Vashti Bunyan - 1970 - Just Another Diamond Day [Flac] torrent

Vashti Bunyan ‎– Just Another Diamond Day

Label:
Dicristina Stair Builders ‎– STEP04
Format:
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country:
US
Released:
2004
Genre:
Rock, Pop
Style:
Folk Rock, Acoustic, Ballad


Tracklist:

1 Diamond Day
2 Glow Worms
3 Lily Pond
4 Timothy Grub
5 Where I Like To Stand
6 Swallow Song
7 Window Over The Bay
8 Rose Hip November
9 Come Wind Come Rain
10 Hebridean Sun
11 Rainbow River
12 Trawlerman's Song
13 Jog Along Bess
14 Iris's Song For Us
15 Love Song
16 I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind
17 Winter Is Blue
18 Iris's Song (Version 2)

Credits
Arranged By [Strings] – Robert Kirby (tracks: 1, 6, 11)
Banjo – Simon Nicol (tracks: 5, 9, 14)
Dulcimer – John James (2)
Fiddle, Mandolin – Dave Swarbrick (tracks: 5, 9, 14)
Fiddle, Whistle, Harp [Irish] – Robin Williamson (tracks: 8, 13)
Guitar – Mike Crowther (tracks: 17)
Guitar, Vocals – Vashti Bunyan
Piano, Organ – Christopher Skyes
Producer – Joe Boyd (tracks: 1 to 14), Mike Hurst (tracks: 16), Peter Snell (2) (tracks: 15)

Notes

CD edition of Vashti Bunyan's first album in 1970.
Tracks 1 to 14 from the original LP edition.

Tracks 15 to 18 are bonus tracks:
- Love Song: B-side of 'Train Song' single 1966)
- I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind: unreleased acetate produced for Immediate Records (1967)
- Winter Is Blue: unreleased acetate (1966)
- Iris's Song (Version 2): John Bunyan's tape (1969)

Distributed by Revolver USA.


vAbout five years after briefly surfacing as part of Andrew Loog Oldham's stable, Vashti -- now billing herself with her full name, Vashti Bunyan -- made her only album. A folkier and more serious-minded effort than her initial mid-'60s recordings, it is a pleasing yet overly dainty slice of British rock-tinged folk, produced by Joe Boyd. A certain similarity to some other acts under Boyd's supervision, such as the Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention, was assured by contributions from the ISB's Robin Williamson and Fairport's Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol. For good measure, there were string and recorder arrangements by Robert Kirby, who had done some string arrangements for Nick Drake, another Boyd-produced artist. Comprised solely of original material, Just Another Diamond Day contained dignified yet slightly sad ruminations with a pastoral, indeed rural feel, imbued with images of solitary meditations upon rain, wind, sunsets, and open fields. The drum-less, acoustic arrangements yielded an intimate ambience well-suited for Vashti's fragile, measured,

almost despondently wispy vocals. These were rather in the manner of Marianne Faithfull's highest and most whispery early efforts, albeit with far folkier setting and more vivid lyrics. The CD reissue of this rarity (on Spinney) is enhanced by four bonus tracks that, with an oh-so-slight poppier bent, actually rate as the best material on the disc: the 1966 B-side "Love Song," a pair of unreleased 1966-1967 acetates, and a 1969 version of "Iris' Song" (to be redone as "Iris's Song for Us" on the LP). It's too bad, though, that the other three songs from her official 1965-1966 singles weren't added, as well, to make this a more complete retrospective