Vashti Bunyan (born Jennifer Vashti Bunyan in 1945) is an English singer-songwriter.

Bunyan released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970. The album sold very few copies and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years.She subsequently released two albums: Lookaftering in 2005, and Heartleap in 2014.

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

"Lily Pond" by Vashti Bunyan

Vashti Bunyan - Hidden

Train Song - Vashti Bunyan

From the album, 'Music & Migration' (Now deleted).
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Vashti Bunyan -  Here (Demo)

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 - Across The Water

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

Vashti Bunyan - Just another diamond day

Vashti Bunyan - Here Before

Music, arrangement and lyrics by Vashti Bunyan

Now based in Edinburgh, Vashti’s story tells of the thwarted promise of early fame, disenchantment, long-term exile and eventual rediscovery. In the mid-‘60s, she was discovered by The Rolling Stones’ guru, Andrew Loog Oldham, signed to Decca and recorded a single written by Jagger / Richards. Reviews touted her as ‘the new Marianne Faithful’ or the ‘female Bob Dylan’ (though Vashti claimed to be neither), yet further singles remained unreleased, leading to a sense of despair and a rejection of the music industry. She bought a horse and cart and set off in 1968 for the dream of a creative colony that the singer Donovan was setting up on the Scottish Isle of Skye. It took them two long years to get there, by which time Donovan had left, but the experience formed the songs for ‘Just Another Diamond Day’, the album recorded by Joe Boyd (and featuring members of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention). 
The record slipped out in a tiny pressing and was rapidly forgotten, yet gradually over the years accrued a cultish currency as a lost English classic. In the late ‘90s, ‘JADD’ was re-released – almost thirty years after she had “abandoned it and music forever” - to huge critical acclaim (The Observer Music Monthly placed it at 53 in their ‘Top 100 British albums’). A host of young, new admirers emerged citing her influence, and Vashti has since recorded with Piano Magic, The Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde, Devendra Banhart, and Animal Collective.  
A brand new album,  ‘Lookaftering’ was released in October 2005 to huge acclaim. In October 2008 a world premiere screening of a new feature-length documentary about Vashti’s life was screened at the prestigious British Film Institute, as part of The London Film Festival, by BAFTA winning director Kieran Evans. 
Following another hiatus in her song-writing and recording, a new album 'Heartleap', recorded mostly by Vashti herself in her own studio, was released on FatCat in October 2014.
Links:
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/site/artists/vashti-bunyan
http://anotherday.co.uk/


lyrics :
How do I know that those mountains aren't cardboard?
How do I know that the world is round?
Why should I know? Just because you've told me
There's molten rock underneath my ground

How do I know there's a God in the sky
Looking down and hearing me?
Why should you say, I can't love any man
Have his children and still be free?

Go on voting, striking and fighting
Go on searching, hiding and laughing

I can't change you, I can't even try
But let me live like I think I can
Then when it's time for me to say goodbye
I'll have lived just a part of man

Go on voting, striking and fighting
Go on searching, hiding and laughing

I can't change you, I can't even try
But let me live like I think I can
Then when it's time for me to simply die
I'll have lived just a part of man

Vashti Bunyan - How do I know

Vashti Bunyan - Dark Ages

Vashti Bunyan - Rose Hip November (Armando Letico Rework)

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

09 Vashti Bunyan & Jono McCleery - Only

Vashti Bunyan - Rainbow River

Vashti Bunyan   Glow worms

11 - Vashti Bunyan - 09 - Come Wind Come Rain

Recorded almost entirely with only the human voice, Forest is a full-length album of Benson’s interpretations of bird waiata by renowned composer Hirini Melbourne (1949-2003). 

'Brilliant...Unashamed in its risk-taking and vision' 
9/10 Under the Radar 

'Playful and heart-breaking' 
***** Groove Guide 

'Utterly indigenous' 
Nick Bollinger, Radio New Zealand

Released 1st November 2010 

Original waiata by Hirini Melbourne 
Arranged & produced by Dudley Benson 
Recorded, engineered & mixed by Adrian Hollay 
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon 
Golden Retriever Records, GRR006D 

Voice, beatbox & whistle – Dudley 
The Dawn Chorus – Pene Pati (tenor), Grant O’Connor (tenor), 
Jeffrey Chang (baritone), Moses McKay (bass) 
Beatbox – King Homeboy 
Bird mimic – Gerry Findlay 
Voice –Vashti Bunyan 
Taonga pūoro & voice – Richard Nunns 
Whistle – Joshua Thomas & Myles Thomas 
Choir – Rachel Alexander & Rebecca Guest (soprano) Laura Caygill, Sarah Hogg & Thomas Woodfield (alto) Andrew Baldwin, 
Jeffrey Chang & Lachlan Craig (tenor), 
Morgan Simes & Nicholas Sutcliffe (bass) 
Choral coordinator & conductor – Nicholas Forbes 

Art direction by Dudley 
Appliqué artwork by Florence Dennison 
Design by Frances Young

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