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| Length = 65:29 | Label = Fish People/EMI | Producer = Kate Bush | Reviews = | Last album = ''Director's Cut'' (2011) | This album = ''50 Words for Snow'' (2011) | Next album = | Misc = }} ''50 Words for Snow'' is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It is the second album to be released on her own label, Fish People. It is her first all-new studio album since ''Aerial'' from 2005, and marks the first time since 1978 that she has released two new albums in one year. The album spawned two singles, Wild Man (which was released as a digital download to promote the album) and Lake Tahoe which was released on 10" picture disk for record store day, the single included Among Angels as its B Side. ==Overview== ''50 Words for Snow'', her second album of 2011 after ''Director's Cut'', was released on 21 November 2011. The album consists of seven songs "set against a backdrop of falling snow" and has a running time of 65 minutes.〔 A radio edit of the first single "Wild Man" was played on BBC Radio 2's ''Ken Bruce Show'' on 10 October. The single, featuring both the radio edit as well as the album version, was released on 11 October. Andy Fairweather Low guest stars on this story of a group of people exploring the Himalayas who, upon finding evidence of the elusive, mythical Yeti, out of compassion cover up all traces of its footprints. Priya Elan in the ''New Musical Express'' greeted the single with enthusiasm, saying: "For those of us who have been secretly longing for a return to the unflinchingly bizarre and Bush's ability to conjure up strange new worlds, 'Wild Man' is a deep joy."〔(Review of "Wild Man" by NME; 10 Oct 2011 )〕 In an interview with the American radio station KCRW, Bush said that the idea for the album's title song came from thinking about the myth that Eskimos have 50 words for snow, which led her to make up increasingly fantastical words herself, such as "spangladasha", "anechoic", "blown from Polar fur", and "Robber’s Veil".〔 The album's songs are built around Bush's quietly jazzy piano and Steve Gadd's drums (she had just started working with him and praised his "brilliant drumming"), and utilize both sung and spoken word vocals in what ''Classic Rock'''s Stephen Dalton calls "a...supple and experimental affair, with a contemporary chamber pop sound grounded in crisp piano, minimal percussion and light-touch electronics...billowing jazz-rock soundscapes, interwoven with fragmentary narratives delivered in a range of voices from shrill to Laurie Anderson-style cooing."〔(Stephen Dalton describes ''50 Words for Snow'' )〕 Bassist Danny Thompson also appears on the album. On the first track, "Snowflake", in a song written specifically to use his still high choir-boy voice,〔(Bush tells Jamie Cullum "Snowflake" was written for her son )〕 Bush's son Albert sings the role of a falling snowflake in a song expressing the hope of a noisy world soon being hushed by snowfall. "Snowflake" drifts into "Lake Tahoe", where choral singers Stefan Roberts and Michael Wood join Bush in a song about a rarely seen ghost: a woman who appears in a Victorian gown to call to her dog, Snowflake. Bush explained to fellow musician Jamie Cullum in an interview on Dutch Radio〔(Bush explains decisions regarding ''50 Words for Snow'' )〕 that she wished to explore using high male voices in contrast to her own, deeper, voice. "Misty" is about a snowman lover who melts away after a night of passion, and after "Wild Man", Elton John and Bush as eternally divided lovers trade vocals on "Snowed In at Wheeler Street", while actor Stephen Fry recites the "50 Words for Snow". The quiet love song "Among Angels" finishes the album.〔(Chicago Tribune review of ''50 Words for Snow'' )〕 Two stop-motion animation videos were released online to promote the album, one to accompany a section of "Misty" (called "Mistraldespair"), the other to accompany a section of "Wild Man". "Mistraldespair" was directed by Bush and animated by Tommy Thompson and Gary Pureton,〔("Mistraldespair Animation Segment" )〕 while the "Wild Man" segment was created by Finn and Patrick at Brandt Animation.〔("Wild Man" Animation Segment. )〕 On 24 January 2012, a third piece called "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe", was premiered on her website and on YouTube. Running at 5:01, the piece is a black-and-white shadow puppet animation that NPR's Dan Raby calls "''...beautiful in its simplicity — emphasizing small subtle movements over big extravagance... The stark contrast between the black figures and the white world makes each set piece seem mystical.''"〔(NPR's First Watch reviews animation piece "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe" )〕 Directed by Bush and photographed by award-winning British cinematographer Roger Pratt, the shadow puppets were designed by Robert Allsopp.〔(Credits for "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe" )〕 The album's closing track, "Among Angels", was included in the setlist of Bush's 2014 Before the Dawn concerts. In 2015, a remixed version of "Wild Man" was included on the ''The Art of Peace − Songs for Tibet II'' compilation album celebrating the 80th birthday of the Dalai Lama.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.katebush.com/news/art-peace-songs-tibet-ii )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「50 Words for Snow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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