Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure [Full Album]
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Virginia Astley's 1983 ambient album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, released by Rough Trade and Happy Valley Records.
- Morning -
1. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming - 0:00
2. A Summer Long Since Passed - 5:43
3. From Gardens Where We Feel Secure - 10:20
4. Hiding In The Ha Ha - 14:19
- Afternoon -
5. Out On The Lawn I Lie In Bed - 18:14
6. Too Bright For Peacocks - 23:23
7. Summer Of Their Dreams - 25:53
8. When The Fields Were On Fire - 29:14
9. It's Too Hot To Sleep - 32:29
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Quarantine day 38: I discovered this record and life is a beautiful thing
It is
@@cjl310871 I'm glad you're enjoying it. VA is a balm for our troubled nerves! I still have my original vinyl from 1983 and kept cuttings of two of the glowing reviews! FGWWFS is in my top ten all-time favourites. Stay safe.
@@HaFannyHa me too. I might even slide it into my top 5
cheers my friend. it truly can be. thank you for reminding me.
Aged eighteen, thirty-two years ago, I began to mend my broken heart to this.
Same here... ❤ The sound of the animals is amazing with piano and flute...💎
I thought I might find you here. Little golden moments here and there x
Hahaha... You always seem to, Howard. 😊
And now you’re here trying to milk the “oh, you poor baby!” Life is tough. Grow a pair. Put your big boy pants on. The album is good. But, come on, 80% of it is meandering piano with birds chirping. A 2nd year piano student could ad lib this entire arrangement.
Ge eK please send a link to your music, I would love to hear it.
One of the most beautiful and evocative albums - I first heard this when I was in my twenties ( in the 1980s) it conjures these images of innocence, childhood picture books, empty sunlit rooms, and dream like gardens. There is a poignant melancholy too which underlies these beautiful melodies. It’s a shame more people don’t know this unique and very special record.
I'm 21 and this was my first time listening to this record. I feel so moved by all the emotions that the music provoked. I feel fullness, peace, love, some kind of nostalgia and excitment to see whats next on my life. From now and then this is definitely one of my favorite records. It's amazing how touching ambient music can be.
@@abrahamherrera4573 and it’s wonderful that you are so open to this special record that so few people know about !
Well said. Agree!
@@velvetclaw2316 I bought the CD it in 90s. I haven't heard anything till then. It was a so wonderful surprise, one music after another each, as good as the previous one. What a sensation of happiness. I totally agree that not many have ever heard this. What a pity.
I was so affected by this record I bought both CDs, multiple vinyls of it before that when they were available, and later Virginia material which I also gave college radio airplay. I planned to give away extras of the vinyl to others.
This is one of my new favourite albums ever. Up there with Hiroshi Yoshimura for tones of pure healing magic, resplendent joy and playful serenity. I'm glad I'm alive.
and takashi kokubo, kenichiri Isoda
Pastoral English ambient. Who knew I needed this?
The first track sounds like the kind of music that would start off a really good film.
I heard a song from this record on BBC 3 late junction in a semi-dream-like state many years ago. I checked the playlist for the artist and then searched the records shops of Glasgow for it,. In the HMV shop, a young woman who I asked became very animated. We don't have it in stock but I will order it for you, it is beautiful! I picked up a copy a couple of weeks afterward and love it more with each listen. Thanks to Virginia Astley for making a record of transcendent beauty and late junction but most of all to the lovely woman I met who understood the importance of music, emotional connection, shared dreams, and memory.
from japan.
高校生の頃よく聴いてました。今聞いてもやっぱり良いですね。
私のルーツです。
Listened to this for the first time late last night and was treated to a Tawny Owl joining in, from a tree to my right also.
Beautiful recording and a moment to treasure now as well. Thank you BBC radio 6.
If ever an album was crying out to be re-released it's this beautiful masterpiece. So evocative, so calming. I lost my copy many years ago and often search for a copy on line, always to no avail, why would anyone ever part with such a stunning LP.
Wishing upon a star that this comes true. 💖
Im sure you can find it online somewhere. Never searched cause..well i have all the copies of her i ever bought. Wishing you luck to find them. Dont give up
It’s on her bandcamp. $12 bucks for the CD
Bliss! I come back to this every summer, since 1986….church bells ringing, sheep bleating, gates creaking, rowers rowing,birds singing, owls hooting and Lilac the donkey ….perfect summer day❤
Names, like 'From gardens where we fell secure' and 'Out in the lawn I lie in bed' says it all... calm and peace nature surrounding us. Just close your eyes...💎
I started this album and I automatically went into napping mode; it was the best nap of my life.
