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	4ad and ivo
		Ivo had long been a fan of Wire, a hugely innovative and highly influential post-punk band, which by 1980 was in the process of fragmenting into several separate recording units.
		Ivo had first taken note of vocalist Joanne Loughman and guitarist/violinist Hugh O'Carrol--the nucleus of The Glee Club-- when he heard their previous band, the Swinging Swine, on a Nick Drake tribute album and was impressed by Joanne's voice.
		Ivo found himself stunned by the power of the singing, and embarked upon a frantic quest to learn the identity of the album and acquire a copy of it.
	www.mcilwaine12.utvinternet.co.uk /ctuk/bios/others/ivo/interview.htm (15634 words)

	4AD Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1999, Ivo Watts-Russell sold his share in 4AD back to the Beggars Group (as it had by then become), but the label continued to release music and add new artists to its roster.
		The British indie rock record label 4AD Records was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records.
		Shortly afterwards, Ivo invited the graphic designer Vaughan Oliver to create sleeve art for the label and as a result 4AD quickly acquired a visually distinctive identity which complemented the artful and atmospheric music that it was releasing at that time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/4AD (296 words)

	Ivo Watts-Russell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ivo Watts-Russell prefers to use the term "musical director" to explain his role in making music, instead of producer.
		Ivo Watts-Russell is the founder and president of the record label 4AD.
		The last project Ivo Watts-Russell worked on was The Hope Blister, and released two albums "...Smiles oK" and "Underarm".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/iv/ivo_watts-russell1.htm (127 words)

	4AD - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia
		British indie rock record label, 4AD, was started in the late 1970s by Ivo Watts-Russell.
		Bands in the 1980s included Bauhaus, The Birthday Party, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil (Watts-Russell's own band, who were quite successful) and Colourbox.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /4/4a/4ad.html (92 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Blood - This Mortal Coil at Epinions.com
		Ivo Watts-Russell and company finally achieved all the accomplishments the project has made and gives it a final sendoff as the project now fades into history.
		In 1990, Ivo Watts-Russell and his This Mortal Coil partner, producer John Fryer, decided to create the third and final This Mortal Coil album titled “Blood”.
		Sung by Caroline Crawley who brings her angelic vocals to Walsh’s lyrics as she is accompanied by an acoustic guitar track and a soothing cello track that gives the song it’s elegance and angelic tone led by Crawley’s vocals.
	www.epinions.com /content_68867624580 (1180 words)

	The Breeders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tape was sent of their original demos to Ivo Watts-Russell, who immediately signed the band to his 4AD label in 1989.
		Their debut album, Pod, was recorded by Steve Albini and released on 4AD in 1990.
		After those original bands became less active, The Breeders became more important to both artists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Breeders (384 words)

	The Hope Blister
		Ivo Watts-Russell, the founder of 4AD records and organizer of the serene, crotchety "group" This Mortal Coil, takes another stab at making gauzy, ethereal music with The Hope Blister.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/012199/dq1.shtml (197 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Filigree & Shadow - This Mortal Coil at Epinions.com
		The next instrumental from Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer is “The Horizon Bleeds & Sucks Its Thumb” which is a continuation of the “Mama K” instrumentals but with a louder bass thumping sound and more ominous keyboard layers from Mark Cox and guitar noises from Alan Curtis.
		“Filigree & Shadow” is another brilliant record from Ivo Watts-Russell and his 4AD cohorts.
		Then comes another instrumental track titled “Mama K (2)” that is a similar to the first “Mama K” track but it opens up with a thudding buzz sound that goes on for about thirty seconds.
	www.epinions.com /content_62736731780 (1183 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock TH-TI
		Ivo's use of ocean wave sounds is expertly integrated into the ambient flow of the accordion tape loops.
		The pieces composed by Ivo (and the gang) constitute a strange lot: a collage of strings, vocals, drum machines, "found sound" tape loops and effects, and a splash of gritty/squealin/droning guitar and keyboards.
		Again, Ivo is joined by McGarrick, Fryer, and others to tangle us in a web of ambient and rock sounds that leaves me relaxed if not hypnotized.
	www.gepr.net /th.html (13601 words)

