Watch Kate Bush’s Tranquil ‘And Dream of Sheep’ Video
Kate Bush risked her health to complete the minimalist video for “And Dream of Sheep,” the single from her upcoming triple live-LP Before the Dawn. The stark piano ballad, originally from 1985’s Hounds of Love, follows a character lost at sea. Bush recorded a new vocal while wading in a water tank at Buckinghamshire, England’s Pinewood Studios for a double sense of realism.
“She spent so long in the water during the first day of filming that she contracted mild hypothermia,” Bush’s team said in a statement of the video. “She recovered after a day off and carried on filming. Everyone agreed it had added to the authenticity of the performance.”
The footage was projected onto a large screen hung above the stage during Bush’s residency of 22 performances at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014 – her first proper concerts since 1979.
The three-disc Before the Dawn documents the three acts of the show: The first features seven tracks from throughout her career; the second includes the entirety of The Ninth Wave, the second half of Hounds of Love; and the third features A Sky of Honey, the second half of 2005’s Aerial.
Before the Dawn is out November 25th in the U.K. and December 2nd in the U.S.