By Barry Walters
When Kate Bush debuted in early 1978 with "Wuthering Heights," arguably pops most uncanny ballad,she arrived as England's first and perhaps only out of the box genius. Several years earlier,a publicist and Bush family friend gave Pink Floyds Dave Gilmour a demo of over 50 songs recorded when she was only 15.
On this and 78's follow up Lionheart, Bush sang fearlessly of religion, incest,murder,homosexuality,and much more.Theres room for a life in your womb,woman,"she crooned with the earnest of a Michigan Womyns Music Festival radical,and did so while much of Europe was watching.
Variety film review:-
An outwardly normal suburban Perth couple who abduct,torture,and murder schoolgirls must face their funny games in debuting writer-director Ben Youngs genre bending powerhouse thriller "Hounds of love".
It's Christmas time 1987 in the sun-baked western Australian city as Evelyn and John White (Emma Booth,Stephen Curry) brutalise and kill a teenager in a discretely photographed sequence that reveals little blood but a chilling routine.
Funding organisation Screenwest claims the film is the first to be developed,filmed,and posted entirely in the state of WesternAustralia. This bodes well for the local industry, as "Hounds of love" is a calling card not soon forgotten.
Rolling stone:-
Most of the love songs on talking Book have a romantic idealism reflected in the shimmering,translucent quality of music."You Are the sunshine of My Life," "You and I (We Can Conquer the world)," " Lookin' for Another Pure Love"and "I believe (When I fall in love it will Be forever)"all share this quality without becoming redundant.Stevie Wonders second album this year is in many ways a reprise with variations of the first,Music of my mind. Both are ambitious, richly-textured,almost entirely the work of Wonder himself,who produced(with assistance,primarily on the Moogwork, from Malcolm Cecil and Robert Morgouleff),composed the music and all but a few of the lyrics,plays the bulk of instrumental tracks (aided here and there on Talking Book by eight musicians including,on one cut,Jeff Beck and Buzzy Feiten)and sings densely multi-tracked.
Pop matters:-
Okay.As concepts go,this one is unusual to say the least. While its common for musicians to record songs they love that are written by other musicians,I've never heard a singer re-releasing another singers entire record.That,in a nutshell,describes Macy Grays version of Talking Book,Stevie Wonders seminal 1972 album and the one that contains a couple of songs that even non-Stevie fans will recognise ("You are the Sunshine of my life ","Superstition").
New statesman :-
It says that it has been 40years since Stevie wonder showed off the otherwordly range of this keyboard.
The notes made by this made by this unobtrusive little rectangle sparkle through the 1970s like space dust falling on the disparate worlds of a musical Galaxy.In the late 1950s and early 1960s Hohner-best known for harmonics-had been experimenting with portable versions of familiar keyboard types.
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Kate bush Hounds of love and Running up that hill are very good songs and Some of us had been practicing in Band workshops and learning about it in other lessons such as context classes.
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