Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:05:40 -0000 From: Roy Burns Subject: I'm a rabid 4AD whore!!!! This Mortal Coil Filigree & Shadow (4AD) After a two-year hiatus, This Mortal Coil returns with their crowning achievement, 1986's essential double album Filigree & Shadow. Once again Ivo & Co. delve deeper into the heart of darkness and despair, delivering a flawlessly produced album filled with 23 brooding abstract and breathtaking tracks. Dipping further into his musical treasure chest, Ivo unearths more brilliant, but overlooked moments from Tim Buckley ("I Must Have Been Blind" and "Morning Glory"), Colin Newman ("Alone"), Van Morrison ("Come Here My Love"), Gene Clark ("Strength Of Strings") and Talking Heads ("Drugs"). Enlisting new vocalists Alison Limerick, Dominic Appleton (Breathless), Richenel, Caroline Seaman and sisters Diedre & Louise Rutkowski, along with musical contributions from Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins), Peter Ulrich (Dead Can Dance), Richard Thomas (Dif Juz) and string arranger Martin McCarrick (who also appears on It'll End In Tears), Ivo had a line-up that could realize his musical vision. Unlike the debut album, Filigree & Shadow includes more original material and is infinitely more dense and experimental. There are many great songs on this album, but the highlights include: Gary Ogan and Billy Lamb's reverent "I Want To Live" (beautifully sung by Louise Rutkowski); Alison Limerick's gut-wrenching performance on "My Father"; Peter Ulrich's tribal and percussive "At First, And Then"; the enchanting and ethereal "Firebrothers" (featuring Richenel) and the Colin Newman (Wire) classic "Alone," performed by Caroline Seaman. Filigree & Shadow is music for people who don't like to go out and it solidifies the TMC "sound" - a minimal, yet lush, emotional soundscape layered with sensual ambient textures, vocal treatments and incidental effects. --Craig M. Roseberry Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:54:19 -0400 From: Marc Sauve Subject: Re: Firebrothers Bonjour The original is by a band called "Quicksilver" (sometimes refered as "Quicksilver Messenger Service" ) and the album I have is called "Anthology" and it came out in 1973. Regards, Marc At 19:59 98-10-19 -0700, you wrote: >Does anyone know who did the original version of Firebrothers and what album >it's on? Does anyone know why it didn't make the original versions CD? In my >opinion it's the worst TMC cover but I've always wondered who did it first. >Thanks, >Scott >