Bright (American band)
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Bright is a post-rock and ambient music group based in Brooklyn, New York.
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, and The Miller Fantasies in 2002, as well as a 2003 compilation called A Music Sampler. Switching to the Strange Attractors label, they released the album Bells Break their Towers in 2005, 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.
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