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“Treasure” è il disco che consacra i Cocteau Twins come uno dei gruppi che meglio rappresenta la “dark wave” anni ’80, il loro genere viene poi ribattezzato come “dream pop”. In realtà non amo eccessivamente tutta la loro produzione ma “Treasure” è indubbiamente un capolavoro.
E’ molto difficile descrivere questo disco costruito in realtà su impalpabili evocazioni. Immaginate di essere raggomitolati sul terreno proprio in mezzo ad un bosco, c’è il sole ma la fitta vegetazione fa entrare solo qualche raggio di luce, immaginate di essere cullati da una voce che può diventare ora la cantilena di una bambina, ora il sussurro di una misteriosa creatura, ora la malia di una sordida seduttrice. Immaginate di sentire una calma assoluta fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio. Ogni volta che chiudo gli occhi mentre ascolto “Treasure” è questo quello che sento.
Gli strumenti perlopiù elettronici e le poche percussioni rimangono in secondo piano mentre lei, Elisabeth Fraser, costruisce un percorso di luci ed ombre. A volte la fonte d’ispirazione è l’oriente oppure sono le suggestive atmosfere medioevali “Ivo”, “Lorelei” e “Beatrix” aprono il percorso e lei, la Fraser, pronuncia parole sconosciute e si perde in ipnotiche litanie. Con “Persephone” tocchiamo quasi l’inconscio e l’oscurità per poi risalire alla luce con “Otterley” fino alla fortemente emozionale “Domino”.
“Treasure” è un disco senza tempo in sintesi, da scoprire ad ogni ascolto.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Ivo (03:56)
Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, Near our ivo
Peep peep hole, Bit animal, Peep peep
He didn't deal, little rito, Peep peep hole
With the part animal, Peep peep, Near our ivo
Peep peep hole, Bit animal, Peep peep
He didn't deal, little ivo
Peep peep hole
With the part animal
Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, Near our ivo
Peep peep hole, Bit animal, Peep peep
He didn't deal, little rito, Peep peep hole
With the part animal, Peep peep, Near our ivo
Peep peep hole, Bit animal, Peep peep
He didn't deal, little ivo
Peep peep hole
With the part animal
Predentive, Predo
Pra-da-da-dee
Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone
Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone
Near our ivo
Peep peep hole
Bit animal
Peep peep
He didn't deal, little ivo
Peep peep hole
With the part animal
Peep peep
Near our ivo
Peep peep hole
Bit animal
Peep peep
He didn't deal, little ivo
Peep peep hole
With the part animal
Peep peep
Peep hole, Peach blow , Pandora
02 Lorelei (03:42)
Get off the car
Kick his chain, Kick his pride
Get him soaked hit run
Lift up your toes
In my mouth
And we can make love
And we can go
And we can go
And we can go
And we can go
And we can go
We're covered by the sacred fire
When you come to me, you come to broke
Get off the car
Kick his chain, Kick his pride
Get him soaked hit run
Lift up your toes
In my mouth
And we can make love
And we can go
And we can go
And we can go
And we can go
And we can go
We're covered by the sacred fire
When you come to me, you come to broke
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
Without a doubt
We're covered by the sacred fire
When you come to me, you come to me broke
Guilty girl, Guilty boy
Get to make out
Him chocked with mousse
Lift up your toes
In my mouth
And we can make love
And we can go
We're covered by the sacred fire
When you come to me, you come to me broke
Guilty girl, Guilty boy
Get to make out
Him chocked with mousse
Lift up your toes
In my mouth
And we can make love
And we can go
03 Beatrix (03:13)
Every week, Move is small
When he cared, When he did love
When he knew, When he'd fall
I hear she'd fall, Ha, she fell
Here she'd fall, Ha, she fell
(x3)
Fallen on, Fallen on do we(??)
Fallen on, Fallen on me
(x3)
Fall
[note that she sings gibberish, it just sounds like those words... roughly]
04 Persephone (04:26)
Hey, the chances I must waste
Hey, ever dirt even there month got a car
Here's what it takes (x4)
Paper chase is on
These are on my speed
For he warbled
Bought arachnophobe
On the tiara, By the gin's rack
Paper chase is on
These are on my space
Paper chase is on Hey, the chances I must face
These are on my speed Oh, you warbler
For he warbled Hey, that's by the car
Bought arachnophobe
On the tiara
By the gin's rack
Paper chase is on
These are on my space
I watch him trail (x4)
Hey, for eight means paper chace Paper warm beings means the paper chace
For our time being's For our time being's never changes this
Never changes this (x2)
Here's what it takes (x6)
Paper warm beings means the paper chace Here's what it takes
For our time being's never changes this
(x3)
Here's what it takes
Hey, for eight means paper chase
For our time being's never changes this
(x2)
06 Amelia (03:31)
Who've been wounded
Who should wound her
Heart on the grasp
Who but who put on the heart
He, and me, along said we, but burn
He, and me, along said we, but burn
He, and me, along said we, but burn
Hounded by the mask, but then...
Wounded on the grasp
Wounded on the grasp
Wounded on the grasp
Wounded on the grasp
Wounded on the grasp
Wounded on the grasp
07 Aloysius (03:28)
Silly silly saliva
Sassy shear near
She should've
She sighed the grove
Ska pop
Sa pum
Sa po
Silly silly saliva
Sassy shear near
She should've
She sighed the grove
Ska pop
Sa pum
Sa po
08 Cicely (03:29)
He must smoke spum dames by our lay
Charge are we nicks he'll needs our first very edge
Now beautiful I'll tell my mind
Cloud mannered a lot
Tell the king to park his soul
For being an old beat
So in spirit
So maximum
That only water's more deep
To find him
Deals trust him by them all
He must smoke spum dames by our lay
Charge are we nix ill needs our first very edge
Now beautiful I'll tell my mind
How many tell the king to park his soul
09 Otterley (04:16)
I'm sure
Allow me
Please
Get help
Only in your note
Only listen
Where are you going
Oh, the song would
Whose mousse
Sell our little home
That's what I'm saying
It's almost right
It's a loved one
It's oh, so hard
You should go home
Through the pain
Sure
Bravo
Please
Please
Pull
Only the lonely
Sell some
Sell our minnow
Suppose he can
If we aren't home
So come over
So sleep
It's so hard
It's also ugly
Leveled home
Bricks so
So firm
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Di g.unreal
Uno sguardo sbagliato potrebbe mandarlo in frantumi.
È un unico Canto, un distillato di voce più anima che accarezza qualcosa in noi che non sembra essere corpo.
Di joe strummer
Fin dal primo ascolto siamo rapiti dalla potenza scintillante di “Treasure”, una magia che difficilmente è stata eguagliata nella storia.
Questa fiala magica. Perfezione formale, contenuti strabordanti ed un clima irripetibile fanno di “Treasure” uno dei dischi più importanti della storia del rock.
Di CosmicJocker
Dream-pop esoterico irradia di sabbia magica la polvere della realtà.
Note cristalline e spumose si infrangono sulla voce di una sirena; gorgheggi pagani e lunari che svuotano di significato le parole riportandole ad una primitiva purezza.
Di Rager99
Treasure è un’opera che ha ormai perso tutti quei rimasugli “muscolari” a cui viene associato solitamente il macrogenero, verso un suono che trasuda eleganza e femminilità da tutti i pori.
Il disco del sogno per eccellenza perché ne ha tutte le caratteristiche salienti con il modo di cantare di Elizabeth che ricorda le tecniche automatiche dei surrealisti.
