Name: Elizabeth Fraser [ COCTEAU TWINS ] - "Golden Air" - Royal Festival Hall 06 08 2012 by fileman2 in Elizabeth Fraser
Duration: 6 min 19 s
Description: new material by the incomparable ELIZABETH FRASER! (and as of 3/15, no less than THIGHPAULSANDRA, Liz's extraordinary synth-master throughout these recordings, has informed me personally that yes, the studio versions of these "new" Fraser tracks ARE yet forthcoming! )

Elizabeth Fraser

07 Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins Rework)

I recorded these songs in 2013 to commemorate the women who brought them into my life; be they their composers, or the performers who rendered them such masterpieces.

Song To The Siren (Elizabeth Fraser / This Mortal Coil / Orginal: Tim Buckley)

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and  suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”


ROSE MCDOWALL - Tibet (from Cut With The Cake Knife LSSN027)

Cowgirl Clue fka Wu-Wu's new single, "Jewel"
Recorded at Volcom Stone Entertainment
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"Jewel"

Buy track (Name your price): https://smaharba.bandcamp.com/track/when-i-go-to-sleep

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Sample used: https://youtu.be/HhFGZnjJe_Q

Apologies for the poor mastering. This upload is a little loud.

Some info: 

W.I.G.T.S. is an edited version of the Marion März song, 'I Go To Sleep', released on S.Maharba’s self-titled album. The song by Marion is, itself, an adaptation of an earlier song of the same name by The Applejacks.

S.Maharba

W.I.G.T.S.

S.Maharba - W.I.G.T.S.

new material by the incomparable ELIZABETH FRASER! (and as of 3/15, no less than THIGHPAULSANDRA, Liz's extraordinary synth-master throughout these recordings, has informed me personally that yes, the studio versions of these "new" Fraser tracks ARE yet forthcoming! )

Elizabeth Fraser  [ COCTEAU TWINS ] - "Golden Air" - Royal Festival Hall 06 08 2012

Elizabeth Fraser - "Oomingmak"  after 15 yrs, live in 2012 at last!

All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun - by Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser

Dedicated to Leonard John Cullinan

All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun - JEFF BUCKLEY & ELIZABETH FRASER (For Da)

the city screams for the guillotine and i pray that they will never find me
my hair shedding everywhere leaves a trail from burdens i can't bear
just a teen wipe my record clean when i become what I dread to be
shut eyelids i was only a kid dip my toes in solace they forbid

tell me what to do
im nothing without you
would you tell me what to do
what is wrong and what is true

pretty face put me in my place as the people celebrate your grace
wont bat an eye as my veins run dry and i leave to a jolly goodbye
don't ascend through the decadent cuz the gods will never be your friend
youre unfit so just submit know that probity is not worth it

tell me what to do
im nothing without you
would you tell me what to do
what is wrong and what is true

no convictions of my own
only words that make them groan
i cant do this all alone
push me i wont say no

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Elizabeth Fraser [ COCTEAU TWINS ] - "Golden Air" - Royal Festival Hall 06 08 2012

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