Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/25/89)
Really-From: David Osborne <cczdao%clan.nottingham.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
album review, from "The Independent" newspaper, Friday 20th Oct or
Saturday 21st... (sorry: i was given an incomplete cutting). note the
reviewer gives the wrong catalogue number, which i think is for the CD
single.
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KATE BUSH
The Sensual World
(EMI EMD 1010)
For _The_Sensual_World_, Kate reaches once more into her bag of
improving literature and comes up not with Bronte or Gurdjieff but
Joyce, which is a far more entertaining prospect -- especially when,
as on the hit title track, she casts herself as Molly Bloom, yes yes.
This is the over-educated girl become woman in a way that echoes the
hearty Romantic indulgences of her earlier work, and the result is a
complex, deeply-textured body of songs of diverse styles but
cumulative effect.
The effect of Side One is to leave you like a fly drowning in
honey, a pleasurable surfeit of sweet stimulation which cloys only
when "Reaching Out" verges on the crassly anthemic. The effect of
Side Two is more emotionally stirring, not least because of the
presence of the voices of the Trio Bulgarka on three tracks, a musical
leitmotif suggesting an almost religious abandon. Like her friend and
occasional collaborator Peter Gabriel, she re-combines widely
differing strains of "world" music to good effect, be it the matching
of Davey Spillane's whistles, Alan Stivell's Celtic harp and Nigel
Kennedy's violin on "The Fog", or, more sensuous still, the blending
of Spillane's uillean pipes, Eberhard Weber's ghostly electric double
bass and the Trio Bulgarka's ecstatic harmonies on "Never Be Mine".
Kate believes this to be her "most personal and female album", and
though it's not that far removed from _Hounds_of_Love_, there is a
luxuriance in her musical textures that goes way beyond anything she
has done before. Listening to _The_Sensual_World_ is rather like
entering a cathedral, which makes a change from her earlier records,
which often felt like entering a convent.
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daveed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) (10/25/89)
>Really-From: David Osborne <cczdao%clan.nottingham.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK> >album review, from "The Independent" newspaper, Friday 20th Oct or >Saturday 21st... (sorry: i was given an incomplete cutting). > Listening to _The_Sensual_World_ is rather like >entering a cathedral, which makes a change from her earlier records, >which often felt like entering a convent. I doubt I'm the first to notice this, but in the _NME_ interview, Kate said something about how odd it is for her to take so long to make an album, "after all, it's not a cathedral!" Ed (Edward Suranyi) |"The Amazing Kate has finally shown that her Dept. of Applied Science |cult knew what it was talking about all along." UC Davis/Livermore | -- Terry Atkinson, _L.A. Times_ ed@das.llnl.gov | (in review of _Hounds Of Love_)
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/27/89)
Really-From: Alex Ferguson <alex%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK> In article <29580.625259139@clan> David Osborne writes: >album review, from "The Independent" newspaper, Friday 20th Oct or >For _The_Sensual_World_, Kate reaches once more into her bag of >improving literature and comes up not with Bronte or Gurdjieff ^^^^^^^^^ OK, someone spell it out for the slow of thinking among us. -- Alex Ferguson. ARPA: alex%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk USENET: alex@glasgow.uucp BANGNET: ...!mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!alex JANET: alex@uk.ac.glasgow.cs "You mean you could have walked the galaxy and you simply never bothered?"