Former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser is to make a rare concert appearance at the Meltdown Festival.

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One person that was at the height of his influence during that period was poet, artist, novelist and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau.

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Fraser is known for her ethereal, enigmatic vocals which graced eight albums by the Cocteau Twins in the 1980s and 90s.

BBC: Rare gig for Cocteau Twins singer

Almost a decade before The Cocteau Twins popularised the approach, Bowie sang in a completely self-invented language on the 1977 Low album track, Subterraneans.

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S. Eliot, Jean Cocteau, Benedetto Croce, James Burnham, Luigi Pirandello and Giovanni Gentile, along with such celebrities as Lloyd George, the Duke of Windsor and Lord Rothermere.

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Earlier this year, former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser made a rare concert appearance at the 2012 event, which was curated by Antony Hegarty, from Antony and the Johnsons.

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But instead of pairing that vocal style with the musical bombast of that era, School of Seven Bells creates backing tracks that owe more to Cocteau Twins-style atmospherics and shoegazer drones.

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At the turn of the 20th century, he moved from Italy's sunny Adriatic coast to Paris in order to be closer to the epicenter of the Art Nouveau movement, picking up clients, such as Jean Cocteau, along the way.

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Instead, check into the creaky old Palmyra Hotel where luminaries including Jean Cocteau and General de Gaulle once slept, and explore the spectacular ruins of ancient Heliopolis - the "Sun City" - whose Temples of Bacchus and Jupiter hold their own among the Mediterranean's finest.

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