This Mortal Coil

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This Mortal Coil
General information
origin Wandsworth , England
Genre (s) Dream Pop , Ethereal , Dark Wave , Gothic Rock
founding 1983
resolution 1991
Founding members
Ivo Watts-Russell
John Fryer

This Mortal Coil ( TMC for short ) was a music project of the British independent label 4AD and its co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell. The name "This Mortal Coil" (German: "This mortal shell") is derived from a quote from William Shakespeare's Hamlet . The supergroup was active between 1983 and 1991 and during this time worked with numerous studio musicians and singers.

history

The project This Mortal Coil consisted of a collaboration between various musicians who were all loosely connected to the 4AD label : Colourbox , Dead Can Dance , Cocteau Twins , The Wolfgang Press , Clan of Xymox and Throwing Muses . This Mortal Coil only released three albums between 1983 and 1991: It'll End in Tears , Filigree & Shadow and Blood . Lonely Is an Eyesore is a compilation with no group name and featuring the same group of musicians as This Mortal Coil. Each of the albums consisted largely of atmospheric-fragile interpretations by 1970s musicians such as Alex Chilton , Roy Harper and Tim Buckley, as well as original compositions. One of the most famous tracks, an interpretation of Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren , is on the album It'll End in Tears . This song, which can be described as the starting point of the project, was recorded with Elizabeth Fraser from the Scottish group Cocteau Twins, who were also under contract with 4AD. The song, which was initially on a B-side of the Modern English songs Sixteen Days and Gathering Dust sung by Elizabeth Fraser as a medley and was finally placed in the UK indie charts for 101 weeks, was among other things. a. used as background music in the films Lost Highway by David Lynch (1997), Michael Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and The Lovely Bones by Peter Jackson (2010). He can also be heard in a Cacharel perfume advertisement for Noa perfume .

Follow-up project

Watts-Russell founded a follow-up project in the late 1990s that he called The Hope Blister and released the album … smile's OK in 1998. Like almost all 4AD productions, the TMC album covers are designed by British graphic designer Vaughan Oliver and his compatriot, photographer Nigel Grierson. After The Hope Blister released the second album Underarms in 1999 , Watts-Russell withdrew from the music business. In 2005, Underarms and Sideways, an extended new edition of the album was released.

Discography

Studio albums
  • It'll End in Tears (1984)
  • Filigree & Shadow (1986)
  • Blood (1991)
Extended play
  • Sixteen Days / Gathering Dust (1983)
Compilations
  • 1983-1991 (1993)
  • It'll End In Tears / Filigree & Shadow (1998)
  • This Mortal Coil (HDCD box set, 2011)
  • Dust & Guitars (2012)
Singles
  • Song to the Siren (1983)
  • Kangaroo (1984)
  • Come Here My Love / Drugs (1986)
  • You and Your Sister (1991)
  • Jackie and Kate (split single, 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This Mortal Coil - Immortal Dreams , Sonic Seducer 01/12, p. 62 f