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Aidan Baker

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For the English cricketer, see Aidan Baker (cricketer).
Aidan Baker
Background information
Born1974/1975[1]
OriginToronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresExperimental, ambient, drone doom, post-rock, space rock[2]
Occupation(s)musician, writer, poet
Instrument(s)Guitar, drums, flute, among others[3]
Years active1999–present
LabelsBeta-lactam Ring Records, Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Robotic Empire, Somewherecold Records
Websiteaidanbaker.org

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

*This section is considered incomplete. You can help by adding to it.

  • 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)

Bibliography

  • Fingerspelling (Penumbra Press)
  • Wound Culture (Unbound Books)
  • The Adventures of Me & You (Eraserhead Press)
  • Place Name (Wingate Press)
  • Passing Through (Wounded Wolf Press, forthcoming)

References

  1. ^ a b c Thorn, Malahki (16 October 2004). "Aidan Baker Interview; Butterfly Bones". Heathen Harvest. Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2008.
  2. ^ a b Hörner, James. "Aidan Baker: DIY". Canadian Content. Archived from the original on 2 February 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2008.
  3. ^ a b Adian Baker on discogs.com
  4. ^ Infinite Light Ltd. Denovali Records. Retrieved 1 July 2013.

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