Live collaboration between these two Canadian musicians - Aidan Baker (Nadja) and Brandon Valdivia (Picastro) - recorded at the Lab30 Festival in Augsburg, Germany, November 14, 2008. This is a live improvisation with guitar and drums, detaching from what is the trademark sound of Aidan Baker and going in a krautrock / psych direction. Artwork by Mories (Grafika Obskura / Gnaw Their Tongues). Ltd x 323 hand-numbered copies in mini-DVD packaging. 3" CD proper (NOT CDR). ACT FAST!
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AIDAN BAKER - 'Letters' LP (Basses Frequencies)
Reissue of Aidan's long out-of-print solo work from 2002, originally released on Arcolepsy, Canada. "Letters" consists of 2 sidelong, slow motion drone pieces (45mins). Meditative and introspective with haunting, ghostly vocals. Subtle melodies create one of the most emotional Aidan Baker (Nadja) records to date. Slow and quiet yet complex - each listen reveals new layers and the depth of this incredibly rich work. Ltd x 400 copies on heavy vinyl. French import.
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ARC - 'Arkhangelsk' CD (Epidemie)
ARC is a Canadian trio (Aidan Baker, Richard Baker & Christopher Kukiel), playing tribal guitar drone ambient with psychedelic and post-rock elements and a very hypnotic sound. "Arkhangelsk" was recorded in Toronto, Canada in December 2007 in two separate sessions. The first consisted of improv performances on drumset and guitar. The second consisted of layering percussion, electronics, and woodwind tracks on those original drum / guitar tracks. Both sessions were made in real-time in single takes with minimum post-production editing or manipulation in an effort to capture the spontaneity of the performances. "Arkhangelsk" combines influence / inspiration from such artists as Flyer Saucer Attack, The Boredoms, Tribes of Neurot, and Rapoon. Ltd x 600 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve.
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ATAVIST / NADJA - 'II:Points At Infinity' CD (Profound Lore Records)
Spanning two epic elongated tracks (around 22 minutes each), “Points At Infinity” goes much further substance and depth wise than the first experimentation these two acts converged in. Taking this experiment between both acts to the next level, “Points At Infinity” takes the doom / drone / ambient experiment into new territory as both acts continue to push new sonic ground. “Points At Infinity” also marks the first Atavist recording featuring the new Atavist line-up which consists of new vocalist Matt Bartley and ex-Narcosis bass player Oliver Turner. Of course Nadja is and always will be Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. 6-panel digipak.
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BETA CLOUD - 'Lunar Monograph' CD (Laughing Bride Media)
"Latest disc of blissed out soft focus dronemusic from this longtime aQ fave. After past collaborations with Lull as well as Aidan Baker, Lunar Monograph is the first disc we've head from BC on his own, and it's definitely a divine bit of ethereal and ephemeral drift. Field recordings are deftly woven into soft swirling shimmering tones, guitars are spidery and delicate, spinning crystalline webs of hushed melody... pealing tones, and barely there melodies, drifting weightlessly through a field of minimal effects, and slow shifting whirs, as well as some mysterious field recordings, that make the end of the record feel like you've just come out of a trance, and found yourself back in the real world, which is not all that far off the mark. So nice." (Aquarius). Mastered by James Plotkin. Digipak.
"Collaborating Torture" is one of the last known recordings made by Matt Gibney (Hollowing), who died in January 2006. Gibney, a member of SOIHADTOSHOOTHIM and label boss of the Rectrix label, was joined here by the prolific Maor Appelbaum (Grave in the Sky, Poochaltz, Vectorscope) to create a brooding and massive 54-minute track of dark, pitch-black ambient, hypnagogic swirls and industrialised drones. Sometimes subtle, yet mostly haunted and delirious, this is highly recommended if you like Wilt, Aidan Baker, Z'EV, Daniel Menche and John Duncan. Israeli import.
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HUM - 'Flesh Of The Soul' CD (Quag)
The first factory-pressed, full-length CD from this Russian Dark Ambient / Drone act. Nine long-form pieces, wrought between 2001 and 2003. The album is filled with majestic, transcendental melancholy; clear and soothing with veiled melodies and celestial harmonies hidden inside its simple sound structures. It sounds a bit nostalgic as Dmitry uses only old-fashioned tape-techniques and analogue synth loops, utilising digital devices just for the final mastering. The atmosphere is very special, reminding of early Zoviet France, Maeror Tri, Tesendalo or Aidan Baker. Ltd x 300 copies in an outsize gatefold sleeve with silver on black print.
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MERRELL, BAKER & JORDAN - 'Nagual' CD (Archive)
Merrell/Baker/Jordan long playing ambient dronescape pitting the combined efforts of Todd Merrell on shortwave radio and electronics, Patrick Jordan on shortwave radio and processing and Aidan Baker (Nadja) on guitar. Recorded live at Real Art Ways, Hartford CT, November 12, 2004. Comes packed in heavy stock centre open sleeve with environmental mirror image landscape artwork courtesy of Seldon Hunt. Pressing of 600 copies.
