Canadian musician
Aidan Baker |
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| Born | 1974/1975[1] |
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| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Genres | Experimental, ambient, drone doom, post-rock, space rock[2] |
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| Occupation(s) | musician, writer, poet |
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| Instrument(s) | Guitar, drums, flute, among others[3] |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
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| Labels | Beta-lactam Ring Records, Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Robotic Empire, Somewherecold Records |
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| Website | aidanbaker.org |
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Musical artist
Aidan Baker (born 1974)[1] is an electronic musician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and as part of various side projects, including Nadja, ARC, Caudal and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry.[3]
He has toured around the world, and has made appearances at the Unsound Festival, MUTEK, and South by Southwest. He is married to Nadja bandmate, Leah Buckareff.
Style
Baker utilizes a very experimental style of playing guitar, influenced by artists such as Caspar Brötzmann, James Plotkin, Steve Albini, and Justin Broadrick.[1] Influences on his musical structures and sound include Sonic Youth, Swans, Sunn O))), Red House Painters, Godflesh, Codeine, and PJ Harvey.[2]
Discography
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- Element (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2000)
- I Fall into You (CD-R, Public Eyesore, 2002)
- Re-released (CD, Basses Frequences, 2008)
- Letters (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2002)
- Re-released (LP, Basses Frequences, 2008)
- Pretending to Be Fearless (CD-R, Fleshmadeword, 2002)
- Repercussion (CD-R, Piehead Records, 2002)
- Rural (CD-R, Blade Records, 2002)
- Wound Culture (CD-R, Unbound Books, 2002) (soundtrack to his book of the same name)
- At the Fountain of Thirst (CD-R, Mystery Sea, 2003)
- Black Flowers Blossom (CD-R, Sonic Syrup, 2003)
- Cicatrice (CD-R, Dreamland Recordings, 2003)
- Concretion (CD-R, DTA Records, 2003)
- Re-released (MP3, .Angle.Rec., 2007)
- Corpus Callosum (CD-R, Kolorform Records, 2003)
- Dreammares (CD-R, Mechanoise Labs, 2003)
- Eye of Day (CD-R, Foreign Lands, 2003)
- Loop Studies One (CD-R, Laub Records, 2003)
- Loop Studies Remixed (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2003)
- Métamorphose (En Sept Étages) (CD-R, S'agita Recordings, 2003)
- Terza Rima (CD-R, Public Eyesore, 2003)
- Threnody One: Lamentation (CD-R, Nulll, 2003)
- An Intricate Course of Deception (CD, .Angle.Rec., 2004)
- Antithesis (CD-R, petite sono], 2004)
- At the Base of the Mind Is Coiled a Serpent (CD, Le Cri de la Harpe, 2004)
- Blauserk (CD-R, The Locus of Assemblage, 2004)
- Butterfly Bones (CD, Between Existence Productions, 2004)
- Field of Drones (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2004)
- Ice Against My Skin (CD-R, Arrêt Arrêt Recordings, 2004)
- Ichneumon (MP3, TIBProd, 2004)
- Same River Twice (7", Drone Records, 2004)
- Scouring Thin Bones (MP3, Noiseusse, 2004)
- Tense Surfaces (MP3, Panospria, 2004)
- The Taste of Summer on Your Skin (CD-R, taâlem, 2004)
- 24.2.24.4. (MP3, Dark Winter, 2005)
- At Home With… (CD, Infraction, 2005)
- Candescence (CD-R, Verato Project, 2005)
- Figures (CD-R, Transient Frequency, 2005)
- Re-released (CD, Volubilis Records, 2007)
- Periodic (CD-R, Crucial Bliss, 2005)
- Remixes (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2005)
- Skein of Veins (MP3, Phoniq, 2005)
- Songs of Flowers & Skin (CD-R, Zunior Records, 2005)
- Still My Beating Heart Beats (CD-R, Pertin_nce, 2005)
- The Taste of Summer on Your Skin (CD-R, taâlem, 2004/2005)
- 1st & 2nd editions released in 2004 & 2005 respectively
- Traumerei (CD-R, Evelyn Records, 2005)
- Undercurrents (CD/MP3, Zenapolae https://www.zenapolae.com/zen007 (free download), 2005)
- Within the Final Circle (MP3, Mirakelmusik, 2005)
- 030706 (MP3, City of Glass, 2006)
- Dog Fox Gone to Ground (CD-R, Afe Records, 2006)
- Oneiromancer (CD, 2xCD, Die Stadt, 2006)
- 2CD version contains a second disc with an Untitled Live Performance
- Peau Sensible (MP3, Zenapolæ https://www.zenapolae.com/zen021 (free download), 2006)
- Pendulum (CD-R, Gears of Sand, 2006)
- Still My Beating Heart Beats (MP3, Pertin_nce, 2006)
- The Sea Swells a Bit… (CD, A Silent Place, 2006)
- Broken & Remade (CD, Volubilis Records, 2007)
- Concretion (MP3, .Angle.Rec., 2007)
- Convs. w/ Myself (CD-R, Evelyn Records, 2007)
