The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band (1966)
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29 stemmen
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Folk
Label: Elektra
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Maybe Someday (2:20)
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October Song (4:08)
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When the Music Starts to Play (2:44)
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Schaeffer's Jig (0:58)
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Womankind (3:45)
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The Tree (2:55)
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Whistle Tune (1:01)
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Dandelion Blues (3:00)
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How Happy I Am (2:20)
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Empty Pocket Blues (4:47)
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Smoke Shovelling Song (3:47)
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Can't Keep Me Here (2:14)
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Good as Gone (3:30)
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Footsteps of the Heron (3:14)
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Niggertown (2:09)
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Everything's Fine Right Now (2:12)
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thebyrds69
geplaatst: 1 februari 2008, 22:00 uur
Ik heb zelf een best of album van deze schotse folkgroep, maar er staan ook een paar nummers van hun eerste LP op waaronder het magische October Song 
De Incredible Stringband is een tijdloze en harmonieuse groep! 
De Incredible Stringband is een tijdloze en harmonieuse groep! 
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geplaatst: 28 april 2010, 16:30 uur
Er staan ook veel mooie, verschillende nummers hierop. Het is niet zoeen cohesief geheel als 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daugher'. Echter, degene die de tijd neemt voor dit rustgevende album moet haast zeker worden beloond met de prachtige gevoelige muziek die hier opstaat.
stuk info van wikipedia:
In 1963, acoustic musicians Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer began performing together as a traditional folk duo in Edinburgh, particularly at a weekly club run by Archie Fisher in the Crown Bar which also regularly featured Bert Jansch. There they were seen in August 1965 by Joe Boyd, then working as a talent scout for the influential folk-based label Elektra Records. Later in the year, the duo decided to fill out their sound by adding a third member, initially to play rhythm guitar. After an audition, local rock musician Mike Heron won the slot. The trio took the name The Incredible String Band. Early in 1966 Palmer began running an all-night folk club, Clive's Incredible Folk Club, on the fourth floor of a building in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, where they became the house band. When Boyd returned in his new role as head of Elektra's London office, he signed them up for an album, beating off a rival bid from Transatlantic Records.
They recorded their first album, titled The Incredible String Band, at the Sound Techniques studio in London in May 1966. It was released in Britain and the United States and consisted mostly of self-penned material in solo, duo and trio formats, showcasing their playing on a variety of instruments. It won the title of "Folk Album of the Year" in Melody Maker's annual poll, and in a 1968 Sing Out! magazine interview Bob Dylan praised the album's "October Song" as one of his favourite songs of that period.
The trio broke up after recording the album. Palmer left via the hippie trail for Afghanistan and India, and Williamson and his girlfriend Licorice McKechnie went to Morocco with no firm plans to return. Heron stayed in Edinburgh, playing with a band called Rock Bottom and the Deadbeats. However, when Williamson returned after running out of money, laden with Moroccan instruments including a gimbri which was much later eaten by rats, he and Mike reformed the band as a duo.
The music of the ISB ranges from quite conventional folk songs to innovative "art song" and hybrid forms that were a precursor to World Music. In 1967-8 they were sometimes described as part of pop music's "avant-garde", which had emerged in the wake of the more adventurous work of The Beatles, with whom they were compared. Indeed, Williamson claimed that, as both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones used to come to see them play before they recorded Sgt. Pepper and Their Satanic Majesties Request respectively, the ISB influenced them directly.
Bijzonder weinig stemmen nog (5) voor dit (voor de tijd) bijzondere album.
stuk info van wikipedia:
In 1963, acoustic musicians Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer began performing together as a traditional folk duo in Edinburgh, particularly at a weekly club run by Archie Fisher in the Crown Bar which also regularly featured Bert Jansch. There they were seen in August 1965 by Joe Boyd, then working as a talent scout for the influential folk-based label Elektra Records. Later in the year, the duo decided to fill out their sound by adding a third member, initially to play rhythm guitar. After an audition, local rock musician Mike Heron won the slot. The trio took the name The Incredible String Band. Early in 1966 Palmer began running an all-night folk club, Clive's Incredible Folk Club, on the fourth floor of a building in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, where they became the house band. When Boyd returned in his new role as head of Elektra's London office, he signed them up for an album, beating off a rival bid from Transatlantic Records.
They recorded their first album, titled The Incredible String Band, at the Sound Techniques studio in London in May 1966. It was released in Britain and the United States and consisted mostly of self-penned material in solo, duo and trio formats, showcasing their playing on a variety of instruments. It won the title of "Folk Album of the Year" in Melody Maker's annual poll, and in a 1968 Sing Out! magazine interview Bob Dylan praised the album's "October Song" as one of his favourite songs of that period.
The trio broke up after recording the album. Palmer left via the hippie trail for Afghanistan and India, and Williamson and his girlfriend Licorice McKechnie went to Morocco with no firm plans to return. Heron stayed in Edinburgh, playing with a band called Rock Bottom and the Deadbeats. However, when Williamson returned after running out of money, laden with Moroccan instruments including a gimbri which was much later eaten by rats, he and Mike reformed the band as a duo.
