Track Listing
1. Limerick
2. Sentence
3. Tantric Porno
4. Wank
5. High Frequency
6. Sometimes Words
7. Yellow Turbin
8. Rumination
9. Be A Fish
10. Tapir Song
11. RM
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Bardo Pond, J. Cox | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | PIAS UK/Sony DADC | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Bardo Pond: Michael Gibbons, Clint Takeda, Isobel Sollenberger, Joe Culver, John Gibbons.Recorded at Studio Red, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Bardo Pond ups the dosage considerably on AMANITA. The Philadelphia band's third album is also its first studio-recorded production. And what a difference the studio makes! As great as the basement-tapes of BUFO ALVARIUS are, the shockingly brilliant AMANITA reveals a depth and maturity at which all earlier efforts only hinted."Limerick," AMANITA's monumental opener, has a dense, intricate arrangement that can be peeled apart to expose all the elements of the Bardo Pond sound. The knotted feedback trails of John and Michael Gibbons' guitars and tendrils of vocalist Isobel Sollenberger's phantasmal flute radiate from a nucleus of tantric bass (Clint Takeda). The quiet fury of "Rumination," the temerity of "Wank," the introspective mood of "Be a Fish," and the climactic unwindings of "RM" all stem from this atomic core. And when the Gibbons brothers weave the coils and braided filigree of "Tantric Porno," "The Tapir Song," and "Yellow Turban," they rival the lysergic majesty of such legendary forebears as Ash Ra Tempel or the transcendental gut-punch of Keiji Haino's formidable Fushitsusha.
Editorial Reviews
...the lysergic outbursts of very early Pink Floyd and Amon Duul II, and the ebb and flow of Sonic Youth's howling guitar harmonics. Yet the luxuriant texture and rubbery tension of Bardo Pond's milky corrosion can suck you in like quicksand...
Rolling Stone (12/26/1996)
5 (out of 5) - ...dual-guitars...ear-tricking tone clusters and mesmerizing bass plunges...
Alternative Press (06/01/1996)
...the lysergic outbursts of very early Pink Floyd and Amon Duul II, and the ebb and flow of Sonic Youth's howling guitar harmonics. Yet the luxuriant texture and rubbery tension of Bardo Pond's milky corrosion can suck you in like quicksand...
Rolling Stone (12/26/1996)
...the lysergic outbursts of very early Pink Floyd and Amon Duul II, and the ebb and flow of Sonic Youth's howling guitar harmonics. Yet the luxuriant texture and rubbery tension of Bardo Pond's milky corrosion can suck you in like quicksand...Alternative Press (6/96, p.69) - 5 (out of 5) - ...dual-guitars...ear-tricking tone clusters and mesmerizing bass plunges...
Rolling Stone (12/26/1996)
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