Filigree & Shadow

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Filigree & Shadow
Studio album by This Mortal Coil
Released	20 September 1986
Recorded	Blackwing Studios, Palladium Studios
Genre	Goth
Length	74:13
Label	4AD
Producer(s)	Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer
Professional reviews
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This Mortal Coil chronology
It'll End In Tears (1984)	Filigree & Shadow (1986)	Blood (1991)

Filigree & Shadow was an album released in 1986 by Ivo Watts-Russell's supergroup, This Mortal Coil. The supergroup consists of artists attached to the 4AD label. The album peaked at number two in the UK Independent Music chart, spending 16 weeks in total on the chart having entered it on October 11, 1986.

Categorically speaking, this music is considered Goth, as the songs have been described as haunting and perhaps dark, though uplifting (the first vocal track, "The Jeweller", is a good example of this). Of the 25 tracks, 13 are instrumental, including the title track.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Other information 4 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Velvet Belly"
2. "The Jeweller" (cover of Pearls Before Swine)
3. "Ivy and Neet"
4. "Meniscus"
5. "Tears"
6. "Tarantula" (cover of Colourbox)
7. "My Father" (cover of Judy Collins)
8. "Come Here My Love" (cover of Van Morrison)
9. "At First, and Then"
10. "Strength of Strings" (cover of Gene Clark)
11. "Morning Glory"
12. "Inch Blue"
13. "I Want to Live" (cover of Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb)
14. "Mama K"(1)
15. "Filigree & Shadow"
16. "Firebrothers" (cover of Quicksilver Messenger Service)
17. "Thaïs"(1)
18. "I Must Have Been Blind" (cover of Tim Buckley)
19. "A Heart of Glass"
20. "Alone" (cover of Colin Newman)
21. "Mama K"(2)
22. "The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb"
23. "Drugs" (cover of Talking Heads)
24. "Red Rain"
25. "Thaïs"(2)

[edit] Personnel

• Dominic Appleton (Breathless)
• Deidre Rutkowski
• Louise Rutkowski
• Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins)
• Richard Thomas (Dif Juz)
• David Curtis (Dif Juz)
• John Turner
• Alison Limerick
• Jean
• Peter Ulrich (Dead Can Dance)
• Keith Mitchell
• Nigel K. Hine
• Anne Turner
• Les McKuen
• Martin McCarrick
• Richenel
• Chris Pye
• Caroline Seaman
• Alan Curtis (Dif Juz)
• Mark Cox (The Wolfgang Press)
• Andrew Gray (The Wolfgang Press)
• Steven Young (Colour Box)
• Tony Waera

[edit] Other information

Catalogue number:

• LP: DAD609
• MC: DADC609
• CD: CAD609CD

[edit] External links

• Lyrics