Bardo Pond - Volume 9 - New LP

2024 release of recordings from 2005-2006.

Bardo Pond’s extensive archive recordings series opens up once again with 'Volume 9', an incisive journey into their hypnotic sound. Recorded in the early 2000’s it’s a heady mix of acoustic ambience and menacing distortion. Infamous purveyors of longform stoner rock, Bardo Pond embrace their sludgestorms with graceful nods to Hawkwind, Earth and my bloody valentine. For anyone uninitiated with the band’s tranquilizing sound, Volume 9 leans into their mesmeric practise with reckless abandon. Featuring two tracks recorded with ace percussionist Michael Zanghi (Kurt Vile/The War On Drugs) and the seminal two parter ‘War Is Over’, a lilting Floydian strum that’s invaded – quite literally – by unreconstructed noise. The Zanghi collaboration is an Eastern-facing mantra with percussive flurries and distorted modal shifts – like listening on the other side of feedback. “Effortlessly combining psychedelic inspirations from Pink Floyd's original explorations to the more modern reachings into the beyond” AllMusic.

A1 Conjunctio

A2 The Nine Doubts

A3 War Is Over Part 1

B1 War Is Over Part 2

Recorded At – Lemur House

Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BM82489

Artwork [Art], Layout – MG* Drums, Percussion – Michael Zanghi

Flute, Viola – Isobel Sollenberger

Guitar [Guitars] – John Gibbons

Guitar [Guitars], Synth – Michael Gibbons

Lacquer Cut By – ST

Recorded 2005-2006 in the Lemur House, Philadelphia PA