Vashti Bunyan 'Just Another Diamond Day' NEW Electric Recording Co.
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2023 Electric Recording Co. ERC087 release #152 - Edition of 300 A number of the photos are stock from the ERC website as this is UNOPENED!
ERC took on a stereo repress of the original 1970 album "Another Diamond Day' from Vashti Bunyon. Long a collected masterpiece and cult classic this record is:
- Officially Sanctioned Heritage pressings mastered from the original analogue master tapes.
- Cut in true monaural and Stereo using 1950’s Lyrec / EMI valve tape machines and Ortofon DS522 mono cutter head and Ortofon DS601 Stereo cutter head
- Hand-crafted sleeve artwork faithfully recreated using a vintage letterpress procedure.
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Released in strictly limited, individually numbered editions with personally signed certificates from the producer. Featuring iconic recordings by the most revered artists across multiple genres.
About 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.
Free Media Mail but, if you want Two Day etc., we can discuss.
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