	TWAS 191: Happy Rhodes, Lisa Germano, Sarah Slean, Hope Blister
		Ivo's universe has a soothing physics, and I emerge from another forty-minute visit to it in a state where everything around me seems like it could obey those same laws.
		Why Ivo opted to assume a new band name for...Smile's OK, I don't know; the album could have been credited to This Mortal Coil without much risk of buyers being misled, as the mood hasn't changed appreciably.
		But the song drifts for another minute or two after the last chorus, and before long I've forgiven it, and am floating, trying to keep the final echoes from dying away by concentrating on them as hard as possible.
	www.furia.com /twas/twas0191.html (2502 words)

	His Name Is Alive by sister52 Publishing
		Jak głosi opis na stronie 4AD "Someday..." jest "cudownie spójna, nieskazitelnie piękna i zupełnie inna niż wszystko co inni artyści a nawet sama wytwórnia wydała." Płyta jest wydana znów dla 4AD, dla Ivo Watts-Russell'a.
		I to śmieszne, ale to właśnie Warn powstrzymywał Ivo przed zbyt szybkim podejmowaniem decyzji.
		Ivo i jego słynna niezależna wytwórnia fonograficzna przeżywali wtedy lekki kryzys spowodowany m.in.
	sister52.w.interia.pl /his_name_is_alive.htm (429 words)

	REVIEW
		This time, however, 4AD founder and mastermind Ivo Watts-Russell has condensed TMC's rotating roster of talent into six primary players: vocalist Louise Rutkowski, bass guitarist Laurence O'Keefe, and a string quartet (cello, viola, two violins).
		Ivo deserves a commendation for relegating melody to the bass guitar (particularly on "Sweet Unknown") instead of a more traditional guitar or piano.
		, Ivo has culled an impeccable assortment of songs and pulled off the daunting task of assembling performers equal to the reinterpretation of these likely obscure songs.
	www.westnet.com /consumable/1999/02.01/revhopeb.html (531 words)

	Starblood.org: Discography - Comps
		Though the Hope Blister is technically a continuation of 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell's project This Mortal Coil, its small, steady lineup of musicians and focus on covers sets it apart from his previous project.
		"A sequel to his This Mortal Coil project, the Hope Blister was led by 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell, who this time out chose to dispense with a revolving ensemble approach in favor of assembling a core lineup consisting of vocalist Louise Rutkowski, bass virtuoso Laurence O'Keefe and cellist/arranger Audrey Riley.
		For Watts-Russell and crew, as well as 4AD, the Hope Blister is a natural progression, and a welcome one.
	www.starblood.org /discog/comps/hopeblister.shtml (233 words)

	iMusic
		Louise Rutkowski's voice, often transformed by Ivo's distinctive use of studio wizardry ("I don't see any difference between a voice and an instrument") is the music's focal point, with hazy washes of strings, liquid bass notes and raga-like drones helping to create a mood of sustained mystery and melancholy.
		Much of the impetus behind Ivo's musical endeavors is rooted in his awareness of the kind of epiphanies that the act of listening can provide.
		This Mortal Coil emerged in the 80's while Ivo was establishing 4AD as one of the world's most vital independent record labels with seminal releases from The Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Throwing Muses and The Pixies.
	www.online.i12.com /music/thb/imusic.htm (849 words)

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		Ivo Watts-Russell and co. are essentially attractive seventies british folk and american country songs and covering them, bringing dead every last of the possible darkness and danger in these favorite songs.
		I think Ivo and co. listened to a bunch of Nick Drake and else seventies folk songs when he was younger, and TMC is the result.
		Yes, there are numerous ethereal, conceptional sounds and instrumentation, but what many people overlook (and what was so apparent in the TMC boxset with the primary versions disc included) is the source of the songs.
	www.myfinanceaid.com /blood-reis,B000009NC7_i.htm (1281 words)

