Bitchin Bajas
Jon Mueller
Thursday October 13th 9pm doors
Trumpet Blossom Cafe $15 / $10 students

Bitchin Bajas are a musical trio from Chicago playing meditative and textured music with hypnotic and rhythmic qualities combining electronic and acoustic instruments. Their new record Bajascillatorsis out 9/2 on Drag City, Inc.
And suddenly! With a tactile clunk, Bajascillators bubbles to the surface.
“Amorpha”, a side-long shower of synthetic bells and bass, as patterns interlock and repeat and the beat within the bar lines shifts constantly, forms a new, latest miniature of infinity. You flip it, and “Geomancy” resets you, starting anew, with heavy drift and drone leading into a space of shorter broken lines and
middle-eastern micro-tonalities, that roll back into ether again — new spaces, but
mysteriously consonant with the vibe.
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Jon Mueller’s The Future is Unlimited, Always is an examination of time, meditation and loss. In this piece, released in 2022 on the Virtues label as a CD/book, the Wisconsin-based percussionist’s usual bombast of repetitive rhythms and textures are replaced with fluid, calm tones, overlaid with otherworldly wails. In live performances of the piece, Mueller employs a variety of gongs, percussion and electronics to create an atmosphere equally as easy to get lost in as it is to be propelled by.

“Mueller’s music is usually completed by the overtones and feedback that arise from the interaction between his playing and the space where it occurs, but for this recording he has drawn those elements into the foreground. Long vocal and metallic tones stretch over subliminally rumbling drums, directing the listener’s attention up and out.” – Bill Meyer, The Wire