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Dark Captain Light Captain
Experimental / Folk / Lounge



London,
United Kingdom

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Member Since12/20/2005
Band Websitedarkcaptain.com
Band MembersNeil Kleiner (electronics, woodwind, voice)

Dan Carney (guitar, voice)

Giles Littleford (guitar, voice)

Chin Of Britain (drums)

Mike Cranny (bass, voice)

Laura Copsey (Brass, Voice)


InfluencesAmber Leaf tobacco, coffee, disappointment, forests, coffee, elation, fruit, black metal, all types of weather.
Sounds Like
Robert Wyatt drinking absinthe with Rebel MC, possibly at a Mogwai concert.
Record LabelLoAF Recordings
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 23 2009 8:00P
Club Ugly @ The Social London, London and South East
Aug 16 2009 12:00P
Bloom Festival Nr. Cheltenham, Southwest

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Buy our Album 'Miracle Kicker' from...

LoAF's online store
Amazon UK
Amazon US
iTunes UK
Norman Records
Boomkat


Buy our EP 'Circles' from...

iTunes
Amazon (UK)
Amazon (US)
HMV
eMusic
Sonomu
Rough Trade
LoAF's online store
Bleep
Boomkat
Juno


Buy our debut single 'Jealous Enemies'/'Mid-Session Interval' from...


LoAF's online store
iTunes
Amazon
Emusic
Juno
Boomkat
DJ Download


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Who we are:

Dan Carney: Guitar, voice
Neil Kleiner: Instruments, voice
Giles Littleford: Guitar, voice
Chin Of Britain: Drums
Laura Copsey: Flugelhorn
Mike Cranny: Bass


How to contact us:

Management: Pete Spiby - ptspby@aol.com
Label: Udi Radomsky - udi@hub100.com
Band: darklightcaptain@gmail.com
Booking Agent: Debbie Clare - debbie@codaagency.com


Nice comment about us in Supersweet Magazine - March '08 -

In an increasing world of electro beats and synthesizers Dark Captain Light Captain offer a depth and substance beyond the label of their clothes or brightness of their jeans and trainers.

Review Of The Moment: - 75 Or Less

Dark Captain Light Captain - Jealous Enemies/Mid-Session Interval 7" (Lo Alternative Frequencies)

Beats, acoustic guitars and angelic harmonies: people love to call it "folktronica" when these things get mixed together, but that sounds kind of stupid. Though it's thoroughly modern, "Jealous Enemies" is every bit as good as its folk-rock ancestors—songs by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span—that once had the audacity to combine pastoral melody with pop tempos. You could group them with contemporaries like Tunng or The Memory Band, but you'll be listening to these dudes twice as often.


Other reviews of 'Jealous Enemies' -

Beedubblyer -

Delovely 2-tracker from DCLC: two pastoral, finger-picked, richly-harmonized affairs that are reminiscent of Tunng, State River Widening, & c., but from a straight-up rock verse-chorus songwriting type-perspective. While the lyrics are standard issue vague 'n' melancholy, there's something disarming and appealing in them being delivered in an unpretentious East London accent.


Norman Records -

The latest 7" on Lo:AF comes from Dark Captain Light Captain with some bittersweet, tender avant folk. 'Jealous Enemies' has gentle vocal harmonies and the whole feel is delicate, whispered, and fairytale like. The acoustic guitar is heartwarming, gentle and breezy. Like Tunng crossed with the Beta Band possibly. Flipside 'Mid-Session Interval' is similarly fragile. The vocals sound like they're hanging on for dear life. It's a somber, mournful piece complete with twinkley keys and a sparkling sense of innocence.


Boomkat -

Dark Captain Light Captain made their recording debut as collaborators on Milenasong's Seven Sisters album. This debut single gives strong indications that they've plenty to offer the great listening public in their own right, 'Jealous Enemies' is probably the sort of thing that would get them lumped into the same sort of folkish bracket as someone like Tunng, but that would be a mistake: they are far more interesting than any of those nu-folk tags might suggest, gravitating around a guitar riff you could imagine Radiohead cobbling together for a B-side, and even sounding a bit like Elliott Smith in its presentation. On the flipside 'Mid-Session Interval' lacks the immediacy of its partner, but still has plenty of plus points, including a bit of subtle electronic intervention and Rhodes melodies. Lovely.


Supersweet review - Supersweet magazine

There’s something immediately likeable about Dark Captain Light Captain. They manage to sound fresh and exciting while remaining strangely familiar, to retain the rough-edged quality of a DIY recording while sounding more than competently produced and, all-in-all, win us over with a minimum of effort and a quiet, lackadaisical confidence.

Track ‘Spontaneous Combustion Pact’ showcases their talents brilliantly; a chilled out, sleepy track that rides along on a rolling beat that sounds like it’s knocked out on the lid of an old wooden chest and a kitchen’s worth of pots and pans. Gradually, the track emerges from its own smoke-fuelled haze into a brilliant crescendo of old keyboards, xylophones and plucked acoustic guitars, accompanied along the way by a paranoid, doubled-up vocal that urges us to turn our ‘x-ray eyes into a visor and turn this whole thing around’.

Elsewhere, the beautiful ‘Mid-session Interval’ proves the ‘Captains’ don’t need a beat to create a thoroughly engaging track, building instead on a brilliant pairing of chiming acoustic guitars, a well-placed chord change and exquisite vocal harmonies. ‘They Be Underwater’ continues the foot-tapping rhythms, this time with a soft metronomic beat that underpins more plucked guitars and whispered vocals while ‘Everybody’s Opening…’ sounds for a moment like it borrows the vocal talents of Damon Albarn. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a fan. We certainly are.



