Bardo Pond - Peel SessionsAvailable on Record Store Day, 22nd April Never released material from the band's 2001 and 2004 BBC Peel Sessions, a unique insight into the bands development. Bardo Pond let it all go in their ideal live setting, morphing and expanding their beautiful drone rock compositions. Artwork designed and created by Michael Gibbons of the band, this also includes a full album download.

solo guitar work

It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself

Live band members like vocalist Jo-Anne Hyun (later replaced by Isabella Mingione) and drummer Brian Alvarez would stop by and work their magic on the recordings

is added to this reissue

and up front

She tackles that struggle directly in the moody single “Quicksand

repetitive clapping

and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony

he travelled to India where he studied classical Kathakali dance— an experience that would profoundly shape the music of Flaming Tunes

the sessions are being hailed as among the very best work in the Hayes discography

Indeed the band found they had to stop themselves running too far ahead in order to document this album in a way that felt as truthful as possible

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