Don’t hit the BAMcafé this week unless you’re serious about your New Year’s resolutions. Shakers and Bakers takes the stage Friday, promising to spread the celibate flesh of Shaker “vision” trance songs across the conspicuously more indulgent free-jazz skeleton of their eponymous debut album. Mary LaRose and Miles Griffith sing it proud on “Me Can Not Wear De Great Long Face,” infusing an Almighty invocation with a dervish pace and the vocal timbre of slave songs. “Hack a Ling-Shack a Ling,” for all its Afro-historical pun potential, actually summons an artificial Native American language created by ecstatic Shakers. 

“It’s so anti-PC it’s ridiculous, but they thought they were channeling Indian spirits,” says Jeff Lederer, the musical multi-disciplinarian who formed the group and takes the reeds. Fine … though it hits my early-January ears more like a hangover too honestly confronted. Talk about a wake-up call. Who knew the rapture would come so soon? 

Jan. 5. BAMcafé, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave. (betw. Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.), B’klyn, 718-636-4100; 9, free.