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."