Vashti Bunyan

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Vashti Bunyan (2006)

Vashti Bunyan (* 1945 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British folk singer, guitarist and songwriter .

Life

Vashti Bunyan initially studied art, but left the academy to pursue a career as a singer. Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham wanted to build her up as the successor to Marianne Faithfull , which failed. After all, she moved more in folk circles around the Incredible String Band .

In the late 1960s, Bunyan went on a trip to the Outer Hebrides , where she lived with her husband in a farmhouse. Back in London, she recorded her first album, Just Another Diamond Day . The album was unsuccessful and Bunyan turned his back on the music business.

At the end of the 1990s, the rarity Just Another Diamond Day was re-released to the artist's surprise. After a musical break of over 30 years, Bunyan appeared as a guest singer on various independent projects: Piano Magic , Devendra Banhart and Animal Collective . So she recorded an EP with the latter band for the first time in 30 years: Prospect Hummer (2004). This led to her being signed by FatCat Records and after 35 years released her second album in 2005, Lookaftering.

The Train Song , recorded by Bunyan in 1966, rose to prominence in 2008 when Reebok used it as part of a football clothing commercial . In 2011 the train song was used again in a commercial for Samsung . He also became part of the soundtrack of the US HBO crime series True Detective in 2014 . Further, Train Song in the soundtrack of the documentary and trailer Kokolampy of Hajo Schomerus used the 2016 German Competition of DOK Leipzig ran. The song is also the soundtrack of the Patriot series produced by Amazon .

Discography

Studio albums
  • 1970: Just Another Diamond Day
  • 2005: Lookaftering
  • 2014: Heartleap
Compilations
  • 2007: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967
Extended plays
  • 2005: Just Another Diamond Day
Singles
  • 1965: Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind / I Want to Be Alone
  • 1966: Train Song / Love Song

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  1. ↑ Hajo Schomerus: Kokolampy at the 59th International Documentary Film Festival DOK Leipzig 2016 ( Memento from December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Michael Dorman, Michael Chernus, Terry O'Quinn, Kathleen Munroe: Patriot. November 5, 2015, accessed May 19, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bunyan, Vashti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne