{"id":451,"date":"2014-03-25T01:57:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T01:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-03-25T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:15:18","slug":"out-now-refulgo-three-lobed-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"OUT NOW > REFULGO < COMPILATION OF EARLIEST RARE RELEASES, THREE LOBED RECORDINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/a0526924016_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-452\" alt=\"a0526924016_10\" src=\"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/a0526924016_10-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/a0526924016_10-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/a0526924016_10-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/a0526924016_10-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bardopond.bardopond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/a0526924016_10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"pagedata\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-blob=\"{&quot;media_mode_test&quot;:false,&quot;identities&quot;:{&quot;is_band_member&quot;:false,&quot;is_fan&quot;:false},&quot;ip_location_country_code&quot;:&quot;USA&quot;,&quot;cfg&quot;:{&quot;physical_gifting&quot;:true,&quot;tralbum_login&quot;:true,&quot;physical_gifting_zip_regex&quot;:true,&quot;no_flash_uploads&quot;:true,&quot;music_grid&quot;:true,&quot;mobile_app&quot;:true,&quot;gifting&quot;:true},&quot;fan_location_country&quot;:null,&quot;is_admin&quot;:null,&quot;login_action_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/login?bounce=http%3A%2F%2Fthreelobed.bandcamp.com%2Falbum%2Frefulgo&amp;sig=f70b28b9c704abc4c6aa53e2f96c934b&amp;band_id=3790869995&amp;item_id=3379804570&amp;item_type=album&quot;,&quot;signup_action_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/fans?band_id=3790869995&amp;bounce_sig=f70b28b9c704abc4c6aa53e2f96c934b&amp;bounce_url=http%3A%2F%2Fthreelobed.bandcamp.com%2Falbum%2Frefulgo&amp;item_id=3379804570&amp;item_type=album&quot;}\"><a href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/album\/refulgo\">http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/album\/refulgo<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"centerWrapper\">\n<div id=\"propOpenWrapper\">\n<div id=\"pgBd\">\n<div id=\"customHeaderWrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"customHeader\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/f0.bcbits.com\/img\/0001653322_100.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/MusicAlbum\">\n<div id=\"name-section\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 itemprop=\"name\">Refulgo<\/h2>\n<h3>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.com\/tlr\">Bardo Pond<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"trackInfo\">\n<div id=\"trackInfoInner\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<li>\n<h3><button type=\"button\" data-pkg=\"0\">Limited Edition Gatefold Double Album<\/button><\/h3>\n<div>Record\/Vinyl<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Refulgo&#8221; is from an edition of 1060 copies and is pressed on two pieces of 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry. The album is housed within an old style Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket bearing new artwork from Bardo Pond\u2019s Clint Takeda. The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free digital files of the downloader&#8217;s choice. The material on &#8220;Refulgo&#8221; was remastered by Michael Gibbons and Patrick Klem. For more information about combination packages (pairing &#8220;Refulgo&#8221; with &#8220;Shone Like a Ton&#8221; and\/or other Bardo Pond or related titles), visit the Three Lobed website here &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.threelobed.com\/tlr\/tlr101.html\">www.threelobed.com\/tlr\/tlr101.html<\/a>Includes immediate download of 12-track album in the high-quality format of your choice (MP3, FLAC, and more), plus unlimited mobile access using the free Bandcamp listening app.<\/div>\n<div id=\"package-price-807238037\">\n<div>shipping out on or around\u00a025 March 2014<\/div>\n<div>edition of 1000<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4><button type=\"button\" data-pkg=\"0\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;\">Digital Album<\/span><\/button><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Immediate download of 12-track album in the high-quality format of your choice (MP3, FLAC, and more), plus unlimited mobile access using the free Bandcamp listening app.<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" id=\"track_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>1.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/die-easy\">Die Easy<\/a>\u00a006:51<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>2.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/apple-eye\">Apple Eye<\/a>\u00a005:58<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>3.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/dragonfly\">Dragonfly<\/a>\u00a006:04<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>4.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/blues-tune\">Blues Tune<\/a>\u00a005:48<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>5.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/trip-fuck\">Trip Fuck<\/a>\u00a006:19<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>6.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/hummingbird-mountain\">Hummingbird Mountain<\/a>\u00a005:10<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>7.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/new-drunks\">New Drunks<\/a>\u00a004:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>8.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/affa\">Affa<\/a>\u00a005:27<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>9.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/tests-for-new-swords\">Tests For New Swords<\/a>\u00a005:19<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>10.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/good-friday\">Good Friday<\/a>\u00a003:51<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>11.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/jungle-tune\">Jungle Tune<\/a>\u00a006:38<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr itemprop=\"tracks\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/MusicRecording\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div>12.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/track\/sangh-seriatim\">Sangh Seriatim<\/a>\u00a021:52<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">About &#8211;<\/h3>\n<div itemprop=\"description\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Something happens exactly two minutes and thirty-five seconds into \u201cDie Easy,\u201d the A-side of Bardo Pond\u2019s first 7\u201d, released on the long-gone Compulsiv label back in January 1994. A slurred and shambling blues take on the old Negro spiritual, \u201cI Want to Die Easy\u201d \u2014 something that still might be heard around last call at any roadside joint near any American highway \u2014 just erupts. The effect is like touching the stove. The song goes white hot, in a searing overlay of guitar feedback and ferocious percussion. The blues returns, but it is never quite the same: the drums too frenzied, the squall too thick, but the hymn is unbowed: shout salvation as I fly&#8230;That was twenty years ago.Revisiting the warhorse Philadelphia band\u2019s first cut calls to mind something that is seldom articulated: Bardo Pond make American music. Of course, one can hardly find a review or interview where they aren\u2019t being compared to British shoegaze, German krautrock, New Zealand noise, or any one of the global host of bands with whom they have shared stages across continents: Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Acid Mothers Temple. It is all so effortlessly cosmopolitan. But don\u2019t believe it. Bardo Pond make American music: like Son House made American music, like Albert Ayler made American music, like Material made American music. When pressed in interviews to rattle off their international influences, the band often talks about how Sun Ra decamped for Philadelphia in 1968 \u2014 a precedent, perhaps, for walking the spaceways while planted in the city where this republic was born.Bardo Pond\u2019s excellent 2013 Record Store Day release, Rise Above It All, made the point pretty clearly. It was comprised of covers of two masterpieces of African-American music: Funkadelic\u2019s \u201cMaggot Brain\u201d and Pharaoh Sanders\u2019s, \u201cThe Creator Has a Master Plan.\u201d With that, a band best known for thick lysergic sludge honored its unlikely debts to funk and free jazz. Cosmic slop of a different order, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Bardo Pond\u2019s new release, Refulgo, comes from the other side of their storied musical history. It collects tracks from the impossible-to-find early 7\u201ds and compilations from the years surrounding their 1995 debut Bufo Alvarius. The collection\u2019s title, Refulgo, is appropriately retrospective, coming from the Latin word for reflecting light or shining back brilliantly\u2014\u201cflash back\u201d would not be an unreasonable translation (it seems the hallucinogenic references scattered across their album titles have gotten downright scholarly). The collection documents the band in the days in which its stable lineup was just crystalizing around the brothers John and Michael Gibbons on guitars and Isobel Sollenberger on flute, violin and vocals. Bob Sentz is still playing drums on some of the early tracks, soon to be replaced by Joe Culver; and longtime bassist Clint Takeda only appears on the back half of the collection. Bardo Pond was then only just emerging from Yuengling-fueled sonic rituals in Philly row homes into a working band with steady gigs at the Khyber Pass and singles on Compulsiv and Drunken Fish. The sound they were pursuing was an uncompromising, and at times, bewitching, brand of American free music: slashing and overdriven guitars, thunderous drums, ghostly flute, infinite feedback and transported vocals that sound like mad Ophelia before she went into the river.