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Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (2005)
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Vashti Bunyan is the Queen Godmother of the softer side of FreakFolk and Psychedelic Folk in general, much like the Incredible String Band is the King Godfather of the more urgent, energetic kind. We all know this. You know this. I know this. The dog that I had to put down two weeks ago knew this.
After recording a number of singles starting in 1965 that were a direct consequence of the Folk Revival movement of the late '50s/early '60s, she wrote, arranged, prepared, recorded, and released to the world one of the sweetest, mellowest, colourful, engaging, memorable and (eventually) influential folk-agnate albums of all time, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970 (which featured a number of notable folk musicians of the time, amongst them, tellingly, Robin Williamson of The Incredible String Band). As is the case with plenty of masterpieces, particularly when they're a one-off, it didn't particularly make any waves in an already very saturated musical zeitgeist, and disappointed by that fact, Bunyan decided to quit her career as a musician, and retired to a rural commune (created by, again, members of the Incredible String Band).
She absolutely disappeared from the musical radar for over three decades.
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