Bardo Pond - No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki 2LP xx2016 Bill Fay has always sung

Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature

a remote farmhouse with a music studio made of odds and ends

Toivonen’s future appears bright with such stunning early entries in his catalog and we can’t wait to hear more

jagged guitars and primal percussion

and searching tonal and percussive interventions

Bardo Pond - No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki 2LP xx2016 Bill Fay has always sungI 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