New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Set for release on October 12 via Mercury/Universal
Music Canada, the country's leading music company, this beautiful 4-CD set brings together the two albums that Cocteau
Twins recorded for Fontana, Four Calendar Café (1993) and Milk and Kisses (1996), along with further B-sides, EPs,
Radio One sessions and the occasional rarity. The set was mastered at Abbey Road, from the original tapes, and approved by 'Cocteau''s founding member,
Robin Guthrie.
Housed in a study box designed by
James Isaacs, the set is completed with a booklet, featuring photos and a discography from the era plus sleeve notes by noted author, Chris Roberts.
Founded in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1979 by guitarist
Robin Guthrie and bassist Will Heggie and later completed by Guthrie's girlfriend
Elizabeth Fraser, Cocteau
Twins became something of a phenomenon, renowned for their unique, ethereal sound. Following Heggie's early departure and the group's brief period as a duo, they were joined by multi-instrumentalist
Simon Raymonde in 1983.
Elizabeth Fraser's singular vocal delivery swooped, shimmered and beguiled in equal measures and the group quietly exerted their influence on an impressive line-up of musicians, including Prince,
Annie Lennox, Slowdive, Lush, My Bloody
Valentine and Curve.
Throughout the 1980s Cocteau
Twins were synonymous with Ivo Watt-Russell's 4AD label to whom they signed in 1982 and went on to record six studio albums. Constantly evolving, morphing and taking on new forms throughout the 1980s and into the 90s, Cocteau
Twins eventually split from 4AD and recorded their last two albums for Fontana, Four Calendar Café and Milk and Kisses.
Treasure Hiding - The Fontana Years demonstrates a musical marvel, which still has the ability to surprise and delight the ear and elevate mind and spirit to another level.
TRACKLISTING:
Disc One:
Know Who You Are at Every Age
Evangeline
Bluebeard
Theft, And Wandering Around Lost
Oil of Angels
Squeeze-Wax
My Truth
Essence
Summerhead
Pur
Disc Two:
Violaine
Serpentskirt
Tishbite
Half-Gifts
Calfskin Smack
Rilkean Heart
Ups
Eperdu
Treasure Hiding
Seekers Who Are Lovers
Disc Three:
Mud and Dark - Evangeline
Summer-blink - Evangeline
Winter
Wonderland - Snow EP
Frosty the
Snowman - Snow EP
Three Swept - Bluebeard Single
Ice-Pulse - Bluebeard Single
Bluebeard (Acoustic Version) - Bluebeard Single
Rilkean
Heart - Twinlights
Golden-Vein - Twinlights
Pink
Orange Red - Twinlights
Half-Gifts - Twinlights
Feet Like Fins - Otherness
Seekers Who Are Lovers - Otherness
Violaine - Otherness
Cherry Coloured Funk - Otherness (Seefeel Remix)
Tishbite - Tishbite
Primitive
Heart - Tishbite
Flock of Soul - Tishbite
Round - Tishbite
An Elan - Tishbite
Disc Four:
Smile - Violaine
Tranquil Eye - Violaine
Circling Girl - Violaine
Alice - Violaine
Circling Girl - Volume Track
Touch Upon Touch - Volume Track
Serpentskirt - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
Golden-Vein - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
Half-Gifts - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
Seekers Who Are Lovers - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
Calfskin Smack - Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996
Fifty-Fifty Clown - Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996
Violaine - Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996
