bardo pond

bill

I'd be at the gig like a shot under normal circumstances, but I've got a couple of prior commitments on Saturday.

B-

I want to buy, you can only persuade me not to.

doubt I'll be getting it tho'. Can't see how much better/worse they can get (and my head is somewhere else in 2003).

so am i.

Ned - while Set and Setting is one of only two BP albums I've never heard, I really don't get the 'beat' thing - what song on S&S is a good example?

S: "Night of Frogs" ; "Despite The Roar" ; the long one on Bufalo Alvarius Amen.

during sonic youth's set at all tomorrow's parties at UCLA a few years ago, a man and a woman behind me mentioned something about not being able to see so I stepped aside and offered to stand behind them instead and i automatically recognized them as clint and isobel from BP. i mentioned to them the above show and they said it was the most rewarding show they've ever played due to the "setting"(my quotes and bad pun).

yah

Lolz

A few months down the line, the first song "Just Once" is possibly my favorite thing they've ever done and still in heavy rotation. After that, it's sort of downhill, but a slow and gently sloping downhill. "Sleeping" reminds me, of all things, of something from the Nadja soundtrack that I love so much. Floaty spacy drones in the background, etc. Watching live videos of them is weird. On the one hand, I'm aware that they're hippies, but listening to the albums it's possible to overlook that...

I just got into this record too, loving it.

i neeed this still! glad to hear u guys liking it

Favorite song off this would probably be The Stars Behind...

Ticket Crystals is a really good album as well...

(...not as good as this one though)

Think I have to turn in my Bardo badge, I can't get into the new one (or Ticket Crystals for that matter). T_T

The two songs of theirs that I like the best (Inside and Just Once) both start out acoustic and ramshackle and then tighten up into drone-monsters. Kind of wonder if I've missed any, given their kind of large number of releases...

there are songs--the long droney kind ("undone" for sure, but also "fc II" and "night of frogs")--where it doesn't work as listening to music per se...listening to undone just kind of makes me feel like I'm hanging out on a rowboat in the middle of a still pond watching the moon's reflection or something...y'know it's music for people who want to hang out in swamps but don't want to be eaten by mosquitoes...

my favorite songs on the new one are "The Stars Behind" and "Just Once", so maybe those are the ones that are the easiest to get, Leee...?

ticket crystals was a bit of a snooze... still waiting to hear the new one, sounds promising, though!

"just once" rules

using "snooze" as an insult? maybe Bardo Pond is not the band for you...

pfffft! one of my favorites

LOL j/k

this album is def. more atmospheric than, say, tuneful though...more of a subconscious album, doesn't rear its full majesty until it's off in the background

(Pretentious Opinions R Us)

my favorite songs on the new one are "The Stars Behind" and "Just Once", so maybe those are the ones that are the easiest to get, Leee...?

"Stars Behind" for sure! But I'm far less of a fan of the shambling-acoustic-into-drone-monster Bardo than a lot of people, so "Just Once" only tries my patience.

Also, "FCII" = "Montana Sacra II" right? That one kills me, one of the few that do on Ticket Crystals, actually. ("FCII" was the track's name on the promo, btw... /nudgenudge)

this album is def. more atmospheric than, say, tuneful though...

Hm, maybe? I know we're talking relatively here, but they've always been atmospheric (I call it textural) even on the albums that I love most.

Saw Bardo Pond play last night and they blew me away. So good!! Ned - any chance of an allmusic review/rating of their latest record?

Oh man, that was in Brighton right? Missed that, great to hear they were good though. Good turn out?

You know, I was trying to review that earlier this year...

Yes, in Brighton. Not a bad turn out. Circle were also playing in Brighton last night which probably divided the psych rock masses. My first Bardo Pond live experience and they didn't disappoint.

Why am I only now realizing that "Undone" is such a monster???

i dont know!

that whole album is grand. did a great job with the vinyl too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq15sJAcJfg

Listening to Vol. 7 -- sweet. Anyone know if it's still available through the website/mail order thing?

Bardo Pond at Terrastock 7, 2008 with special guest Kawabata Makoto. Full show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkXL3yfRSL4

sweet! as u may recall I saw this set

Make that three!

Heads up, new album announced:

‘Under The Pines’
Out March 24th

Track list
1. Crossover
2. Out Of Reach
3. My Eyes Out
4. Moment To Moment
5. Under The Pines
6. Effigy

And here's the first track:

https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/bard-pond-crossover

Got a promo at the shop and listened a couple times this weekend – if you dug Peace On Venus you will like this'n. Though I could always do with more flute.

Another new LP announced! Pretty excited about this one as they've been on a roll...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1212273630_16.jpg

Volume 8 is out Feb. 2, 2018.

First single "Kailash" here --> https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/bardo-pond-kailash

1. Kailash
2. Flayed Wish
3. Power Children
4. Cud
5. And I Will

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.
Loved and lauded by the late Lou Reed and his wife Laurie Anderson, Jesus & Mary Chain, Mogwai and many more and acclaimed in the music press as such...

Just got Peace on Venus, released in 2013. So good. I've only got about ten or so BP albums but I've never really heard them put a foot wrong

lol "only." But yes, more or less agree there.

Ha! Out of potentially a few dozen releases!

I just picked up Volume 8 which I had no idea existed until I saw it in a shop recently. Sounds great so far - extra murky.

Vol. 8 moved the needle (well, barely) on the other thread: BARDO POLLND

And yes, it is awesome.

Just snagged a clean used copy of Amanita from '96 – shame it's never been repressed, as it holds up quite well.

Still bummed I missed them in Chicago a couple years back. Only Philly & NYC shows since.

...carry on.

March 8, 2002 at the 15th Street Tavern in Denver, CO. Full show! Opens with their cover of Spacemen 3's "Call The Doctor" and doesn't let up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqxJiJ7UyFI

(more info: https://thatsthethingaboutthat.blogspot.com/2023/06/bardo-pond-15th-street-tavern-denver-co.html )

pure murder

Brilliant.

Heads up! Bardo Pond (or someone using their name) has been posting live gigs to archive.org. Terrastock 2002 just went up now:
https://archive.org/details/bardo2002-10-13.sbd

Get this into yr RSS feed - this is some of the greatest psychedelic rock ever made.

What he said.

Damo Suzuki and Bardo Pond Live at Rotunda, Philadelphia on 2007-10-25
https://archive.org/details/damobardo2007-10-25

BTW, I hope folks didn't miss out on the release of the Peel sessions last year.
https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/peel-sessions

Hm, you know, I think I did! So thank you for this!

They haven’t come back since Covid have they? I saw them at least twice in the 00s as part of bills with other bands I wanted to see but I didn’t really appreciate them…I think at that time in my life I was looking for the songs and totally missing the sounds (esp the guitar) but if they came back now I would very much appreciate them.

I recall seeing a FB photo of Clint and one of the Gibbons brothers playing somewhere in Philadelphia last year, but it wasn't a full Bardo show (or perhaps something that would be an official side project). I hope everyone noticed that Volume 9 was released in February - https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/volume-9

Would love to see them play again.

I don't believe this was ever posted here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZOZ3VTG7IM

Cool interview with Michael Gibbons on the Matador Revisionist History podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrVVUXQRT4

Excellence