The Moon and the Melodies
Harold Budd
with Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser (the Cocteau Twins)
Produced by Harold Budd
Track listing
- Sea, Swallow Me
- Memory Gongs
- Why Do You Love Me?
- Eyes Are Mosaics
- She Will Destroy You
- The Ghost Has No Home
- Bloddy and Blunt
- Ooze Out And Away, Onehow
Recorded at the Cocteau Twins studio in London
Original release - 1986
The Moon and the Melodies is one of the most important works of Harold Budd's career. While the music belongs as much to the Cocteau Twins as it does to Harold Budd , the collaboration yielded one of the most fascinating and beautiful albums of the 1980s. It would spark a long term relationship between Budd and Guitarist Robin Guthrie and is argueably the most popular of all of Harold Budd's works.
In the more than twenty years since it's release, this album has endured and no doubt continues to be a discovery bringing new listeners to both Harold Budd and the Cocteau Twins.
As noted on the discography page for Lovely Thunder this album shares a track, here titled Memory Gongs and retitled Flowered Knife Shadows with a slightly differnt opening and a different mix.