Vashti Bunyan
by Graham Kolbeins
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The Silent Movie Theatre is hosting a series called “F is For Folk” on Thursdays this month, and last night was Vashti Bunyan night. An exceprt of The Family Jams was shown along with the amazingly beautiful new feature length documentary Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before, which traces the legendary horse-and-buggy journey traveled by Vashti and her compatriots in 1968. Last night’s screening also included the 2-minute theatrical premiere of Same But Different, a short film I shot at a Mean photo shoot with Vashti. And now, for the cyberspace premiere! Enjoy:

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Music, Video | June 12, 2009

  • Beautiful, Graham.

    Posted by mimi on June 14th, 2009 at 8:32 am

  • Wow…

    Posted by Calvin on June 14th, 2009 at 11:08 am

  • Nice work, G. Glad you added the narration at the start. Just enough, and not too much…

    Posted by Patrick on June 14th, 2009 at 11:31 am

  • Well done!
    I am so honored…thank you for being who you are and doing what you do!

    Posted by fe on June 14th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

  • The Swedish artist “Fever Ray” (singer from “The Knife”)has just made a cover of “Here Before”. Interestingly enough it’s featured on a cd with various electro artists called “Musiken vi hatar” (“the music we hate”). Turns out that Fever Ray do NOT hate Vashti Bunyan, rather she was provoked by expected and “folky” sound for such a great tune.

    Actually I think there both great.
    This is the only link I found to it. It may not last though…
    http://www.dn.se/webbtv/film-ljud/here-before-1.893018

    Posted by Gustav L on June 21st, 2009 at 2:30 pm

  • thanks for the heads up! this looks like it was a great series!

    Posted by youhavebeenheresometime on June 29th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

  • way, way jealous

    Posted by Grace P. on July 7th, 2009 at 3:04 am