the incredible string band por primera vez aquí

In the 1960’s, Scotland's Incredible String Band put together elements of folk and world music into something that was called folk-rock, in part, because it couldn't be called anything else, and certainly couldn't be called folk. Robin Williamson, Mike Heron, and Clive Palmer were the trio that made their 1966 debut The Incredible String Band, which though more expansive in its instrumentation and freewheeling in its ambience than British traditional folk, was still basically a folk record. Palmer left after its release, and the ISB briefly went on hiatus, regrouping as a Williamson-Heron duo with more exotic instruments, some of which Williamson had brought back from Morocco. Gimbri, sitar, tamboura, flute, and oud mandolin are all heard in addition to the expected guitars on 1967's The 5000 Sprits or the Layers of the Onion. As the title suggests, the lyrics had taken a turn toward the far-out as well, with songs about hedgehogs, mad hatters, a dialogue with a floating cloud, and "Way Back in the 1960s," written (right at the heart of the decade's most psychedelic phase) from the point of view of an old man looking back on the madness many years down the line. For all its weirdness, its most popular song was a relatively cogent romantic one, "First Girl I Loved," which found its greatest Stateside audience through a cover by Judy Collins.

The instruments multiplied yet further on The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, with hammer dulcimer, harpsichord, pan pipe, Jew's harp, water harp, chahanai, finger cymbals, and more adding to the clamor. Both this and its predecessor put growing emphasis on melismatic, vari-pitched vocals, creating a wavering drone that nonetheless was extremely varied in both vocal and instrumental arrangement. It also lacked, strictly speaking, much rock to its folk-rock; there were no electric guitars. But as with Pentangle, rock listeners would be the Incredible String Band's core supporters, sending The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter to #5 in the UK. It was an amazing placing for such an adventurous record and a band whose very format made hit singles out of the question, and whose airplay was limited to a few adventurous DJ’s. For that, the Incredibles and other like-minded underground acts had to rely upon John Peel, who once played The 5000 Sprits or the Layers of the Onion in its entirety on one of his shows, though at midnight. By the end of the 1960’s, the Incredibles' sound had softened somewhat as Rose Simpson and Licorice McKechnie took larger roles in the vocal and instrumental arrangements...

prometo algo en castellano sobre los incredible, pronto prontito.

por ahora vamos a hacer una cosa. dejo un link para bajarse el primer disco, el homónimo, grabado cuando eran un trío en 1966... grabado en sólo uno o dos días. DIS CA ZO en sí mismo, aunque no eran todavía lo que llegarían a ser poco después... clicando la imagen se lo consiguen.

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

¡a disfrutar!