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NADJA - 'Bliss Torn From Emptiness’ CD (Profound Lore Records)
Reissue of the extremely limited (60 copies) release on Fargone Records (2005) from the Toronto duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. The original release consisted of just one track. This special re-release has been given the ultimate facelift. Still characteristically (and aesthetically) seen as one long track (here stretched out to more than 51 minutes), this time though broken down into three segments / parts / tracks respectively. This Doom / Dark Ambient / Drone creation was mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate). Presented in a stunning 8-panel digipak with sticker.
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NADJA - 'Desire In Uneasiness' CD (Crucial Blast)
"Desire In Uneasiness" is an album of all new material from acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers Nadja. Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal dirge that are powered by the interlocking bass guitars of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, who set loose a wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs amidst a fog of beautiful, swirling electronic effects. "Desire..." also marks the first Nadja album to feature a live drummer in place of the drum machine programming that has driven the band's previous recordings, and the difference in the band's sound is apparent from the first crushing beats of album opener 'Disambiguation'. Hardback digifile.
Talented Italian ambient composer Alessandro Tedeschi runs the Glacial Movements label and plays music as Netherworld. His fascination for polar landscapes and soundscapes makes him close to industrial ambient pioneers such as Thomas Köner, Rapoon, Biosphere and Lull. Icy, windy, droning and deeply 'protomelodic' at once, his music is a poetic translation of the ice floe. Nadja is the drone / doom / ambient duo of Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. Their behemoth of sound is a construction of heat, weight, loop and vapour. Here, they had to break Netherworld's ice and find a way to the red core of Earth. The common track brings heat onto ice, which warms up, crackles and soon melts. As a conclusion, the long piece by Nadja is total heat. This is Nadja 'unrhythmed', which means pure lava. Artwork by Eyelyft.
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THISQUIETARMY - 'Unconquered' CD (Foreshadow Productions)
Debut full-length album from Canadian one-man project ThisQuietArmy (aka Eric Quach, guitar player in DestroyAllDreamers). He has also collaborated and played live with fellow Canadian Aidan Baker (Nadja), who also collaborated on the first track of this disc. ThisQuietArmy explores the never-ending spectrum of guitar ambience and loop drone sounds. Quach manages to capture the essence of contemporary alternative guitar experimentation while maintaining a disturbing, yet captivating, aural atmosphere.
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VA - 'My Own Wolf: A New Approach To Ulver' 2 x CD (Cold Dimensions)
An international tribute to Ulver, with a far-reaching number of musical styles. 26 tracks from: Aidan Baker, Ashtar, Asmodée, Avanthar, Bosque, Cataplus, FB(Force), Fluoryne, Joey Hopkins Midget Factory, Jääportit, Karna, Mura Hachigu feat. Nokturnes, Noises Of Russia, Otzepenevshiye, Panacea Enterpainment, Project:a, Pryapisme, Sael, Selvmord, Sinestesia, Smohalla, Unfurl, Wardaemonic, Wheel Of Knowledge, Year Zero and Zweizz. Digipak.
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WEREJU - 'Through The Depths Of Unknowing' 2 x CD (Electric Requiems)
Cathal Rodgers hails from County Offaly, in the very heart of Ireland. Here, under the guise of Wereju, he presents a double disc of Dark Ambient and drone / doom soundscapes, described by the artist himself as sounding like the "Ageless drifting melancholia of an abandoned planet". File next to peers such as Aidan Baker, Northaunt, Fear Falls Burning etc. Double jewelcase with textured artwork. Very nice piece indeed!
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WHISPER ROOM - 'Birch White' CD (Elevation Recordings)
Whisper Room is a trio based in Toronto, Canada and Berlin, Germany featuring Aidan Baker (Nadja), Neil Wiernik (NAW) and Jakob Thiesen (Students). These three creative minds had moved in similar musical circles in Toronto and Montreal for years sporadically sharing stages but did not actively come together to play as a trio until Dec 2006. Since then they have worked as a improv unit and combined their disparate musical backgrounds to create music which explores the conjunction of electronic rhythms and textures with the pulsations and psychedelics and shoegaze and krautrock music. Ltd x 2000 copies in a digipak.
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Z'EV / JOHN DUNCAN / AIDAN BAKER / FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'Untitled' 2 x 7" (Die Stadt)
This double 7" set contains four exclusive tracks for this project. Z'EV provides another intense mix of material which partly originates from a live recording from the 'Atonal Festival' in Berlin back in 1983. Side B features John Duncan with a strange static sound/noise piece, whereas both Aidan Baker on Side C and Fear Falls Burning (Vidna Obmana) on Side D give fine examples of their slowly building dronescapes. Ltd x 600 handnumbered copies on thick vinyl in a very smart textured fold out sleeve.
