The Music of Kate Bush
This project goes beyond merely re-creating Kate's Bush music but taking it to even further realms of sound and interpretation. He is joined in this venture by long-time collaborator percussionist John Hollenbeck, bassist Skuli Sverrisson and keyboardist Henry Hey and special guest, mult-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans on viola, guitar and laptop.
On 15 October 2011 the album, Hello Earth! - The Music of Kate Bush was released. It contains covers of fourteen of Bush classics, including "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Running Up that Hill", and "This Woman's Work", as well as songs from Side B of Hounds of Love, "The Ninth Wave." After seeing Bleckmann perform some of the Bush cannon live in 2010 in preparation for recording the album, New York Times music critic Nate Chinen wrote: “Kate Bush is a special fit for him. The arc of her career, uneasily abutting art-rock and alternative music, jibes with his own off-kilter profile. And she’s another transfixing singer with a penchant for careful diction and spooky connotation, and deep interest in the subconscious.”
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