Tag: Vashti Bunyan

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I’ve been on a bit of a bender this year listening to sparse, cracked and echoey female folk/strum in the SIBYLLE BAIER / VASHTI BUNYAN mode, and my favorite discovery this side of MAXINE FUNKE is my most recent one – JULIE BYRNE.

Byrne is actively recording and touring, like, now. She’s the most Baier-like of them all, while retaining her own minimalist approach to ghostly closet folk, veering off into non-guitar experimental pieces at times as well. Start with the semi-recent 45 “Melting Grid” and the LP “Rooms With Walls and Windows” and go from there.

When I resuscitate Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio (soon) I’ll be playing Ms. Byrne and some of her progenitors. Until then – please listen here.

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Though it might not always be clear, we’re huge VASHTI BUNYAN fans here at Dynamite Hemorrhage. I’ve been listening this week to the 2xCD they put out a few years ago of her early tapes and 45s – “Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind” – and while I’m far more partial to the aching, cracked folk songs that were simply Vashti and her guitar, I like the songs that came out of the brief attempt to make her into a pop star as well.

Just check out how uncomfortable she is in that role on this clip from mid-1960s British TV. She subsequently moved to a faraway island off the coast and pursued her loner folk vision, free of the trappings of potential stardom. Mission accomplished. If you’ve never heard “Just Another Diamond Day” – run, don’t walk, as they say.

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