:30PM
Rough Trade East “Dray Walk”
Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane, LONDON
E1 6QL
+44 (0)207.392.7788
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/news_detail.lasso?story_id=1670

[JUST ADDED] Monday, May 14, 2:00 GMT
BBC London 94.9 | Robert Elms program
Tune in worldwide here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rm41v

Tuesday, May 15, 4PM
Durham University
Lecture Room of the Music Department
The University Office
Old Elvet, DURHAM
DH1 3HP
+44 (0)191.334.6305
www.dunelm.org.uk

Here’s a lil’ Free Basin’ Fridays for you — a full LITA button package! We pressed these up for giveaways on this year’s Record Store Day and we plan to have these for sale (individually and as packages) on the site next week. So before they go up, here’s your chance to score the full set. And really, who doesn’t like buttons? Wear them on your jean jacket, on your trucker hat, on your suspenders at work! So many ways to show your love for the likes of Lee Hazlewood, Karen Dalton, The Free Design, Jim Sullivan, Wheedle’s Groove, Betty Davis, Stax, The Louvin Brothers, Rodriguez, Michael Chapman, Listen, Whitey! and of course Donnie & Joe Emerson!!!

For your chance to win, leave a comment below with your name and email address (kept private) and tell us about your favorite button and maybe suggest some ones you’d like to see us press up. Winner will be announced next Friday, May 11th, at 12PM pst!

The response to The LHI Years on Record Store Day was flat out overwhelming! Lots of people kept asking if this was going to come out on CD (you know, for the car or to get for your younger brother who doesn’t know what a record player is). Well, here it is! Today you can now purchase the CD edition (same stellar sound, book-deep liner notes and rare archive photos) direct from us here. Check out the “What’s Inside?” video below for the full scoop on the CD.

So the story goes Mimran was deep into the likes of Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, and Kraftwerk and figured if he can oversee the building of an über-luxury sports car, which not a complex custom built synthesizer? So Mimran commissioned the German engineer Andreas Bahrdt to build his sonic spaceship, a 16-voice analog synthesizer named “La Bart.”  The music is pretty consistently upbeat with a forward pulpusion driving vibe. Kick and snare anchor the center sonic field like a stretch of black top while synth lines bounce from left to right in your peripheral “vision” like trees at 140 mph. Like I said, great headphone record.

Out of print and a top dollar collector’s item for years, Medical has finally righted this wrong. The LP features original reproduction sleeve art (front and back) featuring the mysterious and eye-dazzling original painting that donned the original LP. Included is a 2-sided insert featuring an interview and profile of Axxess by Dave Segal (who also wrote notes for our upcoming Donnie and Joe Emerson Dreamin’ Wild release) and color photos of the infamous “Le Bart” synth used to create this masterpiece. This will certainly appeal to fans of early progressive synth records, sequencer-heavy Tangerine Dream period, cosmic disco, and other lovers of all things early-electronic. Limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies, this thing will be gone fast. Pick a copy up here.

For this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re hooking up with our friends at Masstropicas to giveaway a copy of this superb (and SUPER LIMTED) slice of Peruvian cumbia: Los Jharis D Ñaña’s Los Creadors Del Sonido De La Carretera Central. Masstropicas have made a name for themselves by digging deep in South America and discovering some of the most mind blowing cumbia ever put to tape. Read this interview we did with them last year here.

So here’s your chance to pick up a copy of their latest release. Limited edition, one-time pressing of 500 copies (with a bonus 7″ single!!) sporting homemade hand stamped labels with an insert featuring liner notes, rare photos and words from Los Jharis’ main man Teo Laura! Read more about the record here but for your chance to win a copy, send us some love in a comment below with your name and email address (kept private) and we’ll pick a winner at random next Friday, 5/4 at 12PM pst!

Aquarium Drunkard presents Fruit Bats, Gold Leaves and House For Lions tomorrow night (Friday, April 27) at the Echo in Los Angeles. Matt and Patrick will be playing records through the night to help ease those quite moments between sets. You know, set that mood and all. See you there!