Pond - Fate / Bullets 12" Rare Minimal Synth Electro Cold Wave Post Eleven Pond
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Description
Post "Eleven Pond" record but without Jeff Gallea. After co-songwriter and bassist/keyboardist Jeff Gallea left Eleven Pond after their highly-sought after minimal wave masterpiece "Bas Relief", the rest of the band carried on and recorded this final 12" under the shortened name Pond. A nice item to have if you're a fan of Eleven Pond, Red Violet Red, or 80's minimal synth / wave / electro.
This record was limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies (this is #310). The sleeve is silk-screened and sprayed and this copy does include the insert.
Sleeve is in EX-/VG++ shape. Very, very slight edge wear. There is a few small pen looking marks/lines on the cover, so I checked my spare copy of this one and it contained the same marks. You can also see these marks on other copies (images available at http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2057616 and http://goutroy.blogspot.com/2009/09/eleven-pond-bullets-fate-12.html).
Vinyl is in EX shape as well, doubt if it was played before I stuck it on the turntable one time and it sounded great (contained no pops or notable surface noise).
The blog "A Viable Commercial" writes about this release:
"I was at my favorite local record store and noticed an album that looked oddly familiar. It was the same rough tan cardboard as the Eleven Pond LP. It was silkscreened. It was hand-numbered. The font was almost the same. And the band's name was POND... The credit insert confirmed what I was thinking: this is a pretty much completely unknown follow up to Eleven Pond's extremely sought after (and now reissued!) LP. After co-songwriter and bassist/keyboardist Jeff Gallea left the band (amidst quite a bit of tension, apparently), the rest of the band carried on and recorded this one last 12". I talked to Jeff at the Nina Belief/Ronin show at MRX last Saturday, and although he knew that they recorded SOMETHING, he has never even heard this! He's on better terms with his former bandmates now, and so this upload is as much for him as it is for everyone else. The 12" starts off with Bullets, which has great guitars, drums, and vocals, but the synths are quite cheesy sounding. Still, it's not bad. The song Fate, however, sounds like it could have easily have been on the Eleven Pond LP - it's just a bit more electro, and slightly better-produced, but otherwise sounds exactly like the Eleven Pond we all know and love. Plus, the lyrics and vocals are probably the best that James Tabbi ever recorded. This is a great 12" from a great band, and shows that they weren't even close to running out of ideas. One only wonders what other great music would have been recorded if they had kept it up..."
You can preview track at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMAfAVfkkMU
Pond - Fate / Bullets 12" (1988, Metamerism Records)
A1. Fate
B1. Bullets
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thanks for looking!
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