A Very Cellular Song (12:06)

This song is 13 minutes of total weirdness. Mike Heron solos on most of it accompanied by kazoo, harpsichord, sitar and a lot of unidentifiable noises. You should look up the lyrics on another site like lyrics.com because they are illustrative of the best of the String Band’s approach to the universe. There are influences of chants, biblical references, apparently stream-of-consciousness strings on cellular life.

The Wikipedia entry for this song says “its centrepiece was Mike Heron’s “A Very Cellular Song”, a 13-minute reflection on life, love and amoebas; its complex structure incorporated a Bahamian spiritual (“I Bid You Goodnight”) and an adaptation of a Sikh hymn (“May the pure light within you”). It had a layered production, using multi-track recording techniques and a very wide array of instruments from all corners of the world, including sitar, gimbri, shenai, oud, harpsichord, panpipes and kazoo.”