Aidan Baker
Aidan Baker (* 1974 in Toronto ) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist , experimental musician and author.
Background and style
After studying literature and religion at McGill University in Montréal and then attending the Humber College School for Writers in Toronto , Aidan Baker published prose as well as poetry and illustration for various publishers. This was also the time when he began his musical career - initially as a solo musician - which from then on was to be characterized primarily by a very flexible and experimental style that barred itself from being classified in clearly defined musical genres. Instead, Aidan Baker's (especially solo) work shifts seemingly fluently between genres such as space rock , dark jazz , post rock , shoegaze , ambient , drone doom and noise (sometimes even folk and jazz ), whereby all of the styles mentioned are usually in this way mix that a roaring, slowly advancing "" wall "" ( soundscape ) results - a result that has sometimes been described as "Ambient Metal", "Shoegazer Metal", "Ambient Doom" or "Dreamsludge".
As variable in the result, so different are the influences on Aidan Baker's music, including Sonic Youth , Swans , Sunn O))) , Godflesh , PJ Harvey , the Red House Painters , Caspar Brötzmann and James Plotkin as well as those also from Canada ancestral industrial band Skinny Puppy .
Originally with the ulterior motive of using bass amplification to enable studio recordings as well as live performances, Aidan Baker's friend Leah Buckareff joined the Nadja project that he had founded two years earlier in 2005 . Nadja (“Aidan” read backwards, but at the same time alluding to André Breton's novel Nadja and a film of the same name with Elina Löwensohn ) began as a side project with an increased focus on harder or more metal- heavy spheres. However, Baker is active in a number of other projects (ARC & Mnemosyne) and (both studio and tour) collaborations, including with Eric Quach ( thisquietarmy ) and the German drone band Troum .
Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff live in Berlin today.
Discography (selection)
solo
- 2000: Element (CD, Arcolepsy Records)
- 2002: I Fall into You (CD, Public Eyesore)
- 2002: Letters (CD, Arcolepsy Records)
- 2002: Pretending to Be Fearless (CD, Fleshmadeword)
- 2002: Repercussion (CD, Piehead Records)
- 2002: Rural (CD, Blade Records)
- 2002: Wound Culture (CD, Unbound Books)
- 2003: At the Fountain of Thirst (CD, Mystery Sea)
- 2003: Black Flowers Blossom (CD, Sonic Syrup)
- 2003: Cicatrice (CD, Dreamland Recordings)
- 2003: Concretion (CD, DTA Records)
- 2003: Corpus Callosum (CD, Kolorform Records)
- 2003: Dreammares (CD, Mechanoise Labs)
- 2003: Eye of Day (CD, Foreign Lands)
- 2003: Loop Studies One (CD, Laub Records)
- 2003: Loop Studies Remixed (CD, Arcolepsy Records)
- 2003: Métamorphose (En Sept Étages) (CD, S'agita Recordings)
- 2003: Terza Rima (CD, Public Eyesore)
- 2003: Threnody One: Lamentation (CD, Nulll Records )
- 2004: An Intricate Course of Deception (CD, .Angle.Rec.)
- 2004: Antithesis (CD, petite sono)
- 2004: At the Base of the Mind Is Coiled a Serpent (CD, Le Cri de la Harpe)
- 2004: Blauserk (CD, The Locus of Assemblage)
- 2004: Butterfly Bones (CD, Between Existence Productions)
- 2004: Field of Drones (CD, Arcolepsy Records)
- 2004: Ice Against My Skin (CD, Arrêt Arrêt Recordings)
- 2004: Ichneumon ( MP3 file, TIBProd)
- 2004: Same River Twice (7 ", Drone Records)
- 2004: Scouring Thin Bones (MP3 file, Noiseusse)
- 2004: Tense Surfaces (MP3 file, Panospria)
- 2004: The Taste of Summer on Your Skin (CD, taâlem)
- 2005: 24.2.24.4. (MP3 file, Dark Winter)
- 2005: At Home With ... (CD, Infraction)
- 2005: Candescence (CD, Verato Project)
- 2005: Figures (CD, Transient Frequency)
- 2005: Periodic (CD, Crucial Bliss)
- 2005: Remixes (CD, Arcolepsy Records)
- 2005: Skein of Veins (MP3 file, Phoniq)
- 2005: Songs of Flowers & Skin (CD, Zunior Records)
- 2005: Still My Beating Heart Beats (CD, Pertin_nce)
- 2005: The Taste of Summer on Your Skin (CD, taâlem)
- 2005: Traumerei (CD, Evelyn Records)
- 2005: Undercurrents (CD, Zenapolae)
- 2005: Within the Final Circle (MP3 file, miracle music)
- 2006: 030706 (MP3 file, City of Glass)
- 2006: Approaching a Black Hole (CD, Fargone Records)
- 2006: Dog Fox Gone to Ground (CD, Afe Records)
- 2006: Oneiromancer (CD, 2xCD, Die Stadt )
- 2006: Peau Sensible (MP3 file, Zenapolæ)
- 2006: Pendulum (CD, Gears of Sand)
- 2006: Still My Beating Heart Beats (MP3, Pertin_nce)
- 2006: The Sea Swells a Bit (CD, A Silent Place)
- 2007: Broken & Remade (CD, Volubilis Records)
- 2007: Concretion (MP3 file, .Angle.Rec.)
