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The collaboration between Chinese pop star Faye Wong and Cocteau Twins is a small but interesting sideline in the band’s history. To her large fanbase in East Asia, Wong often spoke regularly about the major influence that Cocteau Twins had on her sound - particularly her vocals - from 1993 onwards. This eventually became a collaboration between the two, but it didn’t become as fruitful as Cocteau Twins would hope.
Raymonde recalls that “Faye was a big fan of the band and had asked her label - a Universal label I think it must have been - to try and contact us. We liked her in that Wong Kar-Wai film Chunking Express and thought it might be a fun thing to do, as her voice seemed to be in a similar range and style to Elizabeth's. We never worked with her directly in the studio; it was all done through interpreters and she recorded her parts in Hong Kong and Beijing.”
Cocteau Twins also released a version of ‘Serpentskirt’ on the Asian version of Milk & Kisses with Wong duetting with Fraser, meaning that also their collaborations were not well known in the West, EMI’s Asian branch deemed there to be a market for this. However, the band were not entirely pleased with the outcome. “We continued to work with her on her own next album which wasn't her most successful as she moved from singing more conventionally to a more wordless style which didn't go down as well in China, but Robin and I carried on writing music for her. She might have helped our name get a bit better known there, but I don’t think we helped her much. I think it was an interesting collaboration and while it probably didn't work out as we might have imagined, I think musically and sonically it all worked out fine,” Raymonde says.
Source: The Quietus 'The Strange World Of… Cocteau Twins' |
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