OCCII proudly presents: BIG|BRAVE (CAN, Thrill Jockey)

With the initial seeds planted in 2012, with no other goal than simply experimenting with the instruments in their possession, Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball started writing subtle ambient/minimalistic folk songs together. When long time friend Louis Alexandre Beauregard joined on drums, the goal still remained to play as tranquil as possible. After an incident where Wattie’s acoustic guitar broke, and having borrowed a friend’s electric as a replacement, larger amps that Ball had in storage from previous bands started to get incorporated to the outfit. Now with amplitude as a compositional tool, B|B never lost interest in the power of minimalism and fragility. It became clear that loud volume would become just as effective as the lowest possible ones and the juxtaposition of both would become something B|B still uses as their main MO to this day.

After self-releasing Feral Verdure in 2014, the band had the opportunity to open for Thee Silver Mt Zion in Montreal QC. After which, Efrim Manuel Menuck found something meaningful in the members and the band and invited them to open on future shows with Mt Zion and with Godspeed! You Black Emperor.

In 2015, the band entered the studio with Menuck and recorded “Au De La”. With no home for the record, they decided to take a chance in writing to Southern Lord. As luck would have it, Greg Anderson happened upon their email among hundreds and responded. Since then, the band has had a home with Southern Lord Records. (Along with Au De La, Southern Lord has released Ardor in 2017, A Gaze Among Them in 2019 and VITAL in 2021).

After Beauregard’s departure in 2018, the band travelled down to Rhode Island with Loel Campbell on drums to make a first record with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets. After the album’s release, with Campbell unable to tour, Tasy Hudson joined the ranks and the band spent most of the year touring their 2019 album “A Gaze Among Them”.

Since their inception, the band has had many honours and privileges of touring a number of times in North America and Europe with bands such as Sunn O))), MY DISCO, The Body, Thou, Primitive Man and Thee Silver Mt. Zion. In late spring 2024, the new album “A Chaos Of Flowers” has been released on Thrill Jockey Records.

https://bigbrave.bandcamp.com/album/in-grief-or-in-hope

https://www.instagram.com/big_brave_/

https://www.bigbrave.ca/

“a table and a chair” is the new electric guitar duo of Aart-Jan Schakenbos (The Julie Mittens) and Arvind Ganga that explores colliding overtones and the melodies, harmonies and rhythms that emerge from them. Two guitars tumbling over and spinning around each other, creating massive structures as they go.
Made with guitars, but definitely not guitar music. With decades of combined experience in underground music Aart-Jan & Arvind fluidly combine avant-garde techniques with folk antics into a universal primal resonance.
https://www.soundcloud.com/a-table-and-a-chair

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