The Cocteau Twins/Faye Wong - rare collaboration - "The Amusement Park"

Is this possibly the most obscure Cocteau Twins track ever? Faye Wong (王菲Wang Fei) (b. 1969) is a Chinese singer who collaborated with the Cocteau Twins in the 1990s. In 1996 she released the album "Fu Zao" (浮躁), usually translated as "Restless" or "Impatience". The Cocteau Twins wrote two original songs for, "Fracture" (分裂)(which was later "covered" by Cocteau Twins as "Tranquil Eye") and "Repressing Happiness" (掃興) (later covered by Cocteau Twins as "Touch Upon Touch"). Both of these are available elsewhere on Youtube, and are often described as "Chinese versions". For the Cocteau Twins purist who has yet to hear any decent cover of their work, Faye Wong is perhaps the only singer who can come close to reimagining the unique sound of Elizabeth Fraser's wonderful vocals. It certainly helps that she has worked so closely with Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde. Before working with them on "Fu Zao" she had covered their work ("Bluebeard", retitled "Random Thinki! ng", and "Know Who You are at Every Age" as "Know Oneself And Each Other"), and had even recorded vocals for a special duet version of "Serpentskirt" on the Asian release of the group's 1996 album, "Milk And Kisses". In 1997 she released the eponymous "Faye Wong" album for EMI (王菲). Guthrie and Raymonde of wrote two original compositions for the album, but only one, "The Amusement Park" (娛樂場), was used. The albumn also included an acoustic cover of the Cocteau Twins' "Rilkean Heart", renamed "Nostalgia ...

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Tori Sparks - Mama (live Belnash 2012)

"About Tori Tori Sparks is based in Barcelona, Spain, having recently relocated from Nashville -- but she spends most of her time on the road all over the world. She has already released four critically-acclaimed albums under the auspices of her own record label (Glass Mountain Records). She speaks and sings in English, French and Spanish, and plays over 200 concerts each year. Tori Sparks' new release, Until Morning/Come out of the Dark, marks her third musical collaboration with producer David Henry (REM, Josh Rouse, The Cowboy Junkies, Widespread Panic), and her first with Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Elvis Costello, Velvet Underground, Gypsy Kings, Paula Cole, Rosanne Cash). The recordings feature a cast of world-class musicians, as well as special guest vocalists Shawn Mullins (Grammy nominee, #1 on the US Americana Charts), Mike Farris (Americana Music Association Artist of the Year, Dove Award Winner), Paris DeLane (Sonia Dada), and indie folk favorite David Mead. "to! risparks.com This is a recording from her performance at the Belfast Nashville Festival in February 2012 their website is at www.belfastnashville.com

The Stooges-"Search and Destroy" Iggy's '97 Remix from "Raw Power"

Raw Power is the third and final studio album by The Stooges. Though not initially commercially successful, Raw Power gained a cult fanbase in the years following its release and, like its predecessor (1970's Fun House), is generally considered an influential forerunner of punk rock. Iggy produced and mixed the album by himself; unfortunately, his botched first attempt mixed most of the instruments into one stereo channel and the vocals into the other, with little regard for balance or tone quality. Tony DeFries, the head of MainMan, informed Iggy that the album would be remixed by David Bowie. Iggy agreed to this, claiming that "the other choice was I wasn't going to get my album out. I think DeFries told me that CBS refused to release it like that, I don't know," but insisted that his own mix for "Search and Destroy" be retained. Due to budgetary constraints, Bowie remixed the other seven songs in a single day in an inexpensive Los Angeles studio, Western Sound Recorders, ! in October 1972. According to Iggy, the mixing session took place in one day. In 1996, Columbia Records invited Iggy Pop to remix the entire album for re-release on CD. Iggy says in the liner notes that had he declined, the studio would have remixed it without his blessing. Iggy cited longtime encouragement from fans and peers, the existence of Rough Power, his distaste for how the original 1989 CD release of Raw Power sounded, and the fact that Columbia were going to release the new mix on its ...