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Writer Dan Lander described the song as Mike Heron's masterpiece. He wrote: [5] "Weaving between styles as divergent as Bahamian funerary music, East Indian incantation and ancient Celtic mysticism, 'A Very Cellular Song' represents a high point in the band's creativity and surely influenced a host of others including Led Zeppelin, the Who and Lou Reed.
No Ruinous Feud is the eleventh album released by The Incredible String Band in 1973. This album features the band's folk songs along with new approaches toward reggae pop and rock beats. Tracks like "My Blue Tears" and "Second Fiddle" are evidence of this.
The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966. [1] Following Palmer's early departure, Williamson and Heron continued as a duo and were eventually augmented by other musicians such as Licorice McKechnie , Rose Simpson ...
Earthspan is the tenth album by The Incredible String Band, released in 1972 on Island Records. It features Mike Heron , Robin Williamson , Licorice McKechnie , and Malcolm Le Maistre . The core of Robin Williamson and Mike Heron remained intact, but was faltering due to musical indifference.
Owing largely to the band gaining much airplay from famous DJ John Peel, [10] The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter was a major commercial success in the UK, staying in the charts for 21 weeks [3] with a peak of number 5. In the US, the ISB always remained underground and the album struggled to number 161 during a two-month chart run.
Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air is the ninth album by the Incredible String Band.It features Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie and Malcolm Le Maistre.The album was the band's first almost entirely electric recording; a new feature that was to define the change in the band's sound throughout their final period through 1974.
U is a double album, the seventh studio album overall, by the British psychedelic folk group the Incredible String Band (ISB) and was released on Elektra Records in October 1970. The majority of the material featured on the album was taken from the mixed-media production of the same name, which saw the band backed by the dancing troupe the ...
The name "String Band" was a common appellation amongst folk groups, usually with an identifying characteristic or location attached, as with the Incredible String Band or The Iron Mountain String Band. The group chose "Stringband" as a temporary place-holder name until they could figure out exactly what sort of String Band they were—but a ...