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Written by Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ on 2025-01-31 at 16:52

Vashti Bunyan performing Rainbow River in her wagon, 1970

In 1968, Vashti set off from London with her partner Robert in a horse and wagon towards the Isle of Skye, wishing to leave the music industry of the city behind, and join a burgeoning folk revival happening on the Scottish island.

It took them two years to reach Skye, and it was there that Bunyan recorded her timeless classic album "Just Another Diamond Day"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vhUcMIgJZXo&feature=shared

[#]FreakFolk

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Written by *_jayrope on 2025-01-31 at 18:28

@Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ Less edits here: #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hhFJUlYxA

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Written by Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ on 2025-01-31 at 18:59

@jrp I found the entire film, will post shortly.

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Written by *_jayrope on 2025-01-31 at 20:27

@Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ I've an allergic thing with super soft folk ladies like this, weirdly this didn't kick in, when i listened to her today. But you can drive me nuts with Joan Baez. Then again, Hope Sandoval might work sometimes. I guess it is winter.

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Written by Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ on 2025-01-31 at 21:55

@jrp I was raised on Joan Baez, Julie Felix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Melanie (Safka).....by hippies in the Australian bush.

God I was still listening to Cat Stevens when I was in my early 20s.....

Hope Sandoval was a soundtrack to at least one relationship I had in the 90s and I still feel something when I hear Fade Into You.

I just can't stand most Country and Western....Townes Van Zandt and Johnny Cash excepted.

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Written by *_jayrope on 2025-01-31 at 23:01

@Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ Joan Baez is the only i know, that you mentioned from the Australian bush. Here this was all import culture, US-Americanism sold to fill the cultural void in Germany. Well, besides that rather probably negative view point i find rare occasions in such singing, where such simple sweetness, humility is appealing to me a lot. There nothing like this over here. But then Hope Sandoval seems a total poser. I saw one performance of her here in Berlin 20 years ago in a church, and seeing this whole band in almost darkness in front of a very backlighted jesus at the rear wall just completely cost me any respect. But "Fade Into You" sometimes comes back to me. Anyhow, nice reminder. There seems none such music being made today, as if another stream has ended.

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Written by Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ on 2025-02-01 at 07:44

@jrp interesting. I preferred My Bloody Valentine to Mazzy Star. The idea of a "cultural void" in Germany surprises me. From our isolation in Australia my friends and I listened to so much German music and thought longingly of the Berlin that Nick Cave fled to in the 80s. I saw Einstürzende Neubauten in 1991, and they blew my mind and changed my life. Then there was the whole Ämon Duul, Neu, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Can, Faust, Klaus Schulze and Ash Ra Temple thing. I appreciate Kraftwerk but never listed a lot. Can and Faust are groups I admire a lot. I suppose you have seen the BBC documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany?

https://youtu.be/QP5dOKTB3ng?feature=shared

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