- 2007: Convs. w / Myself (CD, Evelyn Records)
- 2007: Dance of Lonely Molecules (CD, Blade Records)
- 2007: Exoskeleton Heart (CD, Crucial Bliss)
- 2007: Figures (CD, Volubilis Records)
- 2007: Green & Cold (CD, Gears of Sand)
- 2007: I Will Always and Forever Hold You in My Heart and Mind (CD, Small Doses)
- 2007: Noise of Silence (CD, Hyperblasted)
- 2007: Scalpel (CD, The Kora Records)
- 2007: Second Week of the Second Month (MP3 file, Kikapu Net.Label)
- 2007: Thoughtspan (CD, Tosom)
- 2008: Book of Nods (CD, Beta-lactam Ring Records)
- 2008: Fragile Movements in Slow Motion (CD, Universal Tongue)
- 2008: Suchness # 1 (CD, Gears Of Sand)
- 2009: 20080307 (3 "CD, Walnut + locust)
- 2009: Blue Figures (CD, Basses Frequences)
- 2009: Dry (CD, Install)
- 2009: Gathering Blue (2 LPs, Equation Records)
- 2009: Live in Montreal (MP3 file, Blocks Recording Club)
- 2009: PMT # 60 Playmytape @ Dom Club (MP3 file, Play MY Tape)
- 2010: Liminoid | Lifeforms (CD, Alien8 Recordings)
- 2011: Rictus (CD, OHM Records) (Compilation)
- 2011: Closure Axioms (CD, Miskatonic Soundlab)
- 2011: Only Stories (CD, The Kora Records)
- 2011: Lost in the Rat Maze (CD, ConSouling Sounds )
- 2011: Still Life (CD, Primary Numbers)
- 2011: Pure Drone (Drone Compendium vol 1) (LP, Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
- 2011: Bach switched on, fourth volume (vinyl, 7 ", Reue Um Reue)
- 2012: Variations on a Loop (2 FLAC files, Broken Spine Productions)
- 2012: The Spectrum of Distraction (2 CD, Robotic Empire)
- 2012: Origins & Evolutions (CD, Install)
- 2013: Already drowning (CD, Gizeh)
- 2013: Lost in the Rat Maze (CD, Broken Silence)
- 2013: Aneira (CD, Glacial Movements)
- 2014: Triptychs: Variations on a Melody (CD, Important Records)
- 2015: Half Lives (2 CD, Gizeh Records)
- 2015: The Confessional Tapes (LP, Pleasence Records)
- 2015: BSP Live Series: 2014-11-15 Berlin (4x FLAC, Broken Spine Productions)
- 2015: BSP Live Series: 2010-11-16 Paris (2x FLAC, Broken Spine Productions)
- 2015: Sorry for What I Said to You in Your Dream (5x FLAC, Broken Spine Productions)
- 2015: Ecliptic Plane (CD, Dronarivm)
- 2016: Dualism (3 CD, Midira Records)
- 2017: BSP Live Series: 2017-04-01 Berlin (FLAC, Broken Spine Productions)
Collaborations
- 2007: An Open Letter to Franz Kafka , with Beta Cloud (CD, Laughing Bride Media)
- 2007: Nagual , with Todd Merrell & Patrick Jordan (CD, aRCHIVE)
- 2007: Orange , with thisquietarmy (CD, thisquietarmy Records)
- 2007: Live collaboration with Leah Buckareff & Datashock (12 ", Meudiademorte / Hlava Temple)
- 2008: Rural Sprawl with The Infant Cycle (CD, Zhelezobeton)
- 2008: Fantasma Parastasie with Tim Hecker (CD, Alien8 Recordings)
- 2009: Live 2008-14-11 with Brandon Valdivia (CD, Universal Tongue)
- 2009: A Picture of a Picture with thisquietarmy (CD, Album, Killer Pimp)
- 2009: White Nights / Drone Fields / DOM with Nadja (2 DVDs, 2 CDs, Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
- 2012: Document: Eurotour 2011 - Live in Paris & Ljubljana with thisquietarmy (3x CDr, Thisquietarmy Records)
- 2013: Nihtes Niht with Troum (4x FLAC, Broken Spine Productions)
- 2013: Mépris with Jakob Thiesen (LP, Interior Massacre)
- 2013: Cameo with Maik Erdas (LP, Midira Records)
- 2014: Cntntl with Jakob Thiesen (Cass., Broken Spine Productions)
- 2014: Untitled with A-Sun Amissa (Cass., Midira Records)
- 2016: Werl with Tomas Järmyr (2CD, Consouling Sounds)
- 2017: Delirious Things with Claire Brentnall (CD / LP, Pleasence / Gizeh Records)
- 2017: Nonland with Karen Willems (LP, Gizeh Records)
bibliography
- The Adventures of Me & You. Eraserhead Press, 2000.
- Finger spelling. Penumbra Press, 2000, ISBN 1-89413-100-2 .
- Wound Culture. Unbound Books, 2002, ISBN 1-89300-630-1 .
- Transport. Clairbury Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9733-0170-8 .
- Place name. Wingate Press, 2007, ISBN 0-9735-9778-X .
- The Shape of Snakes. Averse Publishing / Broken Spine Productions, 2010, ISBN 3-941-89304-1 .
- Passing Thru Wounded Wolf Press, 2014, ISBN 6-0548-9708-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.penumbrapress.com/book.php?id=13
- ↑ http://www.canadiancontent.ca/interviews/050104baker.html
- ↑ When the sea swells. Taz.de, accessed on October 10, 2017 .
Web links
- Broken Spine Productions label by Aidan and Leah
- Aidan Baker at Bandcamp
- Two and a Half Questions with Aidan Baker Interview on Headphone Commute
- Aidan Baker at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baker, Aidan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian multi-instrumentalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |