**TLR’s supply of black vinyl is sold through *but* there are several hundred copies reserved with our distro for indie retail. Make sure your local store orders it in and you should be set!**
Double 140g black vinyl version of the album within a gatefold jacket.
Includes unlimited streaming of No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album
A t-shirt with a most Bardo design lifted in part from elements on the "No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki" 2xLP. We are here to help fill the void in this world on Bardo Pond apparel. This version of the shirt has the design printed in a bold red on a navy colored Bella+Canvas unisex shirt to let everyone know you're a total phanatic for Bardo.
Includes unlimited streaming of No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
**TLR’s supply of green vinyl is sold through *but* there are several hundred copies reserved with our distro for indie retail. Make sure your local store orders it in and you should be set!**
Double 140g green vinyl version of the album within a gatefold jacket. From a one time edition of 661 copies.
Includes unlimited streaming of No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
I have often wondered what exactly the true roots were for Bardo Pond. For a band with such a unique sound, where did it all come from? In a recent discussion with Michael Gibbons he was quick to tell me that their earliest true influences were Sabbath, free jazz and no wave. Using these sounds as the initial seeds, the band coalesced and poked their heads out into the world and discovered the rest of what would guide them as a unit. Their early palette quickly added shades from early Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Charalambides, Spacemen 3, the entire Siltbreeze catalog, Sonic Youth, Skullflower and the Sun City Girls. The combination made from such diverse influences is what the band had in their collective head between June and December of 1993 when they recorded No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki and released it as a cassette, partially in an effort to secure more gigs. This is a snapshot of Bardo Pond in its earliest form – then a quartet consisting of Isobel Sollenberger (flute, vocals), Joe Culver (drums) and Michael and John Gibbons on guitars – crawling onto land and developing its own legs.
I like to fantasize about the room where they all played this material live. In my mind I envision pot smoke wafting throughout, possibly old area rugs on the floor. There should to be a collection of telling and ragged posters/art on the walls, maybe a living room situation, a couch and old chair. I can see curtains hanging over the windows letting in small amounts of sunlight, a lone floor lamp. Using this environment as a source, I see the quartet taking their time winding in and out of a morass of sound where a melody emerges from the dissonance converging around it, simultaneously swallowing it up and spewing it forward, Isobel’s voice being the center of this gravitational pull, the swirl that brings you in. From there one of the guitars takes off echoing the vocals while the other guitar is shimmering around from all sides, sliding and slurping with the rhythm and cymbals splashing with no hurry. This is the sound of freedom, the sound of Bardo Pond. This album contains the DNA of all their future music, from the low dirge to the sexy laid-back choking of beautiful vocals lost and found amongst wavering vibrations of rising and falling drone. Sometimes Isobel’s vocals are a guide, a way through, as in the song “Rupture”, a thing that peaks out occasionally above the dense cloud of uncertainty and psychedelic wah noise. They are there to remind you that don’t know where we’re going but that feels good. No Hashish… emanates the chaotic splendor of when a band first starts out and aren’t sure what they’re doing, that magical and best kind of energy which simply cannot be repeated. They went on with their following records to refine a special and unique form of mind expansion/explosion based on equal parts of beautiful chaos and repressed noise and you can see all of that start right here. This album is for me like all of Bardo Pond’s catalog, a cleanse of the mind and soul, a soundtrack for today’s “great resignation” and the ultimate way to turn on and on and on…
-Kim Gordon, Los Angeles 2022-
credits
released February 3, 2023
Isobel Sollenberger - vocals, flute
John Gibbons - guitar
Michael Gibbons - guitar
Joe Culver - drums
All tracks recorded at the Lemur House, Philadelphia PA between June and December 1993 except for "Earth and Sky" which was recorded live at WKDU in 1993 and "Amen" and "Candlelight" which were recorded live at the Khyber Pass in Philadelphia.
Mastered in 2022 by Carl Saff.
Originally released in a small self-released cassette edition in 1993.
Three Lobed Recordings is a boutique record label that specializes all flavors of psychedelia. The label was started in 2000 and is largely operated by cats.
bill nace's music opens worlds, open spaces. experience for yourself. please check out this one as well as "through a room" - https://billnace.bandcamp.com/album/through-a-room Three Lobed Recordings
Space rock jams get experimental and slightly evil with zoned out synths and wheezing guitar lines plus soft, sweet vocals. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 20, 2017