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pictures no work anymore?

I'm looking forward to hearing this.. Set and Setting was one of my favorite late 90's releases, along with a few of their cdrs.

Out here soon. It is sooooo good...

they're beautiful

ooohhhh! this is exciting!

is there any slight, possible, remote chance of any touring maybe??

ah, i know the answer to that already :(

That'd be nice wouldn't it.. an actual band worthwhile of turing doing as such.. ha

that picture is making my head hurt

SOUNDS LIKE A POOFTERS DREAM

My oral B reach around would stun you Steve...

So it looks like July 11 is the official release date for this

Shakethecloudsout just sent me the youtube of them playing Tommy Gun Angel

Tommy gun Angel -Live

She's so hott!!

They are limited with touring as they all have day jobs in art galleries... Hopefully someday they will come here. I am hoping to go to Stooges/Sonic Youth ATP in Dec and see them there...

OVERVIEW

Philadelphia’s Bardo Pond return in June 2006 with Ticket Crystals – their sixth studio album and second for ATP Recordings. Completing a trilogy of work – first embarked on with 2001’s Dilate and centred with 2003’s On the Ellipse – Ticket Crystals resumes the quintet’s signature doom tempo, multi-layered drones; while introducing a lighter pastoral, even Tudor-like feel, which rallies throughout against the band’s youthful riff petulance. Guitarist and founder member, Michael Gibbons, elaborates: “On The Ellipse was really influenced by the post 9/11 vibe, this one is the coming out of that... On this album we really investigated the dynamics between acoustic sound and heavy electrics.”

Recorded over two years at the band’s home studio, a handful of the tracks first came to light on Bardo Pond’s 2003 live UK dates alongside kindred spirits and former label mates, Mogwai. ”Yeah, most of the time we go out on the road before we record to get comfortable with the tracks,” remarks Gibbons. Fans of the space rock pioneers may already be familiar with much of the new material owing to the band’s well-publicised endorsement of bootleg recordings.

Loosely formed in 1989 by guitar wielding art student siblings, Michael and John Gibbons, Bardo Pond became a reality in 1991 with the addition of vocalist and flautist, Isobel Sollenberger, bassist, Clint Takeda and drummer, Joe Culver (replaced in 1999 by trainee librarian, Ed Farnsworth). After releasing a string of 7” singles and debut album, Bufo Alvarius Amen 29:15, the fledgling band signed to Matador Records, for whom they produced their breakthrough second album, 1996’s Amanita. Bardo Pond released a further three albums for Matador – Lapsed (1997), Set and Setting (1999), Dilate (2001) – in addition to a number of spin off releases, garnered from outtakes and side projects and sold in strictly limited numbers at the band’s acclaimed and increasingly improvisational live shows.

After accepting a personal invite from Thurston Moore to appear at the Sonic Youth curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in 2001, Bardo Pond’s hypnotic live set impressed festival promoter, Barry Hogan, so much so that he immediately signed the band to the event’s sister label, ATP Recordings, and rush released their fifth album, On the Ellipse.

Tracking down the elusive balance between extensive improvisation and acutely structured arrangements, Bardo Pond’s latest long-player, Ticket Crystals, includes the spellbinding Moonshine (a ten-minute plus ethereal expedition that immediately recalls the acoustic intricacy of Led Zeppelin III coupled with the contemporary quirkiness of Coco Rosie) and live favourite and album opener, Destroying Angel, which only just manages to contain the sheer force of the brothers Gibbons amplification and vocalist and flautist Isobel Sollenberger‘s haunting and occasionally terrifying tones. Also featured on the album is the band’s unique reworking of The Beatles’ White Album classic, Cry Baby Cry, which was originally recorded for and broadcast by the BBC as part of their commemorations of the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s death.

Ticket Crystals is set for release through ATP Recordings on Monday 5th June (UK), Tuesday 6th June (USA) and Monday 10th July (Australia).

ohhhhh the ATP lineup gets better and better....

Indeed..

Dead C, Nurse with Wound and Prurient.. fuck me silly.. thats a cumwad dream right there.

This is pretty damned mint.

i just interviewed michael gibbons and it was so amazing!! really amazing!! so excited about the existence of bardo pond.

I really like this band.

i think i love this band.

oh wow!

i wish i had have known so i could have told you to tell him that i love him. hehehe..

um yeah, that would make a great song title.

a couple of weeks ago i listened to nothing but 'set and setting' and 'on the ellipse' all week. i think OTE is possibly one of the most beautiful records ever made. i'm so excited about the new record. i've just got to get me 'ands on it now!

