Sit back, relax, and enjoy the noise in your ears, the tingle in your body. – By Ryan Stephenson.

Photos by Greg Cristman ; words by Fred Pessaro Aidan Baker @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge, 3/30/2013 One artist releasing two records on a single day is a big deal, but for a guy like Aidan Baker , you might just call that "Monday." April 15 will see the release of Already Drowning AND Souvenirs Of The Eternal Present by Baker and are recommended for fans of post-rock, [...]

Weibliche Wasserleichen. Da fllt einem ja sogleich das Gedicht "Ophelie" des franzsischen Dichters Arthur Rimbaud ein. So richtig lustig ist das natrlich nicht, aber dster und schn: "Auf stiller, dunkler Flut, im Widerschein der Sterne, geschmiegt in ihre Schleier, schwimmt Ophelia bleich, sehr langsam, einer groen weien Lilie gleich. Jagdrufe hrt man aus dem Wald verklingen ferne...." Ophelia/ Arthur Rimbaud 1870, bersetzt von Karl Klammer . Danach gab es fr das deutsche Dichterwesen kein Halten mehr und eine regelrechte Flut an "Wasserleichenpoesie"zu bewundern. Sehr schn Georg Heym "Die Tote im Wasser" (1910):"Die Leiche wlzt sich ganz [...]
by Tiana Feng Here are the most popular tunes of the week! See if you missed out. Position Last Song Link 1 1 post 2 - post 3 - [...]
by Tiana Feng Composer and multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker will be releasing his Already Drowning LP on April 15th, 2013. Contributing vocals are Clara Engel , Jessica Bailiff, Valérie Niederoest, Maude Oswald, Joanna Kupnicka, Geneviève Castrée, Liz Hysen, and Carla Bozulich. The LP is a modern day "song-cycle" inspired by folk tales and myths about water spirits. Grab the avante-garde title track below.
Multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker performs in the First Unitarian Church Side Chapel tonight. Working both as a solo musician and as a member of Nadja, ARC and Mnemosyne, Baker is an incredibly prolific composer of experimental / drone post-rock and often improvises during live shows. On April 15th Baker will release Already Drowning via Gizeh Records. ... Continue reading

in uscita ad aprile l’album Forever In Another World del trio space/kraut rock Caudal, da Berlino - in copertina un dettaglio dell’opera ”Man Sleeping In L.A. Apartment” di Eoin Llewellyn : Forever In Another World by Caudal

non ha bisogno di molte presentazioni Aidan Baker, musicista canadese affermatosi in ambito ambient/post-rock grazie ad un connubio di quantità - basti dare un’occhiata alla sua Broken Spine Productions - e di qualità dei suoi lavori; recentemente, per promuovere il suo nuovo album, Already Drowning , che ha come tema miti, fiabe e racconti tradizionali sugli spiriti acquatici, ha proposto una playlist slowcore, in realtà non troppo originale, su Noisey ; il disco in questione si compone di nove brani, e ospita altrettante voci femminili, tra cui quelle di Jessica Bailiff, Liz Hysen (Picastro) e Carla [...]
Das neuste Werk von Experimentalmusiker Aidan Baker überrascht mit sieben singenden Nymphen und dem verführerischen Sog eines echten Slowcore-Meisterwerks. In unzähligen Ambient/Doom-Produktionen hatte er schon seine flinken Finger im Spiel, auf dem Konzept-Album "Already Drowning" (VÖ 15.4./ Gizeh ) steigt Aidan Baker über den Drone-Nebel und lässt echte Songwriterqualitäten aufblitzen. Zum seichten Pop reicht's nicht, dafür zu sieben epischen Meisterballaden im Slowcore-Bereich. Inspiriert von der Weiblichkeit und angelehnt an die Mythen- und Sagenwelt ist das Album geheimnisvollen Wassernymphen gewidmet. Sieben Nymphen konnte er sich als [...]

Aidan Baker (photo by Kristel Jax) Between Nadja , his many collaborations, and solo work, experimental/ambient artist Aidan Baker keeps busy releasing a fair share of material every year; the hyper-prolific artist may have even released two albums by the end of this sentence. Speaking of, check out his recently-dropped collaboration with Troum , another with Jakob Thiesen as well as a new single from a forthcoming LP, below. Though recorded material is [...]

Last year when I spoke to Toronto by way of Berlin metal-gaze duo Nadja , they divulged some strange plans, yet guitarist Aidan Baker kept quiet about his solo projects. This spring Baker will release his next solo work, Already Drowning , and its contents are surprising: seven compositions inspired by various myths and folktales about female water spirits , with vocal interpretations by eight female vocalists from Canada, the U.S, Germany, and Switzerland. I say surprising because Nadja create bassy ambient drone that draws from bleak metal sounds, [...]

As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it’s creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to pull back the curtain on a wealth of sights and sound from luminaries such as Nadja . I’m transported back in time—a few years ago at now defunct Seattle record store Dissonant Plane. It was my refuge. Huddled in the attic storefront was [...]
Dagdrøm by Nadja Nadja is a ambient doom metal duo who hail from Toronto, although, it began as solo project of Aidan Baker. The duo has a startlingly full sound that can easily encompass an entire room with the heavy drones of the guitar and dramatic volume shifts. It creates an entrancing musical experience which is the clear marker of a job well done when it comes to a genre such as this. The heavier aspects combined with the ambient shoegaze elements creates a sound that I can only describe as horrible nightmarish fever dream, but [...]
Last night I had the great privilege of watching Swan Fungus super-friend William Fowler Collins perform at Human Resources in Chinatown here in LA. He was joined on stage by Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters, et. al.). The duo gave me the best non-pharmaceutically-aided opiate rush I've felt in a while. Tomorrow [...]

A nice new singles collection of noise, shoegaze, and metal drones from Aidan Baker (Nadja). In case you missed it, check out Nadja’s extremely heavy cover of My Bloody Valentine’s “ Only Shallow ”.
Today we have a lovely mixture of music for your perusal. Because it's Sunday. And on the 7th day, God (that's me!) created the Sunday Mix Tape. I don't have anything else to say because I'm exhausted and I want to get this over with so I can go to bed. RULES for uninitiated noobs: [...]
How about those New York Football Giants, huh? The defense looked great today, Hakeem Nicks reasserted himself as the team's premiere wide receiver, Brandon Jacobs showed why the offense should be run through him…it made me very excited to see the game against Green Bay next week. I think it's going to be a good [...]
I trust you're all recovering/resting/relaxing today. Whether you welcomed 2012 with a quiet night at home alongside family and friends, or joined some raucous, drunken celebration at a house/club/bar, I'm sure it was a great time. If you must know about my night, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Considering New Years last year was probably the [...]
By now your Christmas dinner is beginning to settle, the realization that you might have to go to work tomorrow is setting in, and your significant other is happy enough with her present to swallow your load. Ah, but the holiday weekend isn't quite over yet. We've still get ten more MP3s to listen to, [...]
If anyone has high-quality rips of any Mystery Sea releases that I don't own, you should be sending them to me. My e-mail address shouldn't be too hard to find... So much has been written in these archives about my adoration (respect? love?) for the Mystery Sea label. I'm fascinated by the objective: "a small-scale [...]