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Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
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Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser Biography
The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is the product of a one-off collaboration between the Scottish group Cocteau Twins and the American composer Harold Budd. The Cocteau Twins refused to sign the album with the band’s name and used their individual names instead.
The album has the characteristic style — heavily-treated guitar sounds and strangely euphoric vocalising — that can be heard in the group’s other work from the same period, for example on the EP “Echoes in a Shallow Bay” or the album Victorialand. Harold Budd’s stylistic piano tonalities and phrasing on this project are echoed in his solo album, Lovely Thunder, from the same year.
The phrases “bloody and blunt” and “ooze out and away, onehow” come from Elizabeth Fraser’s lyrics on the songs “The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)” and “My Love Paramour”, both from the 1983 Cocteau Twins album Head Over Heels. Reusing phrases from old songs as titles for others can be considered one of Fraser’s signature characteristics, as can her habit of emphasizing syllables in ways that differ from standard usage.
The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is the product of a one-off collaboration between the Scottish group Cocteau Twins and the American composer Harold Budd. The Cocteau Twins refused to sign the album with the band’s name and used their individual names instead.
The album has the characteristic style — heavily-treated guitar sounds and strangely euphoric vocalising — that can be heard in the group’s other work from the same period, for example on the EP “Echoes in a Shallow Bay” or the album Victorialand. Harold Budd’s stylistic piano tonalities and phrasing on this project are echoed in his solo album, Lovely Thunder, from the same year.
The phrases “bloody and blunt” and “ooze out and away, onehow” come from Elizabeth Fraser’s lyrics on the songs “The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)” and “My Love Paramour”, both from the 1983 Cocteau Twins album Head Over Heels. Reusing phrases from old songs as titles for others can be considered one of Fraser’s signature characteristics, as can her habit of emphasizing syllables in ways that differ from standard usage.
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tekkie69 wrote:
Beauty busts slowly out, every time i listen 2 U
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Master_ov_Khaos wrote:
Harold Budd should have just joined Cocteau Twins.
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carolynsfingers wrote:
Sea Swallow Me, Throughout the Dark Months of April and May, Eggs and Their Shells...ah the list goes on...my favorite haunting vocals by the one and only Elizabeth Fraser and the beautiful musical stylings of Robin Guthrie. Awe inspiring...breathtaking
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JennBirkenow wrote:
love it!
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sonnyminimal wrote:
I love this album. It gets overlooked somewhat. I think it was one that didn't get re-mastered when all the Cocteau's albums were re-released? 'Sea Swallow Me' is lovely
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Otherness wrote:
I don't listen to this album very often, but when I do, it stuns me. Beautiful, beautiful music.
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arkanusboy wrote:
Sea, Swallow Me is absolutely stunning. Just unbelieveable. [3] this is IMO after Treasure the best Cocteau Twins album. and wtf about the new age tag? these songs put me in a letargic serotoninergic state, love it, and so underrrated ):
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Donsimon43 wrote:
Mind body soul ,still the best in my books and I'm 43 now unreal,I don't think personally there music will ever age,I feel they hit on something so special their music swallows me whole and spits me out all the better for it,I cannot name another band that has had so influence on my life,live on .
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INDYPENDIENTES wrote:
"She will destroy you" the best song of Cocteau Twins and Harol Budd.
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coleio wrote:
Sea, Swallow Me is absolutely stunning. Just unbelieveable. [2]
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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
Sea, Swallow Me is absolutely stunning. Just unbelieveable.
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Leavenisleaving wrote:
哗！这都有！
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pimmka wrote:
Keep the auto correction and flag such things :)
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Implications wrote:
Hence why I turn off the automatic "correction" stuff, since it's wrong constantly.
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received wrote:
it bothers me that last.fm corrects this collaboration as simply "cocteau twins."
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31zillah13 wrote:
This is very much a winter album for me. My only complaint? I wish it was twice as long. Very beautiful. :)
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nebula68 wrote:
This is probably the best album I have in my collection... (1984 until today!)
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Ameilio wrote:
愛z r もぜik
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CoKlaComa wrote:
This album for me has always been Harold Budd & Cocteau Twins, as that’s what it is… I changed my tagging as I have had to do quite a bit in order to match Last.FM’s labeling wizards. In the end however, none of it seems to matter when you put ‘The Moon and the Melodies’ on and realize what a Brilliant Masterpiece it really is!
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hugoy wrote:
the best ambient album ever, even if it wasn't intended to be ambient. I dreamt my whole adoloscence away with this album (only breaking up for turning the side - vinyl!). By the way: The name of the album is "The Moon and the Melodies"
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