I am old, I remember it came out on a LP record and I bought it. Than later, I bought all her vinyl records and some CD's. It is like a kind of healing music for me, healing my mind
Wow! Now you are rich. They became really expensive
@@miercat610 I bought it as quick as I could, because I'd loved Virginia's surprise Indie hit, 'Love's a Lonely Place to Be'. I still have my vinyl and both of the CD editions. From Gardens is in my top ten favourite albums. I'm glad you're enjoying it, a balm for our troubled minds and hearts!
This should be rereleased! I have the vinyl but would love it either on cd or as an mp3
This album takes me to a safe comforting place of beauty, nature and tenderness. It's so special to me.
This is my hiding place in UA-cam
Perfectly put. Mine too.
From start to end, one of the most beautiful, and certainly the loveliest, albums I've ever heard.
I'm down with COVID at the moment, so listening to this is a balm for my heart and mind. It's one of my top-ten favourite albums, blissful with soul. I have my original vinyl and both of the CD issues. I prefer the original mix - any comments welcome! How I wish Virginia would get back into the studio - hey Ginny, we miss you!
read my mind. I tested positive a few days ago, and I am currently spinning this in my little flat whilst I water the plants. All the best to you my friend!
oh thankyou Will Dudarov. My old LP of this died over a decade ago and it was worn out by then. This album was a huge part of my teenage life, and beyond. Finally the whole thing on youtube without vinyl scratches and stuff. Beautiful.
Just listened to this for the first time on BBC 6 Music with Gideon Coe as part of the BBC's mental heath campaign. Just close your eyes and drift . Beautiful.
Sonic Heaven, isn't it!
Hearing this album for the first time today. Beautiful
Just fund out about this beautiful little gem of an album thanks to Rob Young's book "Electric Eden". Again, what a lovely lovely lovely album this is.
Fabulous book! I learned a lot from it too. I'm so glad he mentioned Virginia.
This album also gets a brief mention in the book “The Wichita Lineman” by Dylan Jones.
Same. I’ve read the book twice and skimmed through listening to almost every one of every artists mentioned in the books albums here on UA-cam. And none of them quite have this sound. I need to find more music like this. Come up short in the psych-folk range. Idk if I need to be getting into ambient or new age or library music or children’s soundtracks or what to do.
I found this album decades ago... I love it. Virginia played cello I think with Echo and The Bunnymen...
pitchfork sent me here
and couldn’t find this on spotify
same
same (but didn't even searched on Spotify)
Same :)
there's some tracks on spotify now!
Why why why is this album not on Spotify ??
Thanks to @FourTet on Twitter for pointing me here. I'm British but have not been to the UK for a number of years. This album made my heart ache for the smell of the British countryside.
It is painting with sound, but I really do think you have to be British born, maybe even English to remember the scenes you have never seen here. Never seen by which I mean it's a nostalgic vision.
You'd be surprised at how famous this album is in Japan
@@LeviTate2000 nah, this album reminds me of Swedish summers. it's not Britain exclusive
I listen to this album religiously, especially the third track.
Came here after learning that Caroline Polachek's a fan! Also, those bells at the beginning of track 2 sound exactly like the ones at the beginning of Sensual World by Kate Bush!
Obsessed with this album in the summer
I've been working on and off on an album called Birdsville, where every song has a lot of ambient bird song as an accompaniment to the music. But it looks like Virginia Astley beat me to it by decades! : D (I'll still put mine out... maybe.)
'A summer long since passed' reminds me of David Bowie's Sound and Vision in a way. Love this album!
Remarkable album crossing over so many styles and ulitmately so incredibly serene and uplifting - I had to confess a few years ago that it wa smy favourite album ever - and to find you cannot even play it through anything other than youtube is incredible...
You can buy it via Bandcamp. Download and CD is only £12.50 plus postage. The cover is different.
Enchanting my world. The way things ought to be.
fucking brilliant, gorgeous enveloping and simply lovely
Quite simply one of the finest British post-punk albums ever made.
that's an interesting take, to situate in post-punk. brilliant.
It wasn't post punk, it was an antidote to chaos.
It still holds well these days
Absolutely agree with you. Gives me goose pimples!
So glad for this. Thank you. I've wanted the full album on youtube for ages. I bought the vinyl LP when it came out early 80s. Remains an all time favourite. Sadly my vinyl got damaged. Thank you again.
My brother bought it in the 80's as well and sadly it got lost, I think. But we now have this amazing musics here. Thank you.
So glad to found this album. It takes me far away back to the early 80ies when I first heard it. It wakes up childhood memories so softly.
Purchase this album in 1983 and I love it still
I was a great fan of her in my younger years.still pretty good🎶
zuhören, sich hineinhören, mitlaufen auf leichten Sohlen
sehr schöne Musik irgendwie anders ich fühle mich gut
“The Album Years” podcast sent me here. Thanks Steven and Tim for this pastoral, majestic recommendation🦋🌲🌞🦢
BEAUTIFUL ….. thanks for posting this, extremely RARE , can’t replace my cd copy . 🙏🏽
One of my favourite LPs. I still have the vinyl from the 1980s.
