Just Another Diamond Day

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Reebok "Join The Migration" ". YouTube. 23 July 2008. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 . Retrieved 12 August 2014. And I remember standing on the pavement outside my cottage and reading the paper and closing it and saying to myself, ‘I’m never doing this again. I can’t do this anymore. I’m obviously no good at it.’ 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. I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind" is featured at the beginning of the 2017 Turkish film "Kedi".

Hypnotic and intimate, new song Across the Water is one of many Bunyan songs about yearning. “Lived on wit, got away with it,” runs one line, summing up the years she spent learning from travellers and overcoming the prejudice of squares. As an unmarried hippy mother, she was threatened with having her children adopted. You waited 35 years to return to music and release your second album, Lookaftering, and I’ve always wondered, what did you do with your life during those three decades? I found myself on the phone with the British folk singer on a winter’s morning in 2016. I’d convinced her record label, Fat Cat, into letting me interview her even though I wasn’t on assignment and had no clue where I’d eventually — if ever — publish our conversation. I hadn’t sung in all of 30 years — hardly ever. I never sang to my children; I left music behind altogether. Influenced: Richard Hawley, Kathryn Williams, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Idlewild, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Laura Marling, Espers, Anna Calvi, This Is The Kit, Lanterns On The Lake, Lucy Rose, Cate Le Bon, The AnchoressWinter Is Blue" (an unreleased acetate from 1966; different from Tonite Lets All Make Love in London version) What was your voice like when you returned to making music in the early 2000s? Was it out of shape? Did it sound differently? Murphy, Matthew (27 October 2005). "Lookaftering Album Review - Vashti Bunyan". Pitchfork . Retrieved 16 December 2022. I'd been so well looked after by Max Richter for Lookaftering — he had just done everything for me and taught me so much — but I just thought I needed to try and figure out if I could do it myself. That’s why it took so long, because I am so very slow. And you two were heading to Donovan's commune in the Hebridean Islands off the coast of Scotland, right?

But then when Just Another Diamond Day finally came out in 1970, you decided to abandon your musical career altogether. Why? 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. I can’t sing loudly. If I try, it doesn’t work. I don’t know where it comes from. Well, some of it maybe comes from my father who loved choral music and I always wanted to be a choirboy. Of course, that never happened!Results for England & Wales Births 1837–2006". Search.findmypast.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014 . Retrieved 12 August 2014. The fragility and domesticity of Bunyan’s music masks a story of steel, outsiderdom and technological enabling, a fable straddling two centuries. Bunyan’s work has been rediscovered for over a decade now, when Just Another Diamond Day resurfaced as a lost classic, but her tale bears retelling. Paphides, Peter (2000). "Just Another Diamond Day – Review". Time Out magazine . Retrieved 6 September 2015. Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold In Discogs Marketplace For May 2018". 5 July 2018 . Retrieved 11 July 2018. When you released Heartleap, I read that there was a note in the press release that mentioned it would be your last album?