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  Aerial (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kate Bush's eighth studio album, Aerial, is a two-disc set released on November 7, 2005.
It is her first new album since 1993.
The painting credited to "James Southall" in the centre spread of the album booklet is actually a cropped and mirror-reversed (flopped) copy of Fishermen and Boat by Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944), painted in 1923 (see [3]).
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 Kate Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her first album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978, and featured songs she had written during the previous two years, including the single "Wuthering Heights", which topped the UK and Australian charts and became an international hit.
Bush's eighth studio album, Aerial, was released on double CD and vinyl on 7 November 2005 internationally (8th November in the USA), following the release of the single "King of the Mountain" on 24 October.
The album is split into two sides, with the first side, Hounds of Love, containing five commercial sounding songs, including the four singles: "Running Up That Hill," "Cloudbusting," "Hounds of Love," and "The Big Sky." The second side is entitled "The Ninth Wave", whose title is taken from a poem by Tennyson.
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 Kate Bush : Aerial - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For everyone else, those who purchased much of Bush's earlier catalog because of its depth, quality, and vision, Aerial will sound exactly like what it is, a new Kate Bush record: full of her obsessions, lushly romantic paeans to things mundane and cosmic, and her ability to add dimension and transfer emotion though song.
Nothing much happens on Aerial except the passing of a day, as noted by the one who engages it in the process of being witnessed, yet it reveals much about the interior and natural worlds and expresses spiritual gratitude for everyday life.
Aerial is rooted in Kate Bush's oeuvre, with grace, flair, elegance, and an obsessive, stubborn attention to detail.
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 Gaffaweb - Kate Bush - REACHING OUT - The Reviews - Aerial, Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An album with not a hint of the conventional about it, Aerial is a record made by a person whose values have shifted with age and experience, and which are suitably reflected.
The fascination surrounding the release of Aerial is not just because it marks the return of a stunningly original creative talent, it also has a lot to do with how much the concept of the "pop star" has been recast in the past 12 years.
Aerial is rarely less than beautifully listenable, from the spectral psychedelic pop of King of the Mountain to the jazz-inflected swirl of Sunset.
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 Guardian Unlimited Arts | | Kate Bush, Aerial
She was variously reported to have gone bonkers, become a recluse and offered her record company some home-made biscuits instead of a new album.
Recent Bush albums have been filled with songs in which the extraordinary happened: people snogged Hitler, or were arrested for building machines that controlled the weather.
On Aerial she achieves far, far more of the former than the latter.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Review: Kate Bush's Aerial
Aerial is in two distinct halves - the first side, A Sea of Honey, is a collection of distinct, highly personal, sometimes impenetrably personal, songs.
It is a very English album, with the rural feel of a John Betjeman or AE Houseman poem.
It is difficult to know how successful the album will be - certainly it is not for the iPod generation - but Aerial stands alongside The Hounds of Love and The Kick Inside as her finest work.
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 Amazon.ca: Aerial: Music: Kate Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gaps between albums have grown longer and longer with each release, culminating with her brand new album "Aerial" being released...
Taken as a whole, "Aerial" doesn't change Bush's personal tradition; it sometimes sounds like a collage of moods and metaphores rather than a conventional collection of songs, which of course is both a relief and a challenge in today's disposeable world of contemporary music.
The production of the album is flawless, with the typically imaginative arrangements that only Kate Bush could conjure up; a song like "Sunset" suddenly breaks from a jazzy mood to a festive flamenco rhythm within one single musical phrase, and "Aerial Tal" likens her voice to the singing of a bird.
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 Amazon.com: Aerial: Music: Kate Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The only thing this album is missing, truthfully, is that one piece that trumps them all-- there's nothing as immense as "This Woman's Work" or "The Infant Kiss" that stops you in your tracks, but even without that, the album is consistently of high quality and truthfully was worth the endless wait.
If you are musician, you should hear this album to witness an artist at the top of her game: it's not slapping few chords and verses together, this music is grown from a flash of underlying idea, and then woven like tapestry, dressed up, painted in delicate strokes.
And Aerial also has a piece of world music fusion so subtle that I actually missed it at first, until I realized that in Aerial Tal (Taal is a Hindi word for rhythm) Kate is singing a raga scale with the the birds...
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 Amazon.co.uk: Aerial: Music: Kate Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Embracing her relatively new motherhood, as well as the death of her mother, Aerial is a deeply personal album, and a welcome return from one of pop music's true icons and vocal wonders.
