Vashti Bunyan (606 views)

[Brenda]

Jennifer Vashti Bunyan
Vocal Range: E♭3 – D5

Significant High Notes:

D5 ("Love Song")
C♯5 ("Come Wind Come Rain", "Don't Believe", "I Remember Learning How to Dive")
C5 ("Blue Shed", "Feet of Clay", "Girl's Song in Winter", "I Want to Be Alone", "If I Were", "Iris's Song for Us" Version Two, "It's You", "Just So You Know", "Leave Me", "Lily Pond", "Rainbow River", "Rose Hip November", "Swallow Song")
B4 ("17 Pink Sugar Elephants", "Autumn Tears", "Brother", "Diamond Day", "Don't Believe", "Don't Believe What They Say", "Glow Worms", "I Don't Know What Love Is", "I Know", "If in Winter (100 Lovers)", "Iris's Song for Us" Version Two, "Jellyfish", "Jog Along Bess", "Love Song")
B♭4 ("Coldest Night of the Year", "I Remember Learning How to Dive", "I Want to Be Alone", "I'd Like to Walk Around Your Mind", "It's You", "Martha My Dear", "Prospect Hummer", "Where I Like to Stand", "Wishwanderer")

Significant Low Notes:

B3 ("17 Pink Sugar Elephants", "Autumn Tears", "The Boy", "Come Wind Come Rain", "Don't Believe", "Don't Believe What They Say", "Hebridean Sun", "Hidden", "I Don't Know What Love Is", "Rainbow River", "Same But Different", "Shell", "Someday")
B♭3 ("Against the Sky", "Coldest Night of the Year", "Here Before", "I'd Like to Walk Around Your Mind", "It's You", "Prospect Hummer", "Rose Hip November", "Where I Like to Stand", "Winter Is Blue")
A3 ("Autumn Tears", "Blue Shed", "Diamond Day", "Don't Believe What They Say", "Girl's Song in Winter", "Hebridean Sun", "How Do I Know", "Jellyfish", "Jog Along Bess", "Just So You Know", "I Want to Be Alone", "If in Winter (100 Lovers)", "Iris's Song for Us", "Leave Me", "Love You Now", "Mother", "Rainbow River", "Same But Different", "Shell", "Trawlerman's Song", "Wayward Hum")
G♯3 ("Against the Sky", "I'd Like to Walk Around Your Mind", "Winter Is Blue")
G3 ("Coldest Night of the Year" "Feet of Clay", "Go Before Dawn", "Hebridean Sun", "Hole Smoke", "How Do I Know", "Here Before", "I Know", "I Remember Learning How to Dive", "I Want to Be Alone", "Iris's Song for Us", "It's You", "Just So You Know", "Love You Now", "Rose Hip November", "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind", "Thoughts of Mary Jane", "Timothy Grub", "Trawlerman's Song", "Window Over the Bay")
F♯3 ("Mother", "Someday")
F3 ("Coldest Night of the Year", "Here Before", "Martha My Dear")
E3 ("Window Over the Bay")
E♭3 ("Here", "Prospect Hummer")
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• Boldface denotes outstanding passages (relative to the singer).
• Underlines denote obscured and background passages.

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{Questionable Notes}
F5? ("Coldest Night of the Year" [3a][3b])
D3 ("Blue Shed" [2b])
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[1] Questionable quality
a. Fryish/weak notes.
b. Cracked notes.
c. Under or overshots
d. Growls or growly notes.

[2] Questionable representativeness
a. Exclamations/yelps, woos or squeaks.
b. Anacrusis or low dips in general.
c. Slides to unspecific and/or unaimed notes.
d. Spoken.

[3] Questionable legitimacy.
a. Uncertain identity.
b. Uncertain pitch.
c. Pitch-shifted.

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{Notewatching Credits & Other Info}
BrendaMarzipan
Solo Albums:
Just Another Diamond Day (1970): E3 – D5
Lookaftering (2005): F3 – C5
Heartleap (2014): E♭3 – C5

Compilations:
Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind (2007): F♯3 – C5

Animal Collective:
Prospect Hummer (2005): E♭3 – C♯5

Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by BrendaMarzipan.