The Incredible String Band, The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion - 50m 16s

Tracks & Durations

1. Chinese White	3:40
2. No Sleep Blues	3:53
3. Painting Box	4:04
4. The Mad Hatter's Song	5:40
5. Little Cloud	4:05
6. The Eyes Of Fate	4:02
7. Blues For The Muse	2:49
8. The Hedgehog's Song	3:30
9. First Girl I Loved	4:55
10. You Know What You Could Be	2:46
11. My Name Is Death	2:46
12. Gently Tender	4:49
13. Way Back In the 1960s	3:11

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Review

Stone psychedelic freaks Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were two talented multi-instrumentalists who were eventually joined in the Incredible String Band by their earth-goddess lovers, Licorice and Rose. They tapped into the British Isles' centuries-old traditions of myths and folklore, updating the ancient sounds with inspired, multi-layered recordings and a modern twist that helped you envision fair maidens riding unicorns through green and fertile fields while simultaneously advocating better living through chemistry. Hell, the title alone of this, their second album, is more psychedelic than anything the Jefferson Airplane ever did. --Jim DerogatisInside, 5000 Spirits is full of whimsical delights. It was produced by Robin Williamson and Mike Heron once they had returned from travels. Robin himself had managed to pick up a variety of different instruments in Morocco and they all seem to get in there somewhere. Clive Palmer who had started the String Band with Robin had gone off to Afghanistan and did not rejoin the others. 5000 Spirits was quite unlike anything else that was around at the time. Anyone expecting something like Disraeli Gears or Odessey & Oracle would have been surprised by what the String Band was offering. The fusion of folk, blues, psychedelia and, certainly what we now call World Music, gave 5000 Spirits a unique sound that has guaranteed a place in music history. Warner. 2003.

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