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		Ivo Watts-Russell and co. are essentially taking seventies british folk and american country songs and covering them, bringing out all of the latent darkness and danger in these popular songs.
		I think Ivo and co. listened to a bunch of Nick Drake and other seventies folk songs when he was younger, and TMC is the result.
		Yes, there are many ethereal, abstract sounds and instrumentation, but what many people overlook (and what was so obvious in the TMC boxset with the original versions disc included) is the source of the songs.
	www.playtunes.net /album.php?id=6831 (741 words)

	This Mortal Coil - '93 interview with Ivo
		The project was the love-child of 4AD label founder Ivo Watts-Russell--his ideas, his taste, and to some degree his character, brought to musical maturity.
		A recurring element is Ivo's fascination for unusual, ethereal female vocals.
		The only real criterion: the songs must be "very introspective, melancholy songs." They were; they are; and with the release of this box set for posterity, they always will be.
	www.dns.net /andras/music/eyesore/html/interview/ThisMortalCoil.InterviewWithIvo.interview.html (628 words)

	A look at This Mortal Coil
		With this 25-track, 74 minutes and 13 seconds double album, Ivo Watts-Russell was looking to solidify the mystique that 1984's It'll End In Tears began.
		This Mortal Coil was formed in 1984 in London by 4AD Records founder Ivo Watts-Russell.
		Initially intended as a one-time only project to cover some of Watts-Russell's personal favorite songs, TMC went on to record three albums between 1984 and 1991 and was resurrected as The Hope Blister late last year.
	www.nuvo.net /archive/020499/020499_dsound.html (943 words)

	cocteau twins history chapter 1: 1982
		After initially recording a couple of songs for Ivo Watts-Russell at the fledgling 4AD label in London during the Spring of 1982, the band went on to release Garlands in June, having recorded the entire album in just seven days.
		Peel featured the band on his weekly radio broadcast, where they performed new versions of "Wax and Wane" and "Garlands." Although live performance was not yet their strongest attribute, the band also toured rather extensively in support of Garlands, playing mostly smaller venues as a supporting act to The Birthday Party and Modern English.
		In addition to this, the band had received avid support from the BBC Radio 1's John Peel—a significant figure in the early development of Britain's independent music culture in the 1980's.
	www.cocteautwins.com /html/history/history01.html (1616 words)

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		Blood: (1991) Long misconceived as a 4AD house band or (even worse) a Cocteau Twins offshoot, TMC has always been the brainchild of label supremo Ivo Watts-Russell and producer/engineer John Fryer, accompanied by a shifting but relatively consistent cast of mostly non-4AD cohorts.
		Watts has said that 1991's Blood is the last album the outfit will release.
		Blood is its third and final (it says here) album, and although similar in approach to the others, it distills and updates the outfit's already wildly open-ended format to make this by far the band's most definitive release to date.
	www.geocities.com /dhouse12/shadowplay/bandsT.html (7386 words)

	The Hope Blister
		With 4AD guru Ivo Watts-Russell once again at the helm, the Hope Blister maintain a somewhat traditional band line-up (string quartet, sax player, rhythm section) and tackle material by Brian Eno, John Cale, Heidi Berry, and Tall Dwarves' leader Chris Knox.
		The Hope Blister pick up where This Mortal Coil -- a project that featured a rotating roster of 4AD stalwarts (Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Wolfgang Press) and like-minded colleagues performing esoteric covers -- left off in 1991 with Blood.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/02/04/OTR/THE_HOPE_BLISTER.html (169 words)

