Bitchin Bajas

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

new one sounds great

https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/bajascillators

heard it on the radio! yeah it's pretty cool

Can we get these dudes and Horse Lords to tour all over the country, please? Seems to be timing out well this time.

This year's album is utterly lovely, especially the first track which is like Steve Reich meets In a Silent Way.

Yes, first track is a highlight.

There’s also an alternate version of “Quackenbush” floating around out there which I prefer to the album version.

They just did a dc area gig and one in Baltimore both near me and I missed em both unfortunately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmsi-CBnyOk

Thanks for the heads-up, 'Amorpha' is delicious

wow this band has been around for almost a decade!!

haha, i still sort of think of them as a Cave side-project, but I guess that is not really the case, is it

understanding its origin as a side project makes it considerably easier to look past the truly shitty band name imo :)

i love BBs but i do miss cave

every now and then Cave's instagram will spring to life (with generally random posts), so maybe they're not entirely kaput.

I miss Cave, too. But they just released an album in 2018 ... which I recognize is 4+ years ago, but I don't think they're gone for good.

feels like literally a million years ago, haha

personally i love the band name

― the late great, Monday, 26 August 2013 18:04 (nine years ago)

New album is bitchin, as usual!

yeah i love the name

i think i remember them saying at their last show NYE a few years back that one of the cave members lives in nyc now? given how local scene oriented the other members are, it would explain the relative inactivity