― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 22 July 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Saturday, 22 July 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/brightblack/brightblack_everybody_new.mp3
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 22 July 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Saturday, 22 July 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Saturday, 22 July 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Saturday, 22 July 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 23 July 2006 02:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 23 July 2006 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Sunday, 23 July 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 23 July 2006 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sean Braud1s (Sean Braudis), Sunday, 23 July 2006 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 23 July 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― max (maxreax), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
WTF?
― kevin barking (arghargh), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
funky is pushing it but it is pretty groovey.
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow, talk about something that would have ME arriving late. Or not at all.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 23 July 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM, but an even more accurate comparison, perhaps: Spiritualized's "Shine a Light."
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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'
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
guess I was wrong
― kevin barking (arghargh), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Monday, 24 July 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
also stuff we're working on for fall/winter here and in the uk will be SICK, bros.
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link
:\
― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
probably
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't even think it's bad. I just think it's incredibly pedestrian
― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't even know what poor songwriting means.-- The JaXoN 5 (jaso...), March 10th, 2005
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link
thanks.
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
daveSegal totally OTM re: Shine a Brightblack Morning Light.
― JayBabcock (jabbercocky), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link
See, I don't think it's a "schtick." I think Brightblack really are these authentic,back-to-nature types who happen to make trippy, soulful, gently psychedelic, campfire blues rock.YMMV, of course.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 24 July 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link
remember when people liked the polyphonic spree?
It was a sad, cruel time...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 24 July 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link
(puns not welcome perse but i understand if they're being made. thnx)
― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link
silkscreened gatefold lathes in a limited edition of 33 1/3? that would be sicker
― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
isn't that your issue? why do you think we would know?
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I still want a dub album
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 August 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
cosign
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 17 August 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
khruangbin
― marcos, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
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!
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 9 May 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
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
― Neal Cassady, Thursday, 19 December 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
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
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 19 December 2019 08:07 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
Neal lemme work on that, I'm pretty busy atm but will try to update here when I get my shit together
― sleeve, Friday, 20 December 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
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.
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 24 February 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
underblown sax, yeah
i really miss this band. no one remotely close this warmy souplesse i get from them. also, great ppl
― gaudio, Monday, 24 February 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
also, great ppl
lol what
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 24 February 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
are they bad ppl?
― akm, Monday, 24 February 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
great fucking guys, or couple, if they're still one, more like it
― gaudio, Monday, 24 February 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
from what I've heard they have broken up and things are not going so well for Nathan
― sleeve, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
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 :'(
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
It's only a little reminiscent of BML to my ears... but it is great, thanks for posting about it.
― Splack Packath (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 November 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
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
― Neal Cassady, Thursday, 22 July 2021 04:08 (two years ago) link
one of the very few bands I keep pulling to appear higher or at all in best of 00s lists. peak vibe albums.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 22 July 2021 06:30 (two years ago) link
This sounds great - thanks for the heads-up! I did have to skip the interviews though. Needs a warning: 'contains hippies, two of them'.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 22 July 2021 07:43 (two years ago) link
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
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
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.
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
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/filehttps://www.mediafire.com/file/2h5up0udyr66v4i/Brightblack_Morning_Light_-_Sam_Bond%2527s%252C_October_2006_part_2.zip/file
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Sunday, 28 November 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
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.
― Neal Cassady, Thursday, 2 December 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link