All About Liz Fraser: Search & Destroy non-Cocteau stuff, RFI, etc.

Sounds like Topographic Oceans era Yes.

(Not meant as a compliment or insult. Just my gut reaction. But of all the things I thought it might sound like, that was surely towards the bottom of the list.)

Not an inapt comparison.

Sounds nothing like "Topographic" YES to me but it's pretty nice.

Yeah, as much as it kind of caught me off guard, I dig it on secind listen.

this is pretty nice

kind of amazing that it's finally getting a release, she performed it in 2012 at one of her rare live appearances along with other unreleased solo material

I did have the "this sounds like 70s British pastoral prog folk" sort of reaction myself! Then it kind of Cocteau'ed out a bit in the later part. I gather this stuffs been percolating for a decade or more which.. cmon wee lass, get a move on.

her voice sounds great but this is a bit too florid and tasteful

"70s British pastoral prog folk" is one of my favorite sounds on earth but I'm not really hearing that per se here other than that it's a bit pastoral and not very Cocteaus-y guitarwise. I think it's great though.

"she performed it in 2012 at one of her rare live appearances" was this the show Steve Hackett played guitar for?

Hackett plays guitar on the released song.

Correct - re Hackett in 2012.

Setlist website says this was the last song before the encore and my memory is that people went nuts for it...

That’s Hackett on gtr?! (heh heh). Noice!!

The full EP has been out awhle now and it is great! Especially "Apples". The youtubes have lyrics posted. Crazy.