Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
Жанр: Rock, Female Vocal
Год выхода альбома: 2011
Год выпуска диска: 2011
Производитель диска: UK - Fish People Records - FPLP007
Аудио кодек: flac
Тип рипа: tracks
Формат записи: 24/96
Формат раздачи: 24/96
Продолжительность: 60:05
Треклист:
A1 Snowflake - 9:46
A2 Lake Tahoe - 11:08
B1 Misty - 13:41
C1 Wild Man - 6:58
C2 Snowed In At Wheeler Street - 8:05
D1 50 Words For Snow - 8:18
D2 Among Angels - 6:48
Описание:
50 Words For Snow is Kate Bush’s first album since ‘Aerial’ 7 years ago. Very much an album in it’s own vein, long, drawn out tunes that lead the listener into quiet backwaters of sound whilst gently disturbing your thoughts. Pretty much exactly what all Kate Bush fans have been waiting for. This rip presented from very well made 180 gram pressings.
От Euripides:
For Bush fans the 1980′s wouldn’t have been bearable without her, I subscribe to that way of thinking. Love her stuff and really dig her attitude towards music. Undoubtedly the long sabbatical she took to spend more time with her family has made her less familiar to a new generation of listeners so this album really goes out to her long-time fans, and it’s a very nice album too. Clocking in at just over an hour for 7 songs you get the idea that she’s not banging out top 20 singles here, and that’s very much the case. This is a ‘concept’ album in much the same way that her ‘Hounds of Love’ and ‘The Dreaming’ were, but this time you get gently swept away with the concept rather than being made to think too hard about it. There’s nothing overtly cryptic here, though her predelictions for the strange do pop up here and there, and the guest artiste roster is mildly diverting at times. So how is Kate on this album? Well, her piano playing is quite superb, mellow, progressive and absolutely spot on. Her singing? well, heh, the first few times I listened to the track ‘Snowflake’ I thought it was just Kate’s older voice wavering a little but when the ‘I am Skyyyyyy’ lyric hit, I thought, how in the hell can a woman that age sing like that? So it came as a pleasant surprise to realize this was in fact Kate’s son Albert! Man, has he inherited or what? Anyway, Kate’s on fine singing form too and it’s a quiet, contemplative feeling that you’re left with. Good job, Kate. Good job Albert, Steve, Elton etc. Nice. Very nice indeed.
Описание от Allmusic.com (9/10):
Kate Bush’s 50 Words for Snow follows Director’s Cut, a dramatically reworked collection of catalog material, by six months. This set is all new, her first such venture since 2005′s Aerial. The are only seven songs here, but the album clocks in at an hour. Despite the length of the songs, and perhaps because of them, it is easily the most spacious, sparsely recorded offering in her catalog. Its most prominent sounds are Bush’s voice, her acoustic piano, and Steve Gadd’s gorgeous drumming — though other instruments appear (as do some minimal classical orchestrations). With songs centered on winter, 50 Words for Snow engages the natural world and myth — both Eastern and Western — and fantasy. It is abstract, without being the least bit difficult to embrace. It commences with “Snowflake,” with lead vocals handled by her son Bertie. Bush’s piano, crystalline and shimmering in the lower middle register, establishes a harmonic pattern to carry the narrative: the journey of a snowflake from the heavens to a single human being’s hand, and in its refrain (sung by Bush), the equal anticipation of the receiver. “Lake Tahoe” features choir singers Luke Roberts and Michael Wood in a Michael Nyman-esque arrangement, introducing Bush’s slippery vocal as it relates the tale of a female who drowned in the icy lake and whose spirit now haunts it. Bush’s piano and Gadd’s kit are the only instruments. “Misty,” the set’s longest — and strangest — cut, is about a woman’s very physical amorous tryst with, bizarrely, a snowman. Despite its unlikely premise, the grain of longing expressed in Bush’s voice — with bassist Danny Thompson underscoring it — is convincing. Her jazz piano touches on Vince Guaraldi in its vamp. The subject is so possessed by the object of her desire, the morning’s soaked but empty sheets propel her to a window ledge to seek her melted lover in the winter landscape. “Wild Man,” introduced by the sounds of whipping winds, is one of two uptempo tracks here, an electronically pulse-driven, synth-swept paean to the Tibetan Kangchenjunga Demon, or “Yeti.” Assisted by the voice of Andy Fairweather Low, its protagonist relates fragments of expedition legends and alleged encounters with the elusive creature. Her subject possesses the gift of wildness itself; she seeks to protect it from the death wish of a world which, through its ignorance, fears it. On “Snowed in at Wheeler Street,” Bush is joined in duet by Elton John. Together they deliver a compelling tale of would-be lovers encountering one other in various (re)incarnations through time, only to miss connection at the moment of, or just previous to, contact. Tasteful, elastic electronics and Gadd’s tom-toms add texture and drama to the frustration in the singers’ voices, creating twinned senses: of urgency and frustration. The title track — the other uptempo number — is orchestrated by loops, guitars, basses, and organic rhythms that push the irrepressible Stephen Fry to narrate 50 words associated with snow in various languages, urgently prodded by Bush. Whether it works as a “song” is an open question. The album closes with “Among Angels,” a skeletal ballad populated only by Bush’s syncopated piano and voice. 50 Words for Snow is such a strange pop record, it’s all but impossible to find peers. While it shares sheer ambition with Scott Walker’s The Drift and PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake, it sounds like neither; Bush’s album is equally startling because its will toward the mysterious and elliptical is balanced by its beguiling accessibility.
