Monday, July 21, 2025

The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1970-1971

I'm still not into the Incredible String Band, but here's another BBC album from them, due to their high results in the BBC poll I did a while back. This is a third volume of BBC studio sessions.

There's an official album of BBC performances by this band, but it skips a lot of music. This album is a case in point. The first four songs are from that album, "Across the Airwaves," but everything else remains unreleased. Also, those first four songs are from two different BBC sessions in 1970, while tracks 5 to 8 are from one 1971 BBC session, and tracks 9 until the end are from another 1971 BBC session. 

In the time period here, the band was still a foursome, with Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie, and Rose Simpson. But that would change around the end of 1971. During this time, the band released no less than four studio albums: "I Looked Up" and "U" in 1970, and "Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending" and "Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air" in 1971. 

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Everything's Fine Right Now (Incredible String Band)
02 Raga Puti (Incredible String Band)
03 Ring Dance (Incredible String Band)
04 Long, Long Road (Incredible String Band)
05 You Get Brighter (Incredible String Band)
06 Jigs [The Bird that Lives on Rain - Yellow Flames of Whin - Jenny in the Mosshouse - Drunk] (Incredible String Band)
07 How We Danced the Lord of Weir (Incredible String Band)
08 The Actor (Incredible String Band)
09 The Circle Is Unbroken (Incredible String Band)
10 Sailor and the Dancer (Incredible String Band)
11 Tree (Incredible String Band)
12 Living in the Shadows (Incredible String Band) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xeM2CQYY 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/uwp1nSK4SfcXQKg/file 

The cover photo shows the band's two main singer-songwriters, from around this time: Robin Williamson with blonde hair and a beard and Mike Heron with dark brown hair. I believe I took this as a screenshot from a documentary about the band. 

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