Name: Lookaftering – Expanded Edition
Brand: Vashti Bunyan

Tax rate EU

Standard:20

Supplier EU

Believe Digital

Total Cap

9999

Format detail

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with 16 Page Booklet.

Colour details

Discogs ID

Limited edition

Colour

Black

Format Music EU

Extended format

Extended format: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Download code

Download code: No

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Release date

2025-01-31

Format multiplier

Catalogue number

FATLP38X

UPC / Barcode

0600116993830

Black LPx2

Default:19

FATCD38X

0600116993809

CDx2

Artist

Vashti Bunyan

Label EU

Fat Cat

Genre EU

Folk

Fat Cat is an electronica, noise, and post-rock label based in Brighton, UK. Originally a record shop in the early '90s, the label was established when the shop closed down in 1997 with support from [l311].

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English singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan was born on 20 December 1945 in Newcastle upon Tyne. She released a few singles in the mid and late 1960s before taking a break from the music industry for over three decades. In 2005, she made her comeback with the release of her second album "Lookaftering". Her third and final album "Heartleap" followed in 2014.

Vashti Bunyan’s Lookaftering is 20 years old. To mark the occasion, and also Vashti’s 80th birthday, an expanded edition is released. As well as the original studio album itself, the second disc features demo versions, alternate takes, and live performances of all the original album tracks. This edition also comes with sleeve notes from Vashti, producer Max Richter, Devendra Banhart and a 16-page lyric booklet featuring a collection of paintings by Vashti's daughter Whyn Lewis – paintings that closely, and coincidentally, reflected the lyrics of the album. Vashti says “the beautiful photograph of Max in the studio playing wine glasses with his young daughter’s violin bow, brings it all back to me - how very fortunate I have been.” &nbsp; Dating from 2001 to 2005, the demos were recorded at home by Vashti, accompanying herself on acoustic and electric guitar and experimenting with synths – from piano to strings, pipe organ, harmonium, recorders and accordion. The sound is, of course, stripped back compared to that of the finished album, but the live version of&nbsp;Lately&nbsp;recorded at an early “comeback” gig in L.A. in 2006, orchestrated as on the record, is absolutely pitch perfect. &nbsp;

Listening to the demos and the final versions side-by-side while reading the sleeve notes is a wonderful experience, learning and hearing how the songs and the long-player evolved, with Vashti and Max Richter (who produced - and played on - the album), explaining how all of the artists involved (Devendra Banhart, Johanna Newson, Adem Ilhan, Robert Kirby and members of the band Vetiver), touched by Vashti’s original 1970 Just Another Diamond&nbsp;Day album, jumped at the opportunity to be there. As Max Richter recalls, “It felt like a community project; a family of people coming together”.

12. Lately (Live, The Echo, Los Angeles, 2006)&nbsp;

Lookaftering – Expanded Edition

Music EU

Discover Lookaftering – Expanded Edition by Vashti Bunyan on Fat Cat. 20th-anniversary release with demos, alternate takes, live performances, and sleeve notes from Vashti and collaborators.