Bitchin Bajas (USA)
Bitchin Bajas (USA)
The American Bitchin Bajas trio blends hypnotic, all‑encompassing progressive electronics with neo‑psychedelic slow flights; their latest album, the 2025 Inland See, appears on year‑end lists of prestigious magazines such as Uncut, and the three musicians recently toured with an important band like Stereolab. The Chicago outfit arrives in Hungary for the first time with a krautrock‑rooted, improvisation‑incorporating, peaceful, meditative performance.
The Bitchin Bajas, built around keyboardist‑guitarist Cooper Crain, started around 2010, originally as a side project of the more spacey, more psychedelic band Cave, but over time Bitchin Bajas became Crain’s more important and successful project, with which he has already released more than twenty records, including collaborative albums, singles, and film scores with Bonnie Prince Billy, Moon Duo, and Natural Information Society. Bitchin Bajas’s sound evolved out of the ambient, drone‑y, progressive‑electronic branch of krautrock, featuring long, repetitive, meditative instrumental pieces, but alongside the kraut heroes they also paid tribute, for example, to Sun Ra’s space jazz. With their highly successful 2022 album Bajascillators, which also evoked the minimalists (Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley), they toured for years, then brought the joy of playing together into the studio and recorded their latest album, Inland See, live in one room. It still effectively summons the German heroes: the pulse of early Kraftwerk and Neu! (the former’s use of flute as well), Cluster’s electronic textures, Manuel Göttsching’s ethereal moods, and Popol Vuh’s meditative spirituality. This is otherworldly music that pulls you out of time and space, carrying you live into a playful, atmospheric world. It’s worth signing up for this journey.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
