It was no accident. Back in January, after reading a post on the blog I Guess I'm Floating, we featured Blind Man's Colour as a band to watch in 2009.

Not long after, Kanye West (yup, that Kanye West) gave a thumbs up to the band (and their art?) on his personal blog and linked back to our post. Needless to say, a nod from Kanye, and kudos from fellow bloggers, was enough to get the attention of various record labels.

The St. Petersburg, Florida musical duo that comprise Blind Man's Colour is Orhan Chettri and Kyle Wyss. The guys create dreamy, trippy, chorus laden and synthesized electro pop with obvious influences from Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Animal Collective (more about that below).

Last week, and not surprisingly, Chettri and Wyss announced that they had signed with Kanine Records to release their full length debut Season Dreaming this summer. We have been listening to the demos of Season Dreaming from BMC for six weeks now and look forward to the studio release.

While those demos are no longer available on the band's blog, there are plenty of other songs available for free from the band's EPs 2006 - 2007 Recordings and Rainbow Faces to unreleased solo work recorded by Wyss under the moniker Chromatic Flights.

Here is a selection of the band's downloadable songs from the band's free EPs.

"Waterfall Freedom" - Blind Man's Colour from The Rainbow Faces EP
"Heliocentrics (Tell Me Why I Fall)" - Blind Man's Colour from 2006-2007 Recordings

The following video is the only known video featuring the band. It was filmed and produced by a fellow high school friend Sean Sekas for his digital film class.




And the beat goes on; the duo also released four cover songs from Animal Collective's masterpiece Merriweather Post Pavilion. The covers are available as part of compilation produced by a group of independent musicians who met up on an Animal Collective message board. BMC's covers are quite impressive, as are a few others. Download Collected Animals.

"Brother Sport" (Animal Collective cover) - Blind Man's Colour from the Collected Animals
"Daily Routine" (Animal Collective cover) - Blind Man's Colour from the Collected Animals

In case you missed the first posting we published on BMC, here is an awesome song - the one that really created the 'blogger buzz' about BMC - and a good indication of what their debut LP will sound like.

"Jimmy Dove" - Blind Man's Colour from the upcoming release Season Dreaming

Labels: Bands to Watch 2009, Blind Man's Colour

Almost two weeks ago we posted about Florida's electronic unsigned duo artists called Blind Man's Colour.

The posting received a lot of attention! So much so that even Kanye West posted a link on his blog to our review of Blind Man's Colour. Kinda cool, huh? In addition, indie blogs Gorilla Vs. Bear and I Guess I'm Floating wrote about Kayne's link to IRC. Kanye also posted a link to our announcement of the lineup for this year's Coachella fest.

Anyways, the latest word from Blind Man Colour's is that the guys have been getting calls from record labels and a huge number of new friend requests on MySpace since our review posted.

"Jimmy Dove" - Blind Man's Colour from Season Dreaming

We'll be posting more about BMC in a follow-up feature later this month.

Labels: Animal Collective, Blind Man's Colour, Kanye West, Spirit Spine

Blind Man's Colour, a duo of college students from St. Petersburg, Florida is officially on the indie radar for 2009 and we hope you'll agree.

Currently unsigned, and looking for a label to call home, Kyle Wyss and Orha Chettri have a new album, Season Dreaming, which they are hoping to release soon.

Wyss and Chettri have been making and mixing music together since childhood.

"We've been playing together since 8th grade," Wyss told Indie Rock Cafe. We've always loved electronic music as well as really out there rock since we've met. We're looking for a record label to release our first album."

Over the years, the duo have released a number of self-produced mixes of music they've recorded, but nothing serious enough that they are comfortable with as an official release. These tracks are available as downloads from their blog.

The guys also have a great taste for music as witnessed in this mix for Olo Radio featuring songs from Evangelics, Of Montreal, Yo La Tengo and The Microphones.

We think the guys have got something good going.

"Jimmy Dove" - Blind Man's Colour from the album Season Dreaming

"Taste" (Animal Collective cover) - Blind Man's Colour

Blind Man's Colour MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/weareblindmanscolour

You can download full zip files and MP3s from Blind Man's Colour and Chromatic Flights at their blog, http://blindmanscolour.blogspot.com/

Labels: Bands to Watch 2009, Blind Man's Colour, Jimmy Dove