BARDO POND was formed in Philadelphia by brothers Michael and John Gibbons who where interested in making free-form noise. Joining later Clint Takeda, a friend of Michael's who was also interested in free-form music. The next two years where spent jamming together. In 1991 Takeda named the band BARDO POND named after a place in the Tibetan Book Of The Dead. They also added some new members, Isobel Sollenberg and Bob Sentz who where classmates of the Gibbons. The band have been releasing a stream of albums and EP's ever since the start and there's been some changes in the line-up ever since also. Drummer Bob Sentz left the band after releasing some self-released cassettes and was replaced by Jon Culver around 1992-93. In 1997 Jon Culver left the band after recently starting a family and was replaced by Ed Farnsworth who is now still with them ever since.

They became one of the leading bands on the Philadelphia's "Psychedelphia" space rock movement. Their style of playing is very common to the modern day Space Rock with alot of distortion, dronning guitars, white noise, feedback and reverb. Their influences are primarly from the free jazz and no wave movement of New York specially their avant-garde style of both genres. There are also influences from Space Rock bands like HAWKWIND and PINK FLOYD, Krautrock's GURU GURU, AMON DÜÜL II and ASH RA TEMPLE and also from the experimental Indie side of things, SPACEMEN 3.

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