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	Matador Records \| Bardo Pond
		Dilate, the fifth Bardo record, is titled in their tradition of using a drug reference as a title.
		The new Bardo Pond album Dilate’; is an absolute monster no matter what format you’re talking about, but happy shoppers choosing the vinyl edition over the CD will be rewarded with an extra, otherwise unavailable track.
		Bardo Pond are continuing work on their new Matador album, tentatively scheduled for early 2001.
	www.matadorrecords.com /bardo_pond (791 words)

	Bardo Pond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bardo Pond's drug-inspired music is often classified as space rock, post-rock, or psychedelic rock.
		Allmusic 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." Bardo Pond are a taper-friendly band who encourage fans to make recordings of their shows.
		The members of Bardo Pond have produced two albums with New Zealand instrumentalist Roy Montgomery under the name of Hash Jar Tempo (a pun on the name of German kraut-rock band Ash Ra Tempel).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bardo_Pond (355 words)

	Bardo Pond - Biography - AOL Music
		Bardo Pond was the flagship band of Philly's "Psychedelphia" space rock movement, which also included the likes of Aspera, Asteroid No. 4, the Azusa Plane, and tangentially the Lilys.
		Bardo Pond was formed in Philadelphia in 1989 by guitar-playing brothers Michael and John Gibbons, who'd long had an interest in making free-form noise, though they didn't pick up nonpercussion instruments until attending art school in their twenties.
		Bardo Pond issued its first album, Bufo Alvarius Amen 29:15, in early 1995; its title was taken from the scientific name for the notorious hallucinogenic toad found in the western U.S. The CD version appended "Amen 29:15," a near-half-hour jam that marked Takeda's recorded debut with the band.
	music.aol.com /artist/bardo-pond/174717/biography (1023 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Bardo Pond
		Bardo Pond, by their own admission, have never played a show "straight" -- that is, bereft of the calming influence and/or perceptual enhancements provided by controlled substances.
		Perhaps, in their own turtle-slow fasion, Bardo Pond are attempting to crawl out of the stoner-rock ghetto, and will one day conquer the world with their definitive cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows".
		While we wait (and wait and wait) for the big Bardo break, I'll be satisfied with the gradual evolution of their sound and the feverish volatility of their live performances.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/may-21-01/bardo.html (604 words)

	Ink 19 :: Bardo Pond
		Bardo Pond is a band that has come after the "distortion steering" of Sonic Youth and early Dinosaur Jr., after the haunting vocals/lyrics of My Bloody Valentine and after the subtle Buddhist influences of Hugo Largo.
		Bardo Pond goes on to add a great deal to the expansions made by the aforementioned bands.
		It would be safe to say that Bardo Pond has become the eye of the funnel into which this "genre" (if it can be limited to a genre) now empties.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_02/wet_ink/music_ab/004_bardo_pond_nf.html (165 words)

	Hummingbird Mountain: Home
		Bardo Pond and Three Lobed Recordings are excited to announce that they are combining forces for an upcoming LP.
		Bardo Pond appears as one-half of a new split 10” released by Fire Records.
		Bardo’s contribution is “On Everyone.” The record is from an edition of 500 copies and were available directly from Fire (and it is assumed they would pop up with mail-order houses soon).
	threelobed.com /bardo/home (801 words)

	Bardo Pond - Opprobrium article
		For the past five years, Philadelphia's Bardo Pond have diligently mounted their tantri-sonic campaign on the psychedelic drug rock microverse from the smoky confines of their Fishtown basement.
		Fall 1995, Bardo Pond went back into the studio to record their third and, to my ears, finest album, Amanita.
		Seeing as how Bardo Pond's name still regularly turns up when spinning my rolodex, the Opprobrium board of trustees suggested I give the band a ring and inquire about their spring gardening activities.
	www.matador.recs.com /bands/bardo/opprob.html (2029 words)

