Who is vashti bunyan

Despite of this, her music — and some follow-up singles — didn't became a commercial success, leaving Vashti Bunyan exploring other paths. In , with many artists fleeing the city, Vashti Bunyan and her boyfriend Robert Lewis — a fellow art student who she encountered during a nightly drive through the countryside of Suffolk in — set off on a pilgrimage to a commune on the Isle of Skye, set up by pop singer Donovan. Being a friend of Donovan, the singer lent them British pounds to buy a horse and wagon to make their voyage — accompanied by their dog Blue — from London up the A6.

Finally arriving two summers later, the party found Donovan and the commune already long gone. Even though Bunyan said she was done with recording, she continued making music. Carrying a suitcase full of new songs that documented the romantic dreams and idyllic scenes they came across on their mile journey, she met Joe Boyd — at the time a key figure in British music — who convinced her to go back in the studio.

These fairytale songs about wonderful landscapes, rainbow rivers and glow-worms lighting the way became the core of Vashti Bunyan's debut album 'Just Another Diamond Day' , released in Even with the new support from Boyd, however, her music once again fizzled into obscurity. Looking back, she says :. The next 30 years, Bunyan spent her time raising a family and farm animals in rural Scotland and Ireland. At the end of the 90's, after an unfortunate break up with her long-time companion Lewis, Bunyan moved back to the urban area of Edinburgh, where she bought a computer to write stories.

Spending several years reclaiming rights of her original masters, Bunyan reissued her debut album in , selling over 50, copies and reviving Bunyan's long overdue musical career. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search.

Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny. Born in England. All through my childhood, I listened to BBC radio, but it wasn't a great way to discover new music. There was this other radio program called Radio Luxembourg , which was broadcast from Luxembourg, and I listened to it on a small transistor radio. It faded in and out, and you could only barely hear the songs every so often, but that was where I heard the Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly. Then I got thrown out of art school for playing guitar and writing songs rather than going to classes.

So when I saw that album in the window in the Village, I immediately pounced on it—it opened my mind and educated me more than anything else had ever done. It also made me want to be a wandering singer myself.

Over the next five years, a lot happened to me musically, but it ended with me leaving the music business and my family and everybody, and running away from London. So I turned away from music altogether. But with Joni Mitchell it was really hard not to. I purposefully avoided it. It just made me very sad. Eventually, I gave it to my son when he left home. I never picked up a guitar again until way, way, way later.

Around age 30, I started a street market store selling junky, farmhouse antique things before it became fashionable. But it seemed to do really well and I made some money for the first time and bought a car with a tape player in it. My first son was born in , just before Just Another Diamond Day came out. My daughter was born three years later, and then I had my last child in , when I was I spent 29 years in all taking children to school.

When I was 35, we took the kids out of school one day and just drove for two or three months around Europe in that car with the tape player.

We just yelled it out as we were going up and down mountains, to Greek islands and back. It really defines that little trip for me. I was beginning to get interested in electronic sounds and all that could be done in a short song.