And ever since then I've wanted to create something which had that feel of Australia within it. Well, years ago my brother bought 'Sun Arise' and I loved it, it was such a beautiful song. ( Kate Bush Club newsletter, October 1982) After the ceremony, the instrument became worthless, its purpose over. Women are never supposed to play a dijeridu, according to Aboriginal laws in fact there is a dijeridu used for special ceremonies, and if this was ever looked upon by a woman before the ceremony could take place, she was taken away and killed, so it's not surprising that the laws were rarely disobeyed. It made me laugh, but there was something very strange about it, something of an age a long, long time ago. It was like a swarm of tiny velvet bees circling down the shaft of the dijeridu and dancing around in my ear. I've never experienced a sound quite like it before. He picked up a dijeridu, placing one end of it right next to my ear and the other at his lips, and began to play. I explained the subject matter of the song and we sat down and listened to the basic track a couple of times to get the feel. TRIBAL WARS RAM CHART FULLHe is a very warm man, full of smiles and interesting stories. He arrived with his daughter, a friend and an armful of dijeridus. None of us had met Rolf (Harris) before and we were very excited at the idea of working with him. The dijeridu took the place of the bass guitar and formed a constant drone, a hypnotic sound that seems to travel in circles. The wide open space is painted on the tape, and it's time to paint the sound that connects the humans to the earth, the dijeridu. With the help of one of Nick Launay's magic sounds, the piano became wide and deep, effected to the point of becoming voices in a choir. The piano plays sparse chords, just to mark every few bars and the chord changes. Thank God the young Australians can see what's happening. Beautiful people from a most ancient race are found lying in the roads and gutters. Their sacred grounds are destroyed and their beliefs in Dreamtime grow blurred through the influence of civilization and alcohol. The Aborigines move away as the digging machines move in, mining for ore and plutonium. There was a flood of imagery sitting waiting to be painted into the song. "Earthy" was the word used most to explain the sounds. This song had to try and convey the wide open bush, the Aborigines - it had to roll around in mud and dirt, try to become a part of the earth. We started with the drums, working to a basic Linn drum machine pattern, making them sound as tribal and deep as possible. 'The Dreaming' was covered by Big City Orchestre. 'The Dreaming' was released as a 7" single only. Promotional 12" copies bearing this title were circulated before being recalled. The original title for the track was 'The Abo Song', which unwittingly made use of a racial slur. The song is about the destruction of Aboriginal homelands by white Australians in their quest for weapons-grade uranium. Originally released as the lead single from her fourth album The Dreaming on 26 July 1982.
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