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Kate Bush has re-recorded some of her old material for release on a new album this May.

The elusive singer is revisiting a selection of songs from her 1989 album 'The Sensual World' and 1993's 'The Red Shoes'. The new record will be named 'Director's Cut' and will come out on May 16.

Rather than completely re-recording the old tracks, Bush's spokesperson said she has reworked elements of the songs with the aim of making the album an audio 'director's cut' of her old material.

A reworked single, 'Deeper Understanding', which originally appeared on 'The Sensual World', will be released in April.

The album will be released digitally, on a CD, on vinyl and in a case-bound book.

Bush's spokesperson has said that the fame-shunning singer is working on further new material, although no release plan has been announced.

Its interesting that she's chosen those two 'four-year gap' albums rather than any of her earliest work, (I've been listening to Lionheart which I used to consider one of her best, but now I feel that its really quite twee in places).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/11/kate-bush-new-album

quote:- "Bush has not commented on the release, but Graeme Thomson, author of a recent biography, Under the Ivy, said: "It's telling that she has chosen to build something new on the skeletons of her old songs. Although her music is frequently defined by a haunting nostalgia and repeat excursions to the shadowy dream country of childhood, in her attitude to her work she has always been resolutely forward-facing."

I'm hoping that reconnecting with her earlier work is a means to clearing the stage for a new path, but I doubt that the Directors Cut, or any new album will end up sounding particularly radical.

I reckon she's working backwards starting from the end... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush_discography#Studio_albums
:rolleyes:

Sample's up:

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Roll on 16 May 2011

on facebook:

Cor!

Facebook; "Director's Cut will feature guest musicians including: Steve Gadd, Danny Thompson and, on backing vocals, Mica Paris - all vocals and drums are entirely new performances"

The Bush is back

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4142377-kate-bush-is-back--everybody-look-busy

Full length re-purposed version of Deeper Understanding

Sadly, I am not enjoying that at all, messy, messy, messy, and why on earth would the voice that is Kate Bush place auto-tune in such a context, its like a world class chef serving up a ready-meal as a side dish next to their signature food :rolleyes: