Bitchin Bajas

Bitchin Bajas: Inland See [Vinyl LP]

Bitchin Bajas apparently have a new album coming out in 2022. But while Cooper Crain and his trio waited for their vinyl to get pressed—along with everyone else in the music industry not named Adele—they sat down and expanded on a really great idea they had on their last album, Bajas Fresh. Their version of almighty jazz pianist Sun Ra’s “Angels and Demons at Play'' was one of their most inspired experiments and, per the Spotify streaming numbers, one of their most popular. Now here’s a full album of Sun Ra interpretations made on 19 vintage keyboards and little else, available only through streaming services and on cassette, and supporting a Chicago organization that connects art instructors to prisoners at Illinois’ Stateville Maximum Security Prison.

Bitchin Bajas: Inland See [Kassettband]

Sourced from Inland See sessions, the first two songs dropped on Qobuz in Jan this year. "Watch your Step" adds balance, acidity and completion to the vinyl edition: three cuts, edits and tweaks, electroacoustic textures of sampled kalimba, field recordings, autoharp and EWI activating quadrants of the Bajas cinematic soniverse. Recorded analog - 2" multitrack tape & ½" 2-track - for the clarity and fidelity of "maximal minimalism." RIYL: Herbie Hancock, Steve Reich

Sourced from Inland See sessions, the first two songs dropped on Qobuz in Jan this year. "Watch your Step" adds balance, acidity and completion to the vinyl edition: three cuts, edits and tweaks, electroacoustic textures of sampled kalimba, field recordings, autoharp and EWI activating quadrants of the Bajas cinematic soniverse. Recorded analog - 2" multitrack tape & ½" 2-track - for the clarity and fidelity of "maximal minimalism." RIYL: Herbie Hancock, Steve Reich

Keep on flowing BB, so chill and pretty, with your next-man expansions of the walls and bridges of our sonic universe, synthesizing amidst a separate but also growing ecosystem and packaged sweetly in standard vinyl and unlimited cassette editions. Wow, there's not enough "sh"s in "Fresh" to convey what we're trying to say....

To pour some out for one of their heroes, the cosmos' own Sun Ra, Bitchin Bajas simply cut a slice of their own DNA and amplify it! Or something like that: they clearly vibe with Ra in hypno-symbiosis, setting the controls of their analog synths for the heart of Sun. Bonus mixtribute: a heartfelt doff to Queen Wendy C, sythnaut and another mother!