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This product is a Pre Order and is scheduled to be released 7th February 2025

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Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering [Expanded Edition]

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This product is available on pre order with a limited discounted price.

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An album long overdue a repress and more than worthy of a glowing spotlight.

Vashti Bunyan’s ‘Lookaftering’ is 20 years old. To mark the occasion, and also Vashti’s 80th birthday, an expanded edition is to be released. As well as the original studio album itself, the second disc features demo versions, alternate takes, and live performances of all the original album tracks. This edition also comes with sleeve notes from Vashti, producer Max Richter, Devendra Banhart and a 16-page lyric booklet featuring a collection of paintings by Vashti's daughter Whyn Lewis – paintings that closely, and coincidentally, reflected the lyrics of the album. Vashti says “the beautiful photograph of Max in the studio playing wine glasses with his young daughter’s violin bow, brings it all back to me - how very fortunate I have been.”   Dating from 2001 to 2005, the demos were recorded at home by Vashti, accompanying herself on acoustic and electric guitar and experimenting with synths – from piano to strings, pipe organ, harmonium, recorders and accordion. The sound is, of course, stripped back compared to that of the finished album, but the live version of Lately recorded at an early “comeback” gig in L.A. in 2006, orchestrated as on the record, is absolutely pitch perfect.   Listening to the demos and the final versions side-by-side while reading the sleeve notes is a wonderful experience, learning and hearing how the songs and the long-player evolved, with Vashti and Max Richter (who produced - and played on - the album), explaining how all of the artists involved (Devendra Banhart, Johanna Newson, Adem Ilhan, Robert Kirby and members of the band Vetiver), touched by Vashti’s original 1970 ‘Just Another Diamond Day’ album, jumped at the opportunity to be there. As Max Richter recalls, “It felt like a community project; a family of people coming together”.

Tracklisting

Disc1
01. Lately
02. Here Before
03. Wayward
04. Hidden
05. Against The Sky
06. Turning Backs
07. If I Were
08. Same But Different
09. Brother
10. Feet Of Clay
11. Wayward Hum

Disc2
12. Lately (Live, The Echo, Los Angeles, 2006)
13. Here Before (Demo, 2005)
14. Wayward (Alternative take, 2005)
15. Hidden (Demo, 2002)
16.Against The Sky (Demo, 2004)
17. Turning Backs (Demo, 2003)
18. If I Were (Demo, 2001)
19. Same But Different (Demo, 2005)
20. Brother (Demo, 2002)
21. Feet Of Clay (Demo, 2002)

Scheduled: 7 February 2025

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Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering [Expanded Edition] is available for Pre Order now and has a scheduled release date of 7th February 2025.

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