Amanita (25th Anniversary)

25th anniversary of Bardo Pond’s long out-of-print second album and label debut, ‘Amanita’, with a newly remastered 2LP reissue.

Formed in 1991, the Philadelphia-based quintet have spent some thirty years mapping guitar music’s outer limits – dialling 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 line-up 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.