Bardo Pond
Amanita 2LP (purple vinyl)

Formed in 1991, the Philadelphia-based quintet have spent some thirty years mapping guitar music’s 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 band’s 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.”

NEW / Released in 1996 / Reissue 2021

Tracklist:

A1 Limerick

A2 Sentence

A3 Tantric Porno

B1 Wank

B2 The High Frequency

B3 Sometimes Words

B4 Clean Sweep

C1 Yellow Turban

C2 Rumination

C3 Be A Fish

D1 Tapir Song

D2 Brambles

D3 RM