the band CAVE

CAVE and Wume (WUME? haven't heard them yet but was recommended to me by a record store employee) are playing
* in my neighborhood
* two days after my birthday
* at 5pm

Thank you, cosmos!

Wume is almost the name of the town where Faust lived/recorded

So this show was really good! Wume had a weird setup with the synths and drums facing each other and then a sax player over on the side. A few problems with executing the extended jams, but they show a lot of promise. Sad they forgot their records, I would have bought one. Looking forward to hearing what they do in the future for sure.

Cave were the same as they always are -- tight and forward-moving. You can see me scratching my shoulder in the venue's fb cover image though!
https://www.facebook.com/experimentalsoundstudio

for now at least

cool...these guys have anything new coming out? guess it hasn't been that long since the last LP, but ...

I love a day show. Never heard of Wume. The Cave sets in my town last weekend were fun, it was nice to hear a new song and some reworked older material. The event on the Missouri River was kind of disappointing. Isis from the Source family dug it, though.

There are plans for future releases but I think it may take some time. I think that there may be more Bitchin Bajas stuff available before the new Cave stuff. Oh, someone in Chicago has started up a flexi label (flexi-discs like you used to get in cereal boxes or whatever) and Cave is going to do one of those. I think there will only be a couple hundred copies. I am sure the track will be included on another release. It's a good track, includes a flute solo.

it was really fun to see them play in a small garden setting though -- cicada noises between songs and whatnot

And it isn't that Cave was disappointing at the River gig, just that the event itself was kind of a drag for the volunteers and talent.
Don't really want to elaborate beyond that.

xpost that sounds like fun.

And it isn't that Cave was disappointing at the River gig, just that the event itself was kind of a drag for the volunteers and talent.

aw man, bummerz.

saw these dudes like two years ago, still one of the best shows i've seen in a looooong time.

Haven't been able to catch them before, but psyched to see them at a house-show here in Indianapolis in a couple weeks.

Yes. House. Show.

ps you can listen to some wume here if you want http://wumeworld.net/music/

http://loudlooppress.com/media/watch-cave-groove-on-giant-system/

The flexi is neat! Cool art and great sound. It's a Rotted Tooth release: http://rottedtoothrecordings.com/
Looks like Wume has worked with Rotted Tooth. I think one of the guys from Wume has been adding parts to Cave recordings, like the flute on the flexi track. ooh Running has, too. Those guys are great. Check this hilarious tour diary from when Running went out with CAVE last year
http://www.scribd.com/doc/73922812/Cave-Running-Tour-Journal-Fall-2011

I like this video made by a guy from/with the Chicago Film Archives:
http://vimeo.com/48320861

I meant that running has worked with Rotted Tooth, not added to Cave recordings. Garbledy.

tour diary is lol

Saw 'em last Friday and it was predictably great. Such a great band.

haw that chicago film archives vid is awesome/insane

man, i don't know if i can support a record label with that name
but i do think wume are one to watch
dilemmas...

lol at

As bad as it got out there on the road with Cave we learned a fewvaluable lessons that are sure to stick with us for years to come.Similar to the way scars stick with you after severe cigarette burnshave been inflicted on you, or the way $7,438 of credit debt will stickwith you because you let Cave talk you into out bidding a guy fromMacau on EBay for a signed copy of the new Lou Reed and MetallicaCD Lulu that turned out to be fake anyway.

Oh yeah! They were listening to Lulu really deliberately, one new song a day.
They figured that was the only way they would get through it.
lol at Lechera's reaction to Rotted tooth.
That film archives video uses a brand new recording.
Jeremy Freeze from Jerusalem and the Starbaskets is playing guitar in CAVE right now.
He's gone out on tour with them before, but these new tracks are the first time he's recorded with them.

oh cool, i didn't know that! is he on that recording posted just above (the vimeo)? that song is awesome. the visuals are great too.

yes, he is. He's on the flexi, too.
They are in Europe RIGHT NOW
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/cave

Oh wait, I just remembered that I saw Jeruselem and the Starbaskets when they opened for CAVE and they were great!

^i love all their records

Steeple in the Sky ftw

Jerusalem and CAVE are "home" for the holiday, they each did a set last night. Both sounded amazing. After touring Europe, CAVE is just tight as hell. They sounded like fucking Deep Purple or something. I was blown away.

Jerusalem played Steeple and it ruled. They played a bunch of old songs.
Kim was feeling under the weather, though, so they cut their planned hour-long set short.

They sounded like fucking Deep Purple or something.
sounds awesome. listening pure moods right now -- kind of think it might be my favorite thing ... ever?

