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This work is pure creativity without explanations. I couldn't fully describe it, what comes to mind first is the
amount of experimentation that went with the work, but a great album cover really makes for a great tweak.
I am aware that any attempt to analyze the work might not come without an analysis of my own psyche.
It would be introspection. And much in the same way as the rose seems to float in the air, I would bare my
soul and speak my mind out and tell myself, "I can't explain it!"
The rose will not float in the air until you let go of it. This is the real world.
Photography by John Carder Bush. Album produced by Kate Bush.
EMI (all except US), Columbia (US) 1989.
What's always been remarkable about Kate Bush has been the ability to withdraw from the music world, escape
from the machine, and return months or years later with something rejuvenating, original, set apart from
chart-fodder disposable pop. Like David Bowie in the 70s, Bush in the 80s has been one of the true oddities,
exceptions to the rules. Always out of step, always unique.
And always, as The Sensual World implies, provocative. Bells ring as you enter her 'Sensual World', bells of
celebration, of sensual joy. "The communication of music is very much like making love," she once said, so it's
entirely appropriate that she should derive her title track from James Joyce's Ulysses and, in particular, Molly
Bloom's thoughts on sex, sensuality and oysters at 2/6 per dozen.
"Because I couldn't get permission to use a piece of Joyce it gradually turned into the songs about Molly Bloom
the character stepping out of the book, into the real world and the impressions of sensuality," says Kate,
softly, almost childlike. "Rather than being in this two dimensional world, she's free, let loose to touch things,
feel the ground under her feet, the sunsets, just how incredibly sensual a world it is.
Exploring The Sensual World, The Quietus
(A) The Sensual World - Love and Anger - The Fog - Reaching Out - Heads We're Dancing
(B) Deeper Understanding - Between a Man and a Woman - Never Be Mine - Rocket's Tail - This Woman's Work
"The Sensual World" official music video from KateBushMusic on YouTube
www.katebush.com
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