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Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years

Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years

  • October 2018
  • Phonogram (Fontana)
  • 5771558

Track listing

  1. Disc 1
    • Four-Calendar Café (1993)
      • Know Who You Are at Every Age
      • Evangeline
      • Bluebeard
      • Theft, and Wandering Around Lost
      • Oil of Angels
      • Squeeze Wax
      • My Truth
      • Essence
      • Summerhead
      • Pur
  2. Disc 2
    • Milk & Kisses (1996)
      • Violaine
      • Serpentskirt
      • Tishbite
      • Half-Gifts
      • Calfskin-Smack
      • Rilkean Heart
      • Ups
      • Eperdu
      • Treasure Hiding
      • Seekers Who Are Lovers
  3. Disc 3
    • Mud and Dark (Evangeline EP
    • Summer-Blink (Evangeline EP)
    • Winter Wonderland (Snow EP)
    • Frosty the Snowman (Snow EP)
    • Three Swept (Bluebeard Single)
    • Ice-Pulse (Bluebeard Single)
    • Bluebeard (Acoustic Version) (Bluebeard Single)
    • Rilkean Heart (Twinlights EP)
    • Golden-Vein (Twinlights EP)
    • Pink Orange Red (Twinlights EP)
    • Half-Gifts (Twinlights EP)
    • Feet-Like Fins (Otherness EP)
    • Seekers Who Are Lovers (Otherness EP)
    • Violaine” (Otherness EP)
    • Cherry-Coloured Funk (Otherness EP)
    • Tishbite (Tishbite Single)
    • Primitive Heart (Tishbite Single 1)
    • Flock of Soul (Tishbite Single 1)
    • Round (Tishbite Single 2)
    • An Elan (Tishbite Single 2)
  4. Disc 4
    • Smile (Violaine Single 1)
    • Tranquil Eye (Violaine Single 1)
    • Circling Girl (Violaine Single 2)
    • Alice (Violaine Single 2)
    • Circling Girl (Volume Version)
    • Touch Upon Touch (Volume Track)
    • Serpentskirt (Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996)
    • Golden-Vein (Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996)
    • Half-Gifts (Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996)
    • Seekers Who Are Lovers (Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996)
    • Calfskin-Smack (Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996)
    • Fifty-Fifty Clown (Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996)
    • Violaine (Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996)

Formats

  • CD

Performers

Release notes

  • Four compact discs, 53 tracks.
  • Digitally remastered.
  • All titles written and performed by Cocteau Twins.
  • Includes rare track “Touch Upon Touch” and seven live studio performances (for BBC Radio).
  • The working title for “Touch Upon Touch” was “Green.”
  • Due to licensing restrictions, does not include alternate version of “Serpentskirt” featuring Faye Wong or “Need-Fire.”

Videos

  • "Evangeline" official video © Mercury/Fontana 1993.
  • "Bluebeard" official video © Mercury/Fontana 1994.
  • "Rilkean Heart & Half Gifts" official video © Mercury/Fontana 1995.
  • "Tishbite" official video © Mercury/Fontana 1996.

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