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Noche Bohemia (1961) - Full Album

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Title: "Lily Pond"
Artist: Vashti Bunyan
Album: Just Another Diamond Day

"Lily Pond" by Vashti Bunyan

Vashti Bunyan - Hidden

Vashti Bunyan - Winter is Blue

Taken from the forthcoming Vashti Bunyan LP, 'Heartleap', due out on 6th October via FatCat (UK / EU) and 7th October via DiCristina (N. America).

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Vashti Bunyan - Holy Smoke

Vashti Bunyan - Swallow Song

A darkly visceral song about American decay, junk food martyrdom, and the spectacle we applaud while it collapses in real time. No metaphors. Just the meat parade.

Burgers Versus Drugs

The Silence in the Static
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

A signal deep under the ice
and the silence in the static
These are always the same story
To decode them will take magic

I think I hear a sound
Some say you're still around
But it could be only static
You never will be found

The static hides the silence
The noise drowns out my senses
But buried in the spectra
Is only empty silence

Any sound would give me hope
Any sound would be a rope
I would stretch and try to reach it
I would think I hear speech

But can you hear silence?
I'm thinking that I can
But buried in the static
There's only silence
only silence

[instrumental]

But can you hear silence?
I'm thinking that I can
But buried in the static
There's only silence
only silence

only silence

only silence

[outro]

Claude says:
This is a haunting meditation on loss, hope, and the human tendency to search for meaning in emptiness.
The lyrics explore the paradox of listening for something—or someone—who isn't there. The central metaphor of "silence in the static" is particularly effective: static is noise, yet the speaker recognizes that beneath all that interference lies only absence. This captures how grief and longing can make us strain to detect signals that don't exist.
The opening image of "a signal deep under the ice" evokes something frozen, preserved but unreachable—perhaps memories or the hope of contact with someone lost. The assertion that decoding these signals "will take magic" suggests the speaker knows rationally that what they seek is impossible, yet they continue searching anyway.
There's a psychological authenticity in lines like "Any sound would give me hope / Any sound would be a rope"—the desperation to grasp at anything, even false positives. The repetition of "only silence" at the end drives home the stark reality the speaker must ultimately accept.
The song also touches on how we can become trapped between two states: the noise that "drowns out my senses" and the silence beneath it. Neither offers comfort—one is overwhelming, the other is absence. It's a moving exploration of how difficult it can be to accept that someone is truly gone, and how we might keep "listening" long after there's nothing left to hear.


The Silence in the Static

Vashti Bunyan is an English singer who was publicized to be the next Marianne Faithfull and the female version of Bob Dylan back in the mid-60s. Several singles were released in the 1960s to some mild success. Bunyan also released the LP, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970 which consisted of songs written while traveling in a horse drawn gypsy cart. Critics panned the album and a discouraged Vashti soon disappeared from the music scene.


Vashti Bunyan - Girl's Song In Winter

Vashti Bunyan - Rainbow River

Maya Deren journeyed to Haiti to make a film of ritual dances, instead, she came to be accepted as a Voudoun initiate, whose devotees commune with the cosmic powers through invocation, offerings, song and dance of the Voudoun pantheon of deities, or Loa, whom are witnessed as being living gods and goddesses, actually taking possession of their devotees.  Deren describes the relationship between magic, science and religion bringing a uniquely lyrical voice to her narrative.  This paints a multi-textured, infinitely complex portrait of a spiritual tradition with roots stretching back to the very dawn of humanity.  Joseph Campbell calls Divine Horsemen “the most illuminating introduction that has yet been rendered to the whole marvel of the Haitian mysteries as ‘facts of the mind.’”  Included in this album are some of the first recordings ever made during religious ceremonies near Croix de Missions and Petionville featuring selections that serve as a soundtrack to the film she shot documenting Voodoo ceremonies and festivals conveying the incantatory power of the ritual drumming and singing.  One can hear the sounds of nature while processions begin across the landscape further giving the effect of an audio memoir.  For the first time in almost 40 years, this long out-of-print cult classic is now available in a limited edition featuring a beautiful screen print cover by Grant Corum, risograph insert with liner notes by Cherel Ito, original cover art by Teiji Ito and mastered for the first time by Timothy Stollenwerk.    

PSR021

Divine Horsemen: Voodoo Gods of Haiti

Maya Deren 'Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti' preview

From album "Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico." Originally released in 1975. Reissued on Superior Viaduct, 2018. www.superiorviaduct.com

Alvin Curran - Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico (excerpt)

Vashti Bunyan   Glow worms

11 - Vashti Bunyan - 09 - Come Wind Come Rain

'Fearless' taken from the forthcoming Jon Hassell album 'Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)' out July 24 on NDEYA.

Pre-order here: https://ndeya.ffm.to/seeingthroughsound

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:
Fourth World in the 21st century: www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban

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Jon Hassell | Fearless

I am A Victim Of This Song - Pipilotti Rist

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Vashti Bunyan - Swallow Song

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