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Cajita

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About Me


Welcome to cajita’s myspace page.
If you're new to cajita, have a listen to the music. . .if you like it, let me know, cos I like hearing stuff like that.
Keep coming back, as the tracks here will keep changing. New tracks will be posted up here before they are released anywhere else. . .in fact, pretty much as soon as they are recorded. Make sure to check cajita’s forthcoming gigs, too. If there’s one near you, why not come along, see the live show and say hi afterwards?
Here’s a bit about cajita:
cajita is me, jay chakravorty. I'm originally from Wales, now living in Bristol. I make songs with instruments, voices and computers. I also play live with the help of some lovely and fantastic musicians and friends and have toured a bit, supporting people like Art Brut, 8mm and Merz, as well as playing on the same bill as Plaid, Ulrich Schnauss and Bjork. The live cajita show is a mix of live looping, beats and electronica, trumpets, vocal harmonies, guitar and piano. A review I like called it “melancholic, toe-tapping, danceable loveliness”, which is kind of what I'm going for, so that's all good. I also occasionally do solo gigs, which vary from just live-looped guitars and vocals to full on electronica sets if I'm feeling particularly ambitious.There is a story to how I got the name "cajita", but it's not as interesting as you might hope.
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Member Since: 8/1/2005
Band Website: cajita.co.uk
Band Members: Jay Chakravorty - vocals, guitars, keys, programming, everything . . . except:
Jim Cornick - any trumpet parts you might hear.

LIVE:
Jay - vocals, guitars, piano, mandolin etc
Jim - vocals, trumpet, piano, guitar
Sy Ashdown - laptop, kaoss pad, all electronics and percussion.

Released on various little labels, but to all intents and purposes:
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

America, Bjork, and cajita’s forthcoming album - an update.

Hello you.Well, it's been ages since I've done a proper one of these. I've got quite a lot of stuff to tell you about, so rather than chopping it all up into bite-size chunks, I thought I'd just sit a...
Posted by Cajita on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:13:00 PST

new gigs for June. . .

Hey hey. . Just a quick note to tell you about a couple of gigs coming up in June.We've got a free entry, headline slot at The Fleece next Tuesday with Yanmolby and Radio Phone-in. I actually met one ...
Posted by Cajita on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:11:00 PST

BBC Bristol interview. . .

Hello you.Just a very quick note to say that there's an interview with me here for BBC Bristol's Fine Tuned.Thanks to some sharp editing and some judicious re-asking of questions, I actually come acro...
Posted by Cajita on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:44:00 PST

Buy this album now. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Hey everybody,Here's something you should do:Go and buy Glow's album "I, Yeah!" right bloody now.They're on my top friends list thing. Visit their site, follow the links and buy it.It's new, it's £5, ...
Posted by Cajita on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:30:00 PST

Live radio session in LA tonight. . .

Hi!Just a quick message to say that I’m here in Hollywood at the moment and I’ll be doing a live session for the Alchemist’s Playground on KCLA fm tonight (15th March). You can liste...
Posted by Cajita on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:44:00 PST

recording an album pt 4

hello again. . .well, new year, new blog post. i know this probably seems like a glacial rate of bloggage (yes, that IS a word. shut up) but it's all i can muster. don't want to be blogging when there...
Posted by Cajita on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:27:00 PST

recording an album pt 3

hi everyone. . .sorry it's been so long since the last one of these. . .a lot has been happening, including (but not limited to) rehearsals, recordings, a dog dying and cajita being played on bbc 6mus...
Posted by Cajita on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:00:00 PST

cajita on BBC 6Music

hi all. . .just a really quick message."don't panic" was played on tom robinson's BBC 6music show "Introducing" last night. it was on very late at night (actually, very early this morning), but was al...
Posted by Cajita on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:00:00 PST

recording an album pt 2

hi! more blog about the album.but first, here's the exciting news about the live show:there's a new member of cajita. he's called sy and he also makes music under the name Morning Theft (see my top fr...
Posted by Cajita on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:27:00 PST

recording an album pt1

ok. . .here's a new blog thing. i'm recording an album at the moment. some of you will know this already, some of you won't and some of you will have heard it all before. but this time it's true, i sw...
Posted by Cajita on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:58:00 PST