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Post by Lori on Jul 31, 2003 23:30:38 GMT
Split me open With devotion You put your hands in And rip my heart out Eat the music
Does he conceal What he really feels? He's a woman at heart And I love him for that Let's split him open
Like a pomegranate Insides out All is revealed Not only women bleed
Take the stone out Of the mango You put it in your mouth And pull a plum out
Take a papaya You like a guava? Grab a banana And a sultana Rip them to pieces With sticky fingers Split the banana Crush the sultana
Split 'em open With devotion You put your hands in And rip their hearts out
Like a pomegranate Insides out He's a woman at heart And love him for that
Take a papaya You like a guavva? Grab a banana And a sultana Rip 'em to pieces With sticky fingers Split the banana Crush the sultana
All emotion And with devotion You put your hands in What ya thinking? What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love Eat the music
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Post by matanchik on Feb 19, 2005 9:58:46 GMT
I allways known long before i knew who kate bush is this song because it's apeared in a lot of commercials and travel programs in israel. I was in almost a shock to hear that it is a kate song, i think is the most unusual song in kate's catalogue, she never done something like this. I'm sure that a lot of people know this song but don't know it's kate's. what are your thoughts of the song?
BTW what is sultana?
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Post by Adey on Feb 19, 2005 12:54:51 GMT
Yes, a song that seems to celebrate the sensual qualities of fruit.. Unusual I agree, but the not the most unusual in my opinion (I think Big Stripey Lie has that distinction).
A sultana is a dried grape as far as I know.
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Post by Xanadu on Feb 19, 2005 20:37:41 GMT
A sultana is indeed a dried grape....but what's the difference between a sultana and a raisin? - Seedless raisins are made from grapes with no seeds. Seeded raisins are made from grapes that normally have seeds, but from which the seeds have been removed. The two are not usually interchangeable because the flavor is quite different. - Dark raisins are the most common variety and start as green grapes then darkens as it dries. - White/golden raisins (muscats) are made of white muscat grapes which are seeded and oven-dried rather than by the sun. - Sultanas are more popular in Europe and come from a seedless yellow grape and are usually softer and sweeter than other varieties. - Currants are made from Black Corinth grape called Zante. They are tiny, seedless, and very sweet and aromatic. I cook a lot. ;D And many European and British recipes. Try finding the ingredients over here. That concludes today's cooking instruction, tune in next time where we will discuss Kate's use of "the pomegranate." J/K ;D
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Post by Adey on Feb 20, 2005 3:34:24 GMT
Well now, that's comprehensive if not definitive. As a chef yourself, which of these dried grapes do you think Kate uses in her mince pies..
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 20, 2005 17:46:06 GMT
....tune in next time where we will discuss Kate's use of "the pomegranate." [/i] J/K ;D[/quote] Coincidentally I just used fresh pomegranate juice in a fruit salad this past friday. Combined with heavy cream, plain yogurt and a squirt of lemon, it made a great suspension for the papaya, bannanas, apples, raisens and walnuts.
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Post by Xanadu on Feb 22, 2005 18:56:27 GMT
Well now, that's comprehensive if not definitive. As a chef yourself, which of these dried grapes do you think Kate uses in her mince pies.. Just fooling around. Would you have expected anything less? ;D ;D But, seriously, I do and use several sorts. And homemade brandied butter. You should be at my place over the holidays. Flaming pudding and all. ;D I also do a sort of high tea on Sundays, when I get the time. ;D It's a hobby, I suppose. Coincidentally I just used fresh pomegranate juice in a fruit salad this past friday. Combined with heavy cream, plain yogurt and a squirt of lemon, it made a great suspension for the papaya, bannanas, apples, raisens and walnuts. Do you like to cook, too, Al? Sounds tasty!
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 22, 2005 21:42:21 GMT
Do you like to cook, too, Al? Sounds tasty! Oh it was quite good. I had prepared it to go with a four cheese penne pasta and radish slaw. I love to cook, but hate the mess. (unless someone else is cleaning) However my daughter is a better cook. Plus her husband - my son-in-law - is an executive chef for Double-Tree Hotel here. He makes some wonderful dishes. I'm always throwing ideas back and forth with him. We've talked of one day opening a bistro. 'Maybe after I retire.
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Post by tannis on Mar 6, 2008 19:50:17 GMT
A song of seeds The food of love...
