The Incredible String Band

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending is the eighth album by the Incredible String Band, featuring Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson. It is the soundtrack for the String Band's John Marshall-directed film of the same name. It is a strange little collection of the enigmatic and the light-hearted, ending with a long collage of instrumental tunes from the movie.

A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.

The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion is the second LP by The Incredible String Band, released in July 1967. Since recording their debut album the previous year, the original trio had been reduced to two, Mike Heron and Robin Williamson. They recorded The 5000 Spirits… in London in early 1967.

Changing Horses has an appealing looseness and sense of fun which nicely balances the often over-serious nature of the band's always strange mix of English folk and psychedelia.

The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion Review by Thom Jurek
In 1967, Joe Boyd had signed the Incredible String Band, who were then down to Robin Williamson, Mike Heron, and Licorice McKechnie, to Elektra. The 5000 Spirits or Layers of the Onion had been crafted in a cottage in Glasgow, but Boyd wanted a proper recording studio to get it on tape. He chose engineer John Wood's Chelsea studio for the sessions. Recorded on a four-track machine, Boyd and Wood proceeded to capture the very best of the dozens of songs Williamson and Heron brought in. Influenced heavily by the era – this was the summer of love, after all – and North African music due to Williamson’s recent trip to Morocco, the set is one of the most ambitious albums in the band’s catalog.

Even by the Incredible String Band's own standards, U was an eclectic enterprise. The two-LP set boasted a pretty staggering diversity, from an Indian sitar-paced instrumental and whimsical psychedelic folk minstrelsy to American nineteenth century saloon raunch and tunes that skirted confessional singer-song writing, old-time country-folk, barrelhouse blues, and straight-out rock 'n' roll.

Wee Tam and the Big Huge is the fourth album by the Incredible String Band, released in Europe as both a double LP and separate single LPs in November 1968. In the US, however, the two discs were released separately as Wee Tam and The Big Huge.

The Incredible String Band's swansong for Elektra in the US and their second for Island in the UK is arguably the finest folk-rock album ever made, and the only one to weave together all the disparate elements of their sound into one seamless, breathtaking whole.