this is the aforementioned some bizarre comp, va track was called "waiting to fall"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Ifyoucantalbum.png
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Virginia Astley = 100% classic, though. Sad to say, almost nothing by her is available anymore which is a fucker, because she made some of the most beautiful music ever. "From Gardens Where etc" is a lovely pastoral instrumental type thing, but my favourites are the 7" "Love's a Lonely Place to Be" and this comp on disques du crepescule which hads a bunch of her early stuff, incl "A Bau a qu" & some other stuff. I'm getting the chills just thinking about the music contained therein. I wish they'd do a good fucking CD reissue programme of her material for fuxake, I mean you can get nearly all of shirley collin's stuff now, and she's totally obscure. Her music is up there w/popol vuh, s & d collins, dead can dance, 11 shadows, & all that sort of spiritual-beauty type stuff. Having said that the album she did on Virgin, w/guest vocals by dave sylvian (who fuxing WISHES he had 1/10 the musical poetry of VA) was a little overcooked IIRC.
Pash 100% OTM upthread
― sleeve, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't she do Spring is Grey with Vic Godard?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i only know 'from gardens where we feel secure' and it's really special....hearing her sing is like woah! love that song rionat posted.
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
jabba OTM.
I just wish i haden't sold "Hope in a darkened Heart" her duet with Sylvian was grebt.
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks for bumping this thread rionat, been listening on repeat since ;)
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"From Gardens" was the intro music at my wedding! Wonder if I was supposed to pay a royalty for that?
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
def a "the kick inside" influence. more pastoral, less fantastical. like sunlight through a farm window in the english country.
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:54 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
lol if an english poster posted this they'd get given a kicking by their countryfolk (by which i mean townfolk). we have a fucked up country.
― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nechronical/oct2009/6/2/image-1-for-gallery-viz-comic-celebrates-30th-birthday-214754786.jpg
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― am0n, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGUy_OpIpOs
― teresa banks (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
<3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erFnyRhEDCQ
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 24 January 2014 10:27 (ten years ago) link
i love the way sylvian's voice contrasts with hers and rubs up against the music (produced by ryuichi sakamoto!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Onw0SMtuI
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaK2djnYHI
The debut sounds pretty swell in a post-election haze.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Yeah we listened to that earlier this week
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
i just created a sample bank using the first track from 'gardens' and pitched them down and im making a slow jam out of this, it is so beautiful
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Thursday, 21 December 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
And she's on Bandcamp now
https://virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Cor, I was at that Riverside Studios show that’s on Bandcamp
― Jeff W, Friday, 4 December 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up. I must have listened to "Hope In A Darkened Heart" a hundred times over the years. My copy is a white label without a sleeve (it was dirt cheap and I was poor) so somehow I never knew until now that it was produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto, even though now having that information it is glaringly apparent.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 5 December 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
Very!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 December 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
I just bumped the Sakamoto thread for Hope in a Darkened Heart. Really odd, peculiar record that I think anyone who is interested in that era of Ryuichi shouldn’t overlook.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 7 December 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
There are some older posts on her FB that detail the process of making that record.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 7 December 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Oh good call -- there are actually a bunch of fairly recent posts describing the sessions.
Here's a B-side that a Facebook-er says John Foxx was a big champion of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67jA6xHFODQ
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
Thank you to everybody who made purchases last Friday (and any other day!!) and for your continued support.Hope to put up something new very soonVA xxx
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
Simon Reynolds review of IGWWFS on Pitchfork.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/virginia-astley-from-gardens-where-we-feel-secure/
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 10 January 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
Sent just now via Bandcamp message:
With great excitement and anticipation I can share the digital release of my 1996 album HAD I THE HEAVENS, an album very dear to my heart.It will be released digital only this coming Friday to take advantage of Bandcamp's very kind offer to waive commission for a 24 hour periodI will make this album at 8am on this coming Friday morningWith great appreciation of your continued support in these trying times
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
:DDDD
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
New album!
https://virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/album/maiden-newton-ecliptic
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 March 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
!!!!!
― donna rouge, Friday, 5 March 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link
aw yeah
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 5 March 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
I was... not expecting a spoken-word delivery on all of these songs
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 12 March 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
great news. been listening a lot to her this year, but didn't make the connection until the other day that she plays on a record I very much love, Anne Clark's Joined Up Writing (Clark has had some amazing collaborators: John Foxx, Vini Reilly, Patrik Fitzgerald, David Harrow...).
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 12 March 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
listening to 'Hope In a Darkened Heart' for the first time... wow
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
"Darkness has reached its end" is a hymn. I'm gonna play it all Christmas.
― Mule, Sunday, 12 December 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Listed with an apostrophe on Spotify which is detracting from its simple beauty.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 12 December 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Infuriating.
― Mule, Sunday, 12 December 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
Listening to her second record makes me realize how much her voice sounds like a boy soprano.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 12 December 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, March 5, 2021 12:57 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Missed this at the time...afaik the two new albums are all material from 2006-07. Both originally sold only online but unavailable for donkeys years, so I'm glad she's finally made them available again.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Sunday, 12 December 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
A new note from Ms. A:
Bandcamp Friday has come round again and thank you to everyone for supporting me. I am up in the Highlands of Scotland visiting my lovely friend Martin Stephenson so apologies if I’m a few days late getting orders sent out. It’s beautiful up here and I hope to get some writing done while I’m here!This month there will be an interview with Andy Beta being published on Bandcamp!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 March 2022 23:05 (two years ago) link
i love that this is on her bandcamp description:
Finally the manifestation of the cult classic 'From Gardens Where We Feel Secure'Every household should have this record, every age and every cultureIt is one of the most unique and visionary recordings ever to be releasedQuintessential English and pioneering New AgeThis is why Gini ended up working with high level artists, because she too is high level, and a true artist
― maelin, Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
And that interview with Andy Beta she mentioned is live
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/virginia-astley-discography
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 April 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
this is a couple of years old but I thought this was good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu4K9FFeoQg
― akm, Monday, 4 April 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
"Magnitude of Love" from Sondre Lerche's new double album is a rather, uhm, direct homage to "Some Small Hope".
(The song is also mentioned repeatedly in a bonus track I've not heard.)
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link