Twinlights
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| EP by Cocteau Twins | |||||
| Released | September 1995 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative Rock | ||||
| Length | 13:55 | ||||
| Label | Fontana - CT 3 | ||||
| Producer | Cocteau Twins | ||||
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Twinlights is the 1995 EP by the Cocteau Twins. It was released along with the EP "Otherness" as a teaser for the album Milk and Kisses. It is a mainly instrumental affair with allmusic referring to it as "being as close to an "unplugged" effort as the Twins ever got." The EP was originally released on CD as well as a double vinyl 7".
The EP has four tracks, two of which were reimagined for Milk and Kisses ("Rilkean Heart" and "Half-Gifts"). "Pink Orange Red", which was released on the 1985 ep "Tiny Dynamine", is a stripped down version of the original with a piano playing the melody and opening. "Golden-Vein" is the only track on the EP not to appear on any other release.
Elizabeth Fraser describes this EP as being about a man she fell in love with during the 1994 Four-Calendar Cafe tour. The mystery man has been speculated to be Jeff Buckley by Fraser's biographer but she has never confirmed or denied this. [1]
The song "Rilkean Heart" is a homage to Jeff Buckley who was a lifelong lover of Rainer Maria Rilke's work.
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[edit] Track listing
All tracks are written by Cocteau Twins
- "Rilkean Heart" - 2:22
- "Golden-Vein" - 2:49
- "Pink Orange Red" - 4:29
- "Half-Gifts" - 4:15
- String arrangements by Thomas M. Hill
[edit] Performers
- Phil Boyden, Violin
- Paul Costin, Violin
- Fiona Griffith, Viola
- Helen Thomas, Cello
[edit] Miscellaneous
Cantopop artist Faye Wong covered this version of "Rilkean Heart" in her 1997 album Faye Wong, in which Guthrie and Raymonde wrote a song "Yu Le Chang" (Entertainment Ground) for her.
[edit] References
- ^ Cocteau Twins: History part 17 "http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/history/history17.html"
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