The double vinyl Aerial comes with lush packaging - large lyric booklet, lined matt black record sleeves and silver-black record center labels. The vinyl run-out features a calligraphy letter 'B' (for Bertie?) or maybe it's a 'CB' (for Catherine Bush?). And the back cover features a drawing suggestive of Kate Bush calculating Pi ("Lesson Time" by Frederic Cayley Robinson, 1921).
"Somewhere in between The waxing and the waning wave
Somewhere in between The night and the daylight"
Day and Night
The album cover references Day and the inner black sleeves suggest Night. Remove the vinyl from its black sleeve and hold the sleeve up to daylight, you see a 'Full Moon'. Hold it up to lamplight, you see an 'eclipsed moon'. Indeed, each time you remove the vinyl from its sleeve, you see the 'Waxing moon'! ...
AERIAL - A SEA OF HONEY
KOTM and HTBI visit Underworld and Otherworldly realms, conjuring up spiritual and ghostly presences. Joanni summons up the past, invoking warrior spirit and the archetypal strength of the martyr. And while Bertie is very much in the present, its Renaissance madrigal is very much in the candlelit past. Bertie is directly followed by Mrs Bartolozzi, a lachrymose storytelling or multi-layered confessional. A Coral Room rocks the boat; and Pi lulls us into the mysterious infinity that is Kate Bush.
These are truly fantastic and wonderful songs!
AERIAL - A SKY OF HONEY
Genesis 1: The Creation
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.
The black vinyl, the black center, the black sleeve...
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
PRELUDE introduces Bertie as The Sun.
“Mummy… Daddy… The day is full of birds. Sounds like they’re saying words...”
But what is Kate saying, muffled within the sound?
Sounds like she's also saying words! ... "Don't grow old guilty..." ?
From the opening, we are in “communion with nature” and with what really matters, away from everyday stresses and absurdities (we’re gonna be laughing about this…) ...
In PROLOGUE, Bertie becomes the Summer, the light of Life, eternal youth, and a lovely afternoon...
Endymion. Immortal Rome. The Lark Ascending... Just Great!
(ENDYMION, John Keats, 1818.)
Can you see the lark ascending?
The LARK symbolizes freedom, ardor, joy, youth, happiness, and the desire to be happy. According to Near Eastern mythology, the lark was the first creature to live upon the earth. Even today, he carries his father or creator inside the crest of his head. In other regions, the lark became associated with the "Spirit of the Wheat" and eventually with Christ who proclaimed, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever" (John 6:51; see also John 6:32-50). This bird's use as a symbol of Christ was strengthened by the fact that it helps rid wheat fields of locust eggs, caterpillars, and the harvest beetle - destructive creatures which were symbols of the devil. Because he makes his nest on the ground, the lark, like Christ is considered an intermediary between heaven and earth and a symbol of the marriage of heaven and earth.
Because the lark soars straight into the heavens and, upon reaching a great height, hovers there singing a joyful song, this bird is considered an emblem of glad prayers to the Creator inspired by the joys of being alive. He is believed to pray for the sowers of the wheat fields and, allegorically, for the sowers of Christ's fields. Its association with prayer makes this bird a symbol of the priesthood. In Scotland, it is said that the song of the lark may be understood by any person who lies quietly in the fields and listens to it. A British superstition states that drinking three lark's eggs will give one a beautiful singing voice. The singing lark is especially a symbol of the praying Christ as He ascends into Heaven, blessing His disciples (Lk 24:50-51; see also Acts 1;9; Mk 16:19).
The Lark Ascending is a popular musical piece written in 1914 by the famous British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Featuring a prominent solo violin part, the composition is intended to convey the lyrical and almost eternally English beauty of the scene in which a skylark rises into the heavens above some sunny down and attains such height that it becomes barely visible to those on the ground below. The First World War halted composition, but the work was revised in 1920 and it was premièred under conductor Adrian Boult in 1921.
