Moon & Melodies [Import]

Harold Budd, Cocteau Twins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
• ASIN: B000005S3V
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,262 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sea, Swallow Me

2. Memory Gongs

3. Why Do You Love Me?

4. Eyes Are Mosaics

5. She Will Destroy You

6. The Ghost Has No Home

7. Bloody and Blunt

8. Ooze Out and Away, Onehow

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars unusual way to tiltle the band, July 15, 2000

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Vanderlei N. Silva (São Paulo, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moon & Melodies (Audio CD)

this is my first review for Amazon. I bought this album when neither Amazon nor the Internet eexisted, I have been a fan of the Cocteaus for 14 years, and I just loved the idea of not using the name Cocteau Twins. Some tracks like "Memory Gongs" sound as if they had been played under the water. A perfect soundtrack for being lost in a pinus forest amidst a dense fog, barely being able to see the blurry shape of the trees. The last track has the most inventive and senseless name ever, and it grows and grows until it explodes. One can barely hear Harold Budd in the Cocteau Tracks, but can surely here Robin Guthrie's guitar sliding through Harold Budd's tracks. One of my best cds. I would like to take it to my grave.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Harold Budd meets the Cocteau Twins..., August 3, 2001

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Jennifer A. Johnson "jabbl" (St. George, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moon & Melodies (Audio CD)

...and the results are a spellbinding, lovely collection of songs which are alternately haunting and powerful. The combination of Liz Fraser's gorgeous vocals, the unmistakeable Twins melodies of Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie, and Harold Budd's swirling, otherworldly piano, is flawless.

Some have thought that this album is divided into 4 Cocteau Twins songs and 4 Harold Budd songs, but they have not listened closely enough. The songs to which Liz lends her irreproachable voice have a different feel because of it, but the songs are all collaborative, each an exceptional mixture of the talents of these four musicians.

"She Will Destroy You" is a flawless song. The vocals and instrumentation are perfectly performed, producing a dark and brooding mood. "Sea, Swallow Me" is lighter in tone but just as impressively rendered.

This is one of the few CD's I would recommend to just about anyone; regardless of their musical tastes, they will love the Moon & the Melodies.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audio Zen/5 stars is not sufficient for this Album, January 12, 2004

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B H (Ne United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon & Melodies (Audio CD)

In a music collection that spans over many genres and over serveral thousand. It would be hard to imagine not having this album in my collection. In the fifteen years since its release it has been one of the most played albums in my collection. This perenial favorite brings a calm to those living in the temporal world. Time,place, and space have no meaning when listening to this album. I take this album on long trips, flights to releave tension and camping for looking at the stars as an enhancement to the isolation of the wilderness. This album will musical and spritually take you to place you have never been before or dream about for that matter. I have been a Cocteau Twins fan as well as a Harold Budd Fan even before the collaboration. Though there are two distinct styles here there is continuity and harmony overall. Words really can't do justice here. This is one of a few albums you can buy and not feel cheated or your time/money was wasted. Like Neo seeing the Oracle in the Matrix. This album is for you and you ALONE. By that, I mean what you get from listening to it will be you own experience. You should though, share this with as many as possible but; listening to this album is best as private/intimate experience.