VIA PRESS RELEASE | Somewhere between the Dilate album in 2001 ( “a combination of Kyuss and Spacemen 3” NME, with a “looser, more spontaneous feel” Pitchfork) and On the Ellipse in 2003 (“Nowhere is feedback more melancholic, more emotive, than that fashioned by Bardo Pond. And their misty depths have never been more tempting than here and now.” Brainwashed), Bardo Pond transcended into a mantra-like, multi-layered, cross-dimensional, wah wah powered nirvana.
In some circles, they say, spaceships wafted them away and they only returned some-time later, mind-altered and bedraggled, ears ringing. But that is the stuff of supposition.
As we already know, there is no “off” switch on Bardo Pond, they are never knowingly unplugged. Indeed, the modal evolution of their sound continues unabated and, in 2002 in the chasm between albums, they beget the third in the band’s series of limited-edition releases showcasing jam sessions and other miscellany, a trippier trip, postcards from where are super rare.
This sonorous sojourn now appears for the first time on vinyl. It’s part three of their succinctly named Volume series, an unbridled miasma that led to comments in the Village Voice: “Sublimely dissonant psych-smear.”
Double LP Volume 3 is set for release on 10th March on Fire Records.
