Kate Bush – The Sensual World (1989/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:03 minutes | 463 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
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The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by Kate Bush. It was released in October 1989 and reached no. 2 in the UK album chart.
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released as a single by EMI Records on 18 September 1989. Also released on her sixth album The Sensual World. Bush was inspired to write the song after hearing Irish actress Siobhan McKenna read the closing soliloquy from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, where the character Molly Bloom recalls her earliest sexual experience with husband-to-be Leopold Bloom. The book was published in 1922. Kate, believing the text had fallen to public domain, simply lifted parts from it and sang them on the backing track she’d created. She approached director Jimmy Murakami to make a video for the song, and he expressed doubts because he suspected James Joyce’s grandson Stephen James Joyce had the rights to the book. Kate then contacted him numerous times, but the Joyce estate refused to release the words. She spent over a year trying to gain permission before accepting defeat.
In the end, she kept the backing track but “re-approached the words”, writing a lyric that sounded a lot like the original text but also added the dimension of ‘stepping out of the page / into the sensual world’, in effect Molly Bloom stepping out of the book and walking into real life.
Musically, one of the main hooks in the chorus of The Sensual World was inspired by a traditional Macedonian piece of music called ‘Nevestinsko Oro’ (‘Bride’s Dance’). A recording of this piece of music was sent to Kate by Jan Libbenga. As in the traditional version, the melody is played on uilleann pipes, in this case by Irish musician Davy Spillane.
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Kate Bush – The Red Shoes (2018 Remaster) (1993/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:00 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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The album is a continuation of Bush’s multi-layered and multiple musical pursuits and interests. If not her strongest work — a number of songs sound okay without being particularly stellar, especially given Bush’s past heights — Red Shoes is still an enjoyable listen with a number of diversions. The guest performer list is worthy of note alone, ranging from Procol Harum pianist Gary Brooker and Eric Clapton to Prince, but this is very much a Kate Bush album straight up as opposed to a collaborative work like, say, Santana’s Supernatural. Opening song “Rubberband Girl” is actually one of her strongest singles in years, a big and punchy song served well with a horn section, though slightly let down by the stiff percussion. “Eat the Music,” another smart choice for a single, mixes calypso and other Caribbean musical touches with a great, classically Bush lyric mixing up sexuality, romance, and various earthy food-based metaphors. Another highlight of Bush’s frank embrace of the lustier side of life is “The Song of Solomon,” a celebratory piece about the Bible’s openly erotic piece. Those who prefer her predominantly piano and vocal pieces will enjoy “Moments of Pleasure” with a strong string arrangement courtesy of Michael Kamen. Other standouts include “Why Should I Love You?” with Prince creating a very Prince-like arrangement and backing chorus for Bush (and doing quite well at that) and the concluding “You’re the One,” featuring Brooker. ~ Ned Raggett
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Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (1978/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:13 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
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The Kick Inside (2018 Remaster) is Kate Bush’s debut studio album and features her hit “Wuthering Heights.” The album has been newly remastered by Kate Bush and James Guthrie.
The Kick Inside reveals a young artist positioning herself strategically between the ancient and the modern, between folklore and pop music. Sounding very much of its moment, it is nevertheless an album populated by ghosts and spirits. Not goth but certainly gothic, it is an album of hauntings. Some are literal: That’s Catherine Earnshaw’s spirit tapping at the window in “Wuthering Heights.” Other are figurative: The spellbinding music she describes in “The Saxophone Song” seems to have supernatural origins and powers, and the mysterious lover in “The Man with the Child in His Eyes” only appears “when I turn off the light.” Remarkably these ghosts are not diminished by the modern sound of The Kick Inside. Rather, they thrive in that friction between the old and the new.
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Kate Bush – The Dreaming (1982/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:21 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
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The Dreaming (2018 Remaster) by Kate Bush is the English singer’s fourth studio ablum. Newly remastered by Bush and James Guthrie.
Four albums into her burgeoning career, Kate Bush’s The Dreaming is a theatrical and abstract piece of work, as well as Bush’s first effort in the production seat. She throws herself in head first, incorporating various vocal loops, sometimes campy, but always romantic and inquisitive of emotion. She’s angry and pensive throughout the entire album, typically poetic while pushing around the notions of a male-dominated world. However, Kate Bush is a daydreamer. Unfortunately, The Dreaming, with all it’s intricate mystical beauty, isn’t fully embraced compared to her later work. Album opener “Sat in Your Lap” is a frightening slight on individual intellect, with a booming chorus echoing over throbbing percussion and a butchered brass section. “Leave It Open” is goth-like with Bush’s dark brooding, which is a suspending scale of vocalic laments, but it’s the vivacious and moody “Get Out of My House” that truly brings Bush’s many talents for art and music to the forefront. It prances with dripping piano drops and gritty guitar, and the violent rage felt as she screams “Slamming,” sparking a fury similar to what Tori Amos later ignited during her inception throughout the ’90s. Not one to be in fear of fear, The Dreaming is one of Kate Bush’s underrated achievements in depicting her own visions of love, relationships, and role play, not to mention a brilliant predecessor to the charming beauty of 1985’s Hounds of Love.
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Kate Bush – Selection from ‘The Other Sides’ (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:46 minutes | 480 MB | Genre: Rock
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Kate Bush is reissuing her entire studio catalog – including numerous rare tracks, B-sides and cover versions – on a series of remastered vinyl and CD box sets. The campaign launches November 16th with the first two of four vinyl packages and the first of two CD sets, via Rhino. The second wave of material arrives November 30th.
The art-rock icon personally remastered the material with producer/engineer James Guthrie, who previously worked on Bush’s 1985 LP, Hounds of Love. The singer’s 10 albums are spread across the three vinyl boxes, and the fourth features rarities previously unavailable on the format. Many of the records have been unavailable on vinyl for decades.
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Kate Bush – Remastered Pt. IV (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:12:25 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock
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Kate Bush Remastered Studio Albums And Rarities: This is the first (and definitive) program of remastering undertaken by the artist and includes the release of many rarities and cover versions on HighResAudio for the first time.
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