Conflict
of Emotions
Mike Heron
Revisiting one's musical past
may seem like an easy option in these fin de siecle days -
after all everybody's doing it, from the Eagles to the Velvet
Underground, from the Sex Pistols to the Monkees. But you've
got to be able to walk forwards before you can walk backwards,
and it's undeniable that the Incredible String Band strode
boldly down more musical pathways than most in their eight
year career that spanned the last 1960s and early 1970s. The
chemistry between ISB main men Mike Heron and Robin Williamson
produced some of the most innovative and challenging -
downright beautiful - music of the era. Both men forged their
own distinctive careers after the band's breakup in 1974, and
both have recently been sitting through some of the stuff
they've accumulated in the course of their musical wanderings.
Mike Heron has pulled out a
fascinating selection of his own demo recordings from the last
year or so of the band, augmented with brand new recordings of
some other songs that somehow fell by the wayside over the
subsequent years. Lightly sketched though it may be, and
innocent of studio sheen or trickery, it's worth a dozen
Pistols reunion tours, and comes as a timely reminder of what
a superb melodist Heron was - and remains.
Release Date: May 1998
Unique Gravity UGCD 5807 |
Track
Listing
- Torch Song
- Belinda
- It Takes My Breath Away Yet
- Jane
- Maker of Islands
- Transiberian Express
- Squeeze the Minutes
- Winter in China
- Savage Moon
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