Inland See is the latest album by Chicago based experimental trio Bitchin Bajas who are still Cooper Crain, Rob Frye and Daniel Quinlivan who recorded the album at Studio B at Electrical Audio in Chicago, they are currently on an extensive US tour.
The album opens with Skylarking that sounds nothing like the Horace Andy monument, it doesn't skank along, instead it is gentle pulsing synths and a shaker conjuring up a tune to sit on a lawn staring at the sky too. The super laid-back sax will help you drift away, while identifying the clouds in the sky, the tune mellifluously builds its own glacial space.
Reno is far slower and more downbeat than Johnathan Richman's song about the divorce capital of America, the piano line hints at this being a most pleasant parting of the ways, a heartbeat like pulse with some rather Chinese sounding elements evoke the sadness that the marriage is over.
Keiji Dreams is a slow investigation, into the right frequencies to induce a dream state in the listener, play this at just the right volume and whole vistas will open up if you close your eyes and start to meditate, to the supple transformative sound they have created with mutating tonalities.
The album closes with the 18 minutes of Graut that I have no idea if its based on Prins Thomas tune of the same name, or is just the music you should play while making some Graut for breakfast, the way it ululates in places like you are stirring a big bowl and slowly adding some milk and salt to the oatmeal mixture, when the drums come slowly in, you start to wonder if this will taste better with some lingonberry jam or not. I'm also wondering if I will be served some for Breakfast when I arrive within the arctic circle in the next week or so. Is this a tribute to Swedish or Norwegian Graut is another question on my mind, the beat slowly evolves, with the addition of some other worldly sounds enveloped in a monster groove
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