Description:
It`s not often you come across an artist you can genuinely refer to as a "cult legend," but Vashti Bunyan is truly that. A full thirty-five years after her only previous album, the singer returns with a new solo work, her first in all these years, and it is a breathtakingly beautiful album. Discovered in the mid-`60s by The Rolling Stones` guru/producer Andrew Loog Oldham and signed to Decca she recorded a single written by Jagger/ Richards. Reviews touted her as "the new Marianne Faithfull" or the "female Bob Dylan" although she claimed to be neither. Lookaftering is anchored around Bunyan`s voice and picked acoustic guitar, and producer Max Richter`s piano playing and arranging. Its instrumentation includes a string quartet, oboe, harp, French horn, recorder, flute, hammer dulcimer, glasses, harmonium, and Rhodes piano, and it features contributions from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), Robert Kirby (Nick Drake), Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker (Espers, Currituck County). (Dicristina Stair Builders)
