Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies CD xx1989 The pair dialogue in a

The pair dialogue in a sonic language all their ownÑpredicated by over a decade of friendship and musical collaboration

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Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies CD xx1989 The pair dialogue in aThe Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take