HOW DID WE NEVER HAVE BARDO POND OBSESSEE NIGHTS WHEN WE LIVED TOGETHER?? he was super nice. and then i got too freaked out to speak with isobel and he laughed at me.

I DON'T KNOW!!! HOW DID I LIVE WITH YOU AND NOT KNOW YOU WERE A FAN??

bah.. i long for a return to the days of secret handshakes..

Picked up Amanita today - the Pond are trippy deal indeed.

Awesome band, I think I love Isobel.

They played a real muddy set when i saw them. Real loud and it got a little too cock rock, which i wasnt expecting. Sometimes it even sounded like Dinosaur Jr. They were mega stoned.

Just ordered this little beauty;

This is the blurb;

LSD POND Double CD archive36.
Two nights of improvised recordings from the Lemur House in Philadelphia tracked during off nights of the eastern US tour of LSD March, Masami Kawaguchi’s New Rock Syndicate and Bardo Pond. Each disc represents one night’s worth of material edited by Michael Gibbons,without overdubs. Personal from each night vary and thus present different types of material.
DISC 1 recorded Oct11, 2006
SHINSUKE MICHISHITA- guitar, bass, drums
MASMAI KAWAGUCHI- guitar, bass IKURO TAKAHASHI percussion, drums
MICHAEL GIBBONS- guitar
JOHN GIBBONS- guitar
JASON KOURKOUNIS- drums, percussion
SHIBATA NAO- percussion
KIKUCHI AKIRA- Bass
DISC 2 recorded Oct14, 2006
SHINSUKE MICHISHITA- guitar, bass, drums
IKURO TAKAHASHI percussion, drums
MICHAEL GIBBONS- guitar
JOHN GIBBONS- guitar
JASON KOURKOUNIS- drums, percussion
CLINT TAKEDA- bass
ISOBEL SOLLENBERGER- vocals flute
AARON IGLER- electronics

''Comes packaged in a ½ fold letterpress sleeve with silver foil stamped front and rear covers with 8 page photo booklet saddle stitched inside that hopefully conveys the mode and energy of the recording sessions. CD’s are in black hand stamped envelopes bound together with letterpress obi bands. All hand made and hand assembled. Design and graphic work all executed by old friend, and label owner, Keith Utech. single pressing of 1000 copies''

wow that looks really really nice

There is a proper Bardo Pond album due soon called Batholith, and there is a song from it you can download here: http://www.threelobed.com/tlr/catalog.html

cheers, pc

Celluloid, it's cheap as owt too, worked out to about £11 including international postage.

You can pick it up from here;

Archive shop

Batholith looks like a fucking monster!

''What the label says:

''Batholith'' is a collection of six tracks that are near and dear to Bardo Pond but, for some reason or another, have never previously been released. That one-sentence description might lead one to think that these tracks are ''outtakes'' or cutting-room floor type material - neither conclusion could be further from the truth. The tracks included on ''Batholith'' range from previous live staples (''A Tune,'' one made 'famous' by opening Bardo's set at Terrastock II in San Francisco as joined by Roy Montgomery [and a recording of which was featured on the KFJC compilation ''Live from the Devil's Triangle, Volume 2'']) to tracks the band recorded in John Peel sessions (''Slip Away''). Collected as a whole, these tracks form a fluid and cohesive album. ''Batholith'' is not just an exciting moment for long time Bardo Pond fans, but a great jumping on point for folks who are relatively new to their craft.

As per the Three Lobed standard, ''Batholith'' is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. It will be housed within heavy ''old-style'' one-pocket Stoughton gatefold jackets bearing new artwork by John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger. The record will be from an edition of close to 1000 copies and, and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax. Pre-orders will also be accompanied by a bonus CD (TLR-044) of previously unreleased Bardo Pond material. ''

It's not bad, but after listening to it 4 times, no particular song stands out. It's mostly mid paced and meandering.

I'm in agreement with pc. It's OK, but no 'Lapsed', that's for sure.

Did you get the bonus CD too?

Yes - it's just one song called Threefold. It's probably my favorite bit of the album. I'll put it in the gmail.

Cool - I've got the LP coming on Tuesday or Wednesday, but I'm not sure if it will contain the bonus disc or not.

I think the Melbs band Zond know about the Pond (which ain't a bad thing)

They've managed to sneak out a couple of other releases this year:

Circuit VIII
one long fuzzy song

Sonic Attack split single with Kinski
a rocking cover of Motorhead's Lords of Light

Oh wow, I want that split!

Is circuit VIII good? anyone?