Avant-Gals

Here’s to the women who go their own ways. Who choose to reject everything the strictly limited, industry-mandated persona menu offers them: soul diva, folk damsel, red-hot mamma, pop poppet, bruised chantooze or voracious vamp, saying  “none of the above” and, on their passport under “occupation”, are proud to fill in  the single word “musician”…. 1 Dagmar Krause & Marie Goyette-Through My Satellite 2 Zeena Parkins-Firebrat 3 Delia Derbyshire-Delia’s Psychedelian Waltz 4 Ruth White-Sun 5 Annette Peacock-I’m The One 6 Buffy Sainte-Marie-God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot 7 Haco-Oyster Song 8 Frank Chickens-Night Dream 9 Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble-Double Voice, Extra Voice 10 Mandy More-If Not By Fire 11 Brigitte Fontaine-Le Brouillard 12 Ruby-Bad Girl 13 Jane Weaver-H>A>K 14 the United States Of America-The Garden Of Earthly Delights 15 Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires-C’est Fab 16 The Shaggs-My Companion 17 Yoko Ono-Why 18 Nico-Lawns Of Dawns 19 Dame Edith Sitwell-The Wind’s Bastinado (From Facade)