<\/p>\n<p>Bardo Pond\u2019s early recordings are just savage; both the chops and the extraordinary control that marked the band\u2019s later output were still, it must be said, embryonic. But the recklessness is glorious, nonetheless. For all the band\u2019s talk of free jazz and no wave influences, the early Bardo Pond often got by on a kind of damaged blues. You can hear it on the almost-groove of \u201cDragonfly\u201d and even more so on the electrocuted 12-bar of its B-side, \u201cBlues Tune,\u201d originally released as a 7\u201d on Compulsiv in November 1994. The ambling \u201cNew Drunks\u201d also (from July 1995) builds on a tortured blues lick. The transcendent \u201cHummingbird Mountain\u201d is an album highlight, smearing lugubrious guitar scuzz on top on surprisingly funky drumming\u2014the bottom dances, while the top dives: the effect is almost anthemic. The prickly, addictive \u201cJungle Tune\u201d is even tighter, dispelling just enough of the murk to pass at times for positively groovy. But it is the seering, ascension of \u201cAffa\u201d (from the 1996 Ptolemaic Terrascope collection Succour) that best foreshadows the band\u2019s development into purveyors of exquisite head music. This direction is confirmed by the blissful album closer, the twenty-two minute epic \u201cSangh Seriatim,\u201d which encapsulated the droning, sun-drenched orientalism of the band\u2019s masterful sophomore album, Amanita.<\/p>\n<p>The title Refulgo is perhaps more than a little ironic, as Bardo Pond has often been seen in a reflected critical light. They were often taken for slack noiseniks a la Sonic Youth; or an American Jesus &amp; Mary Chain; or epic post-rockers like Mogwai. But really they were always simply Bardo Pond, a free rock band from Philadelphia. On Refulgo, we hear the inception of an American original.<br \/>\n\u2014Brent S. Sirota<br \/>\nJanuary 2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">credits<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">released 25 March 2014<br \/>\nContents originally released as follows:1. Die Easy (originally released as the \u201cDie Easy\u201d \/ \u201cApple Eye\u201d 7\u201d [CPS-014] by Compulsiv\u2013 January 1994)<br \/>\n2. Apple Eye (originally released as the \u201cDie Easy\u201d \/ \u201cApple Eye\u201d 7\u201d [CPS-014] by Compulsiv\u2013 January 1994)<br \/>\n3. Dragonfly (originally released as the \u201cDragonfly\u201d \/ \u201cBlues Tune\u201d 7\u201d [CPS-025] by Compulsiv\u2013 November 1994)<br \/>\n4. Blues Tune (originally released as the \u201cDragonfly\u201d \/ \u201cBlues Tune\u201d 7\u201d [CPS-025] by Compulsiv\u2013 November 1994)<br \/>\n5. Trip Fuck (originally released as the \u201cTrip Fuck\u201d \/ \u201cHummingbird Mountain\u201d 7\u201d [DPR-009] by Drunken Fish\u2013 March 1994)<br \/>\n6. Hummingbird Mountain (originally released as the \u201cTrip Fuck\u201d \/ \u201cHummingbird Mountain\u201d 7\u201d [DPR-009] by Drunken Fish\u2013 March 1994)<br \/>\n7. New Drunks (originally released on the Bardo Pond \/ Bear split 7\u201d [CHE-034] by Che \u2013 July 1995)<br \/>\n8. Affa (originally released on the \u201cSuccour\u201d compilation CD [POT CD 01 \/ FLY020] by Ptolemaic Terrascope \/ Flydaddy \u2013 September 1996)<br \/>\n9. Tests For New Swords (originally released as the \u201cTests for New Swords\u201d \/ \u201cGood Friday\u201d 7\u201d [SB62] by Siltbreeze \u2013 September 1996)<br \/>\n10. Good Friday (originally released as the \u201cTests for New Swords\u201d \/ \u201cGood Friday\u201d 7\u201d [SB62] by Siltbreeze \u2013 September 1996)<br \/>\n11. Jungle Tune (originally released on the \u201cFollowing The Bouncing Ball\u201d compilation [BING003] by Ba Da Bing! \u2013 August 1995)<br \/>\n12. Sangh Seriatim (originally released on the \u201cHarmony of the Spheres\u201d compilation [DFR25] by Drunken Fish \u2013 November 1996)All material remastered in 2013 by Michael Gibbons and Patrick Klem.<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; http:\/\/threelobed.bandcamp.com\/album\/refulgo Refulgo by\u00a0Bardo Pond Limited Edition Gatefold Double Album Record\/Vinyl &#8220;Refulgo&#8221; is from an edition of 1060 copies and is pressed on two pieces of 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry. The album is housed within an old style Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket bearing new artwork from Bardo Pond\u2019s Clint Takeda. 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