Bright (American band) explained

Bright
Origin:	Boston, Massachusetts
Instrument:	Vocals, accordion, clarinet, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, mandolin musical keyboard, steel-string acoustic guitar
Genre:	Post-rock
Years Active:	1993 - present
Label:	Ba Da Bing! Strange Attractors Audio House Darla Records
Associated Acts:	Forma, Sunburned Hand of the Man

Bright is a post-rock and ambient music group based in Brooklyn, New York.^[1]

History

Bright self-released a cassette before signing deals with two independent labels, Ba Da Bing! Records and Darla Records, and releasing records alternately on both labels. Darla released their 1997 full-length An Albatross Guest House and Bright's 1998 contribution to the Bliss Out series, Blue Christian, while Ba Da Bing! released a self-titled 1996 album, Full Negative or Breaks in 2000,^[2] and The Miller Fantasies in 2002, as well as a 2003 compilation called A Music Sampler.^[3] Switching to the Strange Attractors label, they released the album Bells Break their Towers in 2005,^[4] their latest album to date.

Discography

LP recordings

• Bright (1995 cassette-only release on Eek, limited to 100 copies)
• Bright (1996 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• The Albatross Guest House (1997 release on Darla)
• Blue Christian (1998 release that also served as Bright's contribution to the Bliss Out series on Darla)
• Full Negative (or) Breaks (2000 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• The Miller Fantasies (2002 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• Bells Break Their Towers (2005 release on Strange Attractors)

Singles, EPs and compilations

• V/A Dreamboat "Cecilia" (1997 release on Cassiel Records)
• Fuxa / Bright "City and Metro" and "How I Reached Home" (1997 split 7-inch on Darla Records)
• "Plymouth Rock" b/w "Superstrings," "Nova" (1998 7-inch on Ba Da Bing!)
• V/A Badaboom Gramophone, Vol. 2 (1998 release on Ba Da Bing!)
• V/A Darla 100 (2000 release on Darla)
• V/A Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish: A Tribute to Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (2003 release on Animal World)
• V/A Yeti No. 4 (2006 Yeti Magazine CD compilation)

External links

• Band bio from Strange Attractors Audio House
• Feature on Mark Dwinell from the Boston Phoenix

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2007-09-30 . Music BRIGHT . 2023-11-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181455/http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/live/documents/05091762.asp . 2007-09-30 .
2. https://exclaim.ca/music/article/bright-full_negative_breaks Review of Full Negative or Breaks
3. https://ink19.com/2003/03/magazine/music-reviews/t5jyxg-bright Review of A Music Sampler
4. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/935-bells-break-their-towers/ Review of Bells Break Their Towers