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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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50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
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Awaken the slumbering hippy within you.,
By John Williams (Llansadwrn, Wales/Cymru) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Audio CD)
I hadn't heard this album since I was seventeen (and I won't say when that was) until I noticed that it was still available on CD, and bought a copy. Well, it was barmy then, and it's barmy now. Anyone who, upon listening to it, isn't immediately transported to a better, simpler, more imaginative and contemplative world needs to make contact with their inner child/hippy as a matter of some urgency. Dated? How can it be dated? It's as timeless as Adam and Eve or Winnie the Pooh! Profound? Who knows? Who cares? Just soak in the atmosphere. You may find that it is an acquired taste, being rather slow and lacking in the driving electronic rhythms we've been bombarded with over the past thirty-five years, but do give it a go.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Audio CD)
They don't make them like this anymore! 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter' is a great 60's album filled with a creative openness, authentic feeling and an unrestrained experimentation. The opening track 'Koeeoaddi There' encapsulates all of these qualities. Williamson tells an evocative tale of childhood, backed with melodic, inventive chord and tempo changes. 'The Minotour's Song' is a startling contrast of music hall and greek mtyhological lyrics, highlighting the ISB's influences. 'Witch's Hat' has a beautiful folk melody, again the song structure packed with incident. Mike Heron's 'A Very Cellular Song' begins as an old gospel hymn before it travels the world in its wonderful array of instruments, an early bridge between western music and world music in general. Heron's Dylanesque 'Mercy I Cry City' is a poetic rant against the unnatural prison of the urban landscape. 'Waltz Of The New Moon' harks back again to the Romantic poets in its ode to the wonders of the natural landscape. Here the harp sound is at once lilting and glorious. Like 'A Very Cellular Song', 'The Water Song' sings a hymn to the evolutionary power of the natural world using strange and unusual instruments to create the onomatopoeic sounds of water. The most Eastern-tinged of the tracks on the album is 'There Is A Green Crown' telling another tale of natural wonder that I can't help thinking would be frowned upon and scorned in today's irony-laden culture. On 'Swift As The Wind' Heron tells of how the grown-ups around him tried to make him give up his childhood imagination, something that has obviously remained with him throughout his musical career. Williamson's 'Nightfall' closes this adorable album mixing Eastern sounds with the American south, prefiguring Ry Cooder by a number of years.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential Incredibles,
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This review is from: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Audio CD)
Viewed by many die-hard fans as the jewel in the crown of Stringdom, this is THE Incredible String Band album to demonstrate, above all others, just what makes this unique band so wonderful. From the opening dream-like refelctions on childhood "Born in a house where the doors shut tight...shadowy fingers on the curtains at night.." to the exquisite dying fall of "Nightfall", this is strange, exotic, mesmerising and mysterious stuff. Oh, it just happens to be incredibly beautiful as well, for the most part. Memorable highlights include Robin's deceptively simple "Witch's Hat" ("sitting on her head like a parrafin stove"), Mike's fascinating epic "Cellular Song" ("amoebas are very small...."). Thrill to tales of the Emperor of China with his iron footwear, ponder the meaning of "Three is a Green Crown", or just go with the flow and enjoy. This is truly incredible music, much of which is currently to be heard live as Mike's IncredibleStringBand2003 go on tour. What better time to get to know (or revisit) this gorgeous album - then check out "5000 Spirits" and "Wee Tam & the Big Huge" for proof that this was no flash in the pan.
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