The Incredible String Band
The Incredible String Band, short ISB, is a Scottish folk band from Glasgow.
Band History
The Incredible String Band was founded by Robin Williamson, Mike Heron and Clive Palmer in 1965 in Glasgow. All three were then young Scottish folk musician. Clive Palmer left the group after the first album and later founded Clive 's original band and The Famous Jug Band.
Your first appearances they had in Glasgow's Incredible Folk Club, was its owner Clive Palmer. Subheadings touched a part of their band name and a good part of their musical tradition: the folk movement in the British Isles experienced at this time a climax. How can because even her (still sparse instrumented ) debut album The Incredible String Band fit into the British folk music of the 1960s. They were given at the former American folk label Elektra Records a record deal. Joe Boyd was her producer, and remained so for the next few albums.
From their second album blended Heron and Williamson hitherto never associated styles of music: English folk music came across Indian melodies, African sounds mixed with traditional blues. Moreover, they accompanied their part anyway abstruse texts often with unusual instrumentation and stylistic inconsistencies; not always to the delight of the folk - trailers that time. As background singers and players functioned from 1968 Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson McKechnie with vocals and drums, Simpson with vocals, bass and violin.
At this time the American Flower Power movement had reached Europe. Of these, the ISB could benefit greatly, and so she released several albums with imaginative, mystical stories, accompanied by Klangaufschichtungen exotic instruments and often childlike ( Heron) or drug- influenced ( Williamson ) chants. The highlight and masterpiece of this style applies the 1968 released LP The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter with extravagant titles like Koeeoaddi There or Waltz of the New Moon. In 1969, the band at Woodstock Festival part, but was largely ignored.
Your rock pantomime U, was created in 1970, was performed with guest musicians and acting on tours in America and Europe.
From 1971 onwards, published Heron and Williamson each solo albums. McKechnie and Simpson left the band, Malcolm Le Maistre was added as a singer. The earlier success of the band, which was strongly linked to the hippie movement, turned in the converted company climate of the 1970s no longer, so that the troops disbanded after some less successful albums in 1974.
Williamson went to the U.S., order to continue to pursue the music business, Heron remained in Scotland and published some plates. Simpson 1994 Mayor of Aberystwyth, the whereabouts of McKechnie is unknown.
1997, there was a reunion for two concerts with Mrs. Robins Bina Williamson and Lawson Dando, and from 1999 sporadic concerts with Clive Palmer. The concert on 17 and 18 August 2000 at the Bloomsbury Theatre London was partially released on CD.
In retrospect, is that the ISB were one of the first representatives of the so-called world music.