Artist: Vashti Bunyan
Genre(s):
Rock
Indie
Pop
Discography:
Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Lookaftering
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Just Another Diamond Day
Year: 1970
Tracks: 19
Vashti Bunyan is a tribe chanteuse and singer/songwriter, charles Herbert Best known for her 1970 record album Scarcely Another Diamond Day, which was rediscovered in the twenty-first hundred and dusted cancelled with a new CD take as i of the majuscule musical finds of its eRA. Born in London in 1945 -- and numerate herself a direct descendant of writer/preacher John Bunyan (1629-1688) -- she number one gear took up the guitar piece a pupil at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing, from which she was at long utmost expelled at years 18 for outlay overly much time writing songs and non sufficiency time painting. A piece of a release sprightliness regular and then, she took a trip to New York and, while there, felled wrinkle under the spell of Bob Dylan's music, specially his record album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Once back in London, Bunyan was attached to a life account in music, and through theatrical federal agent Monte Mackay she shortly met Rolling Stones manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham. In his recollections in 2007, he power saw and heard in her the equivalent of Juliette Gréco, Marie Laforet, and Françoise Hardy, leave off that she was English -- he gestural her to Decca Records and for her debut single brought her the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards-penned "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind." The record earned small attention, and Bunyan moved to Columbia for the followup, "Civilise Song," released in May of 1966.
She moved into the electron orbit of Oldham's Immediate Records later its founding that twelvemonth and recorded a pair of sides, mostly of her own music, none of which was issued commercially. She likewise foreshorten one side with the Twice as Much (Immediate's reply to Simon & Garfunkel), entitled "The Coldest Night of the Year." The latter, with its Phil Spector-like yield and beautiful harmonizing, showed cancelled her singing at its about pop-oriented and commercial-grade. This was during what one mightiness call the "dolly snort" stage of Bunyan's calling, in which she was parting of the Swinging London scene (at least musically), and one supremely atmospherical and hauntingly beautiful carrying out of hers that did view the promiscuous of day was "Wintertime Is Blue," which turned up in Peter Whitehead's documental Tonite Let's All Make Love In London (1967). Sometime later that, she left London in a horse-drawn station wagon on a two-year travel into communal living in the Hebrides, with the ultimate destination of encounter folk icon Donovan on the Isle of Skye. She later chanced to cross paths with American producer Joe Boyd, wHO had made his name in London recording acts such as Pink Floyd and Fairport Convention. Throughout her travels Bunyan had continued committal to writing songs, and in 1969 she teamed with Boyd to record book her debut LP, the lovely Simply Another Diamond Day, which included some assist from such British folks notables as Simon Nicol and Dave Swarbrick from Fairport Convention, and the Incredible String Band's Robin Williamson. After complementary the album she left hand for Ireland, falling stunned of music to raise a kinsperson.
Long out of mark and a extremely prized collectable, But Another Diamond Day was eventually reissued on CD in the summertime of 2000 and attracted an extraordinary sum of money of enthusiastic weigh, as well as something like the gross revenue to match. Suddenly, Bunyan was in demand, fans and writers knocking at her door and sending e-mails of encouragement and support. In 2005 she returned with Lookaftering, a reference to her geezerhood "lookaftering" her household. The record album appeared on Fat Cat's DiCristina imprint and featured art by Vashti's girl. The release was followed by a series of performances that took her all the way to New York City, among other international locales -- by that time, discussion had counterpane sufficiently about Bunyan as a rediscovered gift that the New York public presentation rated reference in The New York Times. In 2007, Fat Cat/DiCristina released Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind, a digest of Vashti Bunyan's 1960s Decca, Columbia, and Immediate recordings, plus a arrange of demos geological dating from 1964.
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