The double vinyl Aerial comes with lush packaging - large lyric booklet, lined matt black record sleeves and silver-black record center labels. The vinyl run-out features a calligraphy letter 'B' (for Bertie?) or maybe it's a 'CB' (for Catherine Bush?). And the back cover features a drawing suggestive of Kate Bush calculating Pi ("Lesson Time" by Frederic Cayley Robinson, 1921).
"Somewhere in between The waxing and the waning wave Somewhere in between The night and the daylight"
Day and Night The album cover references Day and the inner black sleeves suggest Night. Remove the vinyl from its black sleeve and hold the sleeve up to daylight, you see a 'Full Moon'. Hold it up to lamplight, you see an 'eclipsed moon'. Indeed, each time you remove the vinyl from its sleeve, you see the 'Waxing moon'! ...
AERIAL - A SEA OF HONEY
KOTM and HTBI visit Underworld and Otherworldly realms, conjuring up spiritual and ghostly presences. Joanni summons up the past, invoking warrior spirit and the archetypal strength of the martyr. And while Bertie is very much in the present, its Renaissance madrigal is very much in the candlelit past. Bertie is directly followed by Mrs Bartolozzi, a lachrymose storytelling or multi-layered confessional. A Coral Room rocks the boat; and Pi lulls us into the mysterious infinity that is Kate Bush. These are truly fantastic and wonderful songs!
AERIAL - A SKY OF HONEY
Genesis 1: The Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.
The black vinyl, the black center, the black sleeve...
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
PRELUDE introduces Bertie as The Sun. “Mummy… Daddy… The day is full of birds. Sounds like they’re saying words...” But what is Kate saying, muffled within the sound? Sounds like she's also saying words! ... "Don't grow old guilty..." ?
From the opening, we are in “communion with nature” and with what really matters, away from everyday stresses and absurdities (we’re gonna be laughing about this…) ...
In PROLOGUE, Bertie becomes the Summer, the light of Life, eternal youth, and a lovely afternoon... Endymion. Immortal Rome. The Lark Ascending... Just Great!
(ENDYMION, John Keats, 1818.)
Can you see the lark ascending?
The LARK symbolizes freedom, ardor, joy, youth, happiness, and the desire to be happy. According to Near Eastern mythology, the lark was the first creature to live upon the earth. Even today, he carries his father or creator inside the crest of his head. In other regions, the lark became associated with the "Spirit of the Wheat" and eventually with Christ who proclaimed, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever" (John 6:51; see also John 6:32-50). This bird's use as a symbol of Christ was strengthened by the fact that it helps rid wheat fields of locust eggs, caterpillars, and the harvest beetle - destructive creatures which were symbols of the devil. Because he makes his nest on the ground, the lark, like Christ is considered an intermediary between heaven and earth and a symbol of the marriage of heaven and earth.
Because the lark soars straight into the heavens and, upon reaching a great height, hovers there singing a joyful song, this bird is considered an emblem of glad prayers to the Creator inspired by the joys of being alive. He is believed to pray for the sowers of the wheat fields and, allegorically, for the sowers of Christ's fields. Its association with prayer makes this bird a symbol of the priesthood. In Scotland, it is said that the song of the lark may be understood by any person who lies quietly in the fields and listens to it. A British superstition states that drinking three lark's eggs will give one a beautiful singing voice. The singing lark is especially a symbol of the praying Christ as He ascends into Heaven, blessing His disciples (Lk 24:50-51; see also Acts 1;9; Mk 16:19).
The Lark Ascending is a popular musical piece written in 1914 by the famous British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Featuring a prominent solo violin part, the composition is intended to convey the lyrical and almost eternally English beauty of the scene in which a skylark rises into the heavens above some sunny down and attains such height that it becomes barely visible to those on the ground below. The First World War halted composition, but the work was revised in 1920 and it was premièred under conductor Adrian Boult in 1921.