An odd choice of mood for a Christmas special as Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush duet on Roy Harper’s classic song of regret. Another Day was originally released on Harper’s first album for Harvest Records, Flat, Baroque And Berserk (1970) the album reaching No.20 on the UK chart. The song was also covered by This […]
Iceblink Luck was the most commercial sounding track that the Cocteau Twins ever released even receiving airplay and scraping into the UK Top 40 at No.38, showing that they could be accessible and still be good. Iceblink Luck was an uplifting piece, happy even. You could make out words instead of just sounds and the melodies were beautiful, […]
Produced by Robin Guthrie and featuring Elizabeth Fraser on a memorable chorus, Primitive Painters appeared on Felt’s fourth album, Ignite the Seven Cannons released on Cherry Red records in 1985. Felt were led by the enigmatic Lawrence and over a ten year period released ten albums and ten singles before splitting up. This single also […]
A continuing look at some of Elizabeth Fraser’s collaborations takes us to Brittany and the French Michel Oldfield, Yann Tiersen. Fraser contributes her uncanny made up language to Tiersen’s soundtrack and leaves us where she always does – in awe. Tiersen is most famous for his music to the French cute blockbuster Amelie. The movie soundtrack […]
A beautiful song from Ian McCulloch’s first solo album featuring Liz Fraser. It was the third single from the album and although it failed to chart, the album made No.18 in the UK charts. There’s two clips below, one seems to be the video, the other is just audio with a pic of the September […]
I can’t exactly pinpoint when All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun was recorded, the information is a little scarce, but there is apparently a bootleg where this track appears called, Soundtrack Exclusives & Rarities. It seems that Fraser and Buckley developed a very close relationship during the time they spent together, in awe […]