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The Incredible String Band

65–120 BPMpsych folkacid folkprogressive folk

Late-1960s british acid folk from the 1960s: droning sitar, plucked gimbri, harmonium drone, dreamy and playful in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

Style: Psychedelic Folk · Related styles: Acid Folk, Progressive Folk, Freak Folk, Baroque Folk

History

The Incredible String Band made folk music that sounded like nowhere else: Scottish ballad singing tangled with sitar, oud, gimbri, whistles and hand drums, and songs that wandered through myth, mysticism and childlike wonder with no regard for verse and chorus. The group formed in Edinburgh in the mid-1960s around Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer, soon joined by Mike Heron, and signed to Elektra with producer Joe Boyd. After Palmer left, Williamson and Heron made The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion in 1967, and followed it in 1968 with The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter and the double set Wee Tam and the Big Huge, the records that defined British psychedelic folk. Both leaders played dozens of instruments, often picking them up for a single song, and their partners Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson joined the lineup. The band played Woodstock in 1969 and influenced musicians well beyond folk. Listeners recognise it by Williamson's quavering, theatrical voice, Heron's warmer melodies and arrangements that seem to be invented as the song goes along.

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