Moving, released by Rough Trade Records on 27 January 1984, is the third studio album by the Raincoats. It was re-released in the US by DGC Records in February 1994 and in the UK by Rough Trade in 1994, with a different track list and altered cover art. On its original release, the album reached No. 5 in the UK Indie Chart. It was to be their last album for 12 years.
Contents
Reissue version
When preparing the album for reissue in 1994, the group's core members elected to remove one song written by Vicki Aspinall, 'Honey Mad Woman', and two written and sung by drummer Richard Dudanski, 'Avidoso' and 'Dreaming in the Past'. Aspinall had requested the removal of her song, but Dudanski was not consulted, a fact that his former bandmates now regret. The song 'No-one's Little Girl', previously a standalone single, was added to the track listing. Delia Sparrow and Anjali Bhatia of British indie all-female group Mambo Taxi contributed to the reissue’s liner notes. The cover art was also changed for the reissue: the outlines of three women and one man became three women.
Track listings
Original Release (1983)
"Ooh Ooh La La La"
"Dreaming in the Past"
"Mouth of a Story"
"Honey Mad Woman"
"Rainstorm"
"Dance of Hopping Mad"
"Balloon"
"I Saw a Hill"
"Overheard"
"The Body"
"Avidoso"
"Animal Rhapsody"
Reissue (1994)
"No One's Little Girl"
"Ooh Ooh La La La"
"Dance of Hopping Mad"
"Balloon"
"Mouth of a Story"
"I Saw a Hill"
"Overheard"
"Rainstorm"
"The Body"
"Animal Rhapsody"
Personnel
The Raincoats
Vicky Aspinall - vocals, organ, bass, piano, violin
Gina Birch - vocals, bass, guitar, vibraphone
Ana da Silva - vocals, guitar, percussion
with:
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Richard Dudanski - percussion, drums, balafon
Michael McEvoy - synthesiser bass on "Animal Rhapsody", horn arrangements
Paddy O'Connell - bass, tenor saxophone, penny whistle
Derek Goddard - percussion, bongos, conga, drums
Roger Freeman - percussion
Chris "C.P." Lee - trumpet
Mgotse Mothie - double bass