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Bardo Pond

Bardo Pond is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3. Those roots explain a lot about how Bardo Pond arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Loop, Windy & Carl, Moonshake, Bailter Space and Spiritualized, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Guru Guru, Acid Mothers Temple and Yo La Tengo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Bardo Pond, reaching back through Pink Floyd and forward to Guru Guru. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Bardo Pond is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991. It consists of Michael Gibbons (guitar), John Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger, Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkounis (drums). Bardo Pond's music is often classified as space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegazing, noise or psychedelic rock. Some Bardo Pond album titles have been derived from the names of esoteric psychedelic substances. Their sound has been likened to Pink Floyd, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine amongst others.

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Bardo PondPink FloydMy Bloody ValentineSpacemen 3Guru GuruAcid Mothers TempleYo La TengoLoopWindy & CarlMoonshakeBailter SpaceSpiritualizedAmon Düül IIBowery ElectricMedicine

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Bardo Pond connections

Bardo Pond grew out of Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3, shares an orbit with Loop, Windy & Carl, Moonshake and Bailter Space, went on to shape Guru Guru, Acid Mothers Temple and Yo La Tengo. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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