BARDO POLLND

This is impossible.
I love this band so so so so much. I've seen them live maybe a half-dozen times. I love them. I haven't even heard all of these records due to my format prejudice, but i have never heard a bad record by this band.

BIG LAUGHING JYM

I have literally never seen a copy of this. Reissue time.

It was the first Bardo album I owned! Pretty lowfi iirc.

(all my cd's were stolen out of my car senior year in high school. Pretty sure Big Jym was a casualty)

dilate. not real picky when it comes to these dudes tho

I have BLJ. (It's OOP? Explains why there's a new copy going for $50 on Amazon (used for $9 though).) Except for "Dragonfly," not much memorable on it.

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Set & Setting or On The Ellipse for me...

I'd vote for the "LSD POND" thing they did with LSD March if I could.

not going to vote because I haven't heard many of these, but Ticket Crystals was what stuck with me. the only one I still play with any regularity. haven't been able to get into the s/t either.

Leaving aside the early cassettes, I've heard ALL but 2-4 of these. (Also own LSD Pond, and a fistful of side/affiliated projects.)

thats a lot of albums

You're telling me.

oh man just saw this poll

gotta go dilate as hearing "two planes" as my first bardo pond tune just totally did my head in, instant fan for life. agree the hash jar tempo and lsd pond releases are worthy & missing. likewise w/ the tom carter collaborative live thing. used to have the prairie dog flesh, vapour theories, 500mg stuff too but then sold it. i think i had like 25+ bardo things on my shelf. went a bit overboard there for a while!

ahh dont forget -- alasehir/alumbrados, those are pretty good too

went a bit overboard there for a while!

Makes sense to go overboard with Bardo, hah. You got me beat, too: I only have 19 Bardo-related things on my shelf.

There's no Cypher Documents either, and that's straight up real Bardo. :(

(19 not counting various boots I have hidden everywhere.)

voting Lapsed and only own four albums, all from the mid 90's. need to listen to the new one.

These guys should win an Album of the Year Grammy.

I voted for the wrong one. :(

Of course they're all great, but a curveball vote for me this poll - 'Ticket Crystals'

Wtf is up w people in this thread? New one is great. Fantastic, even. Making me regret once again not voting in the past end-of-year poll.

its great. just ignore leee..

Right on Algie!

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I thought Lapsed would walk this

set and setting is the one i heard first and probably still my fav

4 votes for the new one is kind of a shocker! who else voted for it???

i did. i don't know their catalogue real well—a couple-few of the late-90s ones that i heard then (ok) or revisited in recent years (to better effect), recent ones like 'peri' that i enjoyed a lot, and the new one. they've always struck me as pretty awesome when they're awesome and not-quite-heavy-or-messed-up-enough when not, a little inconsistent at what i was getting from them, but lately they've been more satisfying to me and the new one seemed to really hit a zone even on the kinds of songs i would have been impatient with in the past.

i think it's partly a drums and bass thing—have they sorted out their rhythm section a little better now?

sounds like i rly need to hear the new one!

have they sorted out their rhythm section a little better now?

God, I hope not.

P4k gave it a 6.5, which really got on my nerves...I dunno enough about them either but I think you're right j, the new one hits a sweet spot and stays there...

still love the new one, but if I had the chance, I would change my vote to "Set and Setting"

solid line-up for lucky nyers

http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/2255

that show is so goddamn early i'm gonna miss mtns & pond because of work. love metal mountains; one of my fave bands at the moment.

I guess you're also gonna miss Guided By Voices, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees, Eleanor Friedberger and Spectre Folk who are all playing different shows that night.

Busy weekend.

i would rather see bardo pond than all those, although god bless robert pollard

I would too probably, that weekend is crazy though. Not to mention this Oneida thang:

http://enemyhogs.com/site/index.php?id=365

good interview w/ one of the Bardo guys on altered zones -

http://alteredzones.com/posts/1398/artist-profile-bardo-pond

jason kourkounis is a monster

their latitudes release from last month, yntra, is unbelievable

wtf didn't even know about this, RIP their web presence.

Don't even know how I can pick up their last vol. CD-R!

seriously this is really great vintage stuff

http://blog.southern.com/2012/09/bardo-pond-grace-us-with-a-divine-latitudes-session/

i listened to the first 2 tracks on youtube. its really really good so far

two great (relatively) straightforward rock songs then a twenty minute hawkwind meltdown makoto kawabata would give his left nut to have been part of

I would've voted Ticket Crystals, but I'm hardly a completist.

Who's the lead vox on the second track of the new one?

I don't know why it's taking me so long to get into these monster freakout jams now, but I'm finally digging on "A Crossing" now.

Man, Ticket Crystals sounding so good this morning. "destroying Angel" is my favorite Bardo Pond song right now. Isobel's voice reminds me of a (relatively) more tuneful Toody Cole, and when the flute comes in and you think it's just another vocal track at first, it's seriously a Fripp-guitar-solo-on-"Hammond Song" kinda moment

it's definitely small, yeah
also the sat nite show is being billed as Alumbrados?

Alumbrados is going to be skronkier!

I've only seen Bardo Pond once, sadly, but it was a great show. Big oceanic waves of titan hippie groove

i love this band

i kind of forget about how much i love them

Dang, Saturday night in Chicago is going to be a tough one!! I guess I'll figure it out.

under the pines is killer

More of the same, yes? (Would totally be down with that, btw.)

yeah except no super-long jams

it's the closest thing to a pop album they've ever released, and it totally works

I think it's great though I must admit I never heard the last couple

the 'acid guru temple' thing from last year is worth your time

Oh yeah, that's a jam, thanks for reminding me to buy it though!

Listening to the new on Spotify -- I swear I've seen "Crossover" on an old compilation or EP.

"Crossover" appeared in set-lists in early 2016. Any earlier?

Listened to Under the Pines again and I'm not feeling it. HOWEVER, Curanderos (I guess an EP?) is exactly my kind of jam.

curanderos is really good

yeah it is. took me way too long to listen but now oh man

there is a god

http://thekey.xpn.org/2017/11/20/bardo-pond-kailash/

Too short!

power children

And I will

Scaruffi:

Bardo Pond (2010) is a good display of both what they do best (the avalanche-like 13-minute The Stars Behind) and not so well (the self-indulgent 21-minute Undone).

Does he have ears? A heart, even?

Big Laughing Jym reissued: https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/big-laughing-jym

Two long-form, single-track, CD-only albums being reissued by Three Lobed: https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/adrop-circuit-viii

Circuit VIII is good!

This arrived today, listening now, its great! Circuit VIII is indeed a monster, and the pressing sounds great. I missed these releases the first time around, glad they got this reissue

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL0N8nCdf2g

Previously unreleased track from Amanita, which is getting a deluxe reissue

https://thekey.xpn.org/2021/04/01/bardo-pond-amanita/?s=09

I thought it sounded like something from their early catalog!

I had no idea that they did this NTS thing SEVEN years ago: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/bardo-pond-live-in-session-22nd-september-2014

Amanita remaster has a couple bonus tracks, and "Clean Sweep" sounds like Pixies x AMT.

They really dialed up the skronk on these two tracks.

gotta check those out

been really into the s/t 2010 album (fucking amazing!) and revisiting their early stuff lately, such a great great band.

They rule

A track that I just realize I loved is "Chance" on Peace on Venus, such a great balance of crushing noise and pretty, floating flute melodies.

Volume 9 out! I was a little bit worried having not heard new material in a long time (though this is stuff recorded from 2000).

Anyway, it's on the sedate side, but "War is Over, Part 2" is really something.