SACRED GEOMETRY
Sacred geometry can be described as a belief system attributing a religious or cultural value to many of the fundamental forms of space and time. According to this belief system, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred because in contemplating them one is contemplating the origin of all things. By studying the nature of these forms and their relationship to each other, one may seek to gain insight into the scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic and mystical laws of the universe.
The Flower of Life
The Flower of Life is considered to be a symbol of sacred geometry, said to contain ancient, religious value depicting the fundamental forms of space and time. In this sense, it is a visual expression of the connections life weaves through all mankind, believed by some to contain a type of Akashic Record of basic information of all living things.
The Flower of Life has purportedly been the subject of study by groups such as the Freemasons and the Illuminati. They believed it to be the oldest recorded language which held clues to the workings of the universe
The Seed of Life
The "Seed of Life" is formed from seven circles being placed with sixfold symmetry, forming a pattern of circles and lenses, which acts as a basic component of the Flower of Life's design. It dates from all ages and is even found inscribed at the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt, as well as other temple structures around the world.
The Fruit of Life
The "Fruit of Life" symbol is composed of 13 circles taken from the design of the Flower of Life.
The Fruit of Life is said to be the blueprint of the universe, containing the basis for the design of every atom, molecular structure, life form, and everything in existence.
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Post by tannis on Jun 8, 2008 16:16:36 GMT
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 12:58:44 PDT Subject: Eat me! Well, I have in my sweaty little hands the CD for "Eat the Music". Unfortunately, my CD player is at home, so you'll have to wait a day for my review of this single (The ONLY review that matters!) However, I can give my review of the cover: It's completely disgusting. I love it! Freud would have a heart attack if he saw it.
Date: Mon, 13-Sep-93 01:58:18 PDT Subject: New Singles--some thoughts EAT THE MUSIC is about emotional exposure. As with most Kate songs, the biggest clue about the song comes near the end: "What am I singing?/A song of seeds/The food of love/Eat the music." I suppose you could consider it emotional violence if you don't want people to know what your feelings are, but the intention of the song seems to be good natured. What splits the speaker open? Devotion. Closeness (in a relationship, one could assume) requires intimate knowledge of one another. Her emotions are not difficult to find. His, it seems, have to be ripped out of him. Notice that the fruits depicted on the cover and in the song are almost exclusively seed fruits--melons, mangoes, papayas, pomegranates--that are used traditionally as feminine images (both literally and figuratively). The only "male" fruit mentioned in the song is a banana, which is split to reveal that "He's a woman at heart/And I love him for that". The song's premise is the old stereotype that women's emotions are easily seen, while men don't want their feelings to be known. She is willing to dig beneath the surface to find a feeling, caring person underneath. There are also some sexual overtones--the standard sensual associations of the fruits mentioned and shown, the reference to "sticky fingers"...
MOMENTS: The Red Shoes Collection 2.2. LH comments on songs, "Eat the Music"gaffa.org/moments/2_2b.htmlSplit me open With devotion You put your hands in And rip my heart out Eat the music...EAT THE MUSIC is "a love song... A complicated, difficult love, certainly, but a love song". Maybe about the starting of a new relationship and finding out who each other really are inside. Its rhythmic dance fuses the promise of the erotic pleasure of the fruit with the thanatic 'Split me open'. But the song also suggests abusive intrusion by fans, love hounds, and the hounds of love. So is ETM a love song or a frenzied pursuit? ...Love Will Tear Us Apart...
"Only Women Bleed" is a song written by Alice Cooper, from the 1975 album Welcome to My Nightmare, about a woman in an abusive relationship. Julie Covington sings 'Only Women Bleed' on her eponymous 1978 album, which also features Covington's version of 'The Kick Inside'. She and Kate are friends.
How did you meet Julie Covington? KB: "I met Julie Covington through Jay. He is a friend of hers, and I've known her for a long time." Kate's KBC article, Issue 5 (April 1980) gaffa.org/garden/kate6.htmlonly women bleedwww.youtube.com/watch?v=nxBficNKirQcover of the alice cooper song by julie covington The single cover to ETM reveals a Bacchic pound of flesh. (Pentheus, 'Man of Sorrows', was torn to pieces by the bacchantes when he attempted to spy on their activities.) The color photo shows two hands (Kates?) digging into an opened melon surrounded by other opened fruits (pomegranates, guavas, mangoes, and the like).
