- Twinlights
Infobox album
Name = Twinlights
Type = ep
Artist =Cocteau Twins
Released = September 1995
Recorded =
Genre =Alternative rock
Length = 13:55
Label = Fontana - CT 3
Producer =Cocteau Twins
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:wzfixquhldje link]
Last album = "Love's Easy Tears " 1986
This album = Twinlights" 1995
Next album = "Otherness" 1995"Twinlights" is the 1995
EP by theCocteau Twins . It was released along with the EP "Otherness" as a teaser for the album "Milk and Kisses ". It is a mainly instrumental affair withallmusic 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 1994Four-Calendar Cafe tour. The mystery man has been speculated to beJeff Buckley by Fraser's biographer but she has never confirmed or denied this. [Cocteau Twins: History part 17 "http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/history/history17.html"]The song "Rilkean Heart" is a homage to Jeff Buckley who was a lifelong lover of
Rainer Maria Rilke 's work.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 Performers
*
Robin Guthrie
*Elizabeth Fraser
*Simon Raymonde * Phil Boyden, Violin
* Paul Costin, Violin
* Fiona Griffith, Viola
* Helen Thomas, CelloMiscellaneous
Cantopop artistFaye 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.References
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