Bas Jan

Originally released on Lost Map Records 28/01/22,Bas Jan's second LP 'Baby U Know' is being re-released on red vinyl by Fire Records on March 19th 2023. " Bas Jan do high-art pop on a low budget" 9/10 Uncut Magazine "Full of emotional U-turns, musical detours and conversational leaps, Baby U Know demands and deserves undivided attention" 4* MOJO Magazine. Bas Jan features Serafina Steer, Emma Smith on violin, bass and electronics, Rachel Horwood on drums and Charlie Stock on electric violin. Their debut album Yes I Jan was followed in 2018 with the release of the Instant Nostalgia EP also in, shows around the UK and Europe, and dates at festivals including Green Man, Doune the Rabbit Hole and End of the Road. “Baby U Know marks a consolidation of Bas Jan as a four piece,” says Serafina. “It was recorded at Cafe OTO in London over three day. Getting the Arts Council Funding and making the album represented a coming together out of the solitudes of 2020, carving out the possibility of a future for the band at a time when Brexit and Everything cast all those things very much into doubt or, at best, made them a very low priority. The time constraints of having to finish the record before one of the band entered third trimester of pregnancy, and with a winter lockdown pending, probably added a rawness to these recordings. It’s kind of a pragmatically hopeful record.”