The double album, Kate's first since 1993's The Red Shoes, presents the perfect opportunity to reintroduce Kate to her global fanbase and introduce her work to a whole new audience.
Over a decade since her last release, Aerial is a superb return from one of the most important living British singer / songwriters.
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 Laika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are also stories of her funeral (in the Doctor Who novel Alien Bodies) and travel to other planets (in the comic anthology Flight).
A number of bands have taken inspiration from Laika for their names, including Laika Dog, Laika and the Cosmonauts and the eponymous Laika, whose first three albums feature the canine cosmonaut in their cover art.
The band Polaris dedicated their album Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete to Laika and Ham the Chimp, and David Johansen's "Space Monkey" describes a love affair between the two.
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 BBC - Classic Rock/Pop Review - Kate Bush, Aerial
As it is with Aerial, on the first few playings I thought parts of it on the first CD to be introspective and naive, perhaps Kate self obsessing a little.
Aerial is what I expected from the most innovative and brilliant artist of my time (in my humble opinion).
Aerial is, for me her finest album, moving, and clever in it's overall soundscape.
www.bbc.co.uk /music/classicpop/reviews/katebush_aerial.shtml   (10187 words)

  
 Aerial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aerial (band), a short-lived Canadian band of the late 1970s
Aerials (song), from the album Toxicity by System of a Down
Aerial Wireless was a cellular phone company, purchased by VoiceStream Wireless, who was then acquired by T-Mobile.
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 I Like Music - Independent Online Music Magazine - BUY MUSIC - Kate Bush Aerial New Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
'Aerial', the double album that is released worldwide on November 7th, has already been hailed by those who have heard it as potentially Kate's greatest work; an album of such scope, depth, emotion and wonder that it is easily one of the most important records of 2005, and certainly one of the most moving.
Having sold millions of albums worldwide in her near 30-year career and been cited as an influence by everyone from PJ Harvey to Coldplay, Outkast to Björk and beyond, Kate inhabits a truly singular place in popular culture.
And with 'King of the Mountain' and 'Aerial' sounding as contemporary and timeless as all of Kate's work, they are set to introduce Kate to an entirely new generation of fans across the globe.
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 Kate Bush - Aerial : album review
Aerial comes to us in two parts, and it's clear that this isn't an album to listen to on 'shuffle' on the iPod.
Generally though, from the opening coos of the owl on Prelude right through to the dramatic rhythms of the excellent title track, this is Kate Bush at her very best.
Like all ambitious double albums, Aeriel is not without its flaws, but even Bush's moments of failure are much more interesting than those of her contemporaries.
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 Kate Bush - Aerial review - Album reviews - Music - Virgin.net
Deemed a recluse - rather than the perfectly ordinary woman who was a songwriter and singer but who just happened to want to spend time with her partner and child and do the washing - news that an album was forthcoming was put on a similar level of credibility to that of Big Foot sightings.
Aerial is an unmitigated joy from start - with an upbeat homage to Elvis Presley in King Of The Mountain - to finish, with the ethereal and haunting An Architect's Dream and equally esoteric Somewhere In Between and closing title track.
Whether she tours this album is debatable; she probably won't.
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 Aerial by Kate Bush CD
AERIAL does not necessarily meet those expectations, but that is not to imply that it's a lackluster release either.
Bush's gentle singer/songwriter mode is combined with jazz, rock, classical, electronica, and other elements for a musical experience that sustains her reputation as one our most adventurous and distinctive artists.
A Sky Of Honey is what the album should have been all about, each song flows into each other in an organic way creating a surreal feeling.
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 kate bush "aerial"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
but it's telling that she was working on this album for a decade -- it aligns itself temporally with that "window of rediscovery," and with all the indiedance exoticaphiles that were doing their most significant work at the same time.
Seriously though, if I were going to rank her albums right now, 1st is still Hounds Of Love, just ahead of The Dreaming, and Aerial and The Kick Inside are possibly sitting in joint third.
Aerial's a Romantic album definitely - landscape imagery, the quest for the Sublime, love and sex - but it seems tempered with a concern for self-sufficiency of musical form that's Classicist.
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 Waffle: Countdown to Aerial 8: Aerial
So the album is out, and European fans in particular have been all over it as a Technorati Search will reveal.
