Just Another Diamond Day

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I don’t know. I was playing in Moscow a few years ago by myself and there were these young girls in the front row who were singing along with the songs from Just Another Diamond Day.

And it’s not like anybody mentioned the album when it came out. It was just friends and family who talked about. Nobody else really took any notice of it. And so it just disappeared out of my life. In June 2014, she announced her third and final album, Heartleap. She wrote, "The whole point of the album was finally to learn a way that would enable me to record the music that is in my head, by myself. I neither read nor write music, nor can I play piano with more than one hand at a time, but I have loved being able to work it all out for myself and make it sound the way I wanted. I've built these songs over years. The album wouldn't have happened any other way." Heartleap was released on 7 October in the U.S. via DiCristina and 6 October in the UK via FatCat Records. [24] The cover artwork was by Bunyan's daughter, Whyn Lewis, who also did the artwork for Lookaftering. [25] Paphides, Peter (2000). "Just Another Diamond Day – Review". Time Out magazine . Retrieved 6 September 2015.And for me, that was just devastating. To think that I’d made somebody else so unhappy was just awful. And there I was standing in front of a microphone for the first time in 30 years and my voice came out and it was exactly the same. I don’t know if it was because I hadn’t used it all during that time, or if it’s like putting something in a cupboard and finding it again, but it just sounded the same. Released in the final weeks of 1970, almost exactly a full, Just Another Diamond Day passed almost completely under the radar at the time, unknown outside of hardened folk music circles, just like all of her previous efforts. Dismayed and disheartened, as well as being practically unable to promote the record by the need to look after her newborn child, Vashti Bunyan dropped out of the music industry entirely, her name known by few and her music spoken about by even fewer.

Despite these classifications, she has stated multiple times she is not a folk singer: "[...] I find it quite hard to read myself described as a folk singer, because I'm not." [30] [31] Her former producer Joe Boyd also underlines this in the 2008 Kieran Evans film From Here to Before, explaining how he never considered Bunyan to be "[...] much of a folkie". [32] Discography [ edit ] Studio albums [ edit ] I didn’t want to bring my child up in London. I was brought up there and I didn’t want to do that to my kid. So I decided to abandon everything. Also, I guess I didn’t do too much promotion. At that time, if you didn’t go out on the road, if you didn’t do live performances, it was very difficult for anybody to promote you. And I had chosen not to do that, so really it was nobody else’s fault but mine. 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 Anchoress Diamond Day" was featured in the popular UK teen comedy/drama Skins on the third series (2009), episode six entitled "Naomi".One thing I never realized until I started listening to your music was how much drums can really transform a song. Because there’s no drums on any of your albums. And I didn’t realize how unnecessary drums were until then. Lush covered her song "I'd Like To Walk Around in Your Mind". They got to know it from the Circus Days compilation. Before Lookaftering and Heartleap, I’d never performed live. I hardly ever did shows when I was young because I was much more interested in recording and writing than I was in performing. Leach, Jeanette (2010). Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk . Jawbone Publishing. pp.47–48. ISBN 9781906002671.

I hadn’t sung in all of 30 years — hardly ever. I never sang to my children; I left music behind altogether. Again, these are very minor at best and whats really important in this case I feel is to have a quiet playing copy, which my Golden isnt so much when compared to the Branch, but thats neither here nor there since mine was bought used and looks somewhat worn. What was your voice like when you returned to making music in the early 2000s? Was it out of shape? Did it sound differently?On another note, if you are looking for something VERY similar I suggest Color Green by Sibylle Baier. You could probably mistake it for the same artist as Vashti and they are both 70s gems. We were, yes. But by the time we made it, he wasn’t there any more. It took us a year and a half to get there. Donovan had set off with his friends in a Land Rover and we'd set off at the same time with our horse and our wagon. Then, a few years ago, while surfing the Web, Bunyan says she was amazed to find that the music she'd given up for good was actually alive and well. In fact, Just Another Diamond Day and other early recordings were becoming cult classics to a new generation of musicians, and in 2004, that album was reissued. In 2005, Bunyan released her first batch of new songs in 35 years on a thoughtful, bittersweet album called Lookaftering.

Just Another Diamond Day is the debut album by the English folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan, and was released on Philips Records in December 1970. Much of the album is a musical reflection on Bunyan and travelling partner Robert Lewis's experiences while travelling by horse and wagon through Scotland in 1968. It highlighted Bunyan's vocals with minimal instrumental accompaniment that was arranged by contemporary musical artists supervised under record producer Joe Boyd.When I returned to music, I went through at least five years of saying no to every offer. I’d neglected it all for so long that I was scared. But then I realized I had been given this amazing opportunity to get on with doing the things that I should have done when I was younger, and I changed my mind. I decided to say yes to everything to see what would happen. And eventually, I wasn’t so scared as I was in the beginning. It was Devendra Banhart who really encouraged me and said, ‘You’ve just got to do it because if you do, you get used to it and you won’t be scared anymore.’ And he was right. 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’m managing crises with six kids who are all grown up. Sometimes it really is a full-time job. My daughter has a little boy who I look after from time to time. She lives just down the road, which is great. And there’s also an awful lot of work involved in putting together the shows — a lot of boring administrative stuff.