The Incredible String Band-Original Album Series [5CD][2012]

The Incredible String Band - Original Album Series [5 CD's][2012]





Disc 1

01. Maybe Someday
02. October Song
03. When The Music Starts To Play
04. Schaeffer's Jig
05. Womankind
06. The Tree
07. Whistle Tune
08. Dandelion Blues
09. How Happy I Am
10. Empty Pocket Blues
11. Smoke Shovelling Song
12. Can't Keep Me Here
13. Good As Gone
14. Footsteps Of The Heron
15. Niggertown
16. Everything's Fine Right Now


Disc 2

01. Chinese White
02. No Sleep Blues
03. Painting Box
04. The Mad Hatter's Song
05. Little Cloud
06. The Eyes Of Fate
07. Blues For The Muse
08. The Hedgehog's Song
09. The First Girl I Loved
10. You Know What I Could Be
11. My Name Is Death
12. Gently Tender
13. Way Back In The 1960s


Disc 3

01. Koeeoaddi There
02. The Minotaur's Song
03. Witches Hat
04. A Very Cellular Song
05. Mercy I Cry City
06. Waltz Of The New Moon
07. The Water Song
08. Three Is A Green Crown
09. Swift As The Wind
10. Nightfall


Disc 4

01. Job's Tears
02. Puppies
03. Beyond The See
04. The Yellow Snake
05. Log Cabin Home In The Sky
06. You Get Brighter
07. The Half-Remarkable Question
08. Air
09. Ducks On A Pond


Disc 5

01. Maya
02. Greatest Friend
03. The Son Of Noah's Brother
04. Lordly Nightshade
05. The Mountain Of God
06. Cousin Caterpillar
07. The Iron Stone
08. Douglas Traherne Harding
09. The Circle Is Unbroken





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From Wikipedia:



The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a psychedelic folk band formed in Scotland in 1966. The band built a considerable following, especially within the British counterculture, before splitting up in 1974. The group's members are musical pioneers in psychedelic folk and, by integrating a wide variety of traditional music forms and instruments, in the development of world music. The group reformed in 1999 and continued to perform until 2006.

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The Incredible String Band is the debut album by the band of the same name. Released in 1966, it is the only one of the band's albums to feature the original trio line-up with Clive Palmer as well as Robin Williamson and Mike Heron.

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The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion is the second LP by The Incredible String Band, released in July 1967.

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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter was the third album by The Incredible String Band, released in March 1968. It is regarded by many as a quintessential example of hippie culture, with its promotion of ideas such as communal living, eastern mysticism and rationalistic pantheism.

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Wee Tam and the Big Huge is the fourth album by the Incredible String Band, released in Europe as both a double LP and separate single LPs in November 1968. In the US, however, the two discs were released separately as Wee Tam and The Big Huge.

The album is considered by many to be, along with its predecessor The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, the best work the band ever produced. Consisting of a very varied selection of songs by Robin Williamson and Mike Heron, with intriguing and poetic lyrics, the album is rich with eclectic and adept instrumentation and arrangements. Around 15 instruments are featured, played mainly by the two band members Williamson and Heron but also, in supporting roles, on a few tracks by Rose Simpson and Licorice McKechnie.

Williamson explained the title as follows:- "I saw a man with a huge big dog, [and] we knew somebody called Wee Tam, in Edinburgh. It seemed like it was a good idea in terms of one person looking up at the stars - Wee Tam and the Big Huge, just like the vastness of the universe."