The music of the ISB ranges from quite conventional folk songs to innovative "art song" and hybrid forms that were a precursor to World Music. In 1967-8 they were sometimes described as part of pop music's "avant-garde", which had emerged in the wake of the more adventurous work of The Beatles, with whom they were compared. Indeed, Williamson claimed that, as both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones used to come to see them play before they recorded Sgt. Pepper and Their Satanic Majesties Request respectively, the ISB influenced them directly.
Bijzonder weinig stemmen nog (5) voor dit (voor de tijd) bijzondere album.
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geplaatst: 15 maart 2018, 19:51 uur
De eerste cd van deze band. Heb het gekocht in een goedkoop 5 cd setje met daarin de erste 5 platen van deze illustere groep. Deze eerste cd is eigenlijk nog redelijk normale folk. Later wordt het vreemder, psychisch met een gigantisch hippie gehalte. Hier is dat nog wat minder aanwezig. Ik heb trouwens een andere hoes , maar de nummers zijn wel hetzelfde.
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geplaatst: 9 november 2023, 00:58 uur
de Incredible String Band werd in 1965 opgericht door de Schotse folkie Robin Williamson en de Engelsman Clive Palmer. kort daarna werd de groep tot een trio uitgebreid met de eveneens uit Glasgow afkomstige Mike Heron. folk trio's waren destijds populair.
op dit debuutalbum is traditionele, akoestische folk te horen sober geïnstrumenteerd. later ging de groep folk muziek maken met psychedelische, underground (Oosterse) invloeden, waar ik minder van gecharmeerd ben, maar andere liefhebbers zal dat wellicht juist wel aanspreken.
de traditionals op dit album (tracks 4,7 en 15) zijn alle 3 korte instrumentale nummers, uitgevoerd op banjo, fiddle en whistle. verder 7 nummers van Mike Heron, 5 van Robin Williamson (tracks 2, 5,8,11 & 13) en 1 nummer 10) van Clive Palmer, het enige nummer waar hij de lead vocal doet. de overige lead vocalen worden afwisselend verzorgd door Mike Heron en Robin Williamson, beide goede zangers en goede liedjesschrijvers. hun stemmen vullen elkaar goed aan op prachtige, ingetogen, meerstemmige songs als "Maybe Someday", "Dandelion Blues" en "How Happy I Am". de andere songs worden veelal individueel door MH en RW met uitsluitend zang en gitaar uitgevoerd. het nummer "October" met alleen Robert Williamson op vocal & guitar is inderdaad het hoogtepunt op dit mooie, rustgevende folk album.
van dit album uit 1966 verscheen in 1993 een re-issue op het WEA label.
album werd destijds in Londen geproduceerd door Joe Boyd, die o.a. de Nick Drake albums "Bryter Layter" en "Five Leaves Left" produceerde en de sound engineer was John Wood, die geluidstechnicus was van deze 2 albums en het derde album "Pink Moon" van NIck Drake produceerde
de muzikanten op dit debuutalbum waren:
Mike Heron: lead vocal, vocal, guitar
Robin Williamson: lead vocal, vocal, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, whistle
Clive Palmer: banjo, guitar, vocal, lead vocal (track 10), kazoo
op dit debuutalbum is traditionele, akoestische folk te horen sober geïnstrumenteerd. later ging de groep folk muziek maken met psychedelische, underground (Oosterse) invloeden, waar ik minder van gecharmeerd ben, maar andere liefhebbers zal dat wellicht juist wel aanspreken.
de traditionals op dit album (tracks 4,7 en 15) zijn alle 3 korte instrumentale nummers, uitgevoerd op banjo, fiddle en whistle. verder 7 nummers van Mike Heron, 5 van Robin Williamson (tracks 2, 5,8,11 & 13) en 1 nummer 10) van Clive Palmer, het enige nummer waar hij de lead vocal doet. de overige lead vocalen worden afwisselend verzorgd door Mike Heron en Robin Williamson, beide goede zangers en goede liedjesschrijvers. hun stemmen vullen elkaar goed aan op prachtige, ingetogen, meerstemmige songs als "Maybe Someday", "Dandelion Blues" en "How Happy I Am". de andere songs worden veelal individueel door MH en RW met uitsluitend zang en gitaar uitgevoerd. het nummer "October" met alleen Robert Williamson op vocal & guitar is inderdaad het hoogtepunt op dit mooie, rustgevende folk album.
van dit album uit 1966 verscheen in 1993 een re-issue op het WEA label.
album werd destijds in Londen geproduceerd door Joe Boyd, die o.a. de Nick Drake albums "Bryter Layter" en "Five Leaves Left" produceerde en de sound engineer was John Wood, die geluidstechnicus was van deze 2 albums en het derde album "Pink Moon" van NIck Drake produceerde
de muzikanten op dit debuutalbum waren:
Mike Heron: lead vocal, vocal, guitar
Robin Williamson: lead vocal, vocal, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, whistle
Clive Palmer: banjo, guitar, vocal, lead vocal (track 10), kazoo
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