Description
Label: Dark Entries – DE-001
Format: Vinyl, Album, LP, Reissue, Remastered, Repress
Country: US
Released:19 Jul 2024
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, Minimal, Darkwave
Tracklist:
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)
Credits:
Artwork – Jeff Gallea
Bass, Drum Programming, Keyboards, Vocals – Jeff Gallea
Electric Guitar – Jack Schaefer
Engineer – D. Fletcher Wood
Percussion – Paj Coscole (tracks: A4, A5), Tim Masik (tracks: A3, B6)
Photography By – Christian Elgvin, Mika Williams
Producer – Eleven Pond
Remastered By – Anne-Marie Suenram
Synthesizer, Sampler [Samples], Vocoder, Melodica – Dan Brumley
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – James Tabbi
Notes:
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."
PW 12
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Matrix / Runout (Side A (etched)): DE-001 A RE1 43895.1 (3)... AMS
Matrix / Runout (Side B (etched)): DE-001 B RE1 43895.2 (3)... AMS
£25.00