Vashti Bunyan : biography
Jennifer Vashti Bunyanhttp://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?page=1&blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&fromrow=1&torow=25&affiliation=PRS&cae=271963543&keyID=1056227&keyname=BUNYAN+JENNIFER+VASHTI&querytype=WriterID (born 1945 in Newcastlehttp://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/all/results?recordCount=-1&forenames=Jennifer+Vashti&_includeForenamesVariants=on&surname=bunyan&_includeSurnameVariants=on&fromYear=1945&toYear=1945®ion=&county=&mothersMaidenName=&_useMothersMaidenNameAsSurname=on&sortOrder=RK%3Atrue&_performExactSearch=on&event=B&recordType=ALL&route=) is an English singer-songwriter. In 1970, Bunyan released her first album, Just Another Diamond Day. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years.
Discography
Studio albums
- Just Another Diamond Day (Philips 1970)
- Lookaftering (Fat Cat Records 2005)
Compilations
- Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind – Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967 (Fat Cat Records/Spinney Records 2007)
Singles
- "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" / "I Want To Be Alone" (Decca, 1965) (as Vashti)
- "Train Song" / "Love Song" (Columbia (EMI), 1966) (as Vashti)
Compilation appearances
- Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967)
- "Winter Is Blue" (as Vashti)
- "Winter Is Blue (Reprise)" (as Vashti)
- Circus Days – UK Psychedelic Obscurities 1966-70 Vol.1 (1990)
- "I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind" (as Vashti)
- A Pot By Any Other Name (2001) (compilation issued by Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine)
- "17 Pink Sugar Elephants" (rec. 1966) (early variation of "Train Song")
- Instant Karma (2002)
- "Winter Is Blue" (as Vashti) (combined version of song from Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London)
- Folk Rock and Faithfull: Dream Babes Vol. 5 (2004)
- "Train Song" (rec. 1966) (as Vashti)
- "Love Song" (rec. 1966) (as Vashti)
- The Golden Apples of the Sun (2004)
- "Rejoicing in the Hands" (with Devendra Banhart)
- The Enlightened Family: A Collection Of Lost Songs (2005)
- "Song of a Wishwanderer" (rec. 1968)
- Not Alone (2006)
- "Same But Different"
- Ballads of the Book (2007)
- "The Fire" (lyrics by Rodge Glass)
- Gather In The Mushrooms – The British Acid-Folk Underground 1968 – 1974 (2004)
- "Winter Is Blue"
Guest appearances
- Twice as Much – That’s All (1970)
- "Coldest Night of the Year" (rec. 1967)
- Piano Magic – Writers Without Homes (2002)
- "Crown of the Lost"
- Piano Magic – Saint Marie EP (2004)
- "Dark Ages"
- Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing in the Hands (2004)
- "Rejoicing in the Hands"
- Animal Collective – Prospect Hummer (2005)
- "It’s You"
- "Prospect Hummer"
- "I Remember Learning How to Dive"
- Vetiver – Thing of the Past (2008)
- "Sleep a Million Years"
- Dudley Benson – Forest: Songs by Hirini Melbourne (2010)
- "Tui"
- We/Or/Me – The Walking Hour (2013)
- "Time"