Moon & Melodies
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1999-10-05
Music Label: 4ad / Ada
Soundtracks:
- Sea, Swallow Me
- Memory Gongs
- Why Do You Love Me?
- Eyes Are Mosaics
- She Will Destroy You
- The Ghost Has No Home
- Bloody And Blunt
- Ooze Out And Away, One How
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Music Review: Other-Everythingly
Rating: 4 Stars
On this year's Summer Solstice I had the pleasure of driving down the Fosse Way towards Wiltshire, as the midsummer sun gradually set on the beautiful Cotswold landscapes. I was listening to The Moon And The Melodies on the car music system, and it proved to be the perfect soundtrack to the scenes unfolding around me. Elizabeth Fraser's gorgeously abstract vocals illuminated half of the tunes and completed an encompassing sound picture. The ubiquitous drum machine set the recording solidly in the eighties, but in other respects the music is timeless, other-worldly, other-everythingly in fact, and serene. Of the songs on which Elizabeth Fraser appears (Sea, Swallow Me; Eyes Are Mosaics; She Will Destroy You; Ooze Out And Away, Onehow), Sea, Swallow Me is perhaps the most closely recognizably Cocteau Twins in style and intent, though I don't believe it or any of the other tracks have been released on singles or their compilations.
This album may have been a little unfairly overlooked as it falls slightly outside the Cocteau Twins' main body of work. It was a largely instrumental and wordless collaboration with the keyboard player Harold Budd, fresh from his collaborations with Brian Eno, who co-wrote and co-produced all of the eight tracks, and served as his introduction to Four AD, the label they shared. His own album, Lovely Thunder [EGED 46, Editions EG], released later that year, contains a different mix of one of the same pieces, Memory Gongs, retitled as Flowered Knife Shadows.
Richard Thomas from Dif Juz, who had been working with the Cocteaus during the period that Simon Raymonde had been absent due to illness, contributes the occasional saxophone and plays drums on Bloody And Blunt. The album came out in November 1986, just a few months after Victorialand, but was to be the last Cocteau Twin-related release until the magisterial Blue Bell Knoll in September 1988
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