Brightblack Morning Light Curate Quiet Quiet Fest

Shhh: "Quiet, Quiet, Forest Spectrum", an oh-so-mystical folk festival--nay, experience-- is coming to the coastal wilderness of Big Sur, CA tomorrow, August 11. Curated by Brightblack Morning Light member Nabob Shineywater, the fest involves a selection of long-haired, crystal-toting, dream-catching musicians performing live sets in a magical outdoor setting at the Henry Miller Library.

The Brightblack Morning Light site describes the lineup more, um, poetically than I ever could, and it goes like this, flower kids: Grass ("featuring members of Feathers and Espers in true nomadic physical journey"), Huayllipacha ("traditional music of the Andes Mountains"), Lavender Diamond ("along the path a new jewel is found with levitations of breathing singing"), Sunroof! ("an instrumental code of new experimentation from the United Kingdom"), Brightblack Morning Light ("celebrating their debut LP on Matador and toted crystals from New Mexico"), Daniel Arcus Incus Ululat Higgs ("with selected works from the recent Magic Alphabet recording of tranceful Jews harp, and other psychic chord modulations" (aka Lungfish's Dan Higgs)) and lastly, a "Quiet, Quiet Surprise by a legendary folk singer with a depthful collection of ol' time cowboy songs." Which I'll go ahead and tell you is Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

Folk-loving souls can purchase advance tickets at www.henrymiller.org. A portion of proceeds will benefit the library.

Shineywater has curated other very hushed, very eclectic events in the past, including "Quiet, Quiet Window Lights", featuring Joanna Newsom, Bonnie ‘Prince' Billy, and Devendra Banhart, as well as "Quiet, Quiet Ocean Spell", showcasing the likes of Vetiver, RTX, and Michael Hurley. How does such a laid-back dude decide to plan festivals? While organizing "Ocean Spell", Shineywater told a Monterey-based paper, "My daily pursuit is to resist the Babylon system. I try to do it by taking a big toke of organic marijuana every morning." (Only in California!)

Brightblack Morning Light, which embarked on the "Crystal Totem Turr" earlier this summer (wherein concertgoers brought crystals "to give and receive light"), play a few other West Coast dates in the coming months, including the Bleeding Edge Festival this weekend at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California. Yo La Tengo, Matmos and Zeena Parkins, Black Dice, Tim Hecker, Isis, Flying, and many others are also playing the fest.

08-13 Saratoga, CA - Montalvo Arts Center (Bleeding Edge Festival)
09-07 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
10-06 Arcata, CA - Humboldt State University #

* with Vashti Bunyan
# with Alejandro Escovedo

MP3: Brightblack Morning Light: Everybody Daylight