From the painful cries of mothers to a terrifying scream
We recorded it and put it into our machine...
Experiment IV.
So could The Ninth Wave Suite capture, record and input another historical moment of social anxiety?
Watching storms Start to form Over America...
I was there at the birth Out of the cloudburst The head of the tempest...
THE BIRTH OF THE TEMPEST: KB's fifth album, Hounds of Love, was released in September 1985. AIDS was detected in a group of American gay men and entered global consciousness in June 1981. By 1985–1986 it was declared a pandemic as it spread across sub-Saharan Africa (wiki).
The Tragic Chorus on Hello Earth is accredited to Herzog’s "Nosferatu"... The Ninth Wave Suite chronicles a vast array of human emotions, highs and lows. Beneath the surface there are references to: heroin, cocaine, "specials," etc; vulnerability and rashness; sexuality as sin; mass hysteria and moral panic; drowning and the inability to communicate; etc, etc. Moreover, the "Nosferatu" Chorus introduces vampires, plague, madness and death. Does KB use the Tragic Chorus on Hello Earth to reference the social anxiety surrounding HIV/AIDS, just as she referenced The Cold War anxiety in the Breathing Chorus? Gary Hurst, a dancer who worked with Kate in both videos and live appearances, died from AIDS in 1990. He is mentioned by his nickname Bubba in the song Moments Of Pleasure. And Alan Murphy, Kate's regular guitarist for a decade, died from AIDS in 1989. Kate recalls Murph "playing his guitar refrain" in the song Moments of Pleasure. http://gaffa.org/diction/list.html
The 'Get out of the waves! Get out of the water!' could also reference the emerging pandemic. And the 'All you sailors/Life Savers/cruisers ("Get out of the waves/water!")' could warn against prostitution, Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire, promiscuity and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
('Life Saver' is street slang for heroin; 'Taking a cruise' is street slang for Rocket Fuel/Angel dust/PCP; 'Bad go' is street slang for a bad reaction to a drug; http://www.uta.fi/FAST/GC/drugslan.html#L.)
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From the painful cries of mothers to a terrifying scream We recorded it and put it into our machine...
So could The Ninth Wave Suite capture, record and input another historical moment of social anxiety?
Watching storms Start to form Over America... I was there at the birth Out of the cloudburst The head of the tempest...
THE BIRTH OF THE TEMPEST: KB's fifth album, Hounds of Love, was released in September 1985. AIDS was detected in a group of American gay men and entered global consciousness in June 1981. By 1985–1986 it was declared a pandemic as it spread across sub-Saharan Africa (wiki).
The Tragic Chorus on Hello Earth is accredited to Herzog’s "Nosferatu"... The Ninth Wave Suite chronicles a vast array of human emotions, highs and lows. Beneath the surface there are references to: heroin, cocaine, "specials," etc; vulnerability and rashness; sexuality as sin; mass hysteria and moral panic; drowning and the inability to communicate; etc, etc. Moreover, the "Nosferatu" Chorus introduces vampires, plague, madness and death. Does KB use the Tragic Chorus on Hello Earth to reference the social anxiety surrounding HIV/AIDS, just as she referenced The Cold War anxiety in the Breathing Chorus? Gary Hurst, a dancer who worked with Kate in both videos and live appearances, died from AIDS in 1990. He is mentioned by his nickname Bubba in the song Moments Of Pleasure. And Alan Murphy, Kate's regular guitarist for a decade, died from AIDS in 1989. Kate recalls Murph "playing his guitar refrain" in the song Moments of Pleasure. http://gaffa.org/diction/list.html
The 'Get out of the waves! Get out of the water!' could also reference the emerging pandemic. And the 'All you sailors/Life Savers/cruisers ("Get out of the waves/water!")' could warn against prostitution, Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire, promiscuity and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). ('Life Saver' is street slang for heroin; 'Taking a cruise' is street slang for Rocket Fuel/Angel dust/PCP; 'Bad go' is street slang for a bad reaction to a drug; http://www.uta.fi/FAST/GC/drugslan.html#L.)