Secondary Facts

• Cloudbusting was inspired by Peter Reich's *A Book of Dreams* about his father Wilhelm Reich who was arrested in US for professional misconduct and then died in prison when PR was only 13
• Wilhelm Reich was a psychoanalyst and Freudian sex therapist (vegetotherapy and the Orgonon – a treatment booth in which *Charakterpanzer* (character armour) could be broken down to release more natural instincts and freedoms)
• Wilhelm Reich was interested in UFOs and also invented a system of cloud seeding which changed the weather and made it rain
• *The Ninth Wave*


  A mini concept album inspired by Alfred Tennyson's poem about King Arthur –*Idylls of the King*
• Kate Bush: ''…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.''
• Sampling (Sound Découpage)


  A technique used in a lot of Prog Rock
• Sampling in Kate Bush's music

  • Steam Engine SFX at end of Cloudbusting
  • Shipping Forecast in first instrumental of ADOS
  • 2 bars of balalaika into the first bridge of Cloudbusting – played by Kate Bush's brother Paddy as a 'one-off' moment of colour
• Cloudbusting


  • C sharp Aeolian (natural minor)
  • Harmony all pivots around a minor second interval of B and C sharp
  • Strong rhythmic drive from strings and mostly syllabic setting – limited chord palette
  • Melodic 4 bar riff starts at bar 18 (bars 2 and 4 are identical, 1 and 3 are inversions)
  • Remorseless insistence of the state over the individual?
• ADOS

  • In E major but starts in relative minor C sharp
  • Settles onto a tonic pedal of E at bar 8 for 5 bars
  • Melismatic word painting in final bars on 'deeper'
  • Unresolved final chord B/E (dominant over tonic bass)
  • Unstructured rhythmic devices give an improvisatory feel – rit. / fermata / occasional bars in 2/4, 3/4 or 5/4
• Under Ice

  • Transparent textures using quartal and quintal harmonies over spare octaves in the bass
  • Extensive use of sus 2 chords with total avoidance of the dominant – harmonic tensions never resolved in a conventional diatonic sense
  • Low tessitura for the voice
  • Unstable rhythmic profile starting at 65 bpm with a gradual accel. up to 108 bpm with rit. at the end
  • Folk-style melisma with examples of 'Scotch snap'
  • Improvisatory feel to the melismatic portamento in final phrase
  • Sul ponticello effect in string textures
• Use of Medici Sextet (recognised classical chamber ensemble) typical of Prog Rock's collaborative use of 'legitimate' techniques
• Collaborations in Kate Bush's music

  • Michael Berkeley to arrange the vocal parts on *Hello Earth*
  • John Williams on guitar for *The Morning Fog*
  • Irish folk musicians in ADOS – Donal Lunny on bouzouki and John Sheahan on whistles
• John Lennon: ''I enjoyed Reich's dreams very much.''
• Kate Bush on *A Book of Dreams*: ''written by this man through the eyes of himself when he was a child, looking at his father, and the relationship between them.''
• The video for Cloudbusting was conceived by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam. Features Donald Sutherland as Wilhelm Reich and Kate Bush as his son Peter. The machine makes it rain as her arrested father is driven away in a big black car
• The video of ADOS features Kate Bush floating in the open sea – the 'little light' is the flashing red light on her life jacket
• Cloudbusting was inspired by a book by Peter Reich
• Cloudbusting was inspired by a book called “A Book of Dreams”
• A Book of dreams was based on Peter Reich’s Father, Wilhelm Reich
• Wilhelm Reich was arressted in US for professional misconduct and died in prison when Peter was only 13 years old
• Peter Reich and his father are Austrian
• Peter Reich’s father, Wilhelm Reich, was a psychoanalyst and Freudian sex therapist - using vegetotherapy and the orgonon
• Vegetotherapy - this involves the analyst enabling the patient to physically simulate the bodily effects of strong emotions
• Orgonon - the treatment booth in which Charakterpanzer (character armour) could be broken down to release more natural instincts and freedoms
• Wilhelm Reich, Peter Reich’s father was interested in UFO’s and also invented a system of cloud seeding that could change the weather and make it rain
• ‘Wave after wave, each mightier than the last / ‘Til last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep / And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged / Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame.’
• Kate Bush: ‘…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.’
• Sampling (sound decoupage) Vis a technique used in a lot in prog rock
• Sound effects used Steam engine sound effect at the end of cloudbusting 2 bars of balalaika in the first bridge of cloudbusting “as a one off moment of colour” shipping forecast in the first intrumental of and dream of sheep
• Cloudbusting : a sharp aeolian (natural minor)
• Cloudbusting : Harmony all pivots around a minor second interval of B and C sharp
• Cloudbusting : Strong rhythmic drive from strings and is mosting syllabic
• Cloudbusting : Limited chord palette
• Cloudbusting : Melodic 4 bar riff stars at bar 18 (bars 2 and 4 are identical, 1 and 3 are inversions)
• Remorseless insistence of the state over the individual?
• And Dream of Sheep: In e major but starts in c sharp minor
• And Dream of Sheep: Settles onto a tonic pedal of e at bar 8 for 5 bars
• And Dream of Sheep: Melismatic word painting in final bars for deeper
• Melisma - when more than one note is sung on one syllable
• And Dream of Sheep: unresolved final chord B / E (dominant over tonic bass)