	Artist Bigography. ATP Recordings - All Tomorrow's Parties Festival - Official Website
		Over the years, Bardo Pond have morphed into a unit with a singular vision, allowing for a wide range of sounds while pushing the furthest extremes of experimentation.
		Bardo Pond, however, are the skilled abstract expressionists of rock; from their violent, discordant gestures comes an art of immense maturity and inexplicable beauty.
		BardoÕs patented, distortion-sequestered euphony is now fortified with even more layers of otherworldly guitar from the hands of John and Michael Gibbons, as well as beautiful, extended susurrations from Isobel Sollenberger's voice and flute.
	www.atpfestival.com /atp_recordings/artist_biography.php?view=21 (1301 words)

	Matador Records \| Bardo Pond
		Dilate, the fifth Bardo record, is titled in their tradition of using a drug reference as a title.
		The new Bardo Pond album Dilate’; is an absolute monster no matter what format you’re talking about, but happy shoppers choosing the vinyl edition over the CD will be rewarded with an extra, otherwise unavailable track.
		Bardo Pond are continuing work on their new Matador album, tentatively scheduled for early 2001.
	matadorrecords.com /bardo_pond (791 words)

	Bardo Pond + Tom Carter - 4/23/03 (Three Lobed)
		With their self released jams/sketches CDRs, Bardo Pond seems to have honed their improvisational abilities to a fine tuned machine.
		Throughout, Tom's playing is generally distinct amid the glacial mass of Bardo, with his signature ebowed and ringing guitar, free of effects.
		This is a very special record in which both Bardo Pond and Tom Carter show themselves to be of exceptional skill in improvising interesting and exciting music, despite the inherent facelessness and repetition in droning psychedelia.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2004/bardopondcarter.shtml (532 words)

	Dive-In!
		Philly's Bardo Pond rides a tidal wave of noise on the path to enlightenment.
		Bardo Pond's rehearsal space, a dilapidated Kensington warehouse, could double as a found-art gallery.
		"Bardo means 'in between life and death,' or a place where you prepare for reincarnation," he explains.
	citypaper.net /articles/041896/article013.shtml (1718 words)

	Aquarius Records: Search Results for Keyword: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bardo Pond fans need this, also probably you want this if you're into the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Kinski, Doktor Kettu, and the like (which means you're likely a Bardo Pond fan anyway, what are we saying?).
		Hard to believe Bardo Pond has been around for over 15 years, and even harder to believe that they continue to create slab after slab of gorgeous drug soaked psychedelia far better than their more well known and more prolific psychedelic brethren.
		What also may be true is that Bardo Pond has failed to lick some frogs in a long while, and, in their sobriety, have written a particulary uninteresting blues album, albeit half-buried in their trademarked feedback haze.
	www.aquariusrecords.org /bin/newsearch.cgi/63\|25/Keyword= (2900 words)

	EvilSponge: Album: Set And Setting by Bardo Pond
		Gone is the glorious noise of the other two Bardo Pond CD's that i have.
		On earlier Bardo Pond releases, the guitars were so distorted that you weren't even sure they were guitars.
		You are beat over the head with the fact that Bardo pond are a guitar band.
	www.evilsponge.org /albums/BardoPond__Set&Setting.htm (367 words)

	bright light ! an unofficial mogwai web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		also joined bardo pond for their last song, 'tommy gun angel'.
		after driving down to dc from philadelphia, bardo pond (from philadelphia) was somewhat of a let down.
		took the stage with bardo pond's guitarist for sine wave.
	brightlight.youngteam.co.uk /eng/gig220601.php (841 words)