Other things people have said:

Drowned In Sound:

"...beautiful, dense, textured, slightly scary and constantly engaging."

CMU Daily (DCLC Myspace Of The Day 19/12/06):

"It's gentle, massively understated, but it gets right inside your head and stays there."

TuneTribe.com (DCLC featured in tips for 2007:

"Think The Beta Band meeting Ride, with Godspeed! You Black Emperor and Kings Of Convenience looking on approvingly."

The Organ:

"...a beautifully delicate and deliciously fragile thing of quiet breathless breathy, restrained, delicate, delicate beauty."

Pop Musicology:

"Dark Captain Light Captain are an unsung testament to the power of restraint, the meaning of minimalism, the hypnotic power of clacks and thrums... Tunng, lovely as they are, are not the heroes of folk culture that everyone seems to think. There are as many interesting things going on with Dark Captain Light Captain to warrant that level of attention. In a way, you owe them. So go listen!"

99X/10:

"... an undercurrent of mystery and an idea of late night idea scribbling and quietly strumming while the world is sleeping nearby, perhaps even just through the walls and not to be woken."

Pop Musicology (again):

"As encompassing as they are brainy, DCLC are now crafting immersive experiences as well as wonderful melodies."


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Jun 27 2009 7:26 AM

Dear Dark Captain Light Captain
You were absolutely wonderful at The Soho Parish Summer Fete stunningly beautiful music . Thank you so much for performing you made it a really special event. xxx Louise and Alfie.
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Jun 19 2009 12:45 PM

A BIG WELCOME FROM US BOTH

BRINGING ACOUSTIC HARMONIOUS BEAUTY FROM NOTTINGHAM


THANKYOU FOR BEING OUR FRIEND

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Jun 19 2009 12:45 PM

THANKS FOR THE ADD!

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Jun 17 2009 8:15 AM

Hello !!
Thanks for the ADD ...
*WELCOME*
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Jun 16 2009 5:15 PM

HI,

Thanks for adding me. I really appreciate it. If you dig the Boards of Canada then you might like a couple of my tracks inparticular Lil' Emotional.

Take care
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Jun 12 2009 5:27 AM

hello there!!
happy to be friends now :)

Cheers Orson!!
Zoe Matthews





Jun 10 2009 12:19 PM

Thank you for accepting.

Zoe x
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Jun 7 2009 6:15 PM

Many thanks for the add!
Great sounds...
All the best
R
Rhythm Festival





May 31 2009 12:11 PM

Rhythm Festival 2009 21-23 August Twinwood Arena, Clapham, Beds, MK41 6AB The Proclaimers, Alabama 3, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, The Beat, Terry Reid, Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers, James Hunter, Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Blow Monkeys, Pentangle, The Strawbs, Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash and LOADS more... http://www.rhythmfestival.net
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May 30 2009 8:00 PM

SUPERSWEET DIGITAL PRESENTS

SUPERSWEET ME!
A SUPER-SIZED SOUND PARTY

Featuring SUPERSWEET’s favourite shriekbeat band KASMS

With support from MySpace New Bands competition winners: GoldTeeth and Rhodesia

PLUS

DJ sets by the very epic DETACHMENTS

Pay what you can on the door!*

Tuesday 7pm**
9th June, 2009
The Macbeth Hoxton Street

*Please be good – A minimum £2.00 entry is politely required as 50% of all proceeds on the night go to WWF – UK Registered Charity Number 1081247

**Those that come early enough will be given KASMS signed vinyls, CDs, T-shirt and a bunch of really cool posters!
K Eyed





May 30 2009 8:00 PM

Hello Captain,

K Eyed has added a new track, 'All of a Sudden' and thought that you would like to be informed.
Please have a listen and let me know what you think,
Have a beautiful day and speak soon,
X
HBy





May 30 2009 8:00 PM

Hello!
Je vous remercie de votre visite
sur ma page, et de m'accueillir sur
la vôtre.
A bientôt. Bien amicalement.
GiGi





May 30 2009 12:19 AM

thanks f the add
I love your music!!!
J-weze





May 26 2009 8:35 AM

h3i
stoping by personally to say whats up
:)


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May 25 2009 10:07 PM

hey captain,thanks captain
for the friendship
nice work

'Let it rain sea
sea,my first mother,
sea'

My warm regards
keep on rockin,captain.

Dimitris
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May 25 2009 2:20 PM

thanks for being friendly :)
did you check out the tunes ??
we'd love to know what you think..
peace
Andy





May 17 2009 9:22 AM

Thanks for the add
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May 16 2009 11:27 AM

We hope to see you at The Lexington this Wednesday 20th May for the Fleur-de-Lys Club w/ Harry's Gym, The John Steel Singers and Hey Rosetta!

Free Whisky drinks courtesy of Buffalo Trace!!!

Email fleurdelysclub@gmail.com for £4 conc. list
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May 14 2009 5:57 PM

Love the music , wishing you continued success. Tom
The Moonshine Jamboree





May 14 2009 12:39 PM

Thanks so much for coming and playing last night, what a fun night! You guys were brilliant as per usual and sure catch you again soon! x Anthony
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May 14 2009 9:12 AM

great band...thanks for the add
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May 12 2009 10:35 PM





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May 12 2009 7:53 PM

<3
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May 4 2009 7:14 PM

Rakocuuuuuuuunn
Thanks for the add!!!!
The DEVOLUTION is real and imminent....
Put you under cover!!!!!
How are you doing?
see you soon!


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May 4 2009 1:25 PM

Thank you for becoming our friend my dear, we hope you will visit us soon at www.thefusionalists.com , where there is much awaiting your perusal!

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