Elizabeth Fraser, 61th anniversary

And by her 61th birthday, Elizabeth Fraser was singing in Lisbon with their friends. Massive Attack, live at Meo Kalorama.

Song to the Siren, a song of a generation

... or should I say a song of generations?
Here's the most known version of the Song to the Siren:

It was firstly known 40 years ago, after the releasing of the stunning cover by Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins for the British music collective This Mortal Coil in September 1983. Here's a previous version performed live by the Cocteau Twins:

The song was made by Tim Buckley (Jeff's father) over a poem from his friend Larry Beckett and firstly broadcasted 55 years ago, on March 25, 1968, in the final episode of The Monkees TV show. It was only released much later, in 1970 in Tim's album Starsailor.

After This Mortal Coil's version, Song to the Siren became a cult song included in many movie soundtracks like the David Lynch's Lost Highway and finally, it was covered by more than 60 artists, including John Frusciante, Sinéad O'Connor, Bryan Ferry, Robert Plant...
And also Larry Beckett, the writer of the poem, recorded a version with The Long Lost Band, presented in 2016.

cherry coloured funk

The Cocteau Twins and Elizabeth Fraser's celestial voice. Firstly the version from The Black Sessions live 12/22/1995 at France Inter Radio, pretty similar to the original version presented on the 1990 album Heaven or Las Vegas but, with the beautiful Liz's voice undressed of electronics. And then, the ethereal version from Otherness, 1995 EP.

Mezzanine XXI. It was worth the wait

Wow, how I dreamed and waited to watch this :)
So fantastic :)
Made some more clips but the bass drum is too distorted.

:) have a nice Christmas ...

... if you can

7 years with the "nightingale"

good night, happy weenkend everybody :)

have a smooth week :}

primitive painters

wish you all a nice weekend :)

how to turn a cheesy song into a pearl

and this is the original

and again, and again

have a dreamy week :)

Let's get this party started ;)

another day

have a hopeful week anyway :)

wake up, the world is shining to you :}

sea, swallow me

iceblink

Have a lucky weekend :)

:'} again

Cocteau Twins-Seekers who are Lovers

This is the last post on Liz Fraser for this month but hopefully we will hear more of her music in the future. This song is to commemorate her unique and amazing talents as well as to celebrate her birthday August 29, 1963.
The genres of music that she is listed in are: dream pop, ethereal wave, ambient, Gothic rock but she is really a Scottish angel. A private artist who deserves the greatest respect.
Please enjoy this most beautiful song :)

bluebeard

As promissed. The 1st Cocteau Twins appearance on US TV. 1994. 11 years after their existence.


Here we can see how Liz transformed her way of singing when there's no dubbing or previous voice recordings. You can see the original @ Resgate Som

Heaven or Las Vegas

:-)