Their next record, 1996's Amanita, marked the band's transition to Matador Records and international distribution. The group released the first of several self-distributed cassettes, Shone Like a Ton, in 1992, before releasing Bufo Alvarius on Drunken Fish Records in 1995. At the same time, school chums Sollenberger and Sentz joined the group. Joining with guitarist Clint Takeda, they began jamming, and Takeda gave the trio the name Bardo Pond, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Basically we didn’t really learn how to play songs until after about four years, and that’s when things started clicking, and we actually made up songs. So were just started playing free improvised sounds – it was really just kind of that love of making noise and sounds that got us together. Īllmusic describes Bardo Pond as having "lengthy, deliberate sound explorations filled with all the hallmarks of modern-day space rock: droning guitars, thick distortion, feedback, reverb, and washes of white noise."īardo Pond are a taper-friendly band who encourage fans to make recordings of their shows.Īccording to guitarist Michael Gibbons, the band members came together post-university: ".we were basically just out of college, actually, and we just got really interested in free music, and that’s where it started. Their sound has been likened to Pink Floyd, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine amongst others. Some Bardo Pond album titles have been derived from the names of esoteric psychedelic substances. Bardo Pond's music is often classified as space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegazing, noise or psychedelic rock. The current members are Michael Gibbons (guitar), John Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (flute and vocals), Clint Takeda (bass guitar) and Jason Kourkounis (drums). Space rock, neo-psychedelia, shoegaze, post-rock, drone, noise rockĭrunken Fish, Fire, ATP, Important, Matador, Three Lobedīardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London-based label Fire Records. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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