The 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 signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take again. Now, almost forty years after it was first released, its being reissued on vinyl for the first time remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself. No-one involved can recall exactly how it came about. As Guthrie and Simon Raymonde remember it, the independent television station Channel 4 approached them about a film project pairing musicians from different genres. In interviews in the 1980s, however, Budd (who sadly passed away in 2020), believed his publisher linked them after the

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The Moon and the Melodies es un disco singular dentro del catlogo de los Cocteau Twins: inusualmente etreo, incluso para sus estndares, y en gran parte instrumental, guiado por las improvisaciones libres de Harold Budd, un pionero del ambient que haba llegado a su rbita como por intervencin divina. Basado en la dicha atmosfrica de Victorialand, lanzado a principios del mismo ao, seal un posible futuro para el tro, pero era un camino que nunca volveran a tomar.

Para un asunto tan discreto, el lbum proyecta una larga sombra, pero Raymonde cree que la singularidad del disco se deriva directamente de sus orgenes humildes y no premeditados. “Captur un momento en el tiempo entre amigos que disfrutan haciendo msica juntos. Realmente, esa es la esencia”.

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