this blog lasted exactly one day but i’m feeling bored so i’ve decided to revive it for a single post. i’ve spent the past few weeks swimming in a shitstream of consciousness and it’s the most alone i’ve felt in a while. i thought it would be cool to share with you one of my favorite but lesser known 70’s folk artists: vashti bunyan.
i say ‘lesser known’ because her first album, “just another diamond day,” of which both songs are from, received little attention when it came out in 1970, and were only noticed by the press/public in 2000. i’m really glad to have found this album because it’s such a treasure. her voice feels like spring. and even though her lyrics carry so much heaviness, loss, and longing, i can’t help but feel refreshed by the end of the song. almost serene in my sadness. her simple acoustic instrumentals are so fitting with her soft yet bold voice, which carry with them a quality of carefulness and tender vitality. her songs are like those small intimate moments you have with yourself, going over something again and again, and in the process of rediscovery, bringing them new life in memory.
this first song is just downright cold. i can let the words speak for themselves: “i am alone / waiting for nothing / if my heart freezes / i won’t feel the breaking. why must i stay here / spring comes i’m sitting here / watching love moving / away into yesterday”
this song is more well-known, but i’m a sucker for its lyrics such as, “i’d like to run and jump in your solitude” or “i’d sit there in the sun of the things i like about you.” a perfect blend of thought and reality. she somehow manages to sum up that inexplicable lovey feeling in a timeless sunny image.
it’s getting late and the shitty poet in me is having too much of a field day so i better shut it up before i do something i regret. hope you guys find the same solace in these songs as i have. sweet dreams and good night!
- aylli
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