Heartleap
Heartleap is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan, released on October 6, 2014, in the UK on FatCat Records and October 7 in the U.S. via DiCristina. First announced in June, Heartleap was accompanied by a statement where Bunyan wrote, "The whole point of the album was finally to learn a way that would enable me to record the music that is in my head, by myself. I neither read nor write music, nor can I play piano with more than one hand at a time, but I have loved being able to work it all out for myself and make it sound the way I wanted. I've built these songs over years. The album wouldn't have happened any other way."
Track listing
All songs written, arranged and produced by Vashti Bunyan, except arrangement of strings in "Across the Water", improvised by Fiona Brice and Ian Burdge.Personnel
- Vashti Bunyan - Guitars, synth, producer, vocals, arrangements, piano, dulcitone
- Martin Korth - Mixing
- Mandy Parnell - Mastering
- Whyn Lewis - Cover painting
- dlt - Design and layout
- Fiona Brice - Strings, violin
- Ian Burdge - Strings, cello
- Gillon Cameron - Strings, violin
- Jo Mango - Kalimba, flute
- Gareth Dickson - Guitars
- Andy Cabic - Guitars, vocals
- Devendra Banhart - Vocals
- Ian Wilson - Recorder, saxophone