INCREDIBLE STRING BAND 5000 SPIRITS ULTRA-RARE ORIG '67 MONO LP SHRINK STUNNING

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·        THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND - 5000 SPIRITS OR THE LAYERS OF THE ONION (THE GROUP'S SECOND STUDIO ALBUM) - ULTRA-RARE  ORIGINAL 1967 ELEKTRA MONO LP EKL-4010 (ONE OF ONLY TWO ISB ALBUMS RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES IN MONO FORMAT)

·        ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·        ORIGINAL TAN/BROWN ELEKTRA LABEL, MID-'60s STYLE

·        EAST COAST PRESSING (SONIC SOUND PRODUCTS, HOLBROOK, LI, NY)

·        ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN STEREO

·        THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·        ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (NO THICK CARDBOARD COVERS WERE EVER PRODUCED FOR THIS TITLE)

·        COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK (CELLOPHANE) WRAP

·        ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK BY THE DUTCH 'THE FOOL' ARTISTIC MULTIMEDIA COOPERATIVE

·        CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·        THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·        MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

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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. The trio were also accompanied by Danny Thompson on bass on seven tracks, as well as Nazir Jarazbhoy on sitar. The standout tracks include “First Girl I Loved” (later covered by Judy Collins and Jackson Browne), and the cosmic folk-blues “The Mad Hatter’s Song.” On this set, British folk often comes up against against Williamson’s fascination with Middle Eastern sounds -- check the bowed gimbri hovering and flitting about the acoustic guitar on “Chinese White,” and the hand drums underscoring the acoustic slide guitar on “The Hedgehog Song.” Thompson’s bass and Williamson’s harmonica are the only elements that keep “Blues for the Muse” on the ground -- barely a blues at all because of the way it pushes the 12-bar envelope. The brief “My Name Is Death” begins as a one-chord drone before it moves back to a more formally constructed 18th century traditional song. The meld of all ISB’s influences are heard on “Gently Tender,” a beautiful if somewhat anarchic tune where flutes, acoustic blues, hand drums, bass, gimbri, and sitar are all employed. This set stands as one of the true masterpieces in the group's catalog.

(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY THOM JUREK, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Here is the finest British folk/psych album from the first British folk boom of the late 1960's, in an unsurpassable MONO condition. This is a beautiful first pressing of a veritable folk-rock classic which influenced so many bands over almost four decades. Indispensable in any self-respecting folk collection.

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·        CONDITION:

·        RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)           WE GRADE THE VINYL AS NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)           The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.

(c)              The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)           Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its stereo counterpart. We think that the mix is more natural, humane, "organic" and that the mixes are somewhat different than on the stereo version. We estimate that stereo copies of this album outnumber mono pressings by a ratio of at least 20:1.

(e)            Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                                     THE COVER

COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP   (A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-          Cover has a small cutout hole in one of the corners

-          Cover has two corners slightly worn / dinged  (nothing significant)

-          Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine   (BARELY VISIBLE)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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