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SAI
12-14-2004, 04:54 AM
From: Kate Bush news and information (story spotted in Music Week but I don't subscribe to the site)

Kate has annnounced in December 2004 that the album is almost finished and will be out in 2005: "we'll let you know when". She says: "I'm so pleased with everyone's work on this record. There are some lovely performances and I hope you will all feel it's been worth the wait. Bertie keeps me very busy, he is so much fun". Known contributors to the new album include Mick Karn (he says he played bass on a track called 'How To Be Invisible'), drummer Stuart Elliott and jazz percussionist Peter Erskine. The late Michael Kamen wrote the string arrangements for two tracks which will appear on the new album - she recorded what she has described as "some beautiful orchestral movements" with him and the London Metropolitan Orchestra at Abbey Road in October 2003. Chris Hall has played accordion on one track. Classical musicians Emma Murphy and Susanna Pell have also recorded for the album. Del Palmer is said to be engineering. Kate has had her new recording studio serviced and upgraded and started recording in late 1999. On May 23rd 2002 Kate received the Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contribution To British Music By A Songwriter. Kate appeared live for the first time in almost 15 years singing Comfortably Numb as David Gilmour's special guest at his Royal Festival Hall concert on January 18th 2002.

Kate won the Best Classic Songwriter award at the 12th Annual Q Magazine awards on 29th October 2001. In an interview in December 2001 a happy Kate talked about progress on the new album and her happiness with her son Bertie. After receiving a standing ovation at the Q Awards she said: "This is just great, I am making an album but it is just taking a little longer than I thought and I have been having a great time with my son." We warmly congratulate Kate on all the recent awards and recognition from her industry peers! EMI still plan to release remastered and repackaged CDs of the remainder of Kate's album catalogue as with 1997's Hounds Of Love reissue. The CDs will have new packaging and photos and extra tracks. The initial release schedule has "slipped", but EMI are hoping that the reissues will pave the way for the release of Kate's eighth studio album. This site will have all and any updates on the new album and the reissues as they come in, so hang in there!



I just can't wait. I'll pick up the reissues as well as the new record. For me Kate Bush was one of my best discoveries of the year.

Romero&Juliet
12-14-2004, 02:13 PM
I dont know why I'm Cryng!!!1


This is what? 12 yeas in the making?

Elgyn
12-19-2004, 11:25 PM
WOO-HOO!!!!

"Hounds Of Love" is one of my favorite albums (of any genre) EVER.

Can`t wait.

P.S. - Disn`t she release an album in the mid-90`s that was regarded as fairly medicore? I think it had that "Rubberband Girl" song on it.

SAI
12-20-2004, 11:32 AM
That's The Red Shoes. 93. It's not my favourite (but I do like Rubberband Girl quite a bit)

Romero&Juliet
12-20-2004, 06:59 PM
Originally posted by SAI
That's The Red Shoes. 93. It's not my favourite (but I do like Rubberband Girl quite a bit)

I skipped it because of the bad press.. and after Sensual World, I REALLY didn't want to look at anything past the (fantastic, FANTASTIC) the dreaming.

ITs ALLLLLl about the dreaming.

SAI
12-23-2004, 02:01 PM
Oh... you didn't just knock The Sensual World did you???

Great album (maybe not up with Hounds of Love though) which contains This Woman's Work, perhaps my favourite Kate Bush record

BadCoverVersion
12-26-2004, 02:23 PM
I cannae wait man!

Katy's absence has been felt.

Elgyn
06-16-2005, 02:14 PM
BUMP


Any updates?

SAI
06-16-2005, 05:35 PM
Sadly, nothing to report. It was rumoured for March, frankly I'd be shocked if we saw it this year now.

BadCoverVersion
08-31-2005, 10:01 AM
From Channel4.com (http://www.channel4.com/music/gossip/blog.html)

Show us your Bush!
31/08/2005

Trumpet time again!

We know what the new Kate Bush album is going to be called!

And we know when it's coming out!

» The new Kate Bush album will be called 'Aerial'!
» The new Kate Bush album will be a double album!
» The new Kate Bush album will be released on November 7 of this year!

And, and, and...

» The new Kate Bush single will be called 'King Of The Mountain' and it will be released on October 24 of this year!

So just to recap: Woohoo!

And that's all we know.

But it's a whole lot more than we knew yesterday.

Blow your trumpets now

I think a :D is in order!!!

SAI
09-01-2005, 03:26 AM
I'll believe when I play it

BadCoverVersion
10-11-2005, 09:45 AM
So, is anybody else loving King Of The Mountain as much as I am? I've been hammering it since downloading and I bloody love it. Textbook Bush and her majestic warble still sends a tingle down my spine.

SAI
10-27-2005, 05:14 PM
I really like King of the Mountain, does everything a comeback single should. Still sounds like the Kate Bush of old but doesn't sound dated and makes me even more hyped for Aerial.

SAI
11-06-2005, 05:42 PM
I've heard the first disc of the album and... odd is probably the word.

Musically it's lovely, often just Kate at a piano but with more guitar than you expect on the whole and, for the first time in a while, real drums rather than machines. There's a bit more of a live feel to it.

Lyrically it's mixed. Mrs Bartallozi has Kate singing about doing the washing, Bertie is a twee love letter to her 7 year old son (but the almost medieval sounding music to which it's set is just wonderful) and Pi is just what it say on the tin with Kate singing it to 112 decimal places.

The voice, however, is still there and it still sounds like no other. There are moments of soaring beauty but the whole thing reminds you just why you missed Kate Bush while she was away.

Each disc of the album is designed to stand alone to a degree and while A Sky of Honey is often bizarre to a confounding degree it's just as frequently a thing of shimmering loveliness and one that will probably grow on further listens.