Production
In the summer of 1983 Bush built her own 24-track studio in the barn behind her family home. The recording sessions included use of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer, piano, traditional Irish instruments, and layered vocals. The chorale in "Hello Earth" is a segment from the traditional Georgian song "Tsintskaro," performed by the Richard Hickox Singers. "Be Kind to My Mistakes" was written for Nicolas Roeg's 1986 film Castaway and plays during the opening scene. The lines "It's in the trees! It's coming!" from the beginning of the title track are taken from a seance scene from the 1957 British horror film Night of the Demon, spoken by actor Maurice Denham.
The album was produced as two suites - side one being "Hounds of Love" and side two being a 7 track concept album called "The Ninth Wave", which was inspired by a painting of the same name by Ivan Aivazovsky; it was painted in 1850. Bush described her album as being "About a person who is alone in the water for the night. It's about their past, present and future coming to keep them awake, to stop them drowning, to stop them going to sleep until the morning comes." It has been largely perceived as being about Death. Each song has a different take on it. In an interview with French television in 1985, Bush said she thinks of the two sides as "two separate albums."
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