THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND - Hard Rope & Silken Twine 1974 -

THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND \ HARD ROPE & SILKEN TWINE 1974.
A few words.
The roots of the band are found in acoustic folk/bluegrass duo Robin Williamson (guitar, vocals) and Clive Palmer (banjo) who began performing together in the Edinburgh, Scotland area in 1963.
The duo added multi-instrumental folk musician Mike Heron and took the name INCREDIBLE STRING BAND after being discovered by legendary producer Joe Boyd in 1965
The Incredible String Band were innovative in their time, with an ever-evolving style that blended traditional folk instrumentation and storytelling songs with an eclectic mix of unusual instruments, often Eastern philosophical and compositional nuances, and the effervescence of youth, love and hippie naiveté.
The band managed to remain quite active in various forms for a decade or so and sporadically resurfaced for decades after their formal disbanding in 1974.
The INCREDIBLE STRING BAND are an icon and near legendary early pioneer of fusing folk, eastern mysticism as well as other spiritual leanings, multidiscipline artistic expression and the emerging popular culture of the sixties into a cohesive musical force.
Their presence in any archive of progressive music is a foregone conclusion.
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