Folk singer's new CD is good pick
By Levon Kinney
Staff Intern
Vashti Bunyan - "Lookaftering"
Vashti Bunyan might sound more like an affliction, right? In all actuality she is the possible cure to all that ails you.
Her soft, whispering voice paired with enchanting melodies produce an ambient atmosphere that will take the tension right out of your life. The instruments that accompany her range from glockenspiels to guitars, from crystal wine glasses to harps, there is no sound on this album that will make the listener agitated.
It turns out that Bunyan isn't a new blip on the radar; her career began in the folk music scene of England in the late 1960's. Sharing tea with Bob Dylan and hanging out with Donovan, are probably just a few of the stories she keeps. After recording an album "Just Another Diamond Day," she left the business to raise a family in the English Countryside.
The misty and somewhat melancholy surrounding of the country kept Vashti Bunyan hidden for all these years, until a new generation of female folk-singers searching for the lost voice found her. She returns with the voice of a mother, singing about her three children in "Here Before." The loss of Bunyan's sibling and the loneliness that lingers is the subject for "Brother."
Definitely a good pick for those misty mornings of sipping tea and reading the paper.
For more information visit www.anotherday.co.uk.
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