''An Acrobat's Heart'' is a solo album by

Annette Peacock Annette Peacock is an American composer, musician, songwriter, producer, and arranger. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s. Biography Annette Peacock was writing ...

that was released in 2000 by

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Reception

Stacia Proefrock of

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gave the album three stars out of five, stating, "this album proves that after over three decades as a performer, Annette Peacock still has the skill to compose and execute truly beautiful music."

Track listing

All compositions and string arrangements by Annette Peacock # "Mia's Proof" – 5:24 # "Tho" – 5:24 # "Weightless" – 4:42 # "Over" – 3:52 # "As Long as Now" – 3:49 # "U Slide" – 4:17 # "B 4 U Said" – 4:42 # "The Heart Keeps" – 3:08 # "Ways It Isn't" – 3:50 # "Unspoken" – 2:59 # "Safe" – 3:29 # "Free the Memory" – 4:36 # "Ever 2 B Gotten" – 2:53 # "Camille" – 4:50 # "Lost at Last" – 2:18

Personnel

*Annette Peacock -

vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

''The Cikada String Quartet:'' *Henrik Hannisdal, Odd Hannisdal -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

*Marek Konstantynowicz -

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*Morten Hannisdal -

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

References

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