Kate Bush Sensual World

firby · 1st February 2007, 04:47 PM

Hey.

From the discography I noticed you did Kate Bush Sensual World. That is an amazing piece of work.

Can you tell us a little about how it came about, how it was recorded, and what it was like to work with Kate Bush ?

Kevin Killen · 2nd February 2007, 08:02 PM

Firby,

Well i had first met Kate when she travelled to Dublin to work with some local traditional Irsih musicians in the early 1980's. My friend Bill Whelan helped arrange those sessions at Windmill Lane.

Then we met up again on the "So" album, her vocals on "Don't Give Up" still bring me to tears.

I had just finshed working with Elvis Costello on "Spike" and Kate asked me to come to London to hear her new album. We sat and listened to all the mixes, which sounded fantastic to my ear. Kate asked my opinion of the mixes to which i replied." the mixes are wonderful, but it still sounds to me like the songs are unfinished". A big smile came across her face at that moment ( not what you would normally expect from the artist at that moment ) and she told me she felt exactly the same way. Apparently her label thought it was finished !

So I was hired to help engineer the rest, provide some perspective and mix the songs. Over the next six months i would travel to her studio located outside london for a period of a number of weeks at a time and record, edit , rearrange new elements and vocals and generally get the mixes in place so that we could complete the project.

She is truly one the loveliest, thoughful, sweet artists I have ever worked with. She is incredibly passionate about what she does. I got to record a sixty piece string section in Studio 1 at Abbey Road ( talk about pressure) and the Trio Balkana , these wonderfully gifted Bulgarian singers who could produce two or three notes out of their mouths. Absolutely astonishing. At the end of three days of working with them, we sat around the main room in Angel Studios in North London, them singing these accapella love songs that reduced Kate , her brother Paddy and myself to tears. Such a special moment .

The record was done all ananlog, mostly at kate's private studio.

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Kevin Killen engineer / producer / mixer Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 312	Firby, Well i had first met Kate when she travelled to Dublin to work with some local traditional Irsih musicians in the early 1980's. My friend Bill Whelan helped arrange those sessions at Windmill Lane. Then we met up again on the "So" album, her vocals on "Don't Give Up" still bring me to tears. I had just finshed working with Elvis Costello on "Spike" and Kate asked me to come to London to hear her new album. We sat and listened to all the mixes, which sounded fantastic to my ear. Kate asked my opinion of the mixes to which i replied." the mixes are wonderful, but it still sounds to me like the songs are unfinished". A big smile came across her face at that moment ( not what you would normally expect from the artist at that moment ) and she told me she felt exactly the same way. Apparently her label thought it was finished ! So I was hired to help engineer the rest, provide some perspective and mix the songs. Over the next six months i would travel to her studio located outside london for a period of a number of weeks at a time and record, edit , rearrange new elements and vocals and generally get the mixes in place so that we could complete the project. She is truly one the loveliest, thoughful, sweet artists I have ever worked with. She is incredibly passionate about what she does. I got to record a sixty piece string section in Studio 1 at Abbey Road ( talk about pressure) and the Trio Balkana , these wonderfully gifted Bulgarian singers who could produce two or three notes out of their mouths. Absolutely astonishing. At the end of three days of working with them, we sat around the main room in Angel Studios in North London, them singing these accapella love songs that reduced Kate , her brother Paddy and myself to tears. Such a special moment . The record was done all ananlog, mostly at kate's private studio.