Name: Filigree & Shadow - This Mortal Coil
Brand: This Mortal Coil
SKU: 0652637300512
Price: 40.93 EUR
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Artist

This Mortal Coil was a 4AD "supergroup" of sorts that recorded three albums and a few other tracks between 1983 and 1991.
The only official members of the project were 4AD label head Ivo Watts-Russell and well-known producer John Fryer, but many vocalists and musicians from 4AD (and non-4AD) groups such as Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Dif Juz, Colourbox, The Wolfgang Press, Cindytalk, Breathless and more were involved at various points in the project's lifespan.
While the project was retired following the 1991 album "Blood", the concept was revisited by Ivo in 1998 with a similar collective called The Hope Blister.
The name This Mortal Coil is taken from the Monty Python's Flying Circus "Dead Parrot sketch", which in turn is a quote from William Shakespeare's Hamlet ("... what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil...").

Tracks

A1 Velvet Belly 01:20

A2 The Jeweller 03:16

A3 Ivy And Neet 04:49

A4 Meniscus 02:28

A5 Tears 00:22

A6 Tarantula 04:59

B1 My Father 05:58

B2 Come Here My Love 03:42

B3 At First, And Then 01:59

B4 Strength Of Strings 04:41

B5 Morning Glory 02:57

C1 Inch-Blue 01:08

C2 I Want To Live 04:05

C3 Mama K (I) 00:53

C4 Filigree & Shadow 01:20

C5 Firebrothers 03:54

C6 Thaïs (I) 01:09

C7 I Must Have Been Blind 03:30

C8 A Heart Of Glass 03:46

D1 Alone 04:14

D2 Mama K (II) 00:34

D3 The Horizon Bleeds And Sucks Its Thumb 02:53

D4 Drugs 03:10

D5 Red Rain 03:53

D6 Thaïs (II) 03:13

Releases

Formats

Cassette, Vinyl, CD, File

Labels

MG Records , Original Recordings Group, RCA, Virgin, ArsNova, 4AD, Sonic Records , Megadisc

Countries

Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Australia & New Zealand, Benelux

years

1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018

Members

~~Alison Limerick~~,John Fryer,Louise Rutkowski,Ivo Watts-Russell