	His Name Is Alive :: Michigan's Finest
		Recorded and mixed at Warren's house, Livonia, Michigan except track 2 mixed by Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer at Blackwing, London.
		Thanks to Scott, Davin, Sheri, Ivo, Vaughan, The Brothers Quay and Bootsy X. The video for "Are We Still Married?" directed by The Brothers Quay.
		All tracks produced by His Name Is Alive.
	www.hisnameisalive.com /discography/details-married.html (173 words)

	Ivo/Hope Blister interview
		Founder of 4AD Records and eternal romantic Ivo Watts-Russell squats on the floor of 4ADs offices and talks about his love affair with music, a love affair which has led him to sign such eclectic bands as Throwing Muses and the Cocteau Twins, as well as coming up with two highly personal projects.
		I always had the idea I wanted the record to be very simple and based around the bass guitar, Ivo explains.
		You know, I spend my whole life questioning everything on the planet and music is the one thing I refuse to analyse because it is so pure and so magic that I cant even begin to explain it to myself; its just this wonderful, emotional experience.
	www.dns.net /eyesore/html/interview/HopeBlister.interview.html (519 words)

	4AD
		British indie rock record label started in the late 1970s by Ivo Watts-Russell.
		Bands in the 1980s included Bauhaus, The Birthday Party, This Mortal Coil (Watts-Russell's own band, who were quite successful) and Colourbox.
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	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/4/4a/4ad.html (91 words)

	Elizabeth Fraser
		Eventually, a demo tape was put together and shopped around, attracting the interest of both 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell and Radio 1 DJ John Peel: Ivo immediately signed the group to a record deal and Peel brought them in to record a four track radio session.
		The two aspiring musicians had come across Fraser two years earlier dancing in a local disco, and, acting under the assumption that dancing ability was an indication of vocal talent, badgered her for months to join up with them as a singer.
		By 1982 the Cocteaus' debut Garlands had hit the shelves, instigating pockets of rapturous enthusiasm that would gradually spread as their musical activity progressed.
	www.nndb.com /people/813/000050663 (552 words)

	Amazon.com : Mark Kozelek: Head Painter
		Still, if me and Ivo could have communicated during that time, I think we'd probably have worked it out and I think I'd still be on the label.
		This time, I got a call from the A&R guy saying Ivo really likes the record, but he doesn't like this guitar lead, he wants you to lose that song, he thinks you should do this, that, this, that, and that.
		Until then, I'd turn a record in and then get a call from Ivo, who would make little suggestions, but that would be it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ts/feature/2680 (1089 words)

	The Hope Blister: ...Smiles O.K.: Pitchfork Review
		The band was formed by labelhead Ivo Watts-Russell, and in its eight active years, the collective produced three records: It'll End In Tears, Filigree and Shadows and Blood.
		This Mortal Coil was the collective project of several artists on the 4AD label's roster.
		The albums included appearances by such seminal artists as Kim Deal, Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins, and Tanya Donelly.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/h/hope-blister/smiles-ok.shtml (401 words)

	His Name Is Alive :: Michigan's Finest
		These recordings were rearranged, edited, and remixed several times at the suggestion of one Ivo Watts-Russell, who finally got fed up and decided to remix it himself.
		Defever, former schoolmate Karin Oliver (vocals), and drummer Damian Lang released self-produced cassettes of their music, one of which made its way to Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the pioneering art label 4AD.
		Intrigued with His Name Is Alive's blend of spectral vocals, poetic lyrics, and textural guitars, Watts signed the band.
	www.hisnameisalive.com /bio (4645 words)

	Back Issues: Emigre 9
		This issue features interviews with Vaughan Oliver and Ivo Watts-Russell, respectively the graphic designer and founder of the highly influential independent record label 4AD which is based in London.
		No portion of this document may be reproduced, copied or in any way reused without written permission from Emigre, Inc. Emigre is a registered trademark of Emigre Graphics.
	www.emigre.com /EMag.php?issue=9 (188 words)

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