Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

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.