a b "The album that camein from the cold". The Independent. 25 August 2000. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022 . Retrieved 8 December 2019. In June of 2014, Bunyan announced her final album: Heartleap. It was released in October 7th, 2014. Ultimately both will suit most people, but if you want the best of these reissues then you might as well go with the Dicristina release that includes a 7" with it. Eventually we did find a place that we could buy and make our own. We had various animals and there was always lots of people going through. There wasn’t much music, but there were a lot of friends and a lot of children and horses and dogs and stuff. It was a pretty rural life. Bunyan says she's still shy and still bedeviled by issues of self-confidence. But, more than 40 years after she took her first tentative steps down the path toward a musical life, she's now finally leading it. She set up a small home studio, and, with no more children in the house, is hard at work on her next batch of quiet, carefully crafted little folk-pop poems.

a b Rogers, Jude (18 March 2022). "Folk star Vashti Bunyan: 'My voice made me think of sorrow. I didn't even sing to my children' ". The Guardian. Find sources: "Vashti Bunyan"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) On another note, if you are looking for something VERY similar I suggest Color Green by Sibylle Baier. You could probably mistake it for the same artist as Vashti and they are both 70s gems.

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Then, a few years ago, while surfing the Web, Bunyan says she was amazed to find that the music she'd given up for good was actually alive and well. In fact, Just Another Diamond Day and other early recordings were becoming cult classics to a new generation of musicians, and in 2004, that album was reissued. In 2005, Bunyan released her first batch of new songs in 35 years on a thoughtful, bittersweet album called Lookaftering. Just Another Diamond Day is the debut album by the English folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan, and was released on Philips Records in December 1970. Much of the album is a musical reflection on Bunyan and travelling partner Robert Lewis's experiences while travelling by horse and wagon through Scotland in 1968. It highlighted Bunyan's vocals with minimal instrumental accompaniment that was arranged by contemporary musical artists supervised under record producer Joe Boyd.

Also, I guess I didn’t do too much promotion. At that time, if you didn’t go out on the road, if you didn’t do live performances, it was very difficult for anybody to promote you. And I had chosen not to do that, so really it was nobody else’s fault but mine. Then, two weeks later, his wife called me to say that the maestro has died. And I just could not believe it. I was so upset because he was an amazing man. He was just a lovely, funny, irreverent, fun person who was so clever and so good at what he did. And I was just devastated. In 2011, Bunyan's cover of the late John Martyn's "Head and Heart" appeared on the tribute album, Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn. [23] So when I finally reached her on the phone, I was ecstatic. And it wasn’t just because I am a fan. It was a privilege to be speaking with her, one of the most enigmatic, reclusive musicians in recent history. And for me, that was just devastating. To think that I’d made somebody else so unhappy was just awful.Joe had taken away all the tapes with him to America, and I had no input in the mixing or anything about it. So when I heard the demo that he sent me, I couldn’t connect to it. It felt like somebody else had done it. I knew that they were my songs and I loved some of them. But some of them I didn’t love. It wasn’t what I considered my style at the time. The treatment to some of the songs was very folky. So I called the guys at Fat Cat Records and said ‘I’ve changed my mind’ and they said ‘Too late.’ They liked it so it went on the album. I often think I should have called it this, or I should have called it that, but its Lookaftering forever now. It was Donovan who had helped us to buy our horse and wagon. He persuaded us to go up to these islands that he'd bought off the northwest coast of Scotland because he was wanting to set up a kind of artists’ community with writers and painters and musicians in these abandoned houses that were there. It sounded great to us. It sounded like just what we wanted to do. Before Lookaftering and Heartleap, I’d never performed live. I hardly ever did shows when I was young because I was much more interested in recording and writing than I was in performing.

This fact is reflected by her leaving the hustle and bustle of London behind her in the late 1960s, as she travelled on a pilgrimage to the north of Britain, with only a green gipsy like wagon, a horse called Bess, a dog named Blue and Robert. She was obviously more connected to/in tune with the earth than Drake would have been, and this really comes through beautifully in her musical style... But either way, these two artists were amazing song writers, which is probably the reason why Joe Boyd (legendary producer and founder of Witchseason Records) showed equally as much interest in both their music. The album was then released in the late 1970s (to little attention, much like Drake's own music) and a career in recording industry was abandoned by Bunyan in favor of further horse journeys and complete obscurity. However, over the years (again, as with Drake's own music) all the recordings have succeeded in finding their own way to the notice of music collectors. I was a mother of three, and I think my partner and I, Robert, were always looking for the elusive place that we could make our own. We lived in various rented farmhouses. And we made our living by buying and selling old country furniture, farmhouse, antique-y stuff, and having markets by the side of the road. I called it living on wit, and that’s what we did really. We just did what we could to get by. The Branch does also feel a little nicer with its 180 grams of mass however and the vinyl really is dead quiet.I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind" (an unreleased 1967 Immediate Records acetate, produced by Mike Hurst)