Bas Jan features Serafina Steer, Emma Smith on violin, bass and electronics, Rachel Horwood on drums and Charlie Stock on electric violin.

Bas Jan is the vehicle for well-established musicians Serafina Steer (Jarv IS…), Emma Smith (Jarv IS…, Meilyr Jones, Seamus Fogarty, Elysian Quartet) and Charlie Stock (The Irrepressibles) and percussionist, Rachel Horwood (Trash Kit, Bamboo).

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 and End OF The Road.

The newly expanded, London-based ensemble released their second album ‘Baby U Know’ in early 2022 on Lost Map Records to critical acclaim; combining “internal monologues, workings-out of philosophical positions, political despair and myth making. It demands & deserves undivided attention” MOJO 

"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 days. Getting 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 their 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."

Named after the Dutch conceptual artist Ban Jan Ader, their deadpan, satirical, post-punk sound reawakens the spirit of The Slits and The Raincoats.

'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.'
4/5, MOJO Magazine