Bitchin Bajas

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?

i'm here for it!

it's very satisfying, i'm into it

serious spiritual hat vibes

Loving the new Rob Frye--also, thought the Les Atelier Claus live BBs album released at the beginning of this year was fantastic and maybe dug some of its soundboard versions to studio ones of the same jams

(More than, rather)

Sun Ra covers album coming later this month! Very PSYCHed for this; their cover of "Angels And Demons At Play" on the last album was really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztOtKBcTAY

Released today! Listening now, it's as excellent as expected. Only complaint is that the cassette was supposed to ship today too, but the email notification I received with the download said that it would now be shipping in December. I mean I get pressing plants are backed up for vinyl releases but how hard is it to manufacture a cassette to arrive on time?

Everything, literally everything is backed up at some point in the chain right now. Got a lot of CDs I've ordered from smaller labels that I've been waiting on for months. It's a mess.

Even CDs? Man, that sucks. I didn't mean to imply it was the band's fault. Just seemed weird to push back a cassette release but sounds like this will be the rule rather than the excepetion until things get sorted out

i got my cassette last week (but i also live in chicago). maybe the initial run sold out?

Yeah, mine came last week as well. Might depend when you ordered it?

had no idea they were doing this, I need to check it out

cassette turnarounds (in europe anyway) are around 2 weeks currently, yet i'm seeing lots of tape release delays. my guess is that labels underestimated demand.

The bandcamp page now says cassettes ship 11/30, so I'm assuming they sold out of the first run and are ordering more.

From what I can tell, it's not the manufacturing as much as the shipping. I pre-ordered the new Howlin' Rain CD that was released on 10/8. Got an update on 10/16 that the LPs and CDs were still sitting on a container ship waiting to unload in San Francisco. Two weeks on from that and still nothing new, shit is just a mess.

ah yes, US ports are crazily backed up.

I love this so much. It captures Ra's starry-eyed space age optimistic side in a really reverent way while remaining extremely BITCHIN

Agree - it's wonderful

this band can do no wrong imo

this album gets better each time I play it

Yeah, this is great!

I wouldn't mind a new CAVE album while we are at it.

samesies

doing a short Midwest tour with Ryley Walker in March:

https://townsquare.media/site/838/files/2021/12/attachment-ryley-bitchin.jpeg?w=540&h=675&q=75