	Amazon.com: Lapsed: Music: Bardo Pond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To some ears Bardo Pond's free-wheeling psychedelia is nothing more than wankery, but, for those with an appreciation for sonic experimentation and noisescapes, Lapsed delivers a smothering wall of distortion, feedback and ethereal vocals.
		Bardo Pond craft sludge more pungent and thick than the dregs in the bottom of a hippy's bong.
		it's astoundingly successful music, and bardo pond is spinebending live as well...one need not be a fan of drugs or psych-rock (i am not) to enjoy this...they are one of only a few american bands i think are worthy of paying attention to...so keep your 'tortoise' and 'malkmus'...gimme some more bardo pond...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000036WL?v=glance (1011 words)

	Bardo Pond: Set and Setting --- Ink Blot Magazine
		Bardo Pond grew from the punk rock impulse to pick up some instruments and play, competence be damned.
		Bardo Pond took nearly two years to get this record out, but it was time well spent, as the result combines aspects of the band's trademark sound with successful forays into unknown territory.
		Anyone who has ever experienced Bardo Pond in concert already knows that they're capable of generating an almost suffocating density, but on "Again" they wed that power to unprecedented velocity.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/BardoPond_Setting.htm (309 words)

	Splendid E-zine: at a glance reviews - October 18, 1999
		Bardo Pond create dense, multidimensional tapestries of interwoven guitar noise, held in place by a rickety structure of threadbare rock and roll melody.
		Listening to an entire Bardo Pond album is rather like the aftermath of a gin bender that leaves you lying on your front lawn during a thunderstorm -- a slightly alarming, frequently thrilling sensory overload that's heavy with electrifying potential.
		Despite their relatively relaxed compositional form, Set and Setting seems like the most concise Bardo Pond album to date; the music reaches extremes of sound and feeling, bouncing around angrily at the end of its tether but never breaking free into chaos.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/oct-18-99/aag.html (1947 words)

	Bardo Pond: Set and Setting - PopMatters Music Review
		The first song on Bardo Pond's 1997 album Lapsed, "Tommy Gun Angel," is one of my favorites, the perfect combination of melody and chaos.
		On Set and Setting, Bardo Pond continue to create sounds that beg to be listened to in a rowboat on the moors in England.
		Continuing in their tradition of weird and simple layout, Bardo Pond include some pseudo-hallucinatory images no doubt meant to evoke a peyote-induced vision of rock 'n' roll.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/bardopond-set.shtml (297 words)

	Bardo Pond: Dilate (2001): Reviews
		Dilate proves that the members of Bardo Pond keep finding ways to reinvent their sound, surpassing themselves each time they do.
		On Dilate, Bardo Pond does the trick by adding a bit of restraint and space to its familiar blend of Iommi-grade riffing, volume-induced overtones and Isobel SOllenberger's inimitably blasted moan.
		Bardo Pond have become equally adept at making hearts and heads ache.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/bardopond/dilate (325 words)

	Bardo Pond - Dilate (Matador)
		The bio for Bardo Pond's new album Dilate consists of a one page photocopy of big magic marker writing that says: "This album fucking rocks." That statement sums up the album very well.
		It's the perfect marriage of their last two album's opening tracks, "Tommy Gun Angel" and "Walking Stick Man," by combining thick school-of-Sabbath riffs and chords that have nearly lost their tonal qualities under the weight of distortion the brothers Gibbons are so fond of piling on their guitar's sound.
		However, the songs all maintain their footing in the world of Bardo Pond.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2001/bardopond3.shtml (458 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Bardo Pond
		Like most of its ilk, this Philadelphia quintet defies the video era's short-attention-span format with drawn-out, undulating jams that require the listener to exert a fair amount of effort in order to stay afloat amidst the waves of crashing sound.
		Not that Bardo Pond is entirely unfair about it; the band does throw out a tow line in the form of the ravishingly pretty flute melodies conjured up by primary vocalist Isobel Sollenberger.
		In a clever (but not altogether surprising) titling move, the quintet borrowed the Latin name of the hallucinogen-secreting Colorado River toad for Bufo Alvarius, an album that's every bit as synapse-destroying as its namesake.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=bardo_pond (164 words)

