Next week, Bitchin Bajas de-leash their new album, Bitchitronics (out July 16 on Drag City). You’ve already heard album cut, “Sun City,” in its fullness and entirety, and now you can get an unblind taste test of the rest of Bitchitronics with the added thrill of it still being in a pre-released stage. What! In case you don’t feel sufficiently prepared, check this: Bitchitronics was mostly recorded in a house in Fennville, Michigan, utilizing three tape machines: two to make loops and execute the Bitchitronics™ sound system while a third player captured the combined sounds of the loops and live interactions. Bitchitronics is the first Bitchin Bajas record made as a trio, blending woodwinds with a mix of electric keys, posthuman tones and tape loops.
Bitchin Bajas play a special Bitchitronics release show in Chicago at Constellation this Friday, July 12, accompanied by special guests on guitar, harp synth, two violas, double bass and bass clarinet. Catch them ripping it up (slowly and methodically) in a Midwestern city near you this summer.
Fri. July 12 – Chicago, IL @ Constellation (Bitchitronics record release show) [buy tix]
Thu. Aug. 8 – Chicago, IL @ Situations
Sat. Aug. 17 – Chicago, IL @ ESS SummerSonic
Sun. Aug. 25 – Chesterhill, OH @ Traysh Island (Harold Arts) [buy tix]
Sat. Aug. 24 – Indianapolis, IN @ Cataracts Music Festival
Mon. Sep. 9 – Chicago, IL @ Burlington
PRAISE FOR BITCHITRONICS:
“Like a dream collab between Fripp & Eno circa No Pussyfooting and peak period Alice Coltrane, Bitchin Bajas’ Bitchitronics long player is a stupendous set of spiritual, cosmic bliss.” – Aquarium Drunkard
“The music washes over you in soothing, reverberant waves packed with subtle instrumental detail… The melodic extended guitar solo on ‘Transcendence’ harks back to early Eno, with hypnotic rhythms that cut against simmering long tones, and the fragile ‘Inclusion’ collages sun-dappled backward guitar and ethereal, fluttering flute.” – Chicago Reader
“Looking for a safe, legal head trip? Take a journey through the canyons of this mesmerizing 16-minute epic [‘Turiya’], which finds surprising variety in oozing synthesizer sounds… Check out if you like: Brain-melting electronic pioneers such as Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, and Can.” – Mother Jones
“‘Sun City’ is on the short side at just over five minutes, but that’s plenty of time for it to transport its listener to some sort of astral plane via beautifully layered, pulsing, Schulze-ian electronics.” – Ad Hoc
“[Cooper] Crain and collaborators Dan Quinlivan and Rob Frye harness tape looping and delay systems in four sessions of beatless, gorgeous, hi-fi drone that channel the likes of Fripp & Eno, Tangerine Dream, and Alice Coltrane more faithfully than anything these ears have heard in a long while.” – Tiny Mix Tapes
“Bitchin Bajas are here to exorcise out the stress from your mind by summoning the mighty powers of the fiery planet with ‘Sun City.’ This is that mind transporting sound you want to hear in virtually every documentary about space, science, nature, religious cults, or whatever else you’re into while Walter Cronkite-esque narrator dishes out the avuncular details.” – Impose Magazine
