Aerial (album)

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Kate Bush's eighth studio album, Aerial, is a two-disc set released on November 7, 2005. It is her first new album since 1993. Musicians contributing to the album include former Procol Harum keyboardist Gary Brooker, drummer Steve Sanger, long-time Kate Bush collaborator Michael Kamen, Brazilian percussionist Bosco D'Oliveira, and Rolf Harris.

On November 13, Aerial entered the official UK Album chart at number three. It sold more than 90,000 copies in its first seven days, enough to have taken it to number one most other weeks of the year. Within a month, it had been certified platinum. Within five months of its release, the album had sold more than 1.1 million copies worldwide.

On January 10, 2006, Bush was nominated for two BRIT Awards for Best British Female Solo Artist and Best British Album for Aerial. On January 27, it went up against Demon Days by Gorillaz and Coles Corner by Richard Hawley in the pop category of the South Bank Show's annual arts awards, but was beaten by Hawley.

UK music magazine Mojo named it their third best album of 2005, behind Antony and the Johnsons' I Am a Bird Now and Funeral by The Arcade Fire.

Contents

1 Singles
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 Trivia
5 External links

Singles

The first single from the album was "King of the Mountain". The song makes references to Elvis Presley and the film Citizen Kane. The track was played for the first time on BBC Radio 2 on September 21 2005, and was made available for download as of September 27. The single peaked at number four on the UK singles chart, and number six on the UK Downloads chart.

Track listing

All songs written by Kate Bush

Part One: A Sea of Honey

"King of the Mountain" (4:53)
"[\pi]" (6:09)
"Bertie" (4:18)
"Mrs. Bartolozzi" (5:58)
"How to Be Invisible" (5:32)
"Joanni" (4:56)
"A Coral Room" (6:12)

Part Two: A Sky of Honey

"Prelude" (1:26)
"Prologue" (5:42)
"An Architect's Dream" (4:50)
"The Painter's Link" (1:35)
"Sunset" (5:58)
"Aerial Tal" (1:01)
"Somewhere in Between" (5:00)
"Nocturn" (8:34)
"Aerial" (7:52)

Personnel

Kate Bush: Piano and Keyboards
Peter Erskine, Stuart Elliot, Steve Sanger: Drums
Eberhard Weber, John Giblin, Del Palmer: Bass
Bosco D'Oliveira: Percussion
Dan McIntosh: Electric and Acoustic Guitar
Gary Brooker: Hammond Organ
Rolf Harris: Didgeridoo, The Painter
Lol Creme, Gary Brooker, Paddy Bush: Backing Vocals
Michael Wood: Male Vocal on "A Coral Room"
Chris Hall: Accordion
Richard Cambell, Susan Pell: Viols
Eligio Quinteira: Renaissance Guitar
Robin Jeffrey: Renaissance Percussion
Bertie: The Sun
Del Palmer: Recording and Mixing Engineer
James Guthrie: Mastering
Bill Dunne: "Bertie" String Arrangement
Michael Kamen, London Metropolitan Orchestra: Orchestral Arrangements; Conducted by Michael Kamen at Abbey Road Studios
Simon Rhodes: Engineer
Chris Bolster: Assistant Engineer
Josephine Bartolinni: Italian Translation

Trivia

In the song "[\pi]," Kate Bush sings the digits of Pi to over one hundred decimal places. However, fans have discovered that she actually omits twenty-two of the decimal places.[link]
First single "King of the Mountain" was the first track to be written on the album, back in 1996, nine years before it was eventually released.

External links

Interviews about Aerial:

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