the band CAVE

first song is called "transcendence" last song is called "turiya"...

oh ok i haven't heard it yet because i'm not on the promo circuit
looking forward to it!

it's great -- first tune is heavy on the no pussyfooting/frippertronics vibes.

They've been huffing Alice Coltrane.

http://www.twitteringmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/alice_coltrane_turiyasings.jpg

that sounds great
love alice!!

dude djing at our last show played some bajas, it made everyone's ears perk up.. must have been something from krausened as i didn't know it

http://www.dragcity.com/products/threace
http://www.dragcity.com/system/album_products/images/2132/large.jpg?1372877757
Behold, Threace! It's the brand new LP from international touring sensations CAVE, arriving October 15th, and it might just bring an end to your party -- no more dancing, no more talking, just people listening to every last clang, tweet and honk of a band really getting after it. Recorded on a 1" 8-track Scully machine that may or may not have spent some quality burn-in time at Muscle Shoals, Threace was half-planned and half-jammed using different mic placements, building up from a basic set of as few mics as possible. Then, they got out the razor blade and...well, this isn't the Rolling Stones! They used it to cut tape (and realities) together into a metro-musical albumen that's only started to flower in this world.

Threace comes on guitar up and jelly tight, saving the keys for color commentary among the beats. Cooper and Jeremy explore their six-string relationship, finding shared space, ducking, parrying, working the edges, and finally, twinning to gut-clutching effect. Meanwhile, there's a cameo appearance from sax and flute textures in here that create new soul-jazz sensations. Last and most, Dan and Rex bring the heavy with thickness, moving rhythm with exceptionally light feet, playing coloristically while always driving, driving, ever driving, bearing the lode and raising the arch under which everything happens in CAVE.

CAVE are known for playing with rolling funk minimalism; Threace finds them inhabiting their cut-up aesthetic with tremendous ease and fewer reference points than before. They access new depths of meditative stasis, and then torpedo the dream and turn on a dime to ride the riffs again. On Threace, CAVE have gained access to their unconscious mind, and we hope they never find their way out again.

After the record release show last night, I feel like Bitchin Bajas deserve their own thread. I had to leave early, but they were playing as a 9 piece with strings, 3 guitars, a flute and a...bass clarinet? It was really great, better than expected. I'm not much into boosterism but I feel like they're going somewhere. They're not all the way there yet (imo), but they've got the texture just right. I am hoping they bring that guitarist back who played last night. WHOOEY. It was good, aaaaaaaaalmost reminded me of some of the more soaring guitar parts in LT-LN era Popol Vuh but maybe that's just wishful thinking. It's just the melodic boost they needed though, I liked it. More flute pls!

Next month they are gathering a bunch of people to perform IN C
Not the key of C, but the Terry Riley composition entitled IN C

I mean they named their album Bitchitronics ffs -- they are practically begging you to like them! Anyway I plan on listening to it while I clean the floors today. Cosmic yoga mop time.

here Bitchin Bajas

Here is a little history of the Bitchpork festival that was curated and staffed by members of CAVE and friends
http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2013/07/bitchpork/
After you hit "continue reading" scroll up to read the text.

new album is sounding pretty fusion-y in parts. in a good way.

where's it at

hey is dj trip maker the same as ilx's trip maker? i saw the name bc i'm going to see this band (AGAIN) tonight and apparently that's who is the inter-set dj, would be too weird to not be the same person but who knows?!
if so, see you there!

how was the show?
new video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLrofQRFQ6k

it was great!! they have a new secret weapon -- i don't know the guy's name but i saw him when he played with bitchin bajas. i really liked the added baritone sax/flute stuff. he also had a snare and cymbal but i couldn't always hear their contribution. as always, they were super tight. i have an altogether new appreciation of the drummer for playing the exact same beat for as long as he plays it. yikes.

yeah that dude is a machine. there is some horn action on the new one, it is pretty good. really does kinda sound like herbie hancock/headhunters/miles in the 70s at times.

yeah they were very tight, the rhythm section in general is sick. i hadn't seen them in a few years, i was surprised that dude who used to pretty much only play keys was now pretty much only playing guitar. he's a good guitarist but i missed the keys tbh, my fave song live had him on keys and the "secret weapon" on flute. the flute playing was great bc he wasn't doing jazz solos or whatever, he was doubling the keyboard part and it sounded amazing.

new video btw http://www.thefader.com/2013/09/24/video-cave-shikaakwa/

lol i think that's the track i was just talking about with the flute.

cave cruise! http://t.co/oLVJYPPLzK

new album is dope

Ha. La Lechera, I dj'd that gig in absentia. Cooper just used a bunch of mix tapes i've made for him over the years for the incidental music.
i was surprised that dude who used to pretty much only play keys was now pretty much only playing guitar.
Two different dudes.

They played in town on Halloween. I got to sing a cover of "Sister Ray" with them at the end of the set. Lots of fun.

that sounds awesome -- where's the youtube?

I don't even have a photo!
I was wearing a pink blouse, blue shades, and a blonde wig.

Ugh that sounds SO FUN!! Did you sing the whole thing?! man that sounds like fun.

All I remember from your mix was Bohannon but it was enjoyable!

We didn't play it for twenty minutes. I sang maybe three verses and improvised a "freakout" that climaxed with repetition of the phrase "don't shake me, lucifer." We were going to cover a Roky Erickson song but current events changed our original plan.

'silver headband' on the new one is so sick. not many can evoke the neu! vibe without resorting to a generic motorik beat. agree with tyler on the rest of it pulling serious fusion moves.

they're playing a reunion(?) show on new years

recent interview with cooper crain said there'd be a new Cave album out this year ... but I haven't heard anything else.
Cave drummer is playing with Nathan Bowles now ... http://www.nyctaper.com/2017/10/nathan-bowles-trio-september-8-2017-three-lobed-wxdu-hopscotch-afternoon-jamboree-raleigh-nc/

an erstwhile ilxor is DJing!

i am thinking about going
wondered what happened to their drummer -- who's playing if it's not that guy?

haha yeah i just noticed trip maker in this thread!

i had heard the reason cave hadn't been playing shows was cuz the drummer had moved. but your guess is as good as mine whether or not he'll be playing new years. i hope he is, though

ha yeah, i hope that they're making a long distance relationship work — Cave w/o that drummer seems a little pointless.

i thought BBs were CAVE w/o that drummer
;)

i am just wondering which local drummer would be his repacement -- an unknown? one of the many excellent known drummers in Chicago?