Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

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Like many of you I have spent way too much time on social media over the past 6 months. Occasionally, like yesterday morning, you trip over something that makes all the time wasted worthwhile. Almost. At that point Vashti Bunyan dropped off the radar, lost to musical history for the next three decades, chasing and never quite finding the perfect place to settle her family. ‘We kept travelling by horse and wagon, which was entirely stupid. By the time we got there, of course, the price would go up beyond our reach. That kept happening. We walked across Ireland. We stayed there a year, with a bigger wagon that did have a stove in it. From then on I couldn't play my guitar or listen to the sound of my own voice, because it reminded me of Diamond Day, which had been so roundly ignored. And although it was partly my fault, it was also that the world didn't want to hear what I had to say at all.' She abandoned the tour then and there, and sped home across the English Channel. The song ‘Diamond Day' came to her on the train from Dover to London. A friend urged her to take her music to the producer, manager and entrepreneur Joe Boyd, who was intrigued enough to offer to record an album once she had reached her Scottish destination. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\10 - Diana.wav A perfectly timed, perfectly pitched alternative history of English folk music . . . wide-ranging, insightful, authoritative, thoroughly entertaining.’

Garner, Dwight (May 12, 2011). "Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew (Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 19, 2018 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\07 - Garden Song.wav That summer of 1971, husband and wife hatched their group Wings, inviting Denny Laine and Denny Seiwell to the farm to write new material. The sleeve of Wild Life, released at the climax of that summer, shows the Wings foursome in bucolic, relaxed mood, dangling their toes into a stream from their perch on an overhanging tree branch.Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\06 - Brother John.wav Heller, Jason (June 23, 2011). "Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\05 - Reynardine.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\06 - Gypsy Davey.wav Litt, Toby (August 2, 2010). "Dead people's passions (Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young)". New Statesman. 139: 55. ISSN 1364-7431. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015.

Ten years ago, working as an editor at Faber on a music list that was still very much in its adolescent years of development, I published a book called Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young. It is now one of the most acclaimed and cherished music titles of the 21 stcentury literary canon. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\15 - Dark-Haired Lady.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\01 - Oak, Ash And Thorn.wavSo the walk was broken off over Christmas, with the wagon parked in the Lake District while Vashti and Robert took the boat to the Netherlands. Any hopes she may have entertained that this tour might help reactivate her career were dashed, though, as the venues were really a succession of tiny pubs and bars. Loud conversations drowned out the fragility of Vashti's music, which required the dead stillness of an attentive audience. In one bar in Ghent she broke down in tears and fled. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\18 - The Carman's Whistle.wav