Aerial (album)

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Aerial
Studio album by Kate Bush

Publication
(s)

November 4, 2005

Label (s) Novercia / EMI

Format (s)

Double CD, double LP

Genre (s)

pop

Title (number)

16

running time

80'08 ”(38'04” + 42'04 ”)

occupation
  • Lol Creme , Gary Brooker, Paddy Bush, Michael Wood: vocals
  • Richard Campbell, Susan Pell: violin
  • Eligio Quinteira: Renaissance guitar
  • Robin Jeffrey: Renaissance percussion

production

Kate Bush

Studio (s)

Abbey Road Studios

chronology
The Red Shoes Aerial Director's Cut

Aerial is a double album released in November 2005, making it the eighth studio album by Kate Bush . What is remarkable here is the twelve-year gap to the previous album - during this time Kate Bush had become a mother and had mainly taken care of her private life.

Like the hit album Hounds of Love , Aerial is divided into two parts:

  1. The first part of the double album, entitled A Sea of ​​Honey , focuses on people and personalities (the respective title in brackets): Elvis Presley (1), the discoverer of the number Pi (2), her son Bertie (3), one Housewife (4), Johanna von Orleans (6) and Bush's late mother (7).
  2. The second part is called A Sky of Honey , is much more lyrical and deals with the topics of "bird flight" and "air". It begins with samples of bird calls, which then describe the following nine songs, what the birds see on their journey around the world, and others. a. Rome (2), a sunset (5) and the Atlantic (8). The songs merge into one another both melodically and in terms of content. B. in (4) a painter is described whose colors of his picture run in the rain and result in a beautiful sunset, which is then sung about in the next piece.

Pieces included

A Sea of ​​Honey

  1. King of the Mountain (4:53)
  2. Pi (6:09)
  3. Bertie (4:18)
  4. Mrs. Bartolozzi (5:58)
  5. How to Be Invisible (5:32)
  6. Joanni (4:56)
  7. A Coral Room (6:12)

A sky of honey

  1. Prelude (1:26)
  2. Prologue (5:42)
  3. An Architect's Dream (4:50)
  4. The Painter's Link (1:35)
  5. Sunset (5:58)
  6. Aerial Valley (1:01)
  7. Somewhere in Between (5:00)
  8. Nocturn (8:34)
  9. Aerial (7:52)

All songs were written and produced by Kate Bush.

Decoupled singles

  • 2005: King of the Mountain / Sexual Healing

Trivia

  • Rolf Harris , the didgeridoo player who contributed to the album, also painted the album cover. The amplitudes shown on it come from the song of the blackbird, with which the second part of the album begins.
  • The booklet contains drawings made by her son.
  • On the "B-side" of the single King of the Mountain is a cover version of the Marvin Gaye classic Sexual Healing .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date