Artist description Blacklight Braille defies description! Masterminded by the septaguanarian poet Owen Knight, this Cincinnati band seldom performs, but records faithfully and has since the 70's.

Music Style Psychedelic Arthurian electronic weirdness and spoken word.

Musical Influences Voodoo temple drumming, and that last acid trip...

Similar Artists Hawkwind, Ozric Tentacles, Black Sun Ensemble

Artist History Formed in 1979 from former members of Bitter Blood Street Theatre, Blacklight braille has released around 30 albums.

Group Members Thomas Owen Knight, Richard L. Von Nida, B. M. Cordray, Gregory Morris, Michael Barrett, William F. Wood, Emily Baehr, Patrick McMahon, Madigan Fichter, Q.R. Ghazala, Samuel Cordray, Luthor Lindenschmidt, Kevin Connolly, Robert Kennicott, Cassie Fichter, Lea Otternheimer, Douglas Smith

Instruments Much percussion, guitars, bass, drums, vocals, electronic gadgets, doctored speak - n - spells, logs, keyboards, etc.

Albums VINYL: Electric Canticles, Zauzomank, Greet the Fool, One True Rock, Carmarthen, The , yonesse Album, Car Ochren, Avalon Tower, Carbonek, White Hill, Margie Ate Some Marmolade (45 rpm). CD’s:, Dietle’s Tavern, Dietle’s Tavern Remake, Sea Change, Carmarthen, Aauzomank Castle, Camelot Palace, Sleep Not Yet, Songs for the Long Haired , uns, ,Car Ochren, Carbonek, Avalon Tower, Into the World of the Gods, The Black Moon Selection (all up to this point on Vetco Records), Sailing Away, Old Bones and Sacred Stones, Castle of the Northern Crown, Castle of the Northern Crown Remake (Razzled Music), Moonlight Snow (Black Moon Publishing)

Press Reviews "Cryptolythic Instrumental"(From "Old Bones & Sacred Stones" M&E 450) What’s this, it a mix of classical style instruments, electronic and jazz, dunno it doesn’t leave me cold, so it must be OK. - Music and Elsewhere http://www.greendragon.demon.co.ukImagine if King Arthur and the Knights of the round table started a 60's-70's rock band. Yup, I know... a strange image for a strange CD... Songs for the Longhaired Suns includes an odd mixture of middle-age type of poetry and ancient mythology set to music on some tracks and some hippie-oldies type of original rock tunes. Different vocalists and readers are featured throughout the CD. For most of the CD, you will notice that the percussion really stands out to give it the distinguishable sound they have. I can't help but share a list of instruments from the liner notes to illustrate my point: Djembe, African talking drum, maracas, Chinese dragon drum, buffalo rattle, washboard, temple blocks, agogo bell, bongos, brushed snare, Shaman horn rattle, metal trays, timbales, rainsticks, cow bells, Navaho gourd rattles, tom toms, dew claw rattle, egg rattles, finger cymbals, congas, drum set, cymals, metal shields, water drum, wood tongue drum, incantor, electronic insects, bass anito buscador, shakers, saw, bells, railroad spike with hammer, wood blocks, and bronze bell make up the majority of the instruments utilized. Gutars, bass, harmonicas, flutes, trombone and a frequently heard grand piano make up most of the rest of the music. But as you can see, most of their sound is percussion and that gives it that ancient, minimal sound to their rock roll craziness. Shane Matsumoto, gajoob.com, 4/22/99„CARBONEK" „BLACK MOON SELECTION"All in all I must have about 50 releases from this band .. 50 releases ??? Well normally I get a new release by a band every year or so .. Blacklight Braille release 2 new CD's almost every 6 months and the whole story of the band started in the late 60's, so we're talking about a REAL legendary underground band that developped a style based on a variety that IS impossible to define.Basicly you can think of any style of music that was created since the middle ages (except for some quite "recent" ones like Hip Hop, HC, Metal...) all finds a place in the Blacklight Braille sound. All musicians know how to handle their instruments, so they are able to play them NOT the conventional way. So even if the song is a somewhat conventional Folk song, the way they play it is'nt conventional. From classical structures to Blues to electro acoustic to Folk to avangarde to Rock'n Roll to Jazz to african to... they create pictures, close your eyes and you're in a movie .. or is it a different reality? This aspect is heavily provoked by the poet of the band, Owen Knight, who sounds (and looks!) like a friendly ancient wizard and by the amount of unconventional instruments, a singing saw for example.This defenitely is'nt music for the masses but it's a massive attack if you're into the unconventional. They don't release good or bad material, they are on an endless trip through their world ... sometimes they visit the sunny hills, then the music is quite folky for example .... then again they seem to explore secret dungeons leading them to their avangarde roots and then sometimes they visit us live on stage and then they simply rock'n roll ... ! For an out of this reality experience get in touch .. but be warned seems that you can only love or hate them ... BLACK MOON SELECTION is folk/natural inspired, CARBONEK is into the progressive experimental direction. Blacklight Braille is adventure in sound and I realise again and again: I'm addicted !!!- Lord Litter

Location Cincinnati, OH - USA

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