VASHTI BUNYAN JUST ANOTHER DIAMOND DAY LP UK ORIG RARE

	£		1,002
	$		1,328

Item :

VASHTI BUNYAN ~ JUST ANOTHER DIAMOND DAY LP

Original 1970 U.K. first issue stereo pressing released on the Philips label 6308 019. 

Description :

Wow!!! How hard is this classic folk rarity to find nowadays!!! 

This copy was purchased from a Lady who used to know Vashti and went on holidays with her in the late sixties!  By the time the album came out in 1970 she had lost touch with her but she immediately went out and bought the album. Shame she couldn't have got Vashti to sign it!!!

Vashti Bunyan was born in London in 1945. In the early 1960s, she studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, but was expelled for failing to turn up to classes and spending her time writing songs. At 18, she travelled to New York and discovered the music of Bob Dylan through his The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album and decided to become a full-time musician. Returning to London she was discovered by Rolling Stones' manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, and, in June 1965, under his direction, she released her first single, the Jagger and Richards penned "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" (their own version later turning up on the outtakes compilation Metamorphosis), on Decca Records. Released using simply the name Vashti, it was backed with her own song "I Want to Be Alone". The single and her follow up "Train Song", released on Columbia in May 1966, produced by Canadian Peter Snell, received little attention. Her only other performance of this time to find release was her distinctive vocal on "The Coldest Night of the Year" with Twice as Much (which eventually turned up on their second and final LP, That's All, appearing on Oldham's Immediate Records in 1968). After recording further songs for Immediate Records, which remain unreleased, and making a brief appearance in the 1967 documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, performing her song "Winter Is Blue", she decided to travel with her then boyfriend Robert Lewis by horse and cart to the Herbridean Islands to join a commune planned by a friend, fellow folk singer Donovan. During the trip she began writing the songs that eventually became her first album, Just Another Diamond Day.

During a break from her trip at Christmas 1968, she met Joe Boyd through a friend and he offered to record an album of her travelling songs for his Witchseason Productions. A year later Vashti returned to London and recorded her first LP with assistance from Simon Nicol and Dave Swarbrick of Fairport Convention, Robin Williamson of The Incredible String Band and string arranger Robert Kirby, today best known for his work on Nick Drake's first two albums. The album appeared on Philips Records to warm reviews in December 1970, but struggled to find an audience. Disappointed, she left the music industry and moved to The Incredible String Band's Glen Row cottages and then to Ireland. Much of the ensuing 30 years were spent raising her three children and tending animals. In this time, entirely unknown to her, the original album has slowly became one of the most sought-after records of its time.

In 2005, she recorded and released her second album, Lookaftering on Fat Cat Records, some 35 years after her first. The album was produced by composer Max Richter and featured many of her contemporary followers including Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom and was well received by critics and fans alike.

During the autumn of 2006, Bunyan assembled an ad hoc band and embarked on a brief North American tour, with performances in both Canada and the US. She performed songs from both of her solo albums, as well as some of the rare material from the unreleased Oldham sessions.

Her music reached a much wider audience when "Just Another Diamond Day" was used in a TV advert for a mobile phone company.

October 2007 saw the release of a compilation album of her mid-1960s singles and unreleased demos recorded at the time entitled Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind - Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967.

In January 2008, Vashti said she was recording a new album. "I’m supposed to be writing just now. I have one complete song and a whole lot of fragments. I’m supposed to have them finished by May and there’s no way!

Condition ~ Vinyl :

The super clean vinyl is in fantastic NEAR MINT condition with just a couple of the very faintest non-audible surface hairlines on each side.

Audio Quality :

Despite obviously having been played a number of times the sound quality is absolutely superb with virtually no background noise at all, hardly even a click or a pop, even during the most quiet parts of the album of which there are many. It's a sheer delight to listen to. Stunningly crisp and clear!!!

Condition ~ Sleeve :

The classic gatefold sleeve is overall in great shape with just general edge wear but no splits, tears or writing. The inside of the gatefold is fine also with just light wear. However, here is the downside : There is an area of scuffing in the top right corner on the front of the sleeve (see last picture) which appears to have been caused by the removal of a sticker at some stage. Amazingly it blends in rather well with the background but it is nevertheless there. Therefore VG condition.

Condition ~ Labels :

Side one shows some spindle marks and some faint "bubbling" above the word "Philips" where I assume another sticker was once removed.

Side two shows some spindle marks.

Miscellaneous :

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