Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air

Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air

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Product Description
Full title - Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air. First studio album for Island in 1971 reissued for the first time in USA on CD. Remastered with sound quality superior to previous Euro release. Lyrics included. 2002.

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Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending/Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air
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includes some jigs on fiddle, whistle, and spoons,

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending/Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air
The Incredible String Band
Manufacturer: Beat Goes On
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001ZXMKE
Release Date: 2004-06-14

Tracks:

Come With Me
All Writ Down
Veshengro
See All the People
Waiting for You
Song Has No Ending

Tracks:

Talking Of the End
Dear Old Battlefield
Cosmic Boy
Worlds They Rise and Fall
Evolution Rag
Painted Chariot
Adam and Eve
Red Hair
Here Till Here Is There
Tree
Jigs: Eyes Like Leaves/Sunday Is My Wedding Day/Drops of ...
Darling Belle

Album Description

UK twofer combines two of the British folk-rock band's 70s albums, 'Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending' (1970) & 'Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air' (1971). BGO. 2004.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of Two Orignal Albums on a Single CD of their First Two Island Records Albums from the Early 1970s.

Customer Reviews:

includes some jigs on fiddle, whistle, and spoons, .......2007-02-19

I have found the text for songs contained in the film `Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending.' A two-CD set from The Incredible String Band contains the music from the film on Disc One and `Liquid Acrobat As Regards the Air' on Disc Two. There are no words listed as the text for the song `See All the People,' recorded March 1968, Royal Festival Hall. When I was watching the film, I thought the song would be called "Ha," because I had no idea what song it was until one of the guys started to sing "Ha" and the other joined in and they certainly didn't think of anything to say after that.

When I was listening to the film, I could make out the meaning of some of the phrases, but the complicated sentence structure of some verses escaped me. Looking at the text now, songs make sense in a way that flipflops around the basic ideas I picked up before. The second song, `All Writ Down,' by Mike Heron, is about some memory:

I fully understood
That you'd leave when your ship came by
And I fully understood
You had a purpose more high
Than to give a little schoolboy
To give a little schoolboy his first love
But oh did I cry, and did I cry
For I thought that those days would just fade and die
But every cell in my body had it all writ down
Every smile and every frown
And oh those good-time girls, oh those good-time girls
That book ft sometimes makes me glad
That book ft sometimes makes me sad
But oh - it don't read bad

I cursed you to your face when you turned to go
But I see now that you did just right
And I bow to you low
For you gave a little schoolboy
You gave a little schoolboy his first love...

According to CD liner notes by Alan Robinson dated February 2004, the song `Veshengro' by Robin Williamson mentions "Jali Uddin Rumi, a Sufi poet and mystic who founded the whirling dervish order in Konya, Turkey" in the line "I wore the coat of patches with Jalal beneath the stars."

The text of `Waiting for You' is long, with the line "Waiting for the world to begin" in three places and some attempts at humor.

I'm a turnip head, I'm a lately wed
And I'm waiting for you
More tea vicar? (Hold that tiger)
...
I'm waiting for God to take a holiday.

I bought these CDs in 2006 and mainly listened to Disc Two when I wanted to hear `Cosmic Boy,' which Likky sings while Mike Heron plays piano. "You look so high, and I shall dance for you, the sweetest dance that I can do" is the way it sounds. The other songs are more complicated. The `Evolution Rag' has a narrative in "the illusionist the circus man" style which makes "Evolution up the slopes of the sea" "While a million years pass by And we get on our way" as much explanation as we get.

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A Diamond Among Jewels, Fishmen & Sea Apes
Two glitches
best album ever
Superior Sound Indeed

Liquid Acrobat As Regards the Air
Incredible String Band
Manufacturer: Sepia Tone
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000069CLF
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Tracks:

Talking Of The End
Dear Old Battlefield
Cosmic Boy
Worlds They Rise And Fall
Evolution Rag
Painted Chariot
Adam And Eve
Red Hair
Here Till Here Is There
Tree
Jigs: Eyes Like Leaves/Sunday Is My Wedding Day/Drops Of Whiskey/Grumbling Old Men
Darling Belle

Album Description

Full title - Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air. First studio album for Island in 1971 reissued for the first time in USA on CD. Remastered with sound quality superior to previous Euro release. Lyrics included. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

A Diamond Among Jewels, Fishmen & Sea Apes.......2006-06-28

All of the Incredible String Band albums have something to offer, and many of them are total masterpieces. My first exposure was to WEE TAM & THE BIG HUGE, which remained my favorite until this one came out. LIQUID ACROBAT is aptly titled, as it positively drips with drama, atmosphere, and musical daring-do. Some moments are beautiful, others border on grating, and some of the songs are really funny, but all of this comes together as one marvelous, trippy, fantastical tour de force. "Darling Belle" is a crowning achievement of storytelling in song that knows no parallel, except maybe on another ISB album, EARTHSPAN (the much shorter song, "The Actor"). I have listened to "Darling Belle" countless times and have never gotten tired of it, but then, I often put this record/Cd away for months and even years, because I never want to become bored with it ... and I always return to it eventually. I suppose my love of "Darling Belle" relates to my theater background and my love of movies, because it conjures up such vivid images of a time long before I was born, both through the lyrics and the haunting music. Whether the group is rocking ("Talking Of The End," "Dear Old Battlefield"), spacing out ("Worlds They Rise And Fall"), waxing acoustic ("Tree"), or pulling legs ("Adam & Eve," "Evolution Rag"), this music is as fresh and inventive today as when it was new.

Two glitches.......2003-06-12

Very sad. Tracks 7 and 12 have quite obvious glitches, the first a squiggle, the second some static. Just two spots that I can tell, but unforgiveable on an otherwise fantastic album.

best album ever.......2002-10-20

best album by anyone anywhere, ever. period.

Superior Sound Indeed.......2002-09-23

This sounds much, much better than the previous CD issue, spectacularly so in many places: on "Here Till Here Is There," Robin and Likky sound like they're singing live in your living room. The music is superb, one of the last great ISB albums, ranging from delicate folk to full-out rock, culminating in the masterpiece "Darling Belle." (Only "Adam and Eve" displeases, though it shows ISB were one of the first white bands to embrace reggae: always ahead of their time.) You can't go wrong with this one.

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Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air
The Incredible String Band
Manufacturer: Elektra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000GUK52C
Release Date: 2006-10-02

Tracks:

Talking of the End
Dear Old Battlefield
Cosmic Boy
Worlds They Rise and Fall
Evolution Rag
Painted Chariot
Adam and Eve
Red Hair
Here Till Here Is There
Tree
Jigs: Eyes Like Leaves/Sunday Is My Wedding Day/Drops of ...
Darling Belle

Album Description

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Strange. 2006.

Album Details

2006 Issued Japanese Digitally Remastered Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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