NOCTURN: Cinematic driving references are often featured in KB's work... Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbreak, Fullhouse, Cloudbusting, Hello Earth, You're The One... the on the road movie need to get away…
And NOCTURN is a euphoric escape into nature. Let go of melancholy longing and become panoramic! (But how we long!)
We see KaTe driving into the moonlight, diving deeper and deeper, among the stars, and becoming panoramic...
"...And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools."
"In milky, silky water We swim further and further"
"...Tripping on the water like a laughing girl."
NOCTURN is a moonlit midsummer night's dream. Everyone is sleeping, dreaming, diving into their watery unconscious...
One summer night on Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a moonlight skinny dip...
NOCTURN kinda reminds me of the opening of JAWS, where the girl goes midnight skinny dipping! But what comes up is not Jaws, but the sun over the horizon! KB has conquered her nightmares! And the celebratory ending is nothing short of spectacular! ... This is a fantastic song ...
"All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking"
...'Stop that lyin' and a-sleepin' in bed--get up!'
AERIAL continues the theme of escape and communion, and introduces a tribal gathering of energy to face the everyday…
"What kind of language is this? What kind of language is this?
I can’t hear a word you’re saying Tell me what are you singing
In the sun"
The blackbird seems to have the answer! And KaTe joyously reports back to us:
"All of the birds are laughing All of the birds are laughing
Come on let’s all join in Come on let’s all join in"
"What kind of language is this?" could be quoted from Night of the Demon (1957): MISS HARRINGTON: "What kind of language is this?"
and in DON'T LOOK NOW (1971):
The Seer: You're sad. You're so sad and there's no need to be.
Sister: My sister's psychic.
The Seer: She wants you to know. I've seen her and she wants you to know that she's happy. I've seen your little girl sitting between you and your husband, and she was laughing. Yes. Oh, yes, she's with you. She's with you, my dear. And she's laughing! ... She's wearing a shiny little mac.
Laura Baxter: Christine!
The Seer: Oh, but she's laughing! She's laughing! She's as happy as can be.
So maybe the blackbirds are communicating a reassuring spirit message from the Other Side? ...
KB: "I do have a special fascination for films like Don't Look Now..."
KB: "My favourite is Don't Look Now. I was incredibly impressed by the tension, the drive and the way that every loose end was tied up. I get so irritated by films which leave ideas hanging."
Whatever, KaTe’s laughter suggests a cathartic conversation with a blackbird, like they are truly communicating. Or maybe it evokes a longing to change into a blackbird and to sing merrily and high on the roof in the sun! It's Exhilaring! ...
"I turn into a bird
Carry further than the word is heard..."
And then we’re back to the thumping for the rest of the song and it’s the pounding of our wings as we fly wildly and deliriously through the sunrise. This is an album-closer unquestionably the work of the creator of The Dreaming!
And I agree with the connection with The Big Sky. Both songs seem to deal with catharsis.
Aerial Sky is a wonderful sunset and a wonderful sunrise, as never-ending as the cycle of death and rebirth... A Sky of Honey captures humankind's fascination with the sun trip by day and at night... From Egyptian Nut arching across the big sky, to Newgrange and Stonehenge solstices, to eclipses, the everyday and the beyond.
A Sky of Honey is indeed a Classic Timepiece...
NOCTURN: Cinematic driving references are often featured in KB's work... Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbreak, Fullhouse, Cloudbusting, Hello Earth, You're The One... the on the road movie need to get away…
And NOCTURN is a euphoric escape into nature. Let go of melancholy longing and become panoramic! (But how we long!)
We see KaTe driving into the moonlight, diving deeper and deeper, among the stars, and becoming panoramic...
"...And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools."
"In milky, silky water We swim further and further"
"...Tripping on the water like a laughing girl."
NOCTURN is a moonlit midsummer night's dream. Everyone is sleeping, dreaming, diving into their watery unconscious...
One summer night on Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a moonlight skinny dip...
NOCTURN kinda reminds me of the opening of JAWS, where the girl goes midnight skinny dipping! But what comes up is not Jaws, but the sun over the horizon! KB has conquered her nightmares! And the celebratory ending is nothing short of spectacular! ... This is a fantastic song ...
"All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking"
...'Stop that lyin' and a-sleepin' in bed--get up!'
AERIAL continues the theme of escape and communion, and introduces a tribal gathering of energy to face the everyday…
"What kind of language is this? What kind of language is this? I can’t hear a word you’re saying Tell me what are you singing In the sun"
The blackbird seems to have the answer! And KaTe joyously reports back to us:
"All of the birds are laughing All of the birds are laughing Come on let’s all join in Come on let’s all join in"
"What kind of language is this?" could be quoted from Night of the Demon (1957): MISS HARRINGTON: "What kind of language is this?"
and in DON'T LOOK NOW (1971):
The Seer: You're sad. You're so sad and there's no need to be. Sister: My sister's psychic. The Seer: She wants you to know. I've seen her and she wants you to know that she's happy. I've seen your little girl sitting between you and your husband, and she was laughing. Yes. Oh, yes, she's with you. She's with you, my dear. And she's laughing! ... She's wearing a shiny little mac. Laura Baxter: Christine! The Seer: Oh, but she's laughing! She's laughing! She's as happy as can be.
So maybe the blackbirds are communicating a reassuring spirit message from the Other Side? ...
KB: "I do have a special fascination for films like Don't Look Now..." KB: "My favourite is Don't Look Now. I was incredibly impressed by the tension, the drive and the way that every loose end was tied up. I get so irritated by films which leave ideas hanging."
Whatever, KaTe’s laughter suggests a cathartic conversation with a blackbird, like they are truly communicating. Or maybe it evokes a longing to change into a blackbird and to sing merrily and high on the roof in the sun! It's Exhilaring! ...
"I turn into a bird Carry further than the word is heard..."
And then we’re back to the thumping for the rest of the song and it’s the pounding of our wings as we fly wildly and deliriously through the sunrise. This is an album-closer unquestionably the work of the creator of The Dreaming! And I agree with the connection with The Big Sky. Both songs seem to deal with catharsis.
Aerial Sky is a wonderful sunset and a wonderful sunrise, as never-ending as the cycle of death and rebirth... A Sky of Honey captures humankind's fascination with the sun trip by day and at night... From Egyptian Nut arching across the big sky, to Newgrange and Stonehenge solstices, to eclipses, the everyday and the beyond. A Sky of Honey is indeed a Classic Timepiece...