Interviews added in misc section

August 27th 2008

Radio interview
A brand new interview for swedish radio concerning Brighteye Brison  is up. BB-bass player extraordinaire Kristofer Eng answers questions about living in the heat of the progressive rock business of today and the story of the band so far. Plenty of BB music is aired on this one-hour special as well! Listen to it here: http://www.ljudetfranljusdal.mypodcast.com/

August 23rd 2008

August 20th 2008

July 20th 2008

June 12th

May 25th

RELEASE PARTY for the new album will take place on June 1st at the world famous Jazz Pub Stampen in Gamla Stan, Stockholm!

Doors open at 6 pm so bring a friend and enjoy not only music from the new BB album but also the wide selection of beverages AND the ultra-amazing supporting act!

May 13th 2008

March 18th 2008

News has it that Brighteye Brison´s one of a kind drummer Erik Hammarström has joined The Flower Kings. This is absolutely true. We can only congratulate them to an excellent choice! Erik will ofcourse continue to play in BB in which he is such an integral part and for the last 1,5 years have helped to develop the unique sound soon to be revealed on Believers & Deceivers. 

March 4th 2008

Believers And Deceivers is the bands most progressive output to date. It highlights a heavy, modern sounding side of the band incorporating a wide variety of influences from hard rock to fusion. Of course it stays true to their original performance using only analog and “real” instruments. The album takes a statement in some contemporary issues and races through the human psyche containing four tracks including the 20 minute The Harvest and the major epic The Grand Event clocking in over 35 minutes.

January 23rd 2008

November 21st 2007

BB would like to thank everyone who attended the gig at Big Ben last
week. Great to watch all the familiar faces in the amazing crowd. Hope to see you all again next time.
The two sets consisted of all the songs from the new album
and older material:
SET 1:

October 28th 2007

Interview for swedish newspaper with Linus for the september 22nd gig can be read in misc. It´s in swedish!

August 20th 2007

Lyrics added to Stories CD. All errors from original booklet  are hopefully corrected.

July 23rd 2007

Studio Report 3
The studio live recordings are finished! 
We still have some overdubbing to do including Hammond and pipe organ,
grand piano, some guitars and most of the vocal parts. 
Starting in October 2006 we are very happy to have come this far already. 
We predict a possible finished product within this fall!

BB will contribute to concept album

February 25th 2007

The video for "We Wanna Return" can now be viewed at the bands myspace site!

February 1st 2007
Line up change!

For a third time Rhaal-Uma has shown his astral body here on our planet. He came with news of sadness but also of hope to us all. For some reason he wanted Daniel to go on a “very important mission”. What made him crave this is in no way possible for us to grasp. We can only rely in the fact that when Brighteye turns up in person something utterly necessary is calling. Daniel knows, as well as any other member of this band, that following such a calling is a prewritten chapter in the ultimate quest of Brighteye and can not be denied.

Daniel has been with this band since the very dawning of Earth-Brighteye so undoubtedly his departure is indeed very sad to the remaining members. However there are feelings of joy since Daniel has left for the greatest adventure under the interstellar supervision of Brighteye. Since we don’t know what this actually means we can only speculate. Some of us have a hunch that Daniel was sent to a great ongoing war of which there has been some rumors lately.

Before vaporizing into thin air, taking Daniel along with him, the great Captain assured us that he would not leave us empty-handed. Two weeks later we experienced something quite astonishing. Investigating a loud howl that had come and gone from the woods for three days, and caused the band to stay awake at night, we found behind a large oak tree not a wolf but a living MAN!! During a firm interrogation he told us that he had no recollection whatsoever of what he was doing in that ghostly territory in the first place. The poor man was in chock but we all suspected that he could be the “replacement” (Adv. 3:996) that Brighteye had promised us.

Quite rightly so. He turned out to be Zerto-Uma, who’s earth name (roughly translated) is Erik Hammarström, the greatest astral drummer that ever lived! It is more than an honour to have him as a permanent member of Brighteye Brison.

So far Erik has recorded two new tracks with us and proved to be “flawless” (as foreseen by The Vast Prophets of Zhaan).

Also check out BB´s myspace site:

www.myspace.com/brighteyebrison

May 4th 2006
New reviews! Go to reviews

May 3rd 2006
Pics from release party added. Go to gallery

April 7th 2006
New review of Stories added. Go to reviews

April 1st 2006
Mp3s added in discography!

March 31st 2006
Stories is finally here!
First of all BB would like to thank everyone
who attended the release party last sunday.
We had a great time performing new as well as
old material. For anyone who´s interested here´s the set list:

SET 1
1. Stories
2. Patterns
3. A Car
4. Isolation
5. Late

SET 2
1. The Battle Of Brighteye Brison
2. We Wanna Return
3. Music Of The City
4. My Spirit Will Speak

Go to Links section to view where to order the new album!

