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Bardo Pond: Michael Gibbons, Clint Takeda, Isobel Sollenberger, Joe Culver, John Gibbons.
Recorded at Studio Red, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Bardo Pond ups the dosage considerably on AMANITA. The Philadelphia band's third album is also its first studio-recorded production. And what a difference the studio makes! As great as the basement-tapes of BUFO ALVARIUS are, the shockingly brilliant AMANITA reveals a depth and maturity at which all earlier efforts only hinted.
"Limerick," AMANITA's monumental opener, has a dense, intricate arrangement that can be peeled apart to expose all the elements of the Bardo Pond sound. The knotted feedback trails of John and Michael Gibbons' guitars and tendrils of vocalist Isobel Sollenberger's phantasmal flute radiate from a nucleus of tantric bass (Clint Takeda). The quiet fury of "Rumination," the temerity of "Wank," the introspective mood of "Be a Fish," and the climactic unwindings of "RM" all stem from this atomic core. And when the Gibbons brothers weave the coils and braided filigree of "Tantric Porno," "The Tapir Song," and "Yellow Turban," they rival the lysergic majesty of such legendary forebears as Ash Ra Tempel or the transcendental gut-punch of Keiji Haino's formidable Fushitsusha.
Recorded at Studio Red, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Bardo Pond ups the dosage considerably on AMANITA. The Philadelphia band's third album is also its first studio-recorded production. And what a difference the studio makes! As great as the basement-tapes of BUFO ALVARIUS are, the shockingly brilliant AMANITA reveals a depth and maturity at which all earlier efforts only hinted.
"Limerick," AMANITA's monumental opener, has a dense, intricate arrangement that can be peeled apart to expose all the elements of the Bardo Pond sound. The knotted feedback trails of John and Michael Gibbons' guitars and tendrils of vocalist Isobel Sollenberger's phantasmal flute radiate from a nucleus of tantric bass (Clint Takeda). The quiet fury of "Rumination," the temerity of "Wank," the introspective mood of "Be a Fish," and the climactic unwindings of "RM" all stem from this atomic core. And when the Gibbons brothers weave the coils and braided filigree of "Tantric Porno," "The Tapir Song," and "Yellow Turban," they rival the lysergic majesty of such legendary forebears as Ash Ra Tempel or the transcendental gut-punch of Keiji Haino's formidable Fushitsusha.