“There’s this feeling like some kind of aural vertigo…Divergent sounds collide at surprising angles, melting together to create verdant sonic architecture.” -Foxy Digitalis
“Saajtak harness the power of improvisation for good” –Chicago Reader
“Saajtak … make[s] a sort of indefinable music where you can catch a glimpse of prog rock, glitch electronica, dream pop, and experimental chamber music without ever being able to pin the songs down to any one of those styles.” - New Sounds
“With their combined forces, Saajtak are nothing if not unpredictable, bobbing between feverish noise and lush, operatic soundscapes with the agility of a hummingbird.” –Detroit Music Magazine
“Genre-bending… Saajtak utilizes each instrumentalist's training in jazz and improvisation to arrange transfixing suites that sound invigoratingly untamed, like seven-minute odysseys through experimental electronica, post-rock, trip-hop, and cosmic opera” –Metro Times
“One of the most intriguing and unclassifiable bands in the country right now” –Tone Madison
“Some of my favorite 80s/90s vocalists come to mind; almost like a duet between Björk and Elizabeth Fraser, but there’s also something wholly unexpected about Saajtak’s sound.” -Cvlt Nation
The band Saajtak, based in Detroit (Jonathan Barahal Taylor, Ben Willis, Simon Alexander-Adams) and Brooklyn (Alex Koi), makes futuristic music that synthesizes a wide range of genres—often in ways that seem to clash against each other, always in service to the song. The band has quietly made music in Detroit for the better part of a decade, collaborating with members of clipping. and sharing bills with Xiu Xiu, Ava Mendoza and Greg Fox. Koi sings and writes lyrics; Taylor plays drums, Willis bass; Alexander-Adams contributes keyboard and electronics. But to individuate their contributions does the music a disservice. Saajtak sounds, feels, like a living, breathing organism, for which recordings don’t present definitive documents as much as they reflect songs at given points in their lives. After four independently-released EPs, saajtak released their highly anticipated debut album, For the Makers, on American Dreams on June 3, 2022.
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Photos by Karl Otto