Музыканты:
Kate Bush: Vocals, Bass, Piano
Steve Gadd: Drums
Dam McIntosh: Guitar
Danny Thompson: Bass (B1)
Elton John: Vocals (C2)
Del Palmer: Bass (A1)
John Giblin: Bass (C1,C2,D1)
Albert McIntosh: Lead Vocals (A1)
Michael Woods, Stefan Roberts: Vocals (A2)
Andy Fairwether Low: Vocals (C1)
Stephen Fry: Vocals (D1)
Над альбомом работали:
Written and produced by Kate Bush
Recorded by Del Palmer
Additional recording by Stephen W. Tayler
Mixed by Stephen W. Tayler
Assisted by Stanley Gabriel
Assistants: Jim Jones, Robert Houston, Patrick Phillips, & Kris Burton
Mastered by Doug Sax and James Guthrie @ The Mastering Lab, California
Orchestral arrangements by and conducted by Jonathan Tunick
Orchestral sessions recorded at Abbey Road Studios
Recorded by Simon Rhodes
Assisted by Chris Bolster & John Barrett
Дополнительная информация:
О релизе: рип от Euripides
Подробно о диске:
Euripides писал(а):
A++ with gold stars. If only all vinyl was made this way. 180 gram, clean as a whistle, flat as a pancake, on-centre, nearly perfect except for very, very stray little clicks. Hardly had to do a thing. Nice. Mastered with great skill by Doug Sax at TML (The Mastering Lab) and all stamps bear the TML-M mark.
Технические подробности винил-рипа
VPI HW-17F Vacuum Record Cleaner
Technics SL-1210 T/T, Custom power supply,
Rega RB 300 Tonearm,
Denon DL304 M/C Cartridge
NAD 3130 M/C Stage
M-Audio Profire 610 A/D
Adobe audition 3.0
Clean records, rip (PCM@96/32), remove subsonic (-18Hz)
Manual and carefully targeted automatic de-clicking in software. I make sure this doesn’t damage natural clicks.
Occasional use of noise masking techniques such as fading sampled groove noise to mono during track changes, etc.
Normalize whole sides to 100%, Split tracks
FLAC, MD5, M3U, Discogs Tagging, DR, RAR, +Redbook (16-bit dithered in Audition), FTP
Dynamic Range Analysis
Код:
foobar2000 1.1.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2011-12-11 00:12:46
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Analyzed: Kate Bush / 50 Words For Snow
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.92 dB -16.63 dB 8:19 ?-50 Words For Snow
DR13 -1.17 dB -18.81 dB 6:49 ?-Among Angels
DR13 -0.92 dB -20.04 dB 11:08 ?-Lake Tahoe
DR13 -0.91 dB -18.76 dB 13:41 ?-Misty
DR13 -0.91 dB -21.01 dB 8:06 ?-Snowed In At Wheeler Street
DR13 -4.23 dB -22.06 dB 9:47 ?-Snowflake
DR15 -3.19 dB -20.96 dB 6:58 ?-Wild Man
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Number of tracks: 7
Official DR value: DR13
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2705 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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