Vashti Bunyan – Lookaftering (Expanded Edition)

Description

Vashti Bunyans Lookaftering is 20 years old. To mark the occasion, and also Vashtis 80th birthday, an expanded edition is to be released. As well as theoriginal studio album itself, the second disc features demo versions, analternate take of Wayward, and a live performances of Lately. This editionalso comes with sleeve notes from Vashti, producer Max Richter, DevendraBanhart and a 16-page lyric booklet featuring a collection of paintings byVashti’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 glasseswith his young daughters violin bow, brings it all back to me – how very fortunateI have been.
Dating from 2001 to 2005, the demos were recorded at home by Vashti,accompanying herself on acoustic and electric guitar and experimenting withsynths from piano to strings, pipe organ, harmonium, recorders andaccordion. The sound is, of course, stripped back compared to that of thefinished album, but the live version of Lately recorded at an early comebackgig 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 thesleeve 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 (DevendraBanhart, Johanna Newson, Adem Ilhan, Robert Kirby and members of theband Vetiver), touched by Vashtis original 1970 Just Another Diamond Dayalbum, jumped at the opportunity to be there. As Max Richter recalls, It felt likea community project; a family of people coming together.

Tracklist:

01. Lately
02. Here Before
03. Wayward
04. Hidden
05. Against The Sky
06. Turning Backs
07. If I Were08. Same But Different
09. Brother
10. Feet Of Clay
11. Wayward Hum
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)