	Bardo Pond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Welcome to the psychedelic underground, where self-indulgence, volume, and torrents of guitar noise wash your eardrums in an expanse of textural bliss.
		Philadelphia's Bardo Pond deliver an exorcism of sorts via billowing, effects-laden sonic canvases from guitarist brothers Michael and John Gibbons.
		(Bardo Pond headline upstairs at the Middle East this Wednesday, November 19.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/97/11/13/OTR/BARDO_POND.html (95 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Bardo Pond + Tom Carter *
		After all, both the Philadelphian quintet Bardo Pond and San Francisco-based guitarist Tom Carter have issued plenty of music on limited-run CD-Rs.
		Bardo Pond, whose regular releases on Matador and ATP have mined murky rock riffage for psychedelic gold, have done this sort of thing before.
		It’s often hard to tell his contributions from those of the Pond’s two guitar players, John and Michael Gibbons, especially on the ensuing ghostly 20-minute epic.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1617 (433 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Big Fish, Big (Bardo) Pond
		On Nov. 10, Bardo Pond came to Cambridge and filled the Middle East with bodies and with sound.
		Thus, as expected, Bardo Pond's songs were indeed long and trippy; on Wednesday night most lasted close to ten minutes.
		So it was sad that at the pinnacle of energy for the show, it all came to a stop--a big disappointment for both an energetic band and the audience that came to see them.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=98611 (675 words)

	Bardo Pond - "Cypher Documents I" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Essentially a collection of tracks otherwise available only on the Bardo Pond website as MP3 files, Cypher Documents I is the first installment in a series that will collect studio recordings released in a variety of media, including singles and compilations.
		The other tracks are generally shorter, tighter and less free form, but of course all the Pond trademarks are there: the monolithic approach to mixing, unintelligible vocals, relentlessly grinding guitars, and the overload rumble of bass.
		There are times of course when the sheer sonic bulk of a Bardo Pond disc is simply too overwhelming - sort of like experiencing metal fatigue in an isolation tank, but then such excesses can be both a vice and a virtue.
	www.aural-innovations.com /issues/issue31/bardo02.html (433 words)

	Internet Archive: Bardo Pond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bardo Pond Live at Mill Creek Tavern on 2003-11-22
		Bardo Pond Live at The Metro on 2000-10-07
		On January 3, 2004, Bardo Pond gave permission for shows to be hosted at the Archive.
	www.archive.org /details/BardoPond (367 words)

	Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Reviews - Albums - Bardo Pond: Dilate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		History clearly shows this was not to be Bolan's fate (he transformed himself into the glam-rock icon T-Rex), yet it did leave the conscientious music listener to wonder if a solo artist or band could pull off such a feat.
		The influence of Eastern philosophy also shines strongly throughout their catalogue (the word "bardo" is taken from the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," being the name of the place where the soul arrives upon its corporal self dying).
		With songs like the beautifully structured "Two Planes," the Pygmalion-era Slowdive-esque "Sunrise," and the captivating "Swig," it is clear Bardo Pond were not on any flight of fancy when deciding on the direction of this album.
	www.hearsay.cc /reviews/albums/04-08-05-01/BardoPond.html (262 words)

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		Bardo Pond: Isabel Sollenberger (vocals, violin); John Gibbons (guitar, synthesizer, percussion); Michael Gibbons (guitar, synthesizer); Clint Takeda (guitar, bass); Dan Wittels (harmonica); Joe Culver, Ed Farnsworth (drums).
		It`s not every disc that gives you the privilege of hearing the recording equipment that it was made with disintegrate into a pile of un-recyclable dust.
		Kicking up a ferocious din that often dissolves into white noise, Bardo Pond induces an otherworldly state on the border of bliss and terror.
	www.overstock.com /sm-bardo-pond-set-and-setting--pg-PROFRAME_pi-286489_ti-82125.html (296 words)

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