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INCREDIBLE STRING BAND SELF TITLED 150g LP |
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If any musical combo ever meshed perfectly with the times it was the Incredible
String Band. And here’s the proof: their 1966 debut, The Incredible String Band
on deep-grooved, 150-gram vinyl. The wildly eclectic Scottish folk outfit,with
the airy vocals and
fretboard prowess of Robin Williamson and Mike Heron as its two constants, began
life resurrecting wondrous and ancient Celtic ballads, then was transformed by
the perfumed winds of 1967’s psychedelic revolution to add sitar, oud, gimbri
and all manner of exotic axes to its arsenal. The result is a gently mesmerizing
psychedelia and anti-folk stance, consummate counterpoint to current psych heroes
like Mogwai and Beachwood Sparks, that makes perfectly clear why the Incredible
String Band remains just that: Incredible!
Selections:
1. Maybe Someday
2. October Song
3. When The Music Starts To Play
4. Schaeffer’s Jig
5. Womankind
6. The Tree
7. Whistle Tune
8. Dandelion Blues
9. How Happy I Am
10. Empty Pocket Blues
11. Smoke Shoveling Song
12. Can’t Keep Me Here
13. Good As Gone
14. Footsteps Of The Heron
15. Niggertown
16. Everything’s Fine Right Now
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