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spilladabalia · 5 months
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Sonic Youth flyer, early 2000s
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rastronomicals · 1 month
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1:43 AM EST February 22, 2024:
Bardo Pond - "Dont Know About You" From the album Bardo Pond (December 6, 2010)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
File under: Heavy Psychedelia
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madc0w · 4 months
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Listen to: War is Over part 1 by Bardo Pond
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rustedskyprisms · 7 months
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dustedmagazine · 1 month
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Bardo Pond — Volume 9 (Fire Records)
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As its title indicates, Volume 9 is the ninth in a series of releases, dating back to 2000, of outtakes, jams and Bardo Pond-related sonic ephemera. But while most of the earlier Volumes were originally made and distributed independently by the band (on CDr, in small batches), Volume 9 has been released by Bardo Pond’s current label Fire Records on vinyl and as a digital download. The new (sorta) record makes visible Fire’s ongoing reissue campaign of the Volumes, including a number on vinyl of various splashy shades. That enterprise may principally be a collector’s fixation, and one might wonder about the relative value of the music, beyond the layers of insider hipness, the fluorescent orange records and the many, many 15-minute-plus explorations of deep and dark psychic terrain.
The relatively higher profile of its release implies that something is different about Volume 9, and the record makes good on that gesture. To be sure, if one listens to some of the earlier Volumes, there’s a charm to their shaggy-dog quality; see Volume 3, which wanders elliptically from informal studio jams like “Sifaka” to intensely stoned improv meditations like “Lomand” — sounds, one imagines, of a typical weekend at Lemur House in the early Aughts. Volume 9, on the other hand,feels like a more sonically focused affair, and the record makes more sense as a record, rather than just a collection of moments, however winning or blissed out.
Tracks on the first side — the long-ish (by Bardo standards, anyway, for whom songs don’t get really long until you top 20 minutes) “Conjunctio” and “The Nine Doubts” — were both recorded with Philly percussionist Michael Zanghi, likely best known as the drummer in the Violators, Kurt Vile’s live and frequent backing band. On these recordings, Zanghi leans into Eastern textures and flavors. There are suggestions of tabla in “Conjunctio,” along with tambourine and other hand-held percussive instruments. The Gibbons brothers’ fuzzed and fucked-with guitars dominate, as ever, but Bardo listeners who dig it when Isobel Sollenberger picks up her flute (and if you don’t, what are you doing listening to the band in the first place?) will want to tune into her playing, which hangs at the edge of the mix, spectral and mournful.
While “Conjunctio” suggests a bare melody and spends the rest of its time floating in the general area of that suggestion, “War is Over” is far more grounded in harmonic statement and something approaching song form. Two versions of the song appear on Volume 9: a three-minute statement and a twenty-one minute exploration of the statement’s potential. Both are evocative, yearning, a little melancholy. But the long version is the real deal, and for listeners attracted to the band’s sludgy psychedelia, it’s a terrific experience. Few bands are able to combine deliberation and slow accumulation with ecstatic abandon like Bardo Pond, and “War is Over” works that dynamic masterfully. While the song does not achieve the transcendent chaos of some of the band’s most sublime performances (see their cover of “Maggot Brain,” for instance, but buckle up), its fealty to its basic melodic structure makes it special and beautiful in different ways.
Volume 9 might not be the best way in to Bardo Pond’s particular powers and pleasures for the novice, but for anyone already familiar with the band’s remarkable music, the record is more than just a number for the completist. You’ll play it. And it will fill you with the peculiar, sometimes magnificent, sometimes terrifying joy that only Bardo Pond can create.
Jonathan Shaw
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Bardo Pond - Lord of Light (Hawkwind cover)
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havesexwithghosts · 1 year
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Bardo Pond - Tantric Porno
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fieldworklondon · 9 months
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gotankgo · 1 year
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1995 - Sonic Youth + Dirty Three + Bardo Pond
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visualtones · 2 years
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Bardo Pond - S/T
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myearspleasure · 13 days
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VENDREDI 15 MARS 2024
ARCHIVE - YOU ALL LOOK THE SAME TO ME
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THE DANDY WARHOLS - ROCKMAKER
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BARDO POND - VOLUME 9
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THE BLACK CROWES - HAPPINESS BASTARDS
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madc0w · 1 year
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Listen/purchase: Lomand by Bardo Pond
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rustedskyprisms · 7 months
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Bardo Pond band profile -  the wire magazine 2/2005
‘‘Abstract expressionism, hallucinogenic experiments and conspiracy theories all collide head on in the freeform psychedelic snarl emanating from Lemur House, the Philadelphia home of Bardo Pond .’‘
https://archive.org/details/the-wire-magazine-2006-02-cbz/page/n21/mode/2up
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zombimanos · 2 months
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Bardo Pond - Moment to Moment
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