Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

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Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\05 - Glasgerion.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\15 - Dark-Haired Lady.wav Crucially, Watkins's book points out how easy it is for the reader to take part in the survey of ley lines, simply by taking a map and ruler and rambling out into almost any part of the British countryside: antiquarianism for weekend rovers. ‘The clear, modest style…invoke[s] the same genius terrae britannicae from the red Herefordshire earth that inspired [his] mystic predecessors, Traherne and Henry Vaughan,' Michell continues. ‘There would be no poetry without heretics.' She abandoned the tour then and there, and sped home across the English Channel. The song ‘Diamond Day' came to her on the train from Dover to London. A friend urged her to take her music to the producer, manager and entrepreneur Joe Boyd, who was intrigued enough to offer to record an album once she had reached her Scottish destination. At that point Vashti Bunyan dropped off the radar, lost to musical history for the next three decades, chasing and never quite finding the perfect place to settle her family. ‘We kept travelling by horse and wagon, which was entirely stupid. By the time we got there, of course, the price would go up beyond our reach. That kept happening. We walked across Ireland. We stayed there a year, with a bigger wagon that did have a stove in it. From then on I couldn't play my guitar or listen to the sound of my own voice, because it reminded me of Diamond Day, which had been so roundly ignored. And although it was partly my fault, it was also that the world didn't want to hear what I had to say at all.'

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Hugely ambitious . . . A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-written overview [of the modern British folk phenomenon] for a long time . . . I've already made several precious musical discoveries thanks to this book and I expect to make more.” — Michel Faber, Guardian Book of the Week Heller, Jason (June 23, 2011). "Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\06 - Brother John.wav His international fame was at its zenith. He had just featured on the cover of the inaugural issue of Rolling Stone, and this Glasgowborn youth was styling himself ‘the last of the English minstrels'2 in interviews. He had attempted to escape the mounting legal wranglings over his music by fleeing to a Greek island, but the exile had not worked, and now he declared he was seeking ‘a place where the twentieth century had never existed'.3Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\16 - I Was A Young Man.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\05 - Reynardine.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\10 - Mirage.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\10 - Diana.wav Vashti Bunyan's drawing of herself and Robert Lewis camping in woods near Ravensbourne College, 1967. Note approaching bailiffs.