Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

saw them live a year or so back and they didn't do that

i have seen them twice and both times they played recognizable versions of songs from their albums, with a little bit of stretching out and riffing. i think both times they also played with horn players that they weren't touring with, but had hooked up with for the night.

they have songs. sometimes they have one long song. sometimes they have more than one.

first time i saw them it was this great shuffly riff for the whole thing. i thought it was boring so started to leave and by the time i'd made my way out of the crowd thought it was rad, like a trio playing something off angels & demons at play.

second time i saw them they played songs and it was boring and maudlin.

yeah, i heard the record (admittedly on computer speakers @ work) before i left and went "eh" - definitely my fault, though; on computer speakers it sounds like a lot of nothing

my friend figured it was a screw-you to mbv for overrunning; otoh i preferred their screw-you set to any way i can imagine them not playing like that. there was no singing, which maybe helped.

no singing? that's kinda odd

i saw them at pitchfork and they kinda did that one riff thing, although they came on super late and i thought were quite obviously high as hell; moving slowly and laughing alot. and shineywater's vox was processed so echoey you totally couldn't understand anything he was saying. but if you listen to the record all the songs have a similar type riff, so that may be why . . . also they had a dude on the 'bone iirc. i enjoyed what there was of it. and they do segues nicely adding to the effect of one song vibe.

I've only ever heard these guys off a recordeding of their set straight after their set at ATP a week ago, in the chalet, drinking lots of tequila, it sounded fantastic.

no 'bone or other horn

mister craig can you confirm there was no singing? i was pretty out of it at that point. and the first night i was convinced mbv weren't singing until someone made me actually look at their mouths

"dude on the 'bone" @ Pitchfork = Jeb Bishop, he of Vandermark's groups, solo work, and just all around bad-ass on that thing. Yeah, that was a great set, actually the first time I had even heard a note of BBML! I became an immediate fan, went out and bought all the records. I actually DO NOT remember it as a one-note affair at all. I mean, the songs were LOOOONG, they jammed (and yeah, they were totally stoned), but they certainly transitioned between certain tracks on that s/t Matador LP. Awesome set.

I actually talked to Jeb at some point last year after that set, and he said it was all improvised, he hadn't practiced with them at all. Not that that'd be too hard for a master like him, it's essentially two-chord vamps .. still cool that he just kinda got up there last minute and jammed with them

Saw them last year at the Hideout touring 'Motion to Rejoin' and this time *I* was the stoned one, so have vague / weird memories of the night. But i'm positive that it was rad.

it seems that nathan and rachel have broken up? and he's replaced her.

On the eve of Brightblack Morning Light’s first Australian tour, founder Nathan Shineywater has announced that this will be the last Brightblack Morning Light tour and the debut of his new musical identity, Berry Shadows.

The new project Berry Shadows finds our man Shineywater deep in “freak” exploration and psychedelic spirit anthems. The first unofficial Berry Shadows shows took place in 2009 in San Francisco and Humboldt County, California, opening for Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions. Berry Shadows will soon be working and recording with Hope Sandoval; look out for a collaborative release between Mistletone Records and Hearted Hand Limited.

Brightblack Morning Light (formerly known as Brightblack and previously, rainYwood, and now moving towards the new incarnation of Berry Shadows) is a band based in New Mexico, specialising in permutations of folk rock and psychedelic music; the work of ND Shineywater and an ever-changing & rotating touring party of old friends & new friends who enjoy what they do. Recording their debut in 2005 for Matador Records, Brightblack Morning Light toured with Os Mutantes, Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom, and more recently with My Bloody Valentine and Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions. Their slow-motion, blissed out, shamanistic music is unforgettable and hypnotic: think lush, sensual, woozy soundscapes tinged with soul, blues, gospel and other southern sounds harking back to Shineywater’s Alabama roots.

For this tour Brightblack Morning Light will consist of Shineywater with accompanist Danielle Stech-Homsy (keyboards/vocals) who will also perform a solo set as Rio en Medio.

http://mistletone.net/news/brightblack-morning-light-as-berry-shadows/

Yet, after two Brightblack Morning Light albums – their eponymous 2006 debut and 2008’s excellent aural opiate, Motion to Rejoin, the latter recorded using power from just four solar panels – Shineywater is retiring BBML. His new magic carpet is called Berry Shadows, featuring recording guests including Hope Sandoval. So this tour will be the last outing for BBML and minus the co-founder, Rachael Hughes. Instead Shineywater and his flotilla of souped-up vintage keyboards will be joined by accompanist Danielle Stech-Homsy (aka Rio en Medio) and Sioux percussionist, Cannupa.

”Rachael is not jammin’ much any more,” Shineywater says. ”She was on the road for, like, eight years and she decided it was time to hang out with her family in New Orleans for a while and I thought that was groovy. I’ve been staying on the road ’cause I keep getting invited to do things.”

these guys have the illest rhythm sections

I played a show with these guys last year in which Nathan rigged an artificial tree with mics and metal sheets that he banged with a mallet. The sound guys hated him, but damn did it sound cool.

Standard-issue hippie lib-kid entitlement.

guess this thread was before J0rdan's persona got fully defined

I really like these guys

liked, you mean? they're no more iirc.

I'm sorry, I should have tried to be more specific. I absolutely should have said I REALLY LIKE LISTENING TO THESE GUYS

xp really? i never heard that.

i was actually looking for double-confirmation. somewhere upthread it's mentioned that the band broke-up (no hard feelings, it seems: one member looks like she retired; the other member looks like he has a new band).

they're no more iirc.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, November 15, 2010 11:13 AM

i guess i hate em now

you like reggae

haha

they're no more iirc.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, November 15, 2010 11:13 AM

i guess i hate em now

― am0n

lol. good, they deserve it.

should i hate reggae too since its no more

YES

you should also hate big-band, jitterbug, and disco.

maxreacts

thought this might be a death revive

Death has their own thread

sorry shakey, i didn't mean to set your death alarm off for no reason

death is a "their"?

they're a black punk band from the mid-70s whose sole eponymous album was recently reissued

and there IS a thread, but I can't find it

Since it's probably the best rock record that's going to come out this year: Death (detroit proto punk not metal band) - "...For The Whole World To See" Thread

That Death album is totally, completely overrated

Standard-issue hippie lib-kid entitlement.

― buzza, Monday, November 15, 2010 2:27 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

guess this thread was before J0rdan's persona got fully defined

― buzza, Monday, November 15, 2010 2:34 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

??????

seriously gershy your insistence that everyone on ilx is either a sock or had some previous persona is really bizarre & just an extreme level of paranoia that i wouldn't necessarily call "healthy"

wait buzza is gershy? lol I always learn about this shit like 20,000 years after everybody else including Tuomas has figured it out

talk about an unmasking!

lol I have no idea who anybody is for the most part

i think we have reached the ultimate in needing a break from ilx

why would i of all ppl be "fuckfuckingfuckedfucker" -- do you have a wheel of well known ilxors that you spin or something?

I have no idea who anybody is for the most part

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier)

yeah. for about a week now, until i just read the paranthetical, i thought you were whiney g. weingarten.

I thought underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned was gershy

2 posts not related at all

first c&p was "lol @ this"

2nd was observation that i never saw you post on anything even vaguely related to this kind of music

was not implying you were that poster??

yeah that would be v v out of character

i could do "maybe that's not really him ; )" if u want tho

fair enough -- but also i only have one post itt about dude having stupid views?

i thought http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif was http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif