Bitchin Bajas

this is wonderful

dronestreet parts of '2023' (later sections with the horns) remind me of stuart dempster, check it out if you haven't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_CmOIuNKmU

i don't think i've ever heard any of his music; thanks for the rec!

finally seeing these folks tonight, pumped for it!

Radical -- I think they're super great live. Oh ...and the new record is their best, I think.

Also...last time they let me sit right in the middle of the amps because it was at a museum, and sound wasn't carrying too much. A++, highly recommended venue tactic.

i would agree about this most recent rec being their best! i also think they'd come across better in a gallery type setting versus the rock venue i'll be seeing them in tonight, but hopefully there won't be a ton of chatty drunken ppl

crowds are unusually standoffish at worst at their chicago shows, never rowdy
hometown shows are likely to bring out the usual cast of characters too so they aren't going to be disrespectful
i have never seen them outside of chicago -- maybe it's different elsewhere!

you can usually hear a pin drop at their chicago shows

sounds perfect

I helped organize a show they played in Atlanta & the audience was really great. It was at a weird arty people venue not a rock venue though.

i'll periscope the whole gig and you all can chime in with hearts if its arty, and a frowny face if its more of a rocker crowd

Majority of their stuff got added to Spotify (UK) this week!

New album is so good, want "Jammu" to play on a loop all day

Saw them for the first time last night -- a really good show, just them and all their gear (and a flute and sax), doing a short but perfect set of exploratory pieces that hit a perfect balance between compact and understated improvisation.

amazing band...up there with the brilliant Dick Diver in the "this band name ain't doing you any favors" hall of fame

watch this space in the next week or so...

https://southernjukeboxmusic.com/

last record just keeps getting better

agreed^^

whatever happened w/ this:

Also good to hear that there's a new Cave album on the way ... later this year?

the last BB album was so good it made all the previous ones kinda moot for me, in a way. Like, it felt like such a huge step forward that the others all retrospectively sound like rehearsals for Bajas Fresh. I still really love the 2xLP s/t though

https://southernjukeboxmusic.com/home/bitchin-bajas

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awwww yeah, excited to check that one out.

they were selling some split single at the show the other night but i didn't pick it up. can't find any mention of it online either

calling all CD fans!
http://www.dragcity.com/products/rebajas

I do rather love that this is happening.

CDs are so unpopular that bitchin bajas are embracing them

sweet

btw this was the release i mentioned four weeks ago: https://www.discogs.com/Bitchin-Bajas-DSR-Lines-The-Encyclopedia-Of-Civilizations-Vol2-Atlantis/release/12152204

yeeeesss!

signed,

a cd fan

Cds forever <3

CDs are so unpopular that bitchin bajas are embracing them

― tylerw, Monday, July 16, 2018 1:14 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark

lol yes

kidding aside, i feel like CDs are the best medium for the BBs, like ECM records or the necks ...

I read an article about this very thing recently (stuff that's better on CD), and it even mentioned the Necks as an example iirc (not sure I agree though. Unfold was as good as any Necks album). On The Guardian maybe? Forgot to bookmark.

Even though I feel like BB peaked with the most recent album, I will definitely be buying this set because I'm less familiar with the earliest stuff and also it's really inexpensive

i'm just tired of flipping records every 15 minutes

Especially when you've spent those 15 minutes melting into the couch...

not sure how i feel about this image but it was about time someone capitalized on this idea, of course it was the BBs
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DztXLZsXQAM1bKJ.jpg

furry freak homage?

apprehensive about googling "furry freak" at work

it was a countercultural underground comic from the 70s and 80s about three hippie wastoids ... kind of cheech and chong-ish

one of the characters looks like that guy

https://www.comicartfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gilbert-Shelton-Freak-Brithers-1969-tshirt.jpg

ah yeah that looks familiar. men!

haha i’ve described them to friends who don’t listen to weirdo stuff as ‘yoga music’

https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/demeter

:D

Nice!

i wonder if there will be any bajas at the deep listening workshop i am co-hosting tonight!?
(answer: not likely)

from their bandcamp -

Hello
We have been working to get our full catalog up over these last few months. We have just put all the collaborative releases we've made with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Natural Information Society and Olivia Wyatt (original film soundtrack) up on our bandcamp page.

Bajas Fresh is now back in stock on 2xLP

brand new Bitchin Bajas releases coming later in 2021...

Thank you for all of your support
Peace

great news!

Their set from Constellation Chicago a few weeks back was great.
There is a Duophonic single in the works. They got along very well with Stereolab on tour.

That Atelier Claus live set on their BC page is fantastic IMO--very impressed that they performed it with a hastily-assembled backline due to van theft

Re Constellation — vastly superior to many of the online performances I’ve seen because they do an amazing job of micing & camera work. If you zoop the video to a tv & turn off the lights & crank the volume, it’s not unlike actually being there.

this album by BB member Rob Frye, which has the other BBs as well as noted Chicago musicians like Ben Lamar Gay and Quin Kirchner, is so good:
https://astralexoplanet.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanet
like Bitchin Bajas going cosmic jazz?