These 13 demos were recorded in early 1967 shortly before the making of the ISB's second album, The 5,000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (though the liner notes...
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This CD documents a historic event, the 2000 reunion of the full Incredible String Band. There'd been tentative steps toward it for a couple of years before, but this was...
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The ISB's third album stands as its masterpiece, with tunes such as "The Minotaur's Song" and "Koeeoaddi There" evoking classical myths and pagan rituals, and the...
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is the Incredible String Band's most ambitious album, with Robin Williamson and Mike Heron employing an arsenal of unusual instruments...
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With Palmer gone, the ISB's second album introduces a lusher and more mysterious sound than the debut and boasts a psychedelic cover painted by The Fool, the artists who...
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For their second album, the ISB officially reduced to the duo of Mike Heron and Robin Williamson. Lumped in with the psychedelic movement, that categorization was probably...
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The group's self-titled debut is hesitant in embracing the ethnic sounds that later became a staple of its mix, and the acid influence isn't really heard yet. Otherwise,...
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The debut release from the original Incredible String Band trio -- Robin Williamson (violin/whistle/mandolin/guitar/vocals), Clive Palmer (banjo/guitar/vocals), and Mike...
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The follow-up to Hangman's, this ambitious double-album introduces Licorice and Rose and finds Williamson and Heron still trying to outdo each other with ever-wilder and...
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Orignally issued as a double LP set in 1968 in the U.K, Wee Tam and the Big Huge was split into two LP's for the U.S. market in 1969 to no avail; they didn't sell. Hannibal...
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The beginning of the end. A long, slow decline that starts on this boring effort and gets sadder and sorrier over subsequent snoozefests such as the rock musical U, Liquid...
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Although generally regarded as one of the Incredible String Band's sub-standard efforts, Changing Horses has an appealing looseness and sense of fun which nicely balances...
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Listening to the Incredible String Band could either be a joyous or excruciating experience -- sometimes both in the space of the same song, and this album is a prime...
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I Looked Up isn't one of the Incredible String Band's more distinguished early albums, though it's not bad or uncharacteristic of their work. There was just a sense that...
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The ISB began to change its approach in 1971, cutting back on its sometimes open-ended song structures and adding a rock rhythm section to selected tracks. But it wasn't...
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Conventional wisdom has it that the Incredible String Band had already peaked by the time they released this double-LP soundtrack to their ambitious stage show ("A Surreal...
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This Collectors' Choice reissue pairs the second and third albums released by the Incredible String Band, the first material they recorded after being officially reduced to...
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This album was originally issued in the Incredible String Band's native England as the first in a two-LP collection with a companion disc entitled The Big Huge. However,...
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