Writer Dan Lander described the song as Mike Heron's masterpiece.
He wrote:"Weaving between styles as divergent as Bahamian funerary music, East Indian incantation and ancient Celtic mysticism, 'A Very Cellular Song' represents a high point in the band's creativity and surely influenced a host of others including Led Zeppelin, the Who and Lou Reed.
Handclaps, kazoo, harpsichord and pipes intermingle and morph into each other. Composition and musical structure. However, it holds together and in the end conveys a powerful range of human emotion through pain and joy and back again." The longest number on the album, the song is a 13-minute reflection on life, love, and amoebas, whose complex structure incorporates a If this sounds like dissonance and chaos, it is. "A Very Cellular Song" is a song by the Incredible String Band, written by Mike Heron, released on the 1968 album The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.
He wrote:"Weaving between styles as divergent as Bahamian funerary music, East Indian incantation and ancient Celtic mysticism, 'A Very Cellular Song' represents a high point in the band's creativity and surely influenced a host of others including Led Zeppelin, the Who and Lou Reed.
Handclaps, kazoo, harpsichord and pipes intermingle and morph into each other. Composition and musical structure. However, it holds together and in the end conveys a powerful range of human emotion through pain and joy and back again." The longest number on the album, the song is a 13-minute reflection on life, love, and amoebas, whose complex structure incorporates a If this sounds like dissonance and chaos, it is. "A Very Cellular Song" is a song by the Incredible String Band, written by Mike Heron, released on the 1968 album The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.