A Chaos Of Flowers

by BIG|BRAVE

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Sean Over time they have created their own musical genre. The sound is meditative, heavy, dynamic, smart, and even possibly transformational for those in that space in their lives. One of my all-time favorite bands. Favorite track: moonset.

Jonathan Williams They seriously get better and better each release. Need to see them live

Matthew Campbell Just got the vinyl in the mail... Been listening since Feral Verdure and I never expected to say a Big/Brave album is kind of beautiful, but this one really is. Big/Brave has always wowed me (and live... holy shit!)..A Chaos of Flowers has dropped me to the floor. Wow, indeed.
Favorite track: canon : in canon.

mega_dead_cowboy This band gets better with every release wtf

Chandler Wooster Lewis That bass! I love Mat Ball's playing so much, but it astounds me the restraint he has in BIG|BRAVE, and lets the band fill in the spectrum. This is just engineered beautifully, and Robin Wattie's delivery has only become more powerful and heart-rending. I love this band more with every single release. Gaaahhhhhh

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1.	i felt a funeral 06:03
2.	not speaking of the ways 06:17
3.	chanson pour mon ombre 03:45
4.	canon : in canon 05:22	lyrics
there is a faint glow of eastern blue whirring with hues of warmth. the warbling song Sparrows ignore my Mourning. languidly, i turn over and i am limp in somber hope. soberly, i salvage. i forage aned cull what is left of my sum. i can only call up a vague hum of a hymn (i cannot wholly hear) and the lingering regret of wasted Song and Melody not quite clear.
5.	a song for Marie part iii 03:07
6.	theft 05:31
7.	quotidian : solemnity 03:55	lyrics
i've been slowly corralled into this tight space choking through this false sense of unfettered autonomy; it's sharking me. my worth has ever been reckoned through all my service to you. metal leaching. these aren't my own. these aren't my failings. though i'm left as tailings. Elysian Field - dead in deep. oh to be - oh to be.
8.	moonset 05:56

about

BIG|BRAVE’s music has been described as massive minimalism. Their fusillades of textural distortion and feedback emphasize their music’s frayed edges as much as its all-encompassing weight. The potency of the trio’s work is their singular artistry combining elements of traditional folk techniques and a modern deconstruction of guitar music. Gain, feedback, and amplitude are essential to A Chaos Of Flowers, an album that builds on their ferocious 2023 album nature morte. Lyrically, the songs explore the most vulnerable of human experiences, how marginalizations manifest internally and externally, the inner struggles of isolation, and co-existence in nature. A Chaos of Flowers draws on catharsis and beauty as well as the quagmire of disorientation and othering. The album is a monument of simultaneous serenity and disquiet, a subtle maelstrom of internal life.

For A Chaos Of Flowers guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie drew heavily on the poems of artists whom Wattie found kinship in, their words resonant with experiences of those often sidelined by cultural norms. “I discovered that most poems from folk traditions or in the public domain seem to be by men – to which I could not quite relate. In my search, I rediscovered some of my favorite works and poets,” says Wattie. Wattie’s interpolation of poetry from artists around the world and across womanhood, intermingled with her own, examines the chaos and confusion alienation breeds in the psyche of those othered by society. “It is a feeling of relatability and even astonishment really,” Wattie notes, “with how these writers of different standings and eras and all being female-presenting, each expressing these seemingly similar intense moments of individual experiences, of intimacy and madness. We're alone, and yet, not.”

Guitarist Mathieu Ball and drummer Tasy Hudson help Wattie shape poetry into pieces as dense and impenetrable as they are vulnerable. Volume and noise have been essential tools in BIG|BRAVE’s catalog. A Chaos Of Flowers keenly reconfigures how the band utilize each element of their sound, allowing the space for loud movements to feel achingly quiet and abundant with delicate gestures. Ball’s guitar soars in long arcs and blusters in thick layers around Wattie’s own resolute chords. Hudson delivers her most powerfully reserved performances on record, incorporating elegant brushwork and making deft use of cymbal-work to give the songs’ deliberate paces momentum. Wattie’s voice is tempered and unhurried throughout which guides the reverent tone of each piece. Guest guitarist Marisa Anderson lends earthen, blues-inflected atmospheres to the album, where guitarist Tashi Dorji and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi amplify the squall. Working closely with frequent collaborator and producer/engineer Seth Manchester, the internal tumult of Wattie’s voice rings out in warbles, haunting echoes, and unearthly harmonies across bold immense walls of distortion.

BIG|BRAVE achieve their colossal sound through minimalist approaches, a deft understanding of dynamics and an inventive employment of percussion and distortion. The trio reconceptualize what it is to be heavy or minimal, challenging perceptions with their illumination of painfully overlooked perspectives. BIG|BRAVE’s sound on A Chaos of Flowers has blossomed, harnessing potent emotions with their unparalleled arrangements and intricate economies of space. It is an album as moving as it is awe-inspiring.

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released April 19, 2024

Performed by
Robin Wattie - Vocals & Guitar
Mathieu Ball - Guitar
Tasy Hudson - Drums & Percussion
Seth Manchester - Synthesizer
Tashi Dorji - Guitar on ii & iii
Marisa Anderson - Guitar on iv & viii
Patrick Shiroishi - Saxophone on ii & vi

Recorded, mixed & produced by Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets, Pawtucket, RI
March & July 2023

Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC

Art, layout and design by MB

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Luc Vanweelden. Ethan McCarthy
Yasmin & Suraya Hudson. M.G.

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A Chaos Of Flowers

Apr 2024
nature morte

Feb 2023
Vital

Apr 2021
Leaving None But Small Birds

Oct 2021
A Gaze Among Them

May 2019
Ardor

Sep 2017
Au De La

Sep 2015
Feral Verdure

Sep 2014

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