Bardo Pond: Amanita (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP

“Matador Records celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bardo Ponds long out-of-print second album and label debut, Amanita, with a newly remastered 2xLP reissue. Formed in 1991, Philadelphias Bardo Pond have spent some thirty years mapping guitar musics outer limits dialing into extremes of noise, chaos, and harmony in free-form compositions that now unfurl across 12 full-length records and a near-limitless body of EPs, cassettes, and CD-Rs Recorded by the lineup of John Gibbons (guitar), Michael Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (voice, flute), Clint Takeda (bass), and Joe Culver (drums), Amanita is the place where the bands spontaneous collective creativity blazed into maturity. ‘Amanita was a manifesto of everything we were trying to do,’ says Michael Gibbons. ‘It was really a template for everything we did later. We were a real unit just so creative, just making up riffs. There were songs, but they were still rooted in our free-improv base. We had a beauty, but we also had a really strong impulse to be dissonant’.” – Matador

• Philadelphia space rock band’s 1996 sophomore album
• purple colored double vinyl pressing
• first time on vinyl in 25 years
• remastered audio
• house in gatefold sleeve
• limited edition
• music label: Matador 2021