Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

is the sanneh review online?

And Gris Gris way way way way way way better than this thing

it's by no means canonical or groundbreaking -- guess we must be really starved for something INTERESTING nowadays

I haven't heard anyone say it's groundbreaking, just a lot of "hey it's a nice record." I don't see any grand claims in the Sanneh piece either. He says they're "mesmerizing" and "quietly dazzling" ....

i know that the feathers album has been around on vinyl for nearly a couple years already, but i'm suprised that the recent cd release didn't garner some of this attention. it's really strong.

The record's nice. SOUNDS great, for sure.

non-CD track is called "Miwok Shapes" ... nice instrumental but I wouldn't sweat it

http://static.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/brightblack/brightblack_everybody_new.mp3

guh, WHAT THE FUCK IS A REAL SONG?!

that post actually makes me want to see them now. i love hippy chant shit. that mp3 is actually pretty rad.

there is also some pre-motorik motorik thing going on.

I thought the same thing. for something that has the trappings of "here we are around the campfire making shit up" the drumming is really locked-on.

xpost - yep, exactly

surprisingly/perhaps not surprisingly they band he namechecked as starting it all was my bloody valentine. and he said "rural gospel." the musicians in the band besides shineywater and hughes (elias reitz of gojogo, paz lenchantin of a perfect circle, any macleod of white magic) are all pretty accomplished and the drumming especially is tres tight. the music has deep pockets, id say its more funky than anything else.

WTF?

funky is pushing it but it is pretty groovey.

Wow, talk about something that would have ME arriving late. Or not at all.

OTM, but an even more accurate comparison, perhaps: Spiritualized's "Shine a Light."

PS I'm gravely sleep-deprived right now so pls to forgive for confessing I don't know if anything at this precise moment can excite me more than the idea of 'campfire motorik'

lemme go over to the grateful dead thread and say the same thing about "live/dead"

it's that time of year

yup

<3 this

Wish these guys were still together so I could force them to cover this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_59gKd1VJ0

wow can't believe it's been nearly 10 years since this record... they should do a deluxe reissue that comes with *TWO* pair of the cardboard glasses emblazoned with marijuana leaves!

hahs yes

Oh my god, I forgot about those glasses.

city lights
oppression
fence line
oppression

I always want to recommend La Hell Gang's "Thru Me Again" in this thread but it's really only the first two songs that have a (slightly) similar vibe. And it's definitely more rocky, especially as the album progresses into Atacama desert psych rock with a heavy Spacemen 3/Loop influence.

Strange synchronicity for this revive. I just yesterday bought the Brightblack S/T and Loop 'Gilded Eternity' CDs to jam in the car while driving around a very hot and wildfire hazy Seattle. Sounds like I need to check LA Hell Gang.

Thanks for the La Hell Gang recommendation - three tracks in and I'm sold.
https://lahellgang.bandcamp.com

Cool! And definitely check them out YL, it's good stuff.

Is anybody else into the original Rainywood recordings from 2002? Not the split with Bonny Billy but the self-released self-titled album? I'm fairly sure I downloaded them on the naturalismo blog like ten years ago, but I came across the MP3's on an old HD this week. I can't find an upload of them anywhere on google, it would be cool to throw them up onto youtube. I think I might do that.

Never heard that stuff. Was it widely released?

it's one of the few things on my discogs want list but i've never heard it.

would love to hear it

ysi?

they're easily found on slsk

i recall the 2006 album being a bit of a disappointment to me after a lot of listening to that one, though now the earlier stuff feels like a bit of an of-its-time new weird america artefact (not that i have anything against those) while the 2006 album still feels v distinct.

fondly remember seeing them play at an atp and shineywater getting increasingly irritated by the loud + inattentive audience, finally at the end going on a rant, except he still had reverb and delay all over his vocals, so who knows what he actually said.

Yeah you're right Elvis! I haven't been on slsk in a long time. You know what I still can't find? The 2010 split cassette with solo Nathan and Berry Shadows with Hope + Colm. I remembering 'preordering' that thing from Nathan via Myspace way back then and I'd say like a year later received a refund out of blue with a message that they oversold their stock, was very sad at the time. Have still held out to this day trying to avoid those x3 discogs costs :(

Live at Valley Society for the Evolutionary Arts
Brightblack Morning Light - (2006-06-17) Unitarian Meetinghouse, MA
https://archive.org/details/autonomous_battleship_collective_061706

This show—the way it was recorded, who they played with, everything about it—has always been some of my favorite BBML material. Slow and moody self-titled era songs. Mariee Sioux was sitting with them on this set. Brings back a lot of memories from college listening to this thing.

nice, thanks. I have a live recording I made of them on tour with a trombone player, I should get that out there.

