A Kate Bush Return Imminent?
Published December 01, 2004
It's been 11 years since the last studio album The Red Shoes, but Kate Bush is apparently still working on the followup. In the latest news related to her current work, the Toronto Sun asked Bush's close friend Peter Gabriel about her. "Kate had a son and lost her mom and I think that kept her (occupied). I spoke to her quite recently in fact and she's just about finished on a new record. It is exciting." Peter Gabriel incorporated Kate Bush's vocals on "Don't Give Up", which is featured in his new DVD release Play. In a comparison with Peter Gabriel's own recent 10 year gap between albums, "She pointed out (she takes) even longer than I take."
Rumors about the album in process have leaked out gradually over the past 2 years. Among the musicians who are expected to be included in the album are drummer Stuart Elliott, jazz percussionist Peter Erskine and Chris Hall on the accordion. The London Metropolitan Orchestra also recorded with Bush at London's Abbey Road studios in October 2003. Kate Bush performed live publicly for the first time in 15 years in 2002 singing Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" as a guest at Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's Royal Festival Hall Concert.
Kate Bush recorded some of the most sensual and daring Pop music of the late 70's and 80's. Such classics as "Wuthering Heights" and "Babooshka" were massive hit singles at home in England. In 1985 she broke through in the U.S. with the album Hounds Of Love and the single "Running Up That Hill" which reached the Pop Top 30 and the Dance Top 20 in the U.S. The following year she was featured on "Don't Give Up", a powerful duet with Peter Gabriel included on his breakthrough So album. The British music magazine Q listed "Wuthering Heights" as one of the 20 singles that changed the world in the 70's and Hounds Of Love as one of the top 25 Best British albums ever, the only female thus honored.
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- Published: December 01, 2004
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I was somewhat disappointed with her last two albums. With Kate Bush, if the songs weren't strong, you could still count on some weirdness to make it interesting. Her later stuff was just too inoffensive.
I hope you mean inoffensive ie odd rather than objectionable...right? Anyway it would be good to see her make a return, especially if its her old eccentric style.
i'm very much looking forward to this.
funny coincidence here...in the middle of my move last month, i came upon an old Kate Bush poster that i'd purchased way the heck back in college. it was in mint condition, never even put on a wall.
just like this
I remember when the Sensual World and the Red shoes came out that I thought they were weak compared to her other material. I still don't care as much for the Red shoes partly due to overly pop material like Rubberband girl and Eat the Music. I dare say that This Woman's Work from The Sensual World may be the most powerful of her career thus far. Even the Red Shoes reveals some gems that weren't so apparent back in the early 90's. I think Moments of Pleasure could easily fit alongside her better tunes. Trio Bulgurka's work on The Song of Solomon is pretty cool and
Constellation of the Heart is one of the funkiest things she has done. The vocal call and response in that tune is classic. The closing tune, You're the Only One I Want borders on a kind of adult contemporary sound but leaves the listener with an incredibly emotional tune filled with great chord changes and lyrics. Go back and listen to her back catalog until her new one comes out in 2005. You may find your point of view has changed as well.
i kissed kate once!!!!! fun day that wuz....
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I do hope so...I rather like Kate Bush.