The 5000 spirits or the layers of the onion
(2010, original release: 1967)
Music CD
Call Numbers:
CD/POP-ROCK/INCREDIBLE
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
London : Fledg'ling Records, [2010]
DESCRIPTION
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
5020393307727 FLED 3077, 05020393307727, EKS 74010
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
All songs composed by Robin Williamson and Mike Heron
Originally released in 1967 as Elektra EKS 74010
Compact disc
2010 remastering on Fledg'ling includes brief notes from Mike Heron as well as photos, artwork, and lyrics
The Incredible String Band (Mike Heron, lead vocals (1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12), harmonica, guitar ; Robin Williamson, lead vocals (2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13), bowed gimbri, guitar, flute, sitar, tamboura, drums, rattles, oud, mandolin, bass gimbri) ; with Danny Thompson, bass (2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13) ; Licorice [Christina McKechnie], vocals (3, 6, 12), finger cymbals (3); John Hopkins, piano (4); Nazar Jarazbhoy, sitar, tamboura (4)
Recorded at Sound Techniques Studios, London, England in 1967
CONTENTS
Chinese white
(3:38) -- No sleep blues
(3:50) -- Painting box
(4:01) -- Mad hatter's song
(5:37) -- Little cloud
(4:02) -- Eyes of fate
(4:00) -- Blues for the muse
(2:46) -- Hedgehog's song
(3:27) -- First girl I loved
(4:52) -- You know what I could be
(2:43) -- My name is death
(2:44) -- Gently tender
(4:45) -- Way back in the 1960s
(3:10)