Bardo Pond
News: Matador to give a quarter-century repress to Bardo Pond’s classic ‘Amanita’; hear the previously unreleased ‘Shadow Puppet’
AS PART of its continuing sifting of absolute gems already in the catalogue, Matador has announced its marking the quarter-century of Bardo Pond’s none-more-hallucinogenic debut for the label (and the band’s sixth overall, by a Discogs reckoning), Amanita, will be getting an empurpled and deluxe anniversary edition pressing, out October 8th. Good news for major …
Track: Bardo Pond / Major Stars – This Inner light / S.L.T. split single
Its something of a coup for Chunklet Industries that they’ve managed to get two of the longest-standing (and best) noise/psych bands on the planet to release a split single. Both bands are touring with Chunklet’s own Henry Owings in a run of US dates that takes in Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Bardo Pond’s track is …
Say Psych: New Music, FOR NEPAL
Although the earthquake in Nepal has largely disappeared from our consciousness, the cleanup operation and reconstruction is continuing and life is still far from being back to normal. Thom Betteny of Sheffield’s Evil Hoodoo Records has spent some of that intervening time putting together a record in support of this very worthy course. Thom has put …