KATE BUSH Aerial ORIGINAL 2005 PRESS MINT & UNOPENED
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Mar 26, 2012
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Mar 16, 2012
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KATE BUSH Aerial ORIGINAL 2005 PRESS MINT & UNOPENED
2 LP HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL w/24 PAGE BOOK - STICKERED SLEEVE
KATE BUSHAerial
ORIGINAL 2005 EMI (0946 3 43960 1 1) PRESSING OF KATE BUSH'S DOUBLE LP SET "Aerial"
PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH 24 PAGE BOOKLET
REMAINS UNOPENED SINCE ITS NOVEMBER 2005 RELEASE
Aerial is Kate Bush's first double album, and was released after a twelve year absence from the music industry during which she devoted her time to family and the rearing of her son, Bertie.
Like her previous album, The Red Shoes, Aerial does not feature a cover photograph of Bush, but rather one that is emblematic of the album's celebration of sky, sea, and birdsong.
The cover image, which seems to show a mountain range at sunset reflected on the sea is in fact a waveform of a blackbird song superimposed over a glowing photograph.
Musically, the album is a multi-layered work, incorporating elements of Folk, Renaissance, classical, reggae, flamenco, and pop and as with 1985's Hounds of Love, the album is divided into two thematically distinct collections.
The first disc, subtitled A Sea of Honey, features a set of unrelated songs including the hit single "King of the Mountain", a Renaissance-style ode to her son "Bertie", performed with period instruments, and "Joanni", based on the story of Joan of Arc.
In the song "?", Bush sings the number to its 137th decimal place. The piano and vocal piece "A Coral Room", dealing with the loss of Bush's mother and the passage of time, was hailed by critics as "stunning" in its simplicity, "profoundly moving" and as "one of the most beautiful" pieces Bush has ever recorded.
The second disc, subtitled A Sky of Honey, consists of a single piece of music revealing in the experience of outdoor adventures on a single summer day, beginning in the morning and ending twenty-four hours later with the next sunrise.
The songs are saturated with the presence of birdsong, and all refer to the sky, sunlight and the sea.
Beginning with solo piano, doves cooing, and Bush's son saying, "Mummy, Daddy, the day is full of birds," the piece begins with an early morning awakening to a beautiful day of sun shining "like the light from Italy"; it proceeds through a visit with a painter who is working on a new piece of sidewalk art ('An Architect's Dream and 'The Painter's Link') and then passes on to a crimson 'Sunset.' The interlude 'Aerial Tal,' consists of Bush imitating various samples of birdsong, while 'Somewhere in Between' celebrates the ambiguous nature of dusk. 'Nocturne,' features a pair of lovers bathing in the sea after dark under a star-studded "diamond sky."
The song cycle ends with 'Aerial' and its euphoric welcome of the following morning's sunrise with the refrain "I need to get up on the roof...in the sun."
RECORD ONE: A SEA OF HONEY
King Of The Mountain (4:53)
? (6:09)
Bertie (4:18)
Mrs. Bartolozzi (5:58)
How To Be Invisible (5:32)
Joanni (4:56)
A Coral Room (6:12)
RECORD TWO: A SKY OF HONEY
Prelude (1:26)
Prologue (5:42)
An Architect's Dream (4:50)
The Painter's Link (1:35)
Sunset (5:58)
Aerial Tal (1:01)
Somewhere In Between (5:00)
Nocturn (8:34)
Aerial (7:52)
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