- Dance of Lonely Molecules (CD-R, Blade Records, 2007)
- Exoskeleton Heart (CD-R, Crucial Bliss, 2007)
- Figures (CD, Volubilis Records, 2007)
- Green & Cold (CD-R, Gears of Sand, 2007)
- Re-released (CD, Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2008)
- I Will Always and Forever Hold You in My Heart and Mind (CD-R, Small Doses, 2007)
- Limited 2nd Edition was released in 2008 with slightly different artwork
- Re-released (CD, Basses Frequences/Small Doses, 2010)
- Noise of Silence (CD-R, Hyperblasted, 2007)
- Scalpel (CD, The Kora Records, 2007)
- Second Week of the Second Month (MP3, Kikapu Net.Label, 2007)
- Thoughtspan (CD-R, Tosom, 2007)
- Re-released (LP, Blackest Rainbow, 2009)
- Fragile Movements in Slow Motion (CD-R, Universal Tongue, 2008)
- Suchness #1 (CD-R, Gears of Sand, 2008)
- 20080307 (3"CD-R, Walnut + locust, 2009)
- Blue Figures (CD, Basses Frequences, 2009)
- Dry (CD, Install, 2009)
- Gathering Blue (2LP, Equation Records, 2009)
- Live in Montreal (MP3, Blocks Recording Club, 2009)
- PMT#60 Playmytape @ Dom Club (MP3, Play MY Tape, 2009)
- Liminoid | Lifeforms (CD, Alien8 Recordings, 2010)
- Rictus (CD, OHM Records, 2011) – compilation of the 3" CD-R releases Cicatrice (2003), Blauserk (2004), The Taste of Summer on Your Skin (2004) and Fragile Movements in Slow Motion (2008)
- Passing Thru (CD/Book, Beta-lactam Ring Records, forthcoming)
- Only Stories (CD, The Kora Records, forthcoming)
- Lost in the Rat Maze (CD, ConSouling Sounds, 2011)
- Pure Drone (Drone Compendium vol 1) (LP, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, 2011)
- The Spectrum of Distraction (2xCD, Robotic Empire, 2012) – Comes with download card containing over 6 hours of extra material / full mixes.
- Already Drowning (LP, CD, Gizeh Records, 2013)
- Objekts (Cassette, DV, 2016)
- Aberration (CD, Cassette, Digital, Somewherecold Records, 2017)
Collaborations
- Aidan Baker vs. Straiph Wilson– Scouring Thin Bones(3×File, MP3, 192 kbps)
Noiseusse N12.2004
- Approaching a Black Hole with DD3 (CD-R, Fargone Records, 2006)
- An Open Letter to Franz Kafka with Beta Cloud (CD-R, Laughing Bride Media, 2007)
- Nagual with Todd Merrell & Patrick Jordan (CD, aRCHIVE, 2007)
- Orange with thisquietarmy (CD-R, thisquietarmy Records, 2007)
- Live Collaboration with Leah Buckareff & Datashock (12", Meudiademorte/Hlava Temple, 2007)
- Fantasma Parastasie with Tim Hecker (Alien8 Recordings, 2008)
- 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 (2xDVD, 2xCD, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, 2009) – 1 DVD & 1 CD each for Nadja / Aidan Baker solo
- Infinite Light Ltd. with Nathan Amundson of Rivulets and Mat Sweet of Boduf Songs. (CD, LP Denovali Records, 2011)[4]
- Werl with Tomas Järmyr (Consouling Sounds, 2016)
- Noplace with Simon Goff/Thor Harris (CD/LP, Album, Gizeh Records, 2017)
- Invisible Cities with Gareth Davis (LP/CDr, Album, Carlrecords, 2018)
Splits
With Nadja
- Touched (Deserted Factory Records, 2003)
- Skin Turns to Glass (Nothingness Records, 2003)
- Corrasion (Foreshadow Productions, 2003)
- split with Moss (2003)
- I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth (Deserted Factory Records, 2004)
- Bodycage (Nothingness Records, 2005)
- Bliss Torn from Emptiness (Fargone Records, 2005)
- Truth Becomes Death (Alien8 Recordings, 2005)
- Absorption Split with Methadrone (2005)
- Trembled (Profound Lore Recordings, 2006)
- We Have Departed the Circle Blissfully with Fear Falls Burning (Conspiracy Records, 2006)
- Thaumogenesis (Archive Records, 2007)
- Guilted by the Sun (Roadburn Records, 2007)
- Radiance of Shadows (Alien8 Recordings, 2007)
- 12012291920/1414101 with Atavist (Invada Records, 2007)
- Nadja with Fear Falls Burning (Conspiracy Records, 2007)
- Desire in Uneasiness (Crucial Blast Records, 2008)
- Long Dark Twenties 7" (Anthem Records, 2008)
- Trinity (Die Stadt Musik, 2008)
- The Bungled & the Botched (ConSouling Sounds, 2008)
- Autopergamene (Essence Music, 2010)
- Cystema Solari with Uochi Toki (CORPOC, 2014)
With ARC
- Untitled (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2000)
- Two (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records/Mathbat Records, 2001)
- 13th (CD-R, taâlem, 2002
- 2 Songs (MP3, Subverseco, 2002)
- Repercussion (CD-R, Piehead Records, 2002)
- Feral (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records/Worthy Records, 2003)
- Eyes in the Back of Our Heads (CD-R, Worthy Records, 2004)
- The Circle Is Not Round (CD, A Silent Place, 2005)
- Periodical II (CD-R, The Ceiling, 2006)
Tracks Appear On
With Mnemosyne
- Spiritsized (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2003)
- The Air Grows Small Fingers (CD-R, Piehead Records, 2004)