Kate Bush Eat The Music Cover gaffa.org/sensual/p_etm2.jpg
The fruits have been cut in half, revealing their seeds, their insides, their sensual flesh. The back of the jewel box is the same photo only it's done through a polarizing filter or something so it appears as the negative of the cover photo. All emotion And with devotion You put your hands in What ya thinking? What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love Eat the music...Carl Jung interpreted nigredo as a moment of maximum despair, that is a prerequisite to personal development. Psychologically, nigredo is a process of directing oneself to find self-knowledge. A problem is given full emotional attention and reduced to its core. The confrontation with the inner reality is often painful. But once in the depth of the darkness, with the discovery of the seed of the problem, the seed in the ‘prima materia’, the white light is born and a state of rest arises. Insight has been gained, has been worked out emotionally, and knowledge arises on how to handle the problem in a more positive way and to build a more pure attitude. ETM seems to tap into this metaphorical and aggressive tearing open of the self to reach healing. And in ETM, Kate reaches a fun mood. Eat the music!Take a papaya You like a guava? Grab a banana And a sultana Rip them to pieces With sticky fingers Split the banana Crush the sultana...The only 'male' fruit mentioned in the song is a banana, which is split to reveal that "He's a woman at heart/And I love him for that". Kate seems to use sultana as the female equivalent... You crush the lily in my soul...
Sultana is a variety of white seedless grape, especially in its dried form as a type of raisin. Sultana also refers to Muslim women rulers in history, and is sometimes misused as the title of the chief wife of a Sultan. Sultana is commonly used throughout Middle Eastern countries as a popular female name.
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Post by tannis on Jun 8, 2008 23:48:49 GMT
All emotion And with devotion... Eat The Music: This track, laden with trumpets and light percussion, has a very Latin American feel which actually stems from the music of Madagascar. "It uses a small guitar called a 'caboss' which is one of the instruments Paddy (Bush, Kate's brother) discovered and brought back with him. He's very into ethnic music of all kinds and has always contributed a lot of ideas to the albums - he helped bring in some authentic players and the track started off with bass guitar which was then replaced by an acoustic bass - but that sounded a bit too Latin. The horn section's real, of course." Future Music interview with Del Palmer, "Well red" Nov. 1993gaffa.org/reaching/i93_fm.htmlKate Bush-Eat The Musicwww.youtube.com/watch?v=VJbBd1QkZEk4:58-5:02 evokes Roman Greek festival, harvest, still life art and Flaming June...Flaming June, Frederic Lord Leighton, 1895upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Flaming_June%2C_by_Fredrick_Lord_Leighton_%281830-1896%29.jpgThe ETM video is ritualistic, trancelike, and tribal. Kate sways her hair and dances with a group of African women, while the Red Shoes - the demonic, possessed Other - crush the fruit. The whole experience brings to mind the African Zar ceremony.
Zar is a pagan religious custom, apparently originating in central Ethiopia during the eighteenth century, later spreading throughout East and North Africa. Zar custom involves the possession of an individual (usually female) by a spirit. The Zaar cult served as a refuge for women and effeminate men in conservative, Muslim-dominated Sudan (wiki).
The phenomenon of Zar is best described as a "healing cult". The purpose of the Zar ceremony is to cure mental illness through contact with the possessing spirits which cause maladies. Diriye Abdullahi, a native of Somalia, says that the Zar is basically a dance of spirits, or a religious dance - kind of leftover from the old African deities, a variant of what we describe in the west as "voodoo". The old African deities were headed by two figures; Azuzar (the male, assoc. with Osiris) and Ausitu (the female, known in the west as Isis). Ausitu (or Aysitu in Somalia) is still celebrated and given offerings by pregnant women so that she will provide them with a safe birth. He describes it as a ritual dance which is mostly observed by women, especially older women. Zar corresponds to the practice of older African religions, in which women were the priestesses.
Zar is a trance religious ceremony that uses drumming and dancing to cure an illness thought to be caused by a demon. The ritual involves hair tossing and swaying, and henna and kohl are also used. Zar provides a unique form of relief to women in strict patriarchal societies, and also acts as a means of sharing information among women of these cultures. The Zar ceremony requires a leader, who plays an important role in the ritual, keeping it on track and in compliance with what are apparently ancient traditions. The leader in most of the cases is a woman. Men may contribute to Zar ceremonies, by helping with drumming, the slaughter of ritual animals, or they may themselves be a husband or relative required to make offerings to the possessing spirit. Usually the three to six helpers provide rhythmic backup to the Zar leader. The Leader is expected to be a trained singer, who knows the songs and rhythms of each particular spirit. The patient should move in circles around the altar freeing his or her body from the inside out. Their movement should increase its intensity with the drumming. The spirit is then drawn into dialogue by the Leader, and an animal sacrifice is used as an offering to the offending spirit.
