Feb. 9 street date. Deluxe remastered reissue of BARDO POND's first album 'Bufo Alvarius', orginally released in 1995 on the Drunken Fish label. Bardo Pond was initially an excuse for abyssal guitar drone exploration by brothers Michael and John Gibbons. But 'Bufo Alvarius' (named after a potently hallucinogenic toad) marked an important turning point. It was the juncture where their music clarified out of chaos and started to coalesce around formations of post rock, shoegaze and psych structure while always threatening to dissolve into a blizzard of reverb, white noise, fuzz drone and echoplex. Sure there were others doing similar things but no one quite like this. This edition adds the never released before track "Fixed", to round off an album that is transcendent in all the right meanings of the word.
April 18 street date. Special edition 2015RSD release. Limited to 1000. Enthralling take on Roxy’s 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' and Albert Ayler's 'Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe'. Bardo Pond complete their own unofficial RSD exclusive trilogy with another set of guitar heavy, feedback drenched, heartfelt, honest and obviously considered interpretations of music the that matters to them. The previous two releases flew off the shelves, and you can see why.
June 30 street date. Bringing together Bardo Pond’s three exclusive Record Store Day EPs from the last three years in one, 3CD package. "Reliably transportative swathes of feedback-drenched psychedelica. Bardo Pond's genius lies in the collision of contrasts" Sunday Times
April 16 street date. 2x 12" 2 split colour LPs includes download. 1000 only. An incredible collaboration with Japanese psych-experimentalists Acid Mothers Temple. Wrapping their psych rock wizardry and cosmic space noise around Isobel Sollenberger’s ethereal vocals and majestic flute playing, the collective brings out the best in one another, feasting on innovation and distortion while not losing the swirling lock grooves. Comes on two split colour vinyl discs, with disc 1 in a blue and green convergence and disc 2 blazing red and orange.
Available now. So complex and substance-affected was their evolution, Bardo Pond have been creating their dreamy riffs for 26 years alongside a myriad of side projects and their prolific Record Store Day releases. Returning with a career defining album, ‘Under The Pines’ sees them delve into the subconscious with their transcending cosmic post-rock. Over 41 minutes The Pond’s fermentation, their languid throb and textured groove (flute, violin, Isobel Sollenberger’s haunting vocals) sounds like cathartic dream pop wrapped in a delicately constructed barbwire shroud. “Playing fuzzed out stuff of stoner dreams since the mid ‘90s,” (thanks Pitchfork) and beyond the mentions of free jazz, the avant garde, Sun Ra and The Book Of The Dead, Bardo Pond’s remarkable career and exemplary output has seen them gain fans from all corners of the pond. In 2010 Lou Reed and his wife Laurie Anderson invited them to perform at the Vivid festival they curated at the Sydney Opera House, not forgetting they were recently handpicked to support Jesus & Mary Chain at London’s Roundhouse as part of Mogwai’s 20th Anniversary and Stewart Lee chose them for the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival which he curated just last year. Hailed for their space rock, drone, shoegaze, noise and/or psychedelia, and in a super lengthy interview in Ptolemaic Terrascope enthused (back in 2001) that they were somewhere between John Cage’s silence on 4’33 and Japanese noisenik Merzbow’s total ear splitting cacophony. One of their finest albums to date and nearly three decades on, Bardo Pond are in it for the long haul and remain one of the most significant underground rock bands of our time. “One of underground rock’s most extraordinary enigmas” The Quietus
February 2 street date. LPs include a download card. LP purple vinyl (FAME516LP) is for Indie stores only. Brand new album from Philadelphia’s much loved neo-space rock stoner drone outfit. A euphoric transcendental journey to a mountain top nirvana, a psychedelic tapestry that slowly unwinds as they travel onwards into the inner mind. A 40-minute opus delivered from a hail of reverb soulfully caressed by a ceremonial flute, that makes way for a shroud of ‘Weld’—era Neil Young fog. Bardo Pond is your rather ruffled tour guide to this far off place, this distant sense of wonderment at the crossroads with bewilderment. “One of underground rock’s most extraordinary enigmas” The Quietus
February 2 street date. Brand new album from Philadelphia’s much loved neo-space rock stoner drone outfit. A euphoric transcendental journey to a mountain top nirvana, a psychedelic tapestry that slowly unwinds as they travel onwards into the inner mind. A 40-minute opus delivered from a hail of reverb soulfully caressed by a ceremonial flute, that makes way for a shroud of ‘Weld’—era Neil Young fog. Bardo Pond is your rather ruffled tour guide to this far off place, this distant sense of wonderment at the crossroads with bewilderment. “One of underground rock’s most extraordinary enigmas” The Quietus
February 2 street date. LPs include a download card. LP purple vinyl (FAME516LP) is for Indie stores only. Brand new album from Philadelphia’s much loved neo-space rock stoner drone outfit. A euphoric transcendental journey to a mountain top nirvana, a psychedelic tapestry that slowly unwinds as they travel onwards into the inner mind. A 40-minute opus delivered from a hail of reverb soulfully caressed by a ceremonial flute, that makes way for a shroud of ‘Weld’—era Neil Young fog. Bardo Pond is your rather ruffled tour guide to this far off place, this distant sense of wonderment at the crossroads with bewilderment. “One of underground rock’s most extraordinary enigmas” The Quietus
February 1 street date. One of underground rock’s most extraordinary enigmas.” The Quietus. First time on Double Silver Vinyl. Critical praise from Pitchfork, Clash, The Wire, Q Magazine and more upon release. New inverted LTD edition artwork. Fire re-issue Bardo Pond’s eponymous eighth studio album from 2010, their debut for Fire from way back when. A lysergic brain wrestler in which the Pennsylvanian drone outfit perfect their modal sound. Teasing the artistry of LaMonte Young and Terry Riley into a guitar shaped cauldron, the album’s compulsive reverbed guitar shapes slowly simmer behind Isobel Sollenberger’s esoteric vocals “Like hearing a tannoy at a station in the voice of Jesus.” The Quietus. A claustrophobic stuttering raga interlocks with their psychedelic leanings best exemplified on ‘Cracker Wrist’ which sounds like something that’s intentionally always just about to happen/and/or spin back in time. Featuring lengthy fully nurtured play offs between the quintet ‘Bardo Pond’ is a heady statement that’s like the most wholesome kind of vegan-friendly mushroom trips. Pitchfork reckons they’re “playing fuzzed out stoner dreams.” Vice’s musical brother Noisey likens them to “Fugazi On Acid.” Allmusic intervenes with: “These are epic, soaring psychedelic ambient power-drone rock noise melodies where partially buried, distant female vocals are laced throughout a roaring, murky/sludge guitar soundscape.”