February 26th 2006
Stories will be out on March 31st.
Mastering of the album will hopefully take
place on Tuesday. The artwork will also be finished
during the week (it´s awesome) and from there it´s
finally (after three long years) time for the pressing.

Even more amazing is that BB are looking forward to
meet you at Blue Moon Bar on the 26th of March
at THE RELEASE PARTY!

February 16th 2006
The band has now signed a deal with Progress Records
for the release of "Stories". The boys in BB are happy to
announce that the release party will be held at Blue Moon
Bar in Stockhoilm City on the 26th of March.

January 29th 2006
The first BB album is now reported being out of stock!
This information is confirmed by the label Rivel Records
which released the bands debut CD three years ago.
There´s no plan for any reprint.

October 16th 2005
Here´s an update of the new BB album!
Recording sessions are officially over. The final
vocal parts were done about a week ago and last Thursday
Johan recorded the final guitars. Last but certainly not least
actor Figge Norling did the ultra groovy narration part on
"Battle of". Result: Very cool!

As the album wants to portrait a collection
of stories, the style of the tracks are again varied.
Here are some long progressive rockers, a couple of
moody ballads and even some pop oriented stuff.
The high-quality production binds these songs together
with lots of vintage instruments and vocal arrangements
hence that particular BB-sound appears.

Let´s have a look at the track list:

1. STORIES - This song lays the foundation for the entire concept. Quite moody with a change of faces despite it´s short length.
2. PATTERNS - Instantly taking over were the opening track left us this long piece is heavily based on the pipe-organ. About being stuck in, as it seems, infinate patterns of life and the struggle of breaking free.
3. ISOLATION - Daniel takes the lead for the first ballad. Lots of mellotrons, theremin, sitar and CS-60 guaranteed!
4. LATE - A Kristofer Eng composition with cool melodies and chord changes.
5. IN THE CHAIR - A short pop-song with some quirky twists and lots of horns! Warning: Nutty lyrics involved.
6. THE BATTLE OF BRIGHTEYE BRISON - Introducing "The Chronicles of Brighteye Brison". Be prepared for an intergalactic history lesson. A dark and scary monster epic with arrangements en masse.
7. LIFE INSIDE - Per singing lead on this love song.
8. ALL LOVE - A humongous song signed Kristofer Eng with a large symphonic sound. Kristofer on lead vocals and Daniel doing the marimba solo!
9. WE WANNA RETURN - With a wall of Moog synthezisers the intro will remind you of Wakeman´s glory days.
10. STORIES REPRISE - Closes the album in a magnificent way. The stories are told and we can have a cup of tea.

    Kristofer and Linus have been working with Mattias Olsson
    again on the upcoming debut album from Two Times The Trauma. Kristofer plays the Theremin and Linus saxes, Mellotron and Orchestron.
    The album includes heavy horn arrangements, acoustic bass, great vocals etc. It´s going to be a must have for any fan of good pop music and vintage instruments.

    Also a new, much better, guestbook is up! Feel free to sign!

    August 28th 2005
    Welcome back, dear BB-friends!
    During summer BB have recorded the final
    percussion and horn parts for the upcoming
    "Stories" album.
    

    Linus and Narnia have for various reasons
    gone seperate ways and Linus will focus
    on the release of Flagship´s debut album, BB
    and some new projects.
    Flagship - "Maiden Voyage" will be released
    in Japan September 15 and in Europe October 24.
    While waiting for this CD you are most welcome to visit
    the official homepage of Flagship (www.flagship.se)
    which is already up and running.

    Kristofer has been scoring a new musical
    in which he himself has played during the last
    couple of months.
    Kris is also member of the italian(!) band
    JP and Somebody Else´s Problem (on keyboards).
    After some hot recording sessions in Italy they will
    finally release their debut CD later this year.

    When and how "Stories" will be released is
    still not known.
    Brighteye Brison are currently looking for a new
    record deal.
    A 4-track demo of the album has been sent out to
    record companies so we´ll see...
    If you want to know what happens this is
    the place to come back to!

    June 29th 2005
    Last sunday BB recorded most of the
    final vocal efforts.
    Kristofer put down the lead on two songs
    of his own composition, Late and
    All Love as well as acoustic guitar
    on the latter.

    More vocal recordings will take place
    next week. Finally BB will record some
    guitar parts. Percussion will be recorded at
    the Royal Concert Hall in Stockholm
    as usual.

    June 20th 2005
    You can now, once more, listen to a new song!
    Go to misc and you will find a sample
    of "Isolation" from the forthcoming
    BB record.

    May 16th 2005
    You can now listen to a new song!
    Go to misc and you will find an mp3
    of the title track from the forthcoming
    BB record "Stories".

    May 10th 2005
    All individual members of BB have lately been
    working in different projects. Now the band has
    come together again to at last finish the new
    "Stories" CD.

    Some teasers will be up very soon (promise this time).