The Zar is not an "exorcism" as people often describe it because the spirit is accommodated and placated; it is not exorcised. The main purpose of the sacrifice is to please the deity and to secure his favor. Sacrifices are performed to mark various significant events such as the birth ritual, marriage and death. The patient's recovery is not considered complete until the sacrificed meal is eaten. Afterwards the patient is advised to "be continually attentive to her spirits, perform such daily work as they require, avoid dirt, and refrain from negative emotion." Failure to do this may result in a relapse. The fact that this advice is as valid for modern western women as it is for Zar patients testifies to the very practical nature of the Zar experience.
The Zar ritual is a cathartic experience, which functions for women in these cultures as effectively as does psychotherapy in western culture. And like the ETM video, the Zar provides a multisensory experience with sights, sounds and smells.read more: THE ZAR REVISITEDwww.bdancer.com/zarrevis.html"I can't go on. I'm torn between what I was and what is to become of me. In these shoes, every step I take is laced with madness. They fill me with pain and confusion, and thoughts that are not my own. I have danced their dances... These shoes are all anger and passion. I am possessed and I no longer have the strength to fight them..."The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1994)In The Line, the Cross, and the Curve (1994) performance of ETM, the dancer fights the mysterious woman for her freedom from the Red Shoes. As the mysterious woman runs off with the line, the cross, and the curve, KaTe appears in the tribal Zar-like ceremony among all the fruit, like she is fruit herself. Hair swaying and face painted with henna, she enters a trancelike state. Contact is made with the possessing spirits, who return to her the line, the cross, and the curve. And when she awakes, the demonic Red Shoes have left her, their spell broken. The dancer is free to run back through the mirror, to leave the underground, surrounded and empowered by of her Guardian Angels... Kate Bush - The Line, the Cross and the Curve - 6 of 7 *www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO8vPhmCPDsKate Bush - The Line, the Cross and the Curve - 7 of 7www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxU8vb96pA&feature=related* The beginning of this part shows a music sheet being branded with a cross. The complete branding reveals an upside down cross. The Cross of St. Peter (officially known as the Petrine Cross) is an inverted Latin cross. The origin of this symbol comes from the Catholic tradition that St. Peter was crucified upside down, as he felt he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner that Christ died (upright). Some Catholics use this cross as a symbol of humility and unworthiness in comparison to Christ. However, since the advent of the B-Movie and limited public intelligence, the inverted cross has become a reversed Christian symbol, a symbol of Anti-Christian sentiment, and many Satanists use the inverted cross to symbolize their dislike of Christianity.
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jun 9, 2008 17:16:58 GMT
All emotion And with devotion You put your hands in What ya thinking? What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love Eat the music...Carl Jung interpreted nigredo as a moment of maximum despair, that is a prerequisite to personal development. Psychologically, nigredo is a process of directing oneself to find self-knowledge. A problem is given full emotional attention and reduced to its core. The confrontation with the inner reality is often painful. But once in the depth of the darkness, with the discovery of the seed of the problem, the seed in the ‘prima materia’, the white light is born and a state of rest arises. Insight has been gained, has been worked out emotionally, and knowledge arises on how to handle the problem in a more positive way and to build a more pure attitude. ETM seems to tap into this metaphorical and aggressive tearing open of the self to reach healing. And in ETM, Kate reaches a fun mood. Eat the music!Take a papaya You like a guava? Grab a banana And a sultana Rip them to pieces With sticky fingers Split the banana Crush the sultana...The only 'male' fruit mentioned in the song is a banana, which is split to reveal that "He's a woman at heart/And I love him for that". Kate seems to use sultana as the female equivalent... You crush the lily in my soul...
Sultana is a variety of white seedless grape, especially in its dried form as a type of raisin. Sultana also refers to Muslim women rulers in history, and is sometimes misused as the title of the chief wife of a Sultan. Sultana is commonly used throughout Middle Eastern countries as a popular female name. I agree very much about Eat The Music tapping into a metaphorical 'ripping my heart out' or a tearing open of the self and the emotions to reach healing. It seems to suggest a loss of self into a much greater force of love, or the going deeper into pain to find ecstasy and even alchemy. And I think this is very typical of The Red Shoes as a whole - the album is so full of lines like "Just being alive, it can really hurt..." and "without the hurting, we'd never change..." The connections with the Zar ritual and the ETM video are also striking.
