{"id":5085,"date":"2012-02-29T01:59:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2012-02-29T01:59:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T08:59:29","slug":"kate-bush-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/kate-bush-2\/","title":{"rendered":"KATE BUSH"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"KATE BUSH<\/strong><\/h1>\n

For this pioneering songstress, inspiration literally fell from the sky<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cShimmerglisten.\u201d \u201cCreaky-creaky.\u201d \u201cBoomerangablanca.\u201d The Eskimos don\u2019t really have 50 words for snow, but Kate Bush does. Featuring guest turns from Elton John, Stephen Fry and Bush\u2019s 12-year-old son Bertie, her new 50 Words for Snow <\/em>album is a quietly riveting meditation on the white stuff. \u201cI started thinking about how it feels when it snows, and that gradually gave birth to these songs,\u201d says the native of Kent, England. Despite increasingly lengthy gestations between new albums\u2014and the fact that she hasn\u2019t toured since 1979\u2014singer, songwriter and pianist Bush, 53, continues to inspire and intrigue new generations of listeners.<\/p>\n

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How did you create the 50 words?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was difficult at first, but I got into the flow of it. It\u2019s interesting about these made-up words. I think people have a fascination for them\u2014maybe even more so in our world now, where everything is so easy to pin down. You just have to go on Google and there are all these explanations for everything.<\/p>\n

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What drew you to snow?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s got a powerful presence and a magical quality. Also, I do like working within a theme. Sometimes it can be quite difficult, but with this album it seemed to come quite easily and quickly. Each time I start a new album it\u2019s a new adventure. I don\u2019t want to just carry on making the same record I\u2019ve made before. I\u2019m always looking for<\/p>\n

something new and different.<\/p>\n

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Is the album format vital to you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Absolutely. That\u2019s how I grew up with music. When I was in my teens, it was a really exciting thing to save up your money and go buy an album. It was a special event. You would enter the world of the artist you liked and would spend some time with them. Not just shuttling from one track to another, like now. It was a journey, a relationship that you built with that person\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

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How was working with Elton?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a fan since I was a girl. My biggest dream was to be able to play the piano like he does. To actually have him in the studio singing\u2014and singing so beautifully\u2014was special. And I loved hearing his voice in a lower register on \u201cSnowed in at Wheeler Street.\u201d It\u2019s very emotive.<\/p>\n

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What shaped your vocal style?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again, when I first started writing songs, Elton was my big inspiration. At that time most well-known musicians were guitar-based writers, so as a pianist I related to Elton. Another thing that gave me a different sound was that I sang with an English accent. It\u2019s more common now, but if you go back a few years I can\u2019t think of many English singers who didn\u2019t sing with an American accent. It\u2019s interesting that so many English singers chose to do that. But it\u2019s natural that if you hear something you like it becomes an influence and an inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Will you ever tour again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. I loved to tour, all that time ago. It was great fun, and I had planned to do more. But I just went into this process of making albums. I became more involved in production, and they became more time-consuming. Playing live is wonderful, because of the interaction with the audience. But what I love about making albums is that you\u2019re starting afresh and creating. I find that an exciting process.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s next?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a long period of intense work. So now I\u2019d like to take a break and spend time doing other things, like watching movies, seeing friends and sleeping.<\/p>\n

\u2013Bill DeMain<\/p>\n

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