Aerial - 2005 UK EMI label 16-track 2LP set - Incl. Booklet

Very rare 2005 UK EMI label 16-track 2LP set - eccentric, sensual, poetic and playful British singer and songwriter with the subtle metaphors and sublime palette of expressive vocal textures' 1st album in twelve years - since 1993's 'The Red Shoes' - incorporating elements of rock and reggae as well as folk, classical and renaissance music.

Whereas Bush' more normal focus is fantasies, personifications, ghosts, mysteries, angels and other immortals, 'Aerial' is more an ode to her everyday life and abstractions - divided equally between a record simply being a collection of more unrelated songs - entitiled 'A Sea of Honey' and including the single 'King of the Mountain' - and the 'A Sky Of Honey' part, which is a suite dwelling in the experience of outdoor adventures on a single summer day...

Vinyls are manufactured as an 180 gram pressing - packed in front stickered gatefold picture cover - complete with picture booklet.

Condition: 2xVG++ (Vinyls)/VG++ (Labels)/2xM- (Inner Sleeves)/M- (Booklet)/VG++ (Cover):
Vinyls are sublime - high lustre and hardly any signs of play or handling.

Side 1 label for record 1 and Side 2 label for Record 2 have a single light, simple, small and superficial spindletrace. Record 2 has a single, hardly visible sleeve line in the otherwise superlustros vinyl, whereas vinyl on Record 1 is plain mint - looks like an album tried on and then stored.

Inner sleeves are mint - as is booklet. Cover has the utmost faint opening corners rubbing and cover is otherwise mint - a simply superb copy.


Tracklisting:

A Sea of Honey:

Side 1:
1. King Of The Mountain
2. Pi
3. Bertie
4. Mrs. Bartolozzi

Side 2:
1. How To Be Invisible
2. Joanni
3. A Coral Room

A Sky of Honey:

Side 2:

1. Prelude
2. Prologue
3. An Architect's Dream
4. The Painter's Link
5. Sunset
6. Aerial Tal

Side 4:
1. Somewhere In Between
2. Nocturn
3. Aerial

Credits:
Kate Bush - vocals, piano and keyboards
Peter Erskine, Stuart Elliott, Steve Sanger - drums
Eberhard Weber, John Giblin, Del Palmer - bass
Bosco D'Oliveira - percussion
Dan McIntosh - electric and acoustic guitars
Gary Brooker - hammond organ
Rolf Harris - didgeridoo
Lol Creme, Gary Brooker, Paddy Bush - backing vocals
Michael Wood - male vocal on "A Coral Room"
Chris Hall - accordion
Richard Campbell, Susan Pell - viols
Eligio Quinteiro - renaissance guitar
Robin Jeffrey - renaissance percussion
Rolf Harris - as The Painter (a character in "A Sky of Honey")
Bertie (Kate Bush's son) - as The Sun (a character in "A Sky of Honey")
Bill Dunne - "Bertie" string arrangement
Michael Kamen - orchestral arrangements|

London Metropolitan Orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen at Abbey Road Studios

Technical Credits:
Kate Bush - Production
Del Palmer - recording and mixing engineer
James Guthrie - mastering
Simon Rhodes - engineer
Chris Bolster - assistant engineer
Chris Bellman - Lacquer Cut
James Guthrie - Mastering
Josephine Bartolinni - Italian translation

Artwork:
Kate Bush & Peacock - Cover Design
Albert McIntosh aka Bertie - Artwork [Drawings]
Randy Olson - Indus Bird Mask Photography
Trevor Leighton - Kate Portrait Photography
John Carder Bush - Washing Photography