Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser

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A collaboration between American ambient composer Harold Budd and members of Cocteau Twins (Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde), best known for the 1986 album "The Moon and the Melodies."

Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde are best known as members of the Cocteau Twins. Harold Budd was an American composer noted for ambient piano works and collaborated with Brian Eno on "Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror" (1980) and "The Pearl" (1984). Harold Budd died in 2020.

A close reading of The Moon and the Melodies highlighting Elizabeth Fraser's radical vocal deconstructions. The album pairs four sung pieces with four instrumentals by Harold Budd. The review praises Fraser's glossolalia and Budd's ambient piano craft.