| The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 28 reviews)
Sales Rank: 51416
Category: Music
Artist: The Incredible String Band
Publisher: Warner Bros UK
Studio: Warner Bros UK
Manufacturer: Warner Bros UK
Label: Warner Bros UK
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075596083522
EAN: 0075596083522
ASIN: B0000263JN
Release Date: January 13, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Koeeoaddi There | | • | The Minotaur's Song | | • | Witches Hat | | • | A Very Cellular Song - The Incredible String Band, Heron, Mike | | • | Mercy I Cry City - The Incredible String Band, Heron, Mike | | • | Waltz of the New Moon | | • | The Water Song | | • | Three Is a Green Crown | | • | Swift as the Wind - The Incredible String Band, Heron, Mike | | • | Nightfall |
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Album Description
Credited with being the first artists to fuse folk and psychedelic sensibilities, the Incredible String Band benefited from having two very complementary frontmen Robin Williamson and Mike Heron. Includes the songs 'Witches Hat' and 'A Very Cellular Song'. Warner. 2006.
Amazon.com
Credited with being the first artists to fuse folk and psychedelic sensibilities, the Incredible String Band benefited from having two very complementary frontmen. Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were also extremely versatile musicians, as this, their third album, indicates: he two of them play 17 instruments here, including harpsichord, water harp, sitar, and oud. While Hangman's is a fascinating record dense with exotic rhythms and instrumentation, it also suffers in spots from the airy excesses of its creators. --Steven Stolder
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 I love the Incredible String Band (line from a Ted Berrigan poem) December 28, 2007
I have much less to say than the two reviews below, which are both appropriate homages to this particular recording. Just that I love this album, and it is so great to see it's available again in CD, in any, form. As, apparently, pretty much all of the ISB's catalog is these days. I went looking for CDs of some of their albums maybe ten years ago, and there weren't much out there. I still bring out my vinyl every so often to remind myself what all THAT was about. I still find each album, but particularly this one, full of pleasure from another season.
Just beautiful with a lot of humour October 29, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In is only of recent times that I got to know about this band and what a surprise. They were contemporaries of the beatles and yet they are so little known. Their songs are full of great lyrics with many twist in the accompanying musical score. The Scottish influence shows through and they can be described as early pioneers in world music with daring to be different. Take the time to listen to the lyrics one time, they are really interesting!
Eclectic, enchanting, indeed incredible! September 27, 2007
Like so many others, I met the Incredible String Band through this album. Some 40 years later, it retains all the whimsy & magic & mystery it held for a wide-eyed teenager, immersed in the heady high point (to say the least) of the 1960s. Admittedly, it's not for every taste -- but then, it never was, even during the heyday of the band. Certainly its childlike, Romantic spirit runs absolutely counter to the grim cynicism & defensive glibness of the present.
But that's all the more reason for sampling this otherworldly elixir now. If you're willing to give it a chance, willing to give yourself over to its tapestry of delights & darker musings, you'll discover another way of experiencing the world. One of the most fascinating slogans of the 1960s was, "All power to the imagination!" Well, this album embodies that attitude more than almost any other from that time. It's a reminder that life isn't simply about survival; it's about joy & wonder & beauty.
You can look on it as a precursor to world music, if you like, or as a descendant of English Romanticism, or the bardic tradition, with roots in myth & nature. You can take it as an exemplar of its time -- and as for the Amazon reviewer's comment about "airy excesses," well, the words of William Blake apply here: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." However you classify it, it's a fascinating, lovely work of art, most highly recommended!
 This does nothing for me September 15, 2006
4 out of 20 found this review helpful
In the world of English folk, this is supposed to be a landmark album. I like Steleye Span, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and the Strawbs but I do not like this. It is too weird and has nothing in common with conventional popular music.
This is way too English, way too folkie (in a middle ages/minstrel way!) and not aligned with any aspect of conventional rock and roll. I listened to it once, put it away and have not touched it in 5 years.
You know when you go to one of those "Renaissance fairs", drink and have a great time. This is for the eccentric people that act in the Renaissance fairs.
 A ONE-OF-A-KIND GROUP June 24, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Although this is not my very favorite ISB album, Hermester Barrington has described in his review of this CD, and in a delightfully creative way, the music contained in the entire Incredible String Band catalog. This may indeed be one of the best in an unbroken string of fabulous works, but I believe that each Incredible String Band lover's sentimental favorite is whichever album they heard first (my first exposure was to WEE TAM & THE BIG HUGE; it remains an all-time favorite, rivaled only by the band's later, very different album, LIQUID ACROBAT AS REGARDS THE AIR). Reading the other reviews of THE HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, I can only nod my head in agreement with most of what has been said. This album IS one of the definitive ones, but I should add that it is but one stop on a long, artistically successful journey that includes virtually no aberrations, and which is rich with unexpected twists and turns on and off an unpaved path. No other group of artists has been more independent of trends, fads or commercial considerations. Although the group might be lumped in with Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention and Pentangle, if it must be categorized, it is really almost an entire genre unto itself, with the aforementioned groups, as great as they are, much more conventional in both material and musical approach. Even when ISB made later forays into rock, pop and country, they did so, it seems, only to expand their palette of colors, growing and developing according to their own peculiar and beautiful vision. HARD ROPE & SILKEN TWINE, in my opinion, is at least as good as their self-titled debut recording (I actually like the later one much better; and come to think of it, the first record may be their weakest) and we are talking several years separating the two. I would not necessarily recommend HANGMAN as a place to start for beginners, as it is one of ISB's most musically and lyrically challenging efforts, but I could easily be wrong, as other reviewers fell in love with the band because they first heard this record...
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