Kate Bush – The Dreaming (1982/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:21 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
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.
Tracklist:
1. Sat In Your Lap (2018 Remaster) 03:29
2. There Goes A Tenner (2018 Remaster) 03:24
3. Pull Out The Pin (2018 Remaster) 05:25
4. Suspended In Gaffa (2018 Remaster) 03:54
5. Leave It Open (2018 Remaster) 03:19
6. The Dreaming (2018 Remaster) 04:40
7. Night Of The Swallow (2018 Remaster) 05:22
8. All The Love (2018 Remaster) 04:28
9. Houdini (2018 Remaster) 03:49
10. Get Out Of My House (2018 Remaster) 05:25
Personnel:
Kate Bush, vocals, piano, Fairlight synth (1,2,5-10), Yamaha CS80 (2), strings (4)
Brian Bath, guitar (3)
Ian Bairnson, acoustic guitar (5), backing vocals (1)
Alan Murphy, guitar (5,10)
Paddy Bush, mandolin (4), strings (4), percussion (1), backing vocals (1,6,10), bullroarer (6)
Geoff Downes, synth (1)
Dave Lawson, synclavier (2,4), string co-arranger (9)
Liam O’Flynn, uillean pipes & penny whistle (7)
Sean Keane, fiddle (7)
Donal Lunny, bouzouki (7)
Rolf Harris, didgeridoo (6)
Del Palmer, bass (2,4,8), fretless & 8-string basses (7), voice “Rosabel Believe” (9)
Eberhard Weber, bass (9)
Jimmy Bain, bass (1,5,10)
Danny Thompson, double bass (3)
Preston Heyman, drums (1,3,5,10), percussion (1)
Stuart Elliot, drums (2,4,6-9), percussion (4,8)
Esmail Sheikh, talking drum (10)
Stewart Arnold, backing vocals (1)
Gary Hurst, backing vocals (1)
David Gilmour, backing vocals (3)
Percy Edwards, voices (6)
Gosfield Goers, voices (6)
Richard Thornton, choirboy vocals (8)
Gordon Farrell, voice “Houdini” (9)
Paul Hardiman, voice “Eeyore” (10)
Produced by Kate Bush
Digitally remastered
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