KATE BUSH – THE SENSUAL WORLD LP – Nr MINT- A2/B1 UK 1989

Kate Bush – The Sensual World
(EMI Records  1989  EMD1010)
Matrix No’s: A2/B1 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT- condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality – mark at start of side 2 but doesn’t affect sound quality apart from a few very light clicks near the end of Deeper Understanding – small tear on side 2 label)

Catherine “Kate” Bush, CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She first came to note in 1978 when, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single “Wuthering Heights”, becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number-one with a self-written song. She has since released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top ten hits “The Man with the Child in His Eyes”, “Babooshka”, “Running Up That Hill”, “Don’t Give Up” (a duet with Peter Gabriel) and “King of the Mountain“. She has released ten studio albums, all of which reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums Never for Ever (1980) and Hounds of Love (1985). She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at number-one.

Bush has received widespread critical acclaim for her eclectic and idiosyncratic music as well as her theatrical performances. She has been nominated 13 times for British Phonographic Industry accolades, and in 1987 she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist. During the course of her career, she has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Bush was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music. A diverse range of artists have claimed Bush as an influence on their work.

The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was released in October 1989 and peaked at no.2 in the UK album charts. It has been certified Platinum by the BPI for sales of 300,000 in the UK, and Gold by the RIAA in the US.

Slant Magazine listed the album at #55 on its list of the “Best Albums of the 1980’s” saying “Blessed with one of music’s most wildly expressive voices, Bush takes each song further than she has to, resulting in an album that forms its own unique world.”

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Kate Bush.

Personnel

• Haydn Bendall: engineer
• Andrew Boland: engineer
• Stoyanka Boneva: vocals
• Kate Bush: piano, keyboards, vocals, background vocals, producer
• Paddy Bush: mandolin, background vocals, valiha, whip, tupan
• Clare Connors: violin
• Ian Cooper: cutting engineer
• Stuart Elliott: drums
• Eva Georgieva: vocals
• John Giblin: bass guitar
• David Gilmour: guitar
• Paul Gomazel: engineer
• John Grimes: assistant engineer
• Michael Kamen: arranger, orchestration
• Mick Karn: bass guitar
• Nigel Kennedy: violin, viola
• Kevin Killen: engineer, mixing
• Tom Leader: assistant engineer
• Dónal Lunny: bouzouki
• Charlie Morgan: drums
• Alan Murphy: guitar
• Michael Nyman: string arrangements
• Del Palmer: bass guitar, percussion, rhythm guitar, engineer, Fairlight CMI, mixing
• Justin Pearson: cello
• Dimiter Penev: arranger
• Yanka Rupkina: vocals
• John Sheahan: fiddle
• Davy Spillane: pipe, whistle (human), whistle (instrument), uilleann pipes
• Alan Stivell: background vocals, Celtic harp
• Trio Bulgarka: vocals
• Eberhard Weber: solid-body electric double bass
• Bill Whelan: arranger
• Jonathan Williams: cello