February 1 street date. One of underground rock’s most extraordinary enigmas.” The Quietus. First time on Double Silver Vinyl. Critical praise from Pitchfork, Clash, The Wire, Q Magazine and more upon release. New inverted LTD edition artwork. Fire re-issue Bardo Pond’s eponymous eighth studio album from 2010, their debut for Fire from way back when. A lysergic brain wrestler in which the Pennsylvanian drone outfit perfect their modal sound. Teasing the artistry of LaMonte Young and Terry Riley into a guitar shaped cauldron, the album’s compulsive reverbed guitar shapes slowly simmer behind Isobel Sollenberger’s esoteric vocals “Like hearing a tannoy at a station in the voice of Jesus.” The Quietus. A claustrophobic stuttering raga interlocks with their psychedelic leanings best exemplified on ‘Cracker Wrist’ which sounds like something that’s intentionally always just about to happen/and/or spin back in time. Featuring lengthy fully nurtured play offs between the quintet ‘Bardo Pond’ is a heady statement that’s like the most wholesome kind of vegan-friendly mushroom trips. Pitchfork reckons they’re “playing fuzzed out stoner dreams.” Vice’s musical brother Noisey likens them to “Fugazi On Acid.” Allmusic intervenes with: “These are epic, soaring psychedelic ambient power-drone rock noise melodies where partially buried, distant female vocals are laced throughout a roaring, murky/sludge guitar soundscape.”
April 18 - RECORD STORE DAY - street date. Limited to 1500 copies worldwide. Double purple vinyl. With gatefold sleeve. The sixth album by Bardo Pond, a critically revered space rock masterpiece, 2003's ‘On The Ellipse’ is reissued for the first time since 2003. Originally released on ATP Recordings, these songs take you on a deeply hypnotic cosmic mind-expanding trip from the beguiling heavy riffs of ‘Night Of The Frogs’ to the psych-folk of ‘Walking Clouds’.
Please note new street date: December 10. 25th anniversary edition of Bardo Pond's long out-of-print second album and label debut, "Amanita" - newly remastered 2xLP reissue limited to 100 copies for Canada on purple vinyl. Formed in 1991, the Philadelphia-based quintet have spent some thirty years mapping guitar music's outer limits dialing into extremes of noise, chaos, and harmony in free-form compositions that now unfurl across 12 full-length records and a near-limitless body of EPs, cassettes, and CD-Rs. Recorded by the lineup of John Gibbons (guitar), Michael Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (voice, flute), Clint Takeda (bass), and Joe Culver (drums), "Amanita" is the place where the band's spontaneous collective creativity blazed into maturity. Even within the heady subcultural micro-verse of 90s underground zoner-music, the Fishtown-basement-dwelling quintet's vision of "psychedelia" was singular in its heaviness.
April 23 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Psychedelic, frog-licking weirdness on this re-etched edition of Bardo Pond's debut album, originally released in 1995. Hailed as "synapse-destroying" by Trouser Press, it's a post-"Nuggets" nugget rightly celebrated as a milestone in psych rock, which "actually sounds wholly unique today. Bardo Pond are one of those outfits where the adjective "experimental" genuinely means what it says on the tin" - Drowned In Sound.
April 22 street date. Gold vinyl with DL. 1000 only worldwide. The Philadelphia groups output for Record Store Day have been some of the most exciting and rewarding releases in recent years. Formed by the improvised journeys of the formidable Bardo Pond and experimental ensemble Kohoutek, these compositions take you on a cosmic voyage through kosmiche, drone, noise, prog and free jazz. Purveyors of psy- chedelic rock, Bardo Pond have the outward specifications of a rock band but the rivers that con- verge into the band’s oneiric flow have their headwaters in the outlands of ecstatic jazz, free noise and the avant-garde.
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