Kate Bush - New album "Aerial" due Nov. 7

[JeffS]

Kate Bush - one of the most influential, talented, and brilliant female singer/songwriters of all time, has emerged from a 12 year hiatus (during which she had a son) to release a new double Album titled "Aerial", due to be in wide release on November 7th.

The first single off the album, "King of the Mountain", is already available on iTunes. You can hear a snippet of the song at Kate's new website here:

http://www.katebush.com

I've heard the new single, and it sounds like vintage Kate Bush, as great as ever. After all this time off, she is as brilliant as ever. Early reviews from music press people, who have had sneak previews of the new Album, are calling it a classic.

This is great news. It's great to see a true original like Kate Bush putting out new material.

My tastes range from 60s/70s classic rock, to prog rock, to metal/hard rock, to alternative rock, to smooth jazz, to classical, to folk, to world music, and on and on. But Kate Bush doesn't really fit into any of those categories neatly. That's because she is a true original, and she is a true creative genius. And her voice is simply awesome - beautiful, with great range, and a unique, almost ethereal quality to it.

[JeffS]

From http://katebushnews.com/katenews.htm :


8th October 2005: Columbia Records in the US have issued a press release giving more details of the people who have worked on Kate's new album, as well as some quotes from Kate about Aerial. Here are some excerpts from it:

"I have been genuinely touched by the sense of anticipation I’ve felt from people," says Bush. "I feel really privileged that people have been waiting." A characteristically bold and expansive work brimming with atmosphere, mystery, passion and complex aural detail, the twin-disc 'Aerial' has already been declared a masterpiece by all who have heard it. Realising that the amount of material she had accumulated in her time away was unlikely to fit onto a single CD, Bush made the decision to split the results in two, resulting in her first double album. Disc One, entitled 'A Sea Of Honey', comprises seven songs, ranging from the evocative lead-off single 'King Of The Mountain' through to the emotive reading of a lengthy section of the infinite series of numbers in 'p', to the playful, spell-like 'How To Be Invisible' and the moving, impressionistic conclusion ‘A Coral Room’. Disc Two, 'A Sky Of Honey', is a conceptual piece in nine parts, built around recurring motifs of light and birdsong, following a day from afternoon through dusk and night and on to sunrise. "What is quite nice for me doing the two discs," 'Aerial's creator explains, "is it allows me to play with the semi-classical style which I like – space and acoustic music – but also the band-based stuff with lots of drums." Bush has spent her twelve years out of the public gaze dividing her time between preparing the songs for ‘Aerial’ and looking after her son, Bertie, born in 1998. "I was having to work in really short little bursts," she says of her prolonged absence, "and I’d never done that before. The way I’d always worked was to just stay in the studio for fourteen hours a day. I didn’t have that luxury to use the time in the same way. So there were lots of periods where really nothing much was happening. But in some ways I’d say it was very good for me to have had those kinds of restrictions. It was continually forcing me into a situation where I had to stand back from it."