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Track Listings
| 1. Lately |
| 2. Here Before |
| 3. Wayward |
| 4. Hidden |
| 5. Against the Sky |
| 6. Turning Backs |
| 7. If I Were |
| 8. Same But Different |
| 9. Brother |
| 10. Feet of Clay |
| 11. Wayward Hum |
Product Description
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完全な"カルト的伝説"と形容できるアーティストに出会うことはめったにないが、ヴァシュティ・バニアンは正真正銘、その形容にあてはまる。ただ1枚のアルバムから丸々30年を歳月を経て、彼女は初のソロとなるアルバムをひっさげて戻ってきた。そしてこれが、息を呑むほど見事なアルバムだ。プロデュースを手がけ、さらにバニアンと共同でアレンジを手がけたのは同郷エディンバラの住民、マックス・リッチャー(自身も『Blue Notebooks』というすばらしいソロ・アルバムがある)。豊かで美しいアレンジであり、興奮させるアルバムに仕上がっている。まずはリッチャーとバニアンの家で生まれ、続いてエディンバラ、ロンドン、グラスゴーのスタジオで徐々に有機的に発展させた『Lookaftering』は、バニアンの声、つまびかれるアコースティック・ギター、リッチャーのピアノとアレンジでしっかりとまとまった。楽器編成はストリング・カルテット、オーボエ、ハープ、フレンチ・ホルン、リコーダー、フルート、ダルシマー、ミュージカル・グラス、ハルモニウム、ローズ・ピアノ。ゲスト参加はジョアンナ・ニューサム、デヴェンドラ・ドンハート、アーデム、アダム・ピアス(マイス・パレード)、ロバート・カービー(ニック・ドレイク)、オットー・ハウザー、ケヴィン・バーカー(エスパーズ、カタリック・カウンティ)。たおやかで広がりのある曲と、重厚な編成にしたナンバーとのバランスがきっちりとれているし、瑞々しい楽器のアレンジとごく身近の耳元で囁いているようなバニアンの声とが美しい相乗効果をあげている。そして、ヴォーカルそのものに潜む繊細な親密さから、その声が織りなす物語にまで、このアルバムには本物の誠実さがある。前作『Just Another Diamond Day』が実に純粋な旅路の記録だったように、『Lookaftering』も同じように生活の体験から直接得た題材(兄の死、母としての喜びと怖れ、自由と束縛に揺れる緊張、旅と家庭の対比)に基づいている。歌詞の内容と音楽の形態(「Same But Different」におけるメロディの優しい強弱、「Here Before」のヴォーカルの輪舞、「Turning Backs」での氷のように響くダルシマー)とがしっかり結びついたことによって、見事なまでの完全性が生じてもいる。アルバムのタイトル自体も、個人的な造語であり、"人でも動物でも、あるいは何かやるべきこと、面倒を見る必要のあることを、世話すること"の意味だ。
Album 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.
Produced by fellow Edinburgh resident Max Richter (who has a wonderful solo album of his own, Blue Notebooks), and co-arranged with Bunyan, it's a rich, beautifully arranged and stirring album. Developing gradually and organically -- with work initially taking place between Richter and Bunyan's homes, and then at various studios in Edinburgh, London and Glasgow -- Lookaftering is anchored around Bunyan's voice and picked acoustic guitar, Richter's piano playing and arranging. Its instrumentation includes a string quartet, oboe, harp, French horn, and 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)
As well as a neat balance between gentle, sparse songs and heavier, more orchestrated numbers, there is a beautiful play between the lush instrumental arrangements and the incredibly intimate, in-your-ear presence of Bunyan's voice. There's a real honesty to the album -- from the fragile intimacy of the vocal itself to the stories that it weaves. Just as JADD was a very pure document of a journey, Lookaftering is similarly based on stories taken directly from lived experience (the death of a brother; the joys and fears of motherhood; the tension between freedom and commitment; and travel versus domesticity). There's also a great integrity forged from the cohesiveness between lyrical content and musical form (the gentle rolling and pitching of the melodies on "Same But Different"; the vocal roundelay on "Here Before"; the ice-shiver of dulcimer on "Turning Backs"). The album title itself, a personal neologism that describes the role of "taking care of someone -- human or animal -- or even something that needs to be done, that needs lookaftering."
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