{"id":9808,"date":"2015-10-11T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T11:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2015-10-11T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T11:35:59","slug":"bitchin-bajas-set-to-kick-off-european-tour-first-uk-shows-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=9808","title":{"rendered":"Bitchin Bajas set to kick off European tour, first UK shows later this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9809\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9809\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed71.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:  Jeremiah Chiu\" width=\"476\" height=\"271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed71.jpg 476w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed71-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:  Jeremiah Chiu<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chicago&#8217;s experimental trio <a href=\"http:\/\/bitchinbajas.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitchin Bajas<\/a> are about to embark on an extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragcity.com\/tours#bitchin-bajas\" target=\"_blank\">European tour<\/a>, starting this Wednesday 14th in San Sebastian, Spain. This tour also marks their first ever performances in the UK, with a handful of shows taking place, including a London date on October 26th at Cafe Oto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bitchin Bajas&#8217; latest musical explorations saw them joining forces with fellow Chicago based band <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalinformationsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Information Society<\/a>. <em>Automaginary<\/em> is the fruit of this perfect collaboration, a full-length album released last August via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragcity.com\" target=\"_blank\">Drag City<\/a>. As the label described, &#8220;the exploratory sonics of these two groups emerge from different, yet occasionally parallel paths to meld into a psychedelic, ambient and jazz-fried coalescence &#8211; yet their sum is equal to none of these things in particular, either, arriving on an astral plane unique and of its own.&#8221;.<br \/>\nListen to <em>Automaginary<\/em>&#8216;s opening track &#8216;Anemometer&#8217; and straight after let yourself be absorbed by \u2018Pieces of Tape&#8217;, taken from Bitchin Bajas&#8217; 2014 eponymous album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KxIJ3oT_LaQ?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/184530965&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s experimental trio Bitchin Bajas are about to embark on an extensive European tour, starting this Wednesday 14th in San Sebastian, Spain. This tour also marks their first ever performances in the UK, with a handful of shows taking place, including a London date on October 26th at Cafe Oto. Bitchin Bajas&#8217; latest musical explorations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[476,1340],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-bitchin-bajas","tag-national-information-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}