    June 7th ´04
    Brighteye Brison have been recording
    a lot during the past few weeks and it finally
    looks like there´s gonna be a new album after all.
    Some rough mix teasers will hopefully be up soon on the site
    while the band records the final touches.

    By the way...
    Check out the newly updated members page.

    March 24 ´04
    New pictures and a movie filmed by Mattias Olsson
    from the sessions in Rothe Handle studio
    added to the studio gallery section

    February 25 ´04
    Check out the new updates!
    Reviews and miscellaneous have been added to the site.
    Also there are more pictures in the gallery section.

    The guestbook has been started over again from scratch since there was
    lots of trouble with the old one.

    February 8 2004
    The Sweet According to Sweden is being released tomorrow, February 9th. Songs from the album as well as interviews with Christian of Rivel Records will be aired on swedish radio during the day. More info about the CD and how to listen online can be found at the Rivel Records site! (follow the link)

    January 11th 2004
    The last recording session in Rothe Hände Studio, owned by Mattias Olsson, took place yesterday. We started out on January 2nd and recorded for three days. All in all four days of fun and inspiring musical moments. Mattias did a great job helping out with some cool soundproduction and general brainstorming.
    I play lots of different keyboards and synthezisers on the songs, lots of minimoog and mellotron this time. We tried different mellotron strings for Kristofer´s orchestral arrangement for his epic composition "All Love". Eventually we will record a real string section as well in the near future.
    Kristofer also takes place by the Taurus pedals and the Theremin for a couple of tracks.
    The session ended yesterday with Johan recording some nice sitar stuff.

    During last autumn I worked on the musical arrangements for a studio project called "Windy City" founded by Christian Rivel who will perform the lead vocals. The band includes three Brighteye Brison members: Kristofer, Per and yours truly. The style is very symphonic reminiscent of Kansas (using a violin player) and recordings will launch next weekend in the one and only ToneZone Studios!
    Further Brighteye sessions will therefor be put on hold for a short while but we´ll be back with updates A.S.A.P!

    /Linus

    December 16th ´03
    Production update 2
    Brighteye Brison will start working once again with Mattias Olsson of Änglagård for some extra keyboard treatments on the second album. Recordings will take place at Rothe Hände studio beginning January 2nd 2004.
    We want to take the opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

    November 17th ´03
    Production update
    The recordings of Mother Earth are finished and the Sweet tribute album will be released on the 9th of February 2004.
    BB have been working many hours to make their version of the song something extra. Recordings for the forthcoming Brighteye Brison album will kick off again in a couple of weeks. Mother Earth will appear on it so those who buy the tribute album will get good insight in the sound of the new CD. Current working title for the second album is "Stories". Here´s a new list of songs that most likely will appear:
    

    • Stories (L.Kåse)
    • Patterns (L.Kåse)
    • Late (Eng)
    • In the Chair (D.Kåse & L.Kåse)
    • Isolation (L.Kåse)
    • The Battle of Brighteye Brison (D.Kåse & L.Kåse)
    • Life Inside (L.Kåse)
    • Mother Earth (Scott, Priest)
    • Stories 2 (Brighteye Brison)

    November 10th ´03
    An interview with the band was recently made by Loud Metal. Read it here!

    November 8th ´03
    We had a wonderful audience yesterday at Club Mondo. It was very fun to play and we enjoyed every moment of it!
    Thanks go to Progress records who are the amazing arrangers of Progress Club and ofcourse to all of you who were there.

    Here´s the set list:
    

    1. Stories (from forthcoming CD)
    2. Patterns (from forthcoming CD)
    3. A Car
    4. Aspects From Newborn Eyes
    5. Correct Information
    6. Music of the City

    This covered about 45 minutes of music. Hopefully we will have some pics up from yesterday´s show very soon. Hope to see you all again next time!

    August 28 ´03
    Brighteye Brison plays live at Progress Club at Club Mondo in Stockholm on the 7th of November opening for Swedish progressive rock band A.C.T.
    MAKE SURE NOT TO MISS THIS EVENT!

    Click the link for more info on Progress Club

    August 1st ´03
    Brighteye Brison will record the song ´Mother Earth´ for a Sweet tribute album. The CD is sheduled for release late 2003.

    July 24th '03
    The band began recording tracks for their 2:nd album earlier this year. Production will continue during summer. Planned titles to appear are:

    Patterns
    Stories
    Late
    In the Chair
    Stories 2
    We Wanna Return
    All Love
    Isolation
    I´m Not a Golfer
    

    Changes and updates to this list may occur over time.

    Nov 22 2002
    The album is here!
    You can now ORDER your copy of the first Brighteye Brison-album

    Nov 7 2002
    -Kristofer and Linus appear on new Narnia album-
    On Nov 6 Kristofer and Linus went into the studio to record vocals together with an eight-piece choir for the title track on Narnia's forthcoming full-length epic, "The Great Fall of Man". Go to www.narniaworld.com for more info.

    Nov 6 2002
    Releaseparty at H62, Sthlm the 27:th of November!