Aerial

by Kate Bush

Type: Album
Released: 7 November 2005
Label: EMI
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 1:19:59
Community rating: 3.93/5 from 15 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Returning after 12 years of silence, Kate Bush delivers a sprawling double album ode to domestic life and nature. 'Aerial' is split into 'A Sea of Honey' and 'A Sky of Honey', blending piano ballads with bird song and sunlight. It is a blissful, masterful comeback.

Genres

Art Pop

Descriptors: nature, theatrical, literary, conceptual, ambitious

Tracklist

King Of The Mountain (04:52)
Pi (06:09)
Bertie (04:19)
Mrs. Bartolozzi (05:58)
How To Be Invisible (05:32)
Joanni (04:56)
A Coral Room (06:12)
Prelude (01:25)
Prologue (05:41)
An Architect's Dream (04:54)
The Painter's Link (01:35)
Sunset (05:58)
Aerial Tal (01:01)
Somewhere In Between (05:04)
Nocturn (08:29)
Aerial (07:54)

Credits

Chris Hall - accordion
Eligio Quinteiro - acoustic guitar [renaissance guitar]
Michael Kamen - arranged by [orchestral arrangements]
Gary Brooker - backing vocals
Lol Creme - backing vocals
Paddy Bush - backing vocals
Del Palmer - bass
Eberhard Weber - bass
John Giblin - bass
Kate Bush - design
Peacock - design
Rolf Harris - didgeridoo
Peter Erskine - drums
Steve Sanger - drums
Stuart Elliott - drums
Danny McIntosh - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Chris Bolster - engineer [abbey road studios - assisted by]
Simon Rhodes - engineer [abbey road studios]
Albert McIntosh - illustration [drawings]
James Guthrie - mastered by
London Metropolitan Orchestra - orchestra
James Nathaniel Southall - painting ['fishermen' - reproduced with permission of the barrow family]
Joao Bosco De Oliveira - percussion
Robin Jeffrey - percussion [renaissance percussion]
Randy Olson - photography by ['indus bird mask']
John Carder Bush - photography by ['washing']
Trevor Leighton - photography by [kate portrait]
Josephine Bartolinni - translated by [italian translation]
Richard Campbell - viol
Susanna Pell - viol