Yeah man, absolutely.

Man this Rainywood stuff is good. I prefer BBL but it's great.

BBML?

I still want a dub album

cosign

khruangbin

kindred spirits

Currently blasting at the S/T cd at home and peering out at the sparkling lake with the 3D glasses on. It's BML season, friends!

Hey Sleeve, I never saw your reply about your live recording. Wow, yes please—I'd love to hear that! I am on a hunt for hearing everything BBML-related. Here I will start. Last year I finally got a copy of that Nathan Shineywater/Hope Sandoval/Colm O’Ciosoig cassette and have just uploaded it to youtube.

Side A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hze4SQ1Gp14

Side B:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uepPqRM5U

he he I have that cassette

at the time I was dissapointed it didn't sound like the album I enjoyed, but listening now sounds p cool

My favorite BML experience was years ago I was playing the CD for a friend at the end of a long summer evening of drinking. We were sitting on the back deck, my friend was wearing the glasses that came with the CD, and he was lighting cigarettes off of a citronella candle in a metal bucket that had been going all night. In the morning light I found that he had accidentally dumped a huge mess of citronella wax all over the table, which ran through the wooden table slats and hardened all over the deck. Good times.

Neal lemme work on that, I'm pretty busy atm but will try to update here when I get my shit together

ok so the song "Just One Time" by Juicy Lucy (better known as "Mary Anne" covered by Spacemen 3) really oddly reminds me of BML in some ways, especially the... what is that sound? harmonica? underblown sax? synth? and the kind of faded drumming.

underblown sax, yeah

i really miss this band. no one remotely close this warmy souplesse i get from them. also, great ppl

also, great ppl

lol what

are they bad ppl?

great fucking guys, or couple, if they're still one, more like it

from what I've heard they have broken up and things are not going so well for Nathan

Listening to the new Deradoorian album (which is great btw -- pleasantly dark/murky production, with the rhythm section pounding out motorik beats a la Stereolab) and the deep bass groove peppered with jazzy flute on the track "Devil's Market" has me reminiscing about this band :'(

It's only a little reminiscent of BML to my ears... but it is great, thanks for posting about it.

Alright here is something that should be fairly unheard. BBML's Maida Vale session for Radio 1 back in 2006, a couple months after the first LP. This also includes two interview segments spliced between their recording session. I was determined to find this after coming across a random cell phone video of them doing a soundtrack at Maida Vale, uploaded to Youtube in 2006. Was not so easy given that BBC's archive doesn't go back that far. But luckily there's folks out there archiving random DJ sets from years and years ago, had to grab the whole set and pull out just the Brightblack segments. Anyway, it's great sounding and a fun listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa9Jo5k-Rdc

one of the very few bands I keep pulling to appear higher or at all in best of 00s lists. peak vibe albums.

This sounds great - thanks for the heads-up! I did have to skip the interviews though. Needs a warning: 'contains hippies, two of them'.

On the one hand I feel like I need a hundred more albums of this music, on the other hand I don't think I ever really *listened to* "Miwok Shapes" (the final song on the s/t) until right this instant

Not saying that track is up there with their best work (it's not) just that there is plenty of listening left to do within their small discography.

So this revive inspired me to finally get off my ass and upload this live tape I made.

They played in Eugene at Sam Bond's garage in October 2006, they had a trombone player. The tape isn't great, maybe a B- as far as audience recordings go, I was a bit too far back so there's crowd noise and chatter. But hey, this is the first time I've made it available. These are FLAC files, feel free to upload on DIME or whatever since I am too lazy.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/p0wnbr26i9rerlg/Brightblack_Morning_Light_-_Sam_Bond%2527s%252C_October_2006.zip/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2h5up0udyr66v4i/Brightblack_Morning_Light_-_Sam_Bond%2527s%252C_October_2006_part_2.zip/file

Thanks Sleeve! I’m gonna delve into this tomorrow and follow up again after listening. Appreciate the heads up too in the guitar thread, take care.