Product Description

CD Description
All 3 albums have been re-mastered from the original analogue studio tapes by John Dent at Loud Mastering, to achieve the best digital sound available today. Additionally there is a fourth album, Dust & Guitars, that compiles all the singles, including an unreleased one that was to have been part of the Rough Trade Singles Club and features the otherwise unavailable recording of Neil Young s We Never Danced.
The HDCD albums are packaged in paper sleeves printed to the highest standard by the Ichikudo company in Japan, along with inner sleeves and booklets. They are released in a very limited edition box set. The box itself is a de-luxe, two-piece.
The official three albums have re-designed sleeves by Ivo Watts-Russell and Vaughan Oliver, 4AD s long time visual partner, which cater to the reduced size, feature gatefold sleeves, and remain inspired by the originals. The fourth album, which won t be available to general retail outside the box set, incorporates unseen Nigel Grierson images of Pallas Citroën, the face of This Mortal Coil.

About the Artist
This Mortal Coil was the inspiration of Ivo Watts-Russell, the founder of 4AD. Initially the project was to re-record a medley that Modern English performed live and the B-side featured Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins performing an obscure Tim Buckley composition, Song To The Siren. The plaudits for this recording encouraged Ivo to continue and an album, It ll End In Tears, was released in 1984. Featuring new interpretations of songs that inspired him, mixed with original compositions and musical links, this forged the template for This Mortal Coil.
Filigree & Shadow, which followed two years later, was even more cohesive and flowed over the four sides of the original album. With no defined breaks between tracks it was created to be listened to as a piece and the core of musicians added to the continuity.
1991 s Blood, the final part of the trilogy, was also a double album. By avoiding drums a lot of the time, and by not experimenting with new technology for the sake of it, we somehow pushed it away from the era s norm, those string-synth sounds and huge reverbs. Also in terms of content: we gave as much significance to a foghorn or helicopter as a Tim Buckley composition. Sometimes I d want a track to sound more blue , or more purple ... says Watts-Russell now.
At the heart of the three albums is an impeccably curated song selection which introduced (and continues to introduce) a new audience to the talents of the previous generation, including Big Star, the aforementioned Tim Buckley, Roy Harper, Spirit, Gene Clark, Dino Valenti, Rain Parade, Emmylou Harris, Syd Barrett and Colin Newman amongst many others.
With the strength of songs and unique approach to creating simple, warm and uncluttered arrangements these albums never belonged to a specific time, so sound as fresh and ambitious to a listener today as they did 25 years ago.

Track Listing:

Disc One: IT“LL END IN TEARS
Kangaroo
Song To The Siren
Holocaust
Fyt
Fond Affections
The Last Ray
Another Day
Waves Become Wings
Barramundi
Dreams Made flesh
Not Me
A Single Wish

Disc Two: FILIGREE & SHADOW
Velvet Belly
The Jeweller
Ivy And Neet
Meniscus
Tears
Tarantula
My Father
Come Here My Love
At First, And Then
Strength Of Strings
Morning Glory
Inch-Blue
I Want To Live
Mama K (1)
Filigree & Shadow
Fire Brothers
Thaïs (1)
I Must Have Been Blind
A Heart Of Glass
Alone
Mama K (2)
The horizon Bleeds And Sucks Its Thumb
Drugs
Red Rain
Thaïs (2)

Disc Three: BLOOD
The Lacemaker
Mr. Somewhere
Andialu
With Tomorrow
Loose Joints
You And Your Sister
Nature’s Way
I Come And Stand At Every Door
Bitter
Baby Ray Baby
Several Times
Lacemaker II
Late Night
Ruddy And Wretched
Help Me Lift You Up
Carolyn’s Song
D. D. And E.
Til I Gain Control Again
Dreams Are Like Water
I Am The Cosmos
(Nothing But) Blood

Disc Four: DUST & GUITARS
Sixteen Days / Gathering Dust
Song To The Siren
Sixteen Days (Reprise)
Kangaroo
It’ll End In Tears
Come Here My love
Drugs
Acid, Bitter And Sad
We Never Danced
Thaïs (Bird Of Paradise)



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Deluxe 4-CD high-quality Japanese set, compiling all three albums by 4AD collective This Mortal Coil, plus fourth disc collecting the singles (including a previously unreleased song)

From Beggars' Archive :

http://archive.beggars.com/releases/152 ... cd-box-set

Is this already oop?

Overpriced.

WAY overpriced, and the original cd's sound fine already. If you like TMC, don't forget about the very similar Hope Blister CD's that Ivo put together later. Also, there's a group called Piano Magic that worked in the same way for much of their career: core group with guest vocalists.

In addition to the original issued individual discs, I still have the 1993 boxset, "This Mortal Coil 1983-1991", where the fourth CD contained the original versions of the songs by Big Star, Tim Buckley, Gene Clark, Talking Heads, etc, which TMC covered in their own inimitable manner.

I believe that this new set marks the first time on CD for the TMC version of Modern English's "Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust"