Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

was totally expecting the wife to freak out when she came home w/ the sick child, she was all happy for him that he kept the dress, haha

the closest thing I can think of to BBML also lumped in the freak folk category would be this all-time jomf track. ultra gentle groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqqn2-COxk

cool! i've never really checked jackie o out. was put off by the wire magazine's fascination w/ the band name, felt like they dropped it all the time without actual reference to the music to feel cool or something.

that's definitely my favourite, they weren't always that chill though. there are bits on sticks & stones... by the no-neck blues band that hint towards a bit more to this sort of mellow groove but they never quite went there.

bit more toof this

I didn't have any knowledge of "freak folk" when I heard bbml, remember they reminded me of air (a band I grouped a lot of stuff around at that time, like black moth super rainbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mqk2tewN1A)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj8z4cngKO0

sry i tried to https the black moth video didnt work out i see

connan mockasin track is great, will check out the album - really grew on me when watching the High Maintenance episode.

Common denominator could be a specific type of really mellow psychedelia.

maybe also bbml fans would be into Darkside?
http://youtu.be/d8NaWT0WvEE

was listening to bill callahan's dream river last night and it satisfies a similar need

not as stoned though. still very deep, groovy, and mellow

Well, there is a dub version of that album.

totally! forgot about that

it is 80 degrees and gorgeous today so the s/t album is feeling right

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.