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Post by tannis on Jul 6, 2008 12:19:58 GMT
A song of seeds The food of love...
SACRED GEOMETRY: The Flower of Life The Seed of Life The Fruit of Life
and The Tour of Life...Kate Bush tour programme 1979 (Sexual Healing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nocjuHZ2mA 2:42-2:51The programme for the KATE BUSH TOUR (named The Tour of Life), has two pages of group images showing some of those involved in the concert. The photographs are arranged in multiple triangular fashion (see 2:42-2:51). Were these photographs purposefully arranged as a vehicle of ascension for the KATE BUSH BAND? ...
SACRED GEOMETRY: The Merkaba
The Merkaba is formed of two interlocking tetrahedra and is believed to be a divine vehicle used to expand consciousness and reach higher realms. The Merkaba is seen as a 3 dimensional Star of David. When viewed from another side, however, the Merkaba can also be seen as a 2 dimensional image of 6 interlaced triangles:Image of Merkaba showing the 6 interlaced triangular patternwww.mysticmerchant.com/merkaba/merkamy17x17x17-1a-c.jpgThe word Mer-Ka-Ba is made up of three smaller words: mer means 'light', ka is 'spirit' and ba is body. These words come from ancient Egyptian. There are several pronunciations of Merkaba such as Merkabah, Merkava, and Merkavah. Merkaba means Spirit and Body surrounded by Fields of Light. Mer, Ka and Ba. Mer refers to a specific kind of light that was understood in Egypt during the 18th Dynasty following the reorientation of religions toward the worship of a one God of all creation. "Mer" was seen as two counter-rotating fields of light spinning in the same space. These fields are generated when a person performs specific breathing patterns. Ka refers to the individual spirit of a person. Ba refers to the spirit's interpretation of its particular reality. In the human reality, Ba is usually defined as the body or physical reality. In other realities where spirits don't have bodies, Ba refers to their concepts or interpretation of reality in the realm in which they exist. see more: The Merkabawww.execonn.com/matt/Docs/Merkaba.htmwww.crystalinks.com/merkaba.htmlSignificance of Ancient, Geometric Symbolswww.ldshistory.net/1904/tempgeog.htm
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Post by tannis on Jul 25, 2008 19:50:06 GMT
Eat The Music is a jolly trifle which blends South American flavours, courtesy of Justin Vali and Paddy Bush's rhythmic valiha guitars, with a general township-jive bounce, as Kate stretches a frankly baffling fruit/sex/music metaphor to snapping point. The ethnic style seems corny here, as opposed to the title track, which uses the valiha as the hypnotic heart of an insistent rolling rhythm in which Paddy's "musical bow" adds didgeridoo-like reverberation, and his whistles a celtic jig flavour. Q Magazine review of The Red Shoes Nov. 1993 gaffa.org/reaching/rev_trs1.htmlEAT THE MUSIC is "a love song... A complicated, difficult love, certainly, but a love song". Maybe about the starting of a new relationship and finding out who each other really are inside. Its rhythmic dance fuses the promise of the erotic pleasure of the fruit with the thanatic 'Split me open'. But the song also suggests abusive intrusion by fans, love hounds, and the hounds of love. So is ETM a love song or a frenzied pursuit? ...Love Will Tear Us Apart... Split me open With devotion You put your hands in And rip my heart out Eat the music...Eat The Music and Hounds of Love can be added to KaTe's thanatological passion! ... Eat The Music is like a pack of Love-Hounds going in for the kill... Rip them to pieces... and have your guts all over the floor!KB: "When I was writing the song [Hound of Love] I sorta started coming across this line about hounds and I thought "hounds of love" and the whole idea of being chasing by this love that actually gonna... when it get you it just going to rip you to pieces, [raises voice] you know, and have your guts all over the floor! So this very sort of... being hunted by love, I liked the imagery, I thought it was really good."Radio 1, Classic Albums interview: Hounds Of Love (1992)gaffa.org/reaching/ir85_r1.htmlSplit 'em open With devotion You put your hands in And rip their hearts out...
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jul 25, 2008 23:54:47 GMT
There is a similarity between Eat The music and Hounds Of Love, isn't there? Except in HOL there seems to be more of a death-fear, a fear of being swallowed up and taken apart by the ravenous and glorious force of love - whereas in ETM there is a feeling of the greater ecstasy within all the 'splitting open.' Hounds Of Love seems to somewhat arrive at that feeling in the end, though.
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