I missed EVERY LAST ONE of their many recent local shows, but I do plan to make a special trip to buy the latest Bitchin Bajas EP.
I'd even be a booster. I recommend "Jelly" to fans of slow warm droney atmospheric music with a faint hint of melody.
https://soundcloud.com/bitchin-bajas/

hmmm yeah this bitchin bajas stuff is bitchin! what is the connect betw. cave and these guys again?

cooper crain iirc?

still totally disgusted by rotted tooth btw. what's with these guys and nomenclature? i do like the name of the new ep though ;)

"jelly" is definitely some excellent terry riley kinda stuff.

totally -- if i'm not going crazy, they seem to be getting incrementally more melodic, so i hope they reach (and stay at) a comfortable balance of drone and melody. on an appealing trajectory, but i haven't heard the new one yet. their sound is always warm, that hasn't changed.

ok now i'm down a bitchin bajas rabbit hole. new favorite band!

yay! my work here is done.

look what i got over the weekend! (not a ceiling fan)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8248/8519440201_a9d9062c3d.jpg

went to the store for the special green version, it's pretty

the sound is what i expected EXCEPT each track gets progressively more and more layered (to the point of busyness occasionally but usually evens out) and ends with a midtempo jam that lends itself to dancing, more like a cave song but through an 80s electropop filter. kinda weird! i like it.

Actually, the dance jam at the end of one of the title track isn't 80s, more Neu. Either way, I like it. Wish I had gone to at least ONE of those shows, but OH WELL.

Bajas just played a local gig last week! BB started as Cooper's solo gig, but has since expanded to a three piece. There is already another album in the can and lots of stuff in progress, too, I think. I heard some of the new Cave record-in-progress, too, and I'm really excited about it.

bajas may tour dates FYI
bitchitronics coming to a town near you

Bitchin Bajas May tour dates:

9 - Indianpolis, IN @ House

10 - Columbus, OH @ Double Happiness

11 - Pittsburgh, PA @ 6119

12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Little Berlin

16 - Portland, ME @ tba

17 - Boston, MA @ Video Underground

18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Body Actualized

19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Body Actualized * Cosmic Yoga

23 - Lafayette, IN @ tba

24 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle

wtf is cosmic yoga?!

pretty much what their new album sounds like! i got a promo and i was blasting it -- my wife asked "are you doing yoga up there?"

cave or bitchies?

bitchin bajas new one

yeah, it's really good! the end of each song gets a little fast for yoga, or at least my kind of yoga. more like groovy dance party!

Every Sunday we host a Cosmic Yoga party. These parties involve a more relaxed and casual yoga class accompanied by live music, performed by various artists and bands. After yoga, our chefs create raw/living foods dinner which are provided at affordable and reasonable prices

here's the info on the new one, in inimitable drag city style

Bitchin Bajas are back, baby! Their new album Bitchitronics, out July 16, 2013 on Drag City, is ready with the quickness we expect from the Chicago-based band - which is funny, since their area of expertise and mastery is in the area of synthetic ephemeral sonic languidity known more instinctively, inclusively (and let's face it, irresponsibly) as drone music. Put it this way - they make slow music at a fast pace. Bitchitronics is their first realized record as a trio.

Since their first appearance way back in 2010, Bitchin Bajas approach has been simple - unfold tones via synth and keyboard, allowing micro-frequencies to press against each other in a way that pleases the ear, the mind and the soul. From record to record (three albums, a split 7" and a split 12", a cassette and an 12"EP), their process is redefined by confronting the technologies of formative and outmoded machines, sliding into different quadrants of the ambient/post-organic/electronic/and drone universe each time around. Thus, the experience of slipping inside their music seems so singular and pure, like floating naked in a sensory deprivation tank. Just us and our minds and the music. Simple, right? But other things occur underneath...

For Bitchitronics, the concept was: use tape techniques to create and then solve problems - loops and edits were there to make things fun and the music great in the style of experimental tape pioneers upon whose shoulders the Bajas play. Mission bitchin' accomplished! Recording was mostly done in, all over and around a house in Fennville, MI with three tape machines reeling in the sounds - sometimes, in addition to sounds that have never seen the light of day, you're also hearing the sound of the light of day on the tape (or when they recorded at night, evening stars). Two 1/4" tape machines were utilized to make loops and execute the Bitchitronics sound system, one of which discreetly captured the combined sounds of the loops with live playing. Once done, it was back to HQ where edits of the 1/4" recordings were utilized to create larger tapestries on the 2-track master tape.

You want to use the Bitchitronics method for yourself? That's how it's done! Taking the long path to realize this album makes for some heavenly music indeed.

that sounds maximum fruity
would stretch/breathe under those conditions...maybe?

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!