Latest Release
- 10 NOV 2023
- 1 Song
- Just Another Diamond Day · 1970
- Heartleap · 2014
- Heartleap · 2014
- Heartleap · 2014
- Heartleap · 2014
- Just Another Diamond Day · 1970
- Just Another Diamond Day · 1970
- How Could You Let Me Go - Single · 2023
- Deforestation · 2015
- Heartleap · 2014
Essential Albums
- After a brief fling as a Marianne Faithfull-style mod-pop chanteuse, Vashti Bunyan dropped out of the London scene, riding up to the Outer Hebrides with her boyfriend in a horse and buggy. Written on the road and on the rural Scottish islands themselves, these songs are delicate and pastoral, with Bunyan's clear, bell-like voice and unembellished acoustic guitar front and centre. A sense of melancholy prevails, although the childlike joy of "Lily Pond" and the jaunty "Jog Along Bess" lighten the somewhat disconsolate mood considerably.
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About Vashti Bunyan
In 1970, British folksinger Vashti Bunyan released her debut album, ANOTHER DIAMOND DAY. She then abandoned the music business for over four decades until she was rediscovered in the early 2000s and championed by a host of young singer-songwriters dubbed "freak folks," chief among them the enigmatic Devendra Banhart. Triumphantly, Bunyan returned to the studio a full 35 years after her debut to record what was only the second album of her career, LOOKAFTERING. A darling of the musical hip in the new millennium, Bunyan also collaborated with the psych-folk ensemble Animal Collective on their 2005 EP, PROSPECT HUMMER.
- HOMETOWN
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
- BORN
- 1945
- GENRE
- Singer/Songwriter