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The Chelsea Sessions 1967 [Original recording reissued]

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  • Audio CD (3 Jul 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording reissued
  • Label: Pigs Whisker
  • ASIN: B00004W1WR
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Lover Man
2. Born In Your Town
3. First Girl I Loved
4. Gently Tender
5. Little Cloud
6. Blues For The Muse
7. Eyes Of Fate
8. Mad Hatter's Song
9. Alice Is A Long Time Gone
10. See Your Face And Know You
11. Frutch
12. Iron Stone
13. God Dog
14. All Too Much For Me/Take Your Burden To The Lord/Let It Shin

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CD Description
The discovery of these tapes was made in 1985. They finallysaw release a dozen years later--a full 30 years after theywere recorded. THE CHELSEA SESSIONS 1967 is essentially a collection of demo recordings that were made just prior to THE 500 SPIRITS OR THE LAYERS OF THE ONION. The Incredible String Band recorded its first album in 1966 as a trio. Clive Palmer left shortly thereafter.
This album is essentially the first recording by Robin Williamson and Mike Heron as a duo. What's most exciting about this album is that fans can witness these songs take creative flight for the first time.Most of these selections found their way onto subsequent studio recordings, but there are also a few unreleased songs, including Williamson's "Born in Your Town" and Heron's "Lover Man", which was later recorded by Al Stewart.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for ISB fans, 12 Sep 2001
By Simon R. Fyffe (Ayrshire) - See all my reviews
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This collection of demos was recorded between the bands first and second albums. Their debut(self-titled) album was an exellent collection of simple,origional folk songs recorded with guitars and the occasional flute or fiddle. Their second(The 5000 Spirits) was a huge step in a different direction encorporating all sorts of strange instruments(sitars,gimbris and all sorts of percussion)and strange stream of concience style lyrics. The Chelsea Sessions is in some ways the missing link. Many of the songs on this disc were rerecorded for The 5000 Spirits but there are also some brilliant unreleased songs as good as anything the ISB recorded. It's hard to believe that songs like 'Lover Man' and 'See Your Face And Know you' weren't considered good enough.This version is a reissue which now also features an extra demo medley(All Too Much For Me/Take Your burden To The Lord/Let It Shine On)which was recorded in 1968. This is an essential purchase for all ISB fans but for anyone else I recommend that you buy the first two albums before this.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Long before Abramovic, there were riches in Chelsea!, 7 May 2005
By The BlackFerret "Steve The BlackFerret" (Plymouth UK) - See all my reviews
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This album is basically an unplugged or demo take for 5000 spirits, their 2nd album. Tracks 3-8 made it to the version we all know & 12 reappeared on Wee Tam & the Big Huge in 1968/9.

Of the tracks familiar to ISB fans,Gently tender,Blues for the Muse and Little Cloud are just a little less polished than what you know well, but Cloud is still barking mad in any format-a pure delight!!

Eyes of Fate & Mad Hatter's Song are somehow not just more basic but a mite disjointed and more thought provoking for it.

Iron Stone's lost most of its' Celtic/Norse historical ambience and drama. But the PrimalForm Magnifico segment ain't here, so it's a radically different proposition.

And if that isn't enough to buy it, the unreleased tracks that lay buried for 30 years-well!!

Lover Man was on Al Stewart's 2nd or 3rd album & Heron's original betters that, no mean feat. Following is Williamson's Born in Your Town,a blindingly great song that cuts through the crap of showbiz and a whole lot more. The ambience here is alienation and lots more.

Alice Is A Long Time Gone is Williamson in more reflective mood around Alice in Wonderland, but see Your Face & Know You goes back to the mood of Born in, and is still powerful, though it's more of an observational than partly-polemic lyric. Actually that is VERY reminisent of early Al Stewart lyrics, so great minds thought alike in 1967!

Heron dispels this serious mood with Frutch, a ridiculously stupid attempt to rhyme unlikely girl's names and musically a complete crib of Dylan's I Shall be Free number 5-but it's still fun!

God Dog is Williamson and is by turns the most profound/disconcerting or imaginative nursery rhyme/lullaby you'll ever hear! Ok, the last track medley from 1968 IS out of place in 1967 sessions, but it binds the album together and I bid you Goodnight style as per Very Cellular Song.

All of which means, there OUGHT to have been a different album from 5000 spirits as their 2nd-spiritually, the bulk of this is barer than the debut album, as they were now a duo. But it's also exploring different paths from that without really reaching out at all to the psychadelia of Spirits.

Blow history-recreate those heady days and buy this-utterly unmissable,I've got to say!

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