Article 3859 of rec.music.gaffa: Path: ut-emx!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Interview Episode 1: Kate and the Trio Bulgarika Message-ID: <4501.8910191453@r5.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: 19 Oct 89 14:53:08 GMT Article-I.D.: r5.4501.8910191453 Posted: Thu Oct 19 09:53:08 1989 Sender: news@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 109 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Steve Wallis (I tried to post this two days ago, but haven't seen it yet.) Kate Bush was interviewed by Roger Scott on Radio One on Saturday 14th October. I unfortunately missed the start of the interview, I just tuned in by accident, and only realised it was KT when I heard a reference to Bulgaria. What impressed me most about this interview was how excited and relaxed KT sounded. She obviously really enjoyed this interview, quite a contrast to the NME interview IED posted recently. She was very open and revealing, really expressing her feelings. The interview was rather long and I will post it as a series of several episodes. Here is a transcription of the first part of the interview I heard, at approximately 5.50pm. KT talks about the Trio Bulgarika and explains _Rocket's_Tail_. Steve. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- KT: They all come from different parts of Bulgaria, they all come from little villages and they're very earthy people. They've all lived very full lives, and they work so hard. I've never worked with such hard-working professional people, and I've never worked with women before on that level either which I found fabulous. It was very exciting for me working with women creatively. <_Never_Be_Mine_ is played> KT: That whole process was incredible because I was really scared, I didn't know if it was going to work. We arrived in Bulgaria, and they didn't speak a word of English, and we didn't speak a word of Bulgarian, and the communication was really stunted to start with. Within 10 minutes they welcomed us into their house, so affectionate, and they sat down and sang one of their songs for us. It was a beautiful song, just the three of them sitting opposite this kitchen table. The eldest one Eva picked up this telephone and listened to the dialling tone and went , and they all took their note off the dialling tone . And then they just burst into song and it was the most beautiful thing. It's very rarely that I'm moved by music enough to want to cry, and within minutes I was sitting there with tears running down my cheeks. I think in some ways this was how we communicated, not that it was that extreme all the time but it was very much emotional communication between us, no words could be used really, and they loved the fact that we were so moved, and working in the studio consisted of cuddles mainly rather than long conversations and it was wonderful. A really special experience, I wouldn't have missed it for the world, it definitely affected me in a big way. I'm so honoured to have worked with them, really just so honoured with them as people as well as musicians, because the music speaks for itself. It's just so incredible to be with people like that. RS: What would be your choice for the song that would best demonstrate these voices? KT: Most definitely _Rocket's_Tail_. It shows the trio off the most, and sometimes when they're singing, if you're in the same room as them when they're singing, you can hear the air cracking, it's like there's so much harmonic information in their voices . RS: Tell me about that song then. KT: About _Rocket's_Tail_? Oh God, you would ask me about that one . I wrote this for the trio, really, musically, in that I wanted a song that could really show them off. The other two songs that they appear on were already structured and in a way they had to very much fit around the song's structure to become a part of it, but this song they were there en masse, really, the whole song was based around them. And I wrote it on a synthesiser with a choir sound and just sang along. We put John's on and I had no idea if their voices were going to work on it at all, really, so the whole thing hung on the fact of whether when we went out to Bulgaria, whether it worked or not. And the arranger we worked with out there was such a brilliant man. In some ways, I think that the fact that we didn't speak the same language made our communication much easier because he seemed to know exactly what I wanted, and, really, just after a few hours he was coming up with the most incredible tunes, and I just had to say "Oh yes, I like that one," "Er, no, not too kean on that one," "Umm, that's lovely!" and just go away and write it out. It was incredible, I've never worked like that before, so quickly with someone I've never met before. It was really exciting to find that kind of chemistry. RS: Rocket is one of your cats. KT: Rocket *is* one of my cats, and he was the inspiration for the subject matter for the song, because he's dead cute . And it's very strange subject matter because the song isn't exactly about Rocket, it's kind of inspired by him and for him, but the song, it's about anything. I guess it's saying there's nothing wrong with being right here at this moment, and just enjoying this moment to its absolute , and if that's it, that's OK, you know. And it's kind of using the idea of a rocket that's so exciting for maybe 3 seconds and then it's gone , you know that's it, but so what, it had 3 seconds of absolutely wonderful... <_Rocket's_Tail_ is played> RS: Is _Rocket's_Tail_ by Kate Bush, from her new album _The_Sensual_World_. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be continued... \ / // \ // ---------------------------- \ / /\ // / \ // / | Steve Wallis | \ / / /// / / \ // / / | | \ \/ //\\/ / \ / \/ / | stevew@uk.ac.man.cs.r5 | \ /\ // \\/ \/ \/ ---------------------------- \/ \/