Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

"3 New Albums by NayNay Shineywater's newest project LIBRARY OF SANDS! All recorded while living in a tent!"

I love Motion to Rejoin but this guy.... This is not my kind of guy.

tbf an adult man is not what I think of when I hear the word "naynay"

Lol wooo

― the questeon, Tuesday, November 16, 2010

thing one actually sounds interesting....

ALBUM #2 LIBRARY OF SANDS "Lifting Sand"
DESCRIPTION: A collection of songs in EP format, of musical work by NAYNAY SHINEYWATER & COLM O'CIOSOIG recorded in the late summer of 2011.

I wonder if Colm recorded his drums in a tent in the desert too?

Via @arthurmagazine...

Folks often ask us privately whatever happened to Brightblack Morning Light. Here is what Naybob is doing now. * http://www.wildsagesrecords.com

I'm liking a couple of tracks there, but man is this miles removed from the soulful drift of Brightblack.

i wish this band still existed, feel like they had another 10 albums of the same chill vibe in them

Yes. Exactly.

NAYNAY SHINEYWATER. i like this band but seriously is this dude 4 years old.

he's just a hippie, get over it.

Just listened to s/t + Motion To Rejoin back to back. What a band!

so i dabbled with these guys here and there over the past 6 years or so, something was intriguing at first but ultimately felt kind of boring. but one of their tunes off the first record came on the ipod this morning when i was changing my son's diaper and for like a cloudy 6am wake-up while i was still half alseep it was really the most perfect music i could hear. i've spent most of the day listening to the rest of it and also the second record. these guys are amazing!

maybe it's all the MV & EE and sun araw i've been listening to that opened me up to them. also i kind of love that they are totally weird spaced-out hippies? like that's exactly how i imagined them to be. all that shit upthread about the wilderness and arrowheads, i love it. so many people ITT were so conflicted between their weirdo worldviews. it's kind of perfect and fitting for this band IMO

both their albums are the first two minutes of "the low spark of high-heeled boys" over and over. but in a good way

― kamerad, Saturday, October 18, 2008 3:37 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i checked that out after browsing upthread, i didn't feel that

i dont remember that post but i've always been frustrated that the first two minutes of tlsohhb isnt how the rest of the song sounds

i wish this band still existed, feel like they had another 10 albums of the same chill vibe in them

― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, April 6, 2012 2:40 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

my boss: "are you playing the same song over and over?"

me: "no this is just this band that all their songs sound the same."

boss: "oh."

i wish this band still existed, feel like they had another 10 albums of the same chill vibe in them

― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, April 6, 2012 2:40 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

― marcos, Wednesday, April 23, 2014 2:11 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^

ko-sign

yup

in agreement

Funny Marcos mentions listening to this very early in the morning with a young kid - I have a similar memory. They're a good soundtrack to the groggy but blissed out early parenthood stage.

dude lives in Joshua Tree now apparently. he put out a bunch of cassettes or something didn't he?

played this stuff for the first time in yearsss while gardening over the weekend, so much love for them still.

weird that people aren't as familiar with the first record, it's by far my favorite and definitely the one i have the most sentimental attachment to. they popped up at some big sur folk fest thing around that time (2004?) and sorta blew everyone's minds, that organ sound + so much analog bassssssssss. one of the only records i was obsessed with at that time that i still am not ashamed to support.

does any of the other mid 2000s freak-folkish stuff hold up this well? i should probably bust out some sunburned hand of the man and tower recordings / mv+ee records too, but none of them establish this kind of ecstatic drone and consistent mood/texture. i guess bbml is more in the mazzy star / cowboy junkies vein of slow vibey country so maybe it's lazy to clump them in to freak folk, tho that was very much how they were received at the time

weird that people aren't as familiar with the first record, it's by far my favorite and definitely the one i have the most sentimental attachment to.

ala.cali.tucky? i've had a hard time finding it, still haven't heard it

freak folk was always a poor genre label. a lot of MV + EE records are good but 1.) not very consistent and 2.) in some cases, grossly derivative.

i can dig matt valentine's neil voice but i'd never pretend they are on par w/ BBML. mv + ee have some pretty great peaks though. gettin gone and space homestead are probably my favorite, though there is great stuff on most of their records

sun araw have a different vibe and repetoire than BBML but something like "on patrol" satisfies some similar needs for deep groovy blissed out spacey grooves

freak folk was always a poor genre label

definitely, lots and lots of stuff clumped in together that didn't make much sense as a whole. i like a lot of those records but you're definitely otm when you say

in some cases, grossly derivative

i think my main takeaway from that whole thing was basically "listen to the incredible string band ffs"

someone should do a good mv&ee comp tho, there are definitely some gems

yea and even some of the grossly derivative stuff is good!

sun araw is a good comparison actually, tho yeah def different in many ways

sun araw have a different vibe and repetoire than BBML but something like "on patrol" satisfies some similar needs for deep groovy blissed out spacey grooves

otm, i almost made this exct post a few weeks ago

he's v v different, but i'd think any BBML fans who haven't yet checked out Connan Mockasin wouldn't regret doing so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teyy1A_AJso

like if you swapped BBML's freak folk for freak decadent lounge crooner maybe

raaaaaaaaaaad

marcos if you arent in to this, u should be:

High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

haha i enjoyed that episode gr80, thanks

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"