I can't stress enough that this is preliminary: I've lived with her other albums for over a decade, in some cases two, and there are many tracks on them that took me a long time to learn to appreciate.
But after half a dozen listens, it seems to me that the album suffers from the same problems that its 1993 predecessor did: a lack of urgency, focus and strong melodies.
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 The Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem
For this purpose a special rail line was extended from the railway station outside the camp to a ramp inside Auschwitz Many of the photos in the album were taken on the ramp.
In 1994 the album was restored in Yad Vashem's conservation laboratory and information on each one of the photos was typed into the computerized databank of the archive.
The staff of the archive was able to compare and match the pictures with aerial photos taken by the US Army Air Force on several occasions in 1944-45.
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 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Kate Bush Album Review: AERIAL
But the artist appearing on Aerial is a pale version of her former self, albeit a more interesting one than which appeared on 1992's terrible last outing The Red Shoe.
But it's also why she nails it every so often, as she does on the wonderful How to Be Invisible, or the chill-inducing Prelude and Prologue, the jazzy and preciously poetic Sunset, and the lush, dramatic epic Nocturn.
Aerial is by no means the best thing Kate Bush has done in her career.
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 Laika Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1996 CCCP release "Cosmos," an album of mostly paeans to the Soviet space program, featured the song "Laika Laika," complete with Russian military men's chorus.
The Reggae dub group Spacemonkeyz in 2002 released an album entitled Laika Come Home, an album of remixes of the music performed by Damon Albarn's Gorillaz.
The band Polaris dedicated their album Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete to Laika and Ham the Chimp.
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 Kate Bush: Aerial (2005): Reviews
Like all ambitious double albums, [Aerial] is not without its flaws, but even Bush's moments of failure are much more interesting than those of her contemporaries.
Most definitely yes, Kate makes the album shes always wanted to and her genius is let loose completely on this double album.
This album takes to you to far away places in your mind, at times haunting, beautiful, eccentric, innovative,it takes chances, it pushes the listener and rewards them.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/bushkate/aerial   (872 words)

  
 Aerial - The New Album
It's been twelve long years since The Red Shoes in 1993, but finally in a press release this morning EMI Records have proudly confirmed the fantastic news: Kate's hugely anticipated new work, her eighth studio album, will be released worldwide on November 7th 2005 (Nov 8th in USA).
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 long awaited new album, the first in twelve long years for the fans, finally arrives in early November and to coincide with the release on the '7th there's the official launch of the brand new Kate Bush site, the first of it's kind dedicated to her.
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 CanEHdian.com: Aerial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aerial was originally formed by Gary O’Connor as Liverpool, a Beatles tribute band, who had recorded several singles on Taurus Records the mid 70's.
Based on the success of the hit single "Dolly", the band was signed to Anthem Records, home of Rush and Max Webster and at the insistence of the record company, changed their name to Aerial.
Although there are no additional tracks or in-depth liner notes with this set, this release is a welcome reissue of some sought after and hard to find Canadian music that has been unavailable for many years.
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 Get Ready to ROCK! Review of CD album by pop rock singer songwriter Kate Bush called Aerial
The album opens with the single King Of The Mountain which just gets better and better with each listen.
Somewhere In Between and Nocturn add a twist of jazz, the latter becoming increasingly urgent before Aerial rocks the album to a frantic close.
There’s nothing on Aerial that’s as manic as some of her earlier work.
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 Kate Bush News & Information - News
Kate's new double album AERIAL was released to fantastic reviews on November 7th 2005 and entered the UK album chart at number 3, and the European chart at number 2.
Aerial is one of three nominations in the Pop category along with Gorillaz "Demon Days" and Richard Hawley "Coles Corner".
The album and single have been hugely successful, Kate has produced probably the most beautiful work of her career thus far and the critical reception from the media and fans has been overwhelming in its positivity.
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 Kate Bush News & Information: News
There are moments on Aerial when you wish she would cut loose with the arrangements — which at times remain far too linear and rooted in a soundscape that she hasn’t tampered with significantly since the 1980s — and collaborate with a Massive Attack or a Future Sound of London.
Since her last album, The Red Shoes in 1993, she has become mother to Bertie, now seven, and there is a peaceful contentment evident throughout the new songs.
The perfect taster for new album Aerial, King Of The Mountain is a perfect introduction to Kate's wistful style for anyone not familiar with her, and a timely reminder of her effortless talent to those who are.
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