Post by tannis on Nov 25, 2008 11:11:11 GMT
KT: Look Back in Anger...
KATE: "The Dreaming" was an emotionally very intense and often consciously aggressively sounding album, because it was about how terribly cruel people could be, what we do to ourselves, what amount of loneliness we expose ourselves. It was a searching, questioning album and with the music did tear you from one point to the next. It provoked extreme reactions, and there were many who were not able to or did not want to get involved with the mood of the album. I was and am very content with it, because for me I have definitively achieved what I wanted to. I had to experience myself what I wanted to explore there, and now I have made the experience and could turn to other destinations. Suddenly I could go dancing again, I spent a summer out of the house, something I did not do for several years. Thereby I felt so positively that I also wanted to write songs that give a positive prevailing mood. That was a completely new challenge, because until then I got my inspirations more from melancholic and gloomy moods. But suddenly I could get enthusiastic about things that were light and lively. I wanted to write about the positive power of love and not any longer about people who destroy each other. The whole energy that developed itself that way also transferred itself to the album. Thereby I did not only want to describe love as a happy, lightful matter, but I rather wanted to show it in all of her aspects, also the dark ones. The LP ["Hounds of Love"] has got two very different sides this way. The first shows an overview over different forms of love and without exception deals with relations, and the second side goes deeper, therefore the concept spanning all tracks.
Fachblatt Musikmagazin Nr. 11, "Kate Bush Reappeared", Andreas Hub, Nov 1985
gaffa.org/reaching/i85_fme.html
KATE: "I look back at that record and it seems mad," she says now. "I heard it about three years ago and couldn't believe it. There's a lot of anger in it. There's a lot of 'I'm an artist, right!'" Fingers burned by the experience of The Dreaming, she decided that a studio of her own and a retreat into her domestic shell was a priority.
"Booze, Fags, Blokes And Me" (1993)
gaffa.org/reaching/i93_q.html
KATE: "The Dreaming" was an emotionally very intense and often consciously aggressively sounding album, because it was about how terribly cruel people could be, what we do to ourselves, what amount of loneliness we expose ourselves. It was a searching, questioning album and with the music did tear you from one point to the next. It provoked extreme reactions, and there were many who were not able to or did not want to get involved with the mood of the album. I was and am very content with it, because for me I have definitively achieved what I wanted to. I had to experience myself what I wanted to explore there, and now I have made the experience and could turn to other destinations. Suddenly I could go dancing again, I spent a summer out of the house, something I did not do for several years. Thereby I felt so positively that I also wanted to write songs that give a positive prevailing mood. That was a completely new challenge, because until then I got my inspirations more from melancholic and gloomy moods. But suddenly I could get enthusiastic about things that were light and lively. I wanted to write about the positive power of love and not any longer about people who destroy each other. The whole energy that developed itself that way also transferred itself to the album. Thereby I did not only want to describe love as a happy, lightful matter, but I rather wanted to show it in all of her aspects, also the dark ones. The LP ["Hounds of Love"] has got two very different sides this way. The first shows an overview over different forms of love and without exception deals with relations, and the second side goes deeper, therefore the concept spanning all tracks.
Fachblatt Musikmagazin Nr. 11, "Kate Bush Reappeared", Andreas Hub, Nov 1985
gaffa.org/reaching/i85_fme.html
KATE: "I look back at that record and it seems mad," she says now. "I heard it about three years ago and couldn't believe it. There's a lot of anger in it. There's a lot of 'I'm an artist, right!'" Fingers burned by the experience of The Dreaming, she decided that a studio of her own and a retreat into her domestic shell was a priority.
"Booze, Fags, Blokes And Me" (1993)
gaffa.org/reaching/i93_q.html