At one time thought lost to the music world, Vashti Bunyan's return has been one of the most artistically satisfying of the post-Millennial wyrd folk boom.
2005's 'Lookaftering' album ended over three decades of silence, and found the songwriter returning with a fresh view on her craft.
Recently confirming plans for new material, Vashti Bunyan's third – and final – album 'Heartleap' will be released on October 6th via Fat Cat Records.
"The whole point of the album was finally to learn a way that would enable me to record the music that is in my head, by myself" she explains. "I neither read nor write music, nor can I play piano with more than one hand at a time, but I have loved being able to work it all out for myself and make it sound the way I wanted."
"I've built these songs over years. The album wouldn't have happened any other way. Sometimes when I replace the arrangements with real instruments they don't work in the same way. The extended notes of the clarinet on the song 'Heartleap' for instance could not be played on a real clarinet. I can't 'play' a musician playing their instrument – I can't make them play each note as I want it, but with a keyboard and a music program I am the player."
Check out the album art above. Tracklisting is as follows:
1. Across The Water
2. Holy Smoke
3. Mother
4. Jellyfish
5. Shell
6. The Boy
7. Gunpowder
8. Blue Shed
9. Here
10. Heartleap
Vashti Bunyan has confirmed the following shows:
October
7 Birmingham MAC
8 London St. Pancras Church
9 London St. Pancras Church
11 Farndale The Band Room
12 Manchester St. Philip's Church
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