Harold Budd · Elizabeth Fraser · Robin Guthrie · Simon Raymonde - The Moon And The Melodies

Tracklist:
00:00 Sea, Swallow Me
03:09 Memory Gongs
10:36 Why Do You Love Me?
15:28 Eyes are Mosaics
19:38 She Will Destroy You^
23:56 The Ghost Has No Home^
31:31 Bloody and Blunt*
33:45 Ooze Out and Away, Onehow

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Released on 10 November 1986.

A legacy of the years spent by Harold Budd in the UK, much of it working at the Cocteau Twins' recording studio in London. It is basically a collaboration with the Cocteau Twins, although the members of the band are named individually in the title. Those tracks featuring the distinctive, dreamy vocals of Elizabeth Fraser sound very much like Cocteau Twins tracks. The instrumentals are more heavily influenced by the piano textures of Harold Budd.

“I don’t know if it actually worked, but working with Harold is great. I think it turned out more like four songs that sounded like us and four songs that sounded like him, which wasn’t really the plan. We met him and he just seemed like such a nice bloke. I don’t care about the music he makes or the music that any of the people I work with make, because quite often it’s that you meet them and you like them, and therefore you want to do something. I like Harold because of his very laid-back nature.”
- Robin Guthrie

“As musicians, I found them immensely interesting people to work with. And in spite of my inclination to work alone, it’s great to get into the studio with someone else and pick each other’s brains—very satisfying.”
- Harold Budd

Written, produced and performed by Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde with...
^ Richard Thomas - saxophone
* Richard Thomas - drums

www.haroldbudd.com

www.cocteautwins.com