Cocteau Twins in Asia

[Derek]

I recently had the chance to spend some time in Beijing. My family are all journalists and my mother had landed a job as an editor at China Daily News so I scrapped up all the time I could and spent a month in China with her. One of the surprising things I found over there was a real Cocteau Twins fan base. I heard several of their songs at clubs (djs had made their own mixes of the songs) and was really surprised to discover that there is a singer who has covered at least of their songs. Her name is Faye Wong and I have to admit that its rather strange listening to the opening strains of Evangeline and then suddenly hearing a voice singing in Chinese (or possibly it was Japanese, I don't know I was too surprised to ask that fact). Any way I got a couple of her tracks on tape from a dj and have recently found mp3s of these tracks as well. I hadn't seen it mentioned on the board so I thought I'd mention it. Someone might be interested.

[Beth]

Yeah theres stuff about her on a link on the other site (www.cocteautwins.com), go to dynamine on front page then go to cocteaus related site and youll have a list go to cocteaus atlas and click on faye wong, she is quite well known amongst the regulars on here altough i havent heard her stuff would like to.

[mmmender]

i've heard all the wong faye stuff and to be honest, it doesn't float my red float boat!

[The Boy With A Thorn In His Side]

Mmmender,

Maybe if you get a chance you could write a review of some of Faye's cover versions. Better still would be if you posted some MP3 Tracks for us to download.

Am I asking too much?

-The Boy With A Thorn In His Side

[noddy]

hey
yah faye basically does carbons of cocteau, cranberries etc. basically just a good copy cat. nothing much more than that. but yah she is big in asia. kind of felt weird about cocteau working with her. almost as if it was a purely commercial decision to help them break into asian market. it worked but it scared me. didnt think faye added anything to cocteau... like whats the diff in adding another layer of liz's voice versus adding another layer of a copy of liz's voice?
sorry if i just sound grumpy
btw i live in singapore....faye is a goddess here....
nod

[mmmender]

reviews of wong faye stuff? try a wong faye website mate!

[coldplay]

singapore? so.. isn't it called Toytown any more?? ;-)

[orange rind]

she also did serpentskirt together with liz, robin and simon. she covers lots of stuff, i know she covered tori amos as well. but she writes her own songs too. does anyone know the name of her version of touch upon touch?

[Lucibelle]

Didn't know she DID a version of Touch Upon Touch.

[rye]

Faye Wong covers CT 5 songs,they r:1.Bluebeard
2.Know Who You Are At Every Age
3.Tranquil Eye .4.Touch Upon Touch
5.Rilkean heart

and in the hongkong version of MILK AND KISSES,Faye wong sings with Elizaberth Fraser on Serpentskirt .:)

[rye]

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if translate it directly,its chill/feel disappointed
Originally posted by orange rind
does anyone know the name of her version of touch upon touch?

[orange rind]

thank you, i will try to find it.

[orange rind]

there is a site that actually *bashes* faye, comparing her to cocteau twins, tori amos, bjork, madonna and anthony wong.
http://www.angelfire.com/sd/pianophillic/fayecompare.htm

[orange rind]

actually i found this information on a very pretty site called the cocteau twins atlas, which has reviews of all cocteau and liz songs by this girl.
there were 2 songs which cocteau twins had written specially for faye, called Fracture and repressing happiness. the cocteaus themselves later made their own versions, entitled Tranquil eye and Touch upon touch.

the cocteau twins atlas (http://hem.passagen.se/violaine/TheCocteauTwinsAtlas.htm)