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

http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/theband/liz_fraser.html#collaborations

Get a move on Liz!

Seconded. And search that one that goes "whooooeooooobloooooopeeeedooooowehheeeeee".

Destroy: her solo "Underwater." Uhh, trance? If it were not for her singing on it, it'd be downright dreadful, but as it stands, it's only mediocre.

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=19872_0_2_0_C

(it's also mentioned on her official home page)

http://www.rsc.org.uk/newsandevents/events/3568.aspx

I hear Mr. Friday is definitely appearing at the event, not sure whether Liz Fraser will be as well

I dont read ILM so forgive me if I'm redundant here but who has heard LucyBelle Guthrie's stuff? Her track singing with Mahogany is really nice, though I'm inclined to wonder how much Dad's production made her just sound like her mother, because the other stuff of hers on her Myspace sounds ... well, it didn't grab me so.

Good god, and I remember when she was born.

Yes! I thought this was a joke at first but, no - she must be 17, 18? I remember reading about her birth in Melody Maker!

hey, that kid on the cover of Nevermind is practically old enough to vote...

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=69909271

She looks just like her mum!

Her myspace is: http://myspace.com/lucybelleguthrie

http://myspace-978.vo.llnwd.net/00742/87/95/742165978_m.jpg

Also I do have their first rare cassette release "Time Clock Turns Back" (with a picture of a monkey on the cover) but it's really not very good compared to the rest of their entire career.

Good god, and I remember when she was born.

Exact WAAAHT reaction I had, as well! I mean, it seems like Heaven or Las Vegas came out a few years ago, which I think was the one with all the clucky baby-themed songs on (like "suckling the mender" and "pur" with its "I'm glad you are a girl/I'm pleased to know you" etc etc.

Considering there's people like Diamanda Galas out there, this somehow feels a wee teeny bit hyperbolic.

No mention of the sublime "Candleland" she did with Ian McCulloch? I think it's only on the single version though. Someone should put together a playlist with just her collaborations.

So whatever did happen to this solo album?

her website now has a bit for a mailing list, & i was reading something earlier about the album being nearly finished, working with ex spiritualized people etc etc. but now i cant find it!

I think I remember hearing that very tidbit 5 years ago. :\

Well?
A blue rinsed warble emits and it kills us

I'm having a hard time justifying, as an atheist, why Jeff Buckley & Liz Fraser should ever have been in the same room together recording a song. "All Flowers In Time", etc. It absolutely defies the existence of a god, you understand that? That those two individuals should have sung on the same track ever in their lives is absolutely insane. That's better than any flavor of ice cream you might find in your town.

last two posts VMIC

Elizabeth Fraser back (with silver hair)!

interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/26/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview

For 18 years, she was the 'voice of God' in the Cocteau Twins. Now Elizabeth Fraser finds it too difficult even to think about her old bandmates

Moses is out on 7in and download on Rough Trade on 30 November.

Fantastic interview, very frank! She's aged so much so recently it seems! Maybe Ive just not seen pics of her in about 5-6 years.

oooh looking forward to Moses

Good interview. I am so glad she never did anything with linkin park. I don't even want to imagine how awkward that would sound like.

Oh heeeeeeey

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/elizabeth-fraser-contributes-to-bbc-score

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07g6tmn

(Skip ahead to 1 hour, 44 minutes.)

New EP soon:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2022/02/20/elizabeth-fraser-suns-signature-record-store-day/

wow! i have no idea where her music is at these days (does anyone? other than some appearances with massive attack recently?) but will definitely check out.

also, i just read through that guardian interview posted upthread (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/26/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview) and she mentions the unreleased/unfinished duet with jeff buckley that bimble was raving about upthread. i had never heard the song! it's really, really lovely, instantly one of my favorites of either of their careers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPvnIKCJYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN1fTs15jD4

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.

late to this but trayce otm. the ep IS great - sun's signature: that's the name of the band. i tried searching and none of us have actually said their name here yet!

while fully understanding the implications of this, i'd liken it favorably to some of joanna newsom's most recent (still almost a decade old lol) material.

re:yes/topographic oceans comparison
the multi-part 'song-within-song' feeling, very little of the actual music. tho some of that too.

lol damn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yaObCgrFrY
sun's signature - "bluedusk (LUMP remix)" (2023)

just discovering "all flowers bend toward the sun" with jeff buckley. holy shit.