Eleven Pond
Bas Relief
Label | Dark Entries – DE-001 |
Format | Vinyl, Album, LP, Reissue, Remastered, Repress |
Barcode | 0794811515784 |
Country | US |
Released | 19 Jul 2024 |
Genre | Electronic, Pop |
Style | New Wave, Synth-pop, Minimal, Darkwave |
A1 | Tear And Cinnamon | |
A2 | Watching Trees | |
A3 | Days Hence | |
A4 | Tightrope | |
A5 | Portugal | |
B1 | Asterisk | |
B2 | Moving Nowhere | |
B3 | Changing Face | |
B4 | Temporeal | |
B5 | Ignorant Father | |
B6 | Ask (Jealousy) |
Bass, Drum Programming, Keyboards, Vocals – Jeff Gallea
Electric Guitar – Jack Schaefer
Engineer – D. Fletcher Wood
Percussion – Paj Coscole (A4, A5)
Percussion – Tim Masik (A3, B6)
Photography By – Christian Elgvin
Photography By – Mika Williams
Producer – Eleven Pond
Remastered By – Anne-Marie Suenram
Synthesizer, Sampler [Samples], Vocoder, Melodica – Dan Brumley
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – James Tabbi
Fourth edition with dark blue stripes on front of jacket
Recorded and mixed at The Hamster Cage, Rochester, New York
Recorded live to two track
From the label's Bandcamp page:
"Dark Entries celebrates its 15th anniversary by returning to where it all started, our initial darkest entry: Eleven Pond’s masterpiece Bas Relief, an ultra-obscure album from 1986 that would become a definitive dark pop holy grail. Eleven Pond was James Tabbi (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jeff Gallea (drum machine, synthesizer, vocals), Jack Schaeffer (guitar) and Dan Brumley (synthesizer, samples, vocoder, melodica). They met in Rochester, NY, while attending art school, brought together by their shared love of 4AD and Factory Records. Taking cues from acts like Joy Division, Fad Gadget, and For Against, Eleven Pond’s infectious basslines, churning guitar riffs, and atmospheric synths will charm all fans of moody music. But what really makes Bas Relief shine is the timeless songwriting on classics like “Tear and Cinnamon”, “Portugal”, and the anthemic “Watching Trees.”
With only 500 copies in it’s initial release, Bas Relief resurfaces with a fresh remaster that corrects a pitch shift from previous reissues. Each copy is housed in a screen printed jacket, like the 1986 edition, and includes a lyric sheet, two postcards and a bookmark. Bas Relief is a true lost relic of the cold 80’s and an essential piece Dark Entries history."
Matrix / Runout (Side B (etched)) – DE-001 B RE1 43895.2... AMS
Barcode (sticker on plastic) – 794811515784
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