If you like this you may want to listen to Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (1970). Different, but coming from the same place.
Judee sill- heart food, Sibylle Baier-colour green, Linda perhacs- parallelograms, all nothing alike yet wind the same invisible gears of the soul
@@AliceYobby OH my god, I love Vashti, Judee and Linda Perhacs. All of their albums are gems!
@@HaFannyHa check out sibylle if you havent!
Thank you x
Awesome, thanks!
this is so wonderful ♥️
Needed this today, thanks! So pretty.
Thank you so much for posting! Never heard the full album. It is such a gem.
Peaceful, starry-eyed and enigmatic all at once. This sounds to me like a seminal slice of ambient in the vein of Discreet Music and Music For Airports. Magnificent stuff.
It's not "ambient". It's post-punk.
@@TheSpikehere it's not post-punk. it's death metal
It’s everything I love about Britain. Thank you so much for this.
Who ever you are that posted this, do you like Karen Dalton or Vashti Bunyan? Fever Ray? If you by chance are unaware of these. Do check it out. Diane Cluck and most of all, Cocteau Twins.
I love Virginia and Vashti. I'm going to check out those others, thank you. Although I know the country origin of this album, I associate it with visiting my grandparents' Vermont farm ("a summer long since passed"). I'm very involved with bunnies / rabbits; glad to see your logo!
I've been wanting to hear this for soooo long. I had the ep in the 80's.
i had never heard of this album until today and i came to look for it as soon as i knew about its existence, so now i'm very glad to see that it happened to be uploaded just a month ago. thank you :)
I'd like to think that Virginia Astley still owns the rights to this lovely album and could re-release it.
You can buy it on Bandcamp. Download and CD are available.
I once bought one of her singles , I don't remember what it was , but she has a lovely voice !
Tender , that was the song !
@@MadderMel Or 'Love's a Lonely Place to Be'?
@@HaFannyHa I bought both singles, also 7 inch and 12 inch of the amazing "Darkness Has Reached Its End."
Thanks for posting this pastoral classic!
a treasure this album , thank you for given here Will
really nice
Happy memories
What beautiful music
I have the album in vinyl. Now, thanks to you, I can listen it on my computer :)
Joy & happiness
リラックス出来ます。
♥♥♥
Timeless beauty.
beautiful album
wonderful album!
Glorious purpose.
I only have the vynil Melt the Snow. Love all her albums!
She is new for me, I'm in Love allready. Beautiful music.
I feel better now.
このalbum探ちてる
まだ見つからにゃい
皆ちゃん何処で｡｡泣
... anyone notice UA-cam's song recognition algorithm in description attributes this to the metal band Beyond the Dying Light, which has birds singing at the end of 'Over the Garden Wall', and that's enough similarity? Pretty funny joke, AI.
Every other album I ever bought sounded better when I turned the volume up.
Not this one...
I just turn the lights down instead.
So odd, I kept waiting for the Blossom Deary-like voice of the 80's to start singing but she never did. Love this album, first time I heard it. Anyone recognizes where the bells are located?
Maybe try Shelleyan Orphan! 💖Caroline Crawley’s voice is reminiscent of Blossom Deary.
You mean Blossom Dearie. Virginia does sing on the 2nd track, just not lyrics. Of course she sings on her also wonderful later music.
Moulsford Oxfordshire on a summers day.
The glass breaking towards the end of When the Fields were on Fire....
How in the world did UA-cam decide this was "Over the Garden Wall" by Beyond the Dying Light? I looked it up and it couldn't be more different.
Does sheet music exist for this beautiful arrangement?
Ernesto Lombardo, Paulo Ramos e Gustavo... I see 4 portuguese fans in this comments (I'm also one). Nice👌
Eu também estou aqui. 58 anos e sempre adorei esta música.
28年ほど前、岡山の中古のＣＤ屋さんで280円で売られていたのを
見つけた。ラッキーと思いすぐに買う。
家宝になった。
Worth every Yen.
Lol why could the first song be a morning alarm ringtone
Why is this not available on cd?😢 I like the ritual of playing music from an object. Just not the same. Still great though.
it is on CD, but not easy to find. It has a different cover.
@@apossibleworld If you can find it, there is a CD issue with the original cover and mix. The different cover carries a remix - to be honest, I prefer the original. I hope you find one at a decent price!
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anyone ever notice the original Metroid theme sounds a lot like Hiding in the Ha Ha
Found this via Gideon Coe
Did Pitchfork send you here?
No
No, Scaruffi sent me here
Radio 6 brought me here ☺
Same. I love my music but had never come across this. I absolutely love it
I've been ill for a while. Hearing this has actually helped me heal
It is similar to cat music, in parts.
I am here because of Four Tet
but sects