Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with 16 Page Booklet. Catalog Number: FATLP38X Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 0600116993830 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." 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 Lately recorded at an early "comeback" gig in L.A. in 2006, orchestrated as on the record, is absolutely pitch perfect. 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 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". 01. Lately 02. Here Before 03. Wayward 04. Hidden 05. Against The Sky 06. Turning Backs 07. If I Were 08. Same But Different 09. Brother 10. Feet Of Clay 11. Wayward Hum 12. Lately (Live, The Echo, Los Angeles, 2006) 13. Here Before (Demo, 2005) 14. Wayward (Alternative take, 2005) 15. Hidden (Demo, 2002) 16. Against The Sky (Demo, 2004) 17. Turning Backs (Demo, 2003) 18. If I Were (Demo, 2001) 19. Same But Different (Demo, 2005) 20. Brother (Demo, 2002) 21. Feet Of Clay (Demo, 2002)