Aidan Baker

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Aidan Baker
Born 1974/1975[1]
Origin Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s) Experimental, ambient, drone doom, post-rock, space rock[2]
Occupation(s) writer, poet
Instrument(s) Guitar, drums, flute, among others[3]
Years active 1999-present
Label(s) Arcolepsy Records, among others
Associated acts Nadja, ARC, Mnemosyne
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Aidan Baker is a musician from Toronto, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and with his groups Nadja, ARC, and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry.[3]

He has toured in both North America and Europe, and also has made appearances at the OM Festival, MUTEK, South by Southwest, and the Distillery Jazz Festival.

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[edit] Style

Baker utilizes a very experimental style of playing guitar, influenced by artists such as Caspar Brotzmann, James Plotkin, Kevin Shields, 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]

Most of his records consist of just a few very long songs and are usually improvised, as are his live shows.[1]

[edit] Discography

  • Element (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2000)
  • I Fall into You (CD-R, Public Eyesore, 2002)
  • Letters (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2002)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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, 2005)
  • Traumerei (CD-R, Evelyn Records, 2005)
  • Undercurrents (CD, Zenapolae, 2005)
  • Untitled (2x7", Die Stadt, 2005)
  • Within the Final Circle (MP3, Mirakelmusik, 2005)
  • 030706 (MP3, City of Glass, 2006)
  • Approaching a Black Hole (CD-R, Fargone Records, 2006)
  • Dog Fox Gone to Ground (CD-R, Afe Records, 2006)
  • Oneiromancer (2xCD, Die Stadt, 2006)
  • Paeu Sensible (MP3, BitPhitz, 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)
  • An Open Letter to Franz Kafka (CD-R, Laughing Bride Media, 2007)
  • 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)
  • I Will Always and Forever Hold You in My Heart and Mind (CD-R, Small Doses, 2007)
  • Nagual (CD, aRCHIVE, 2007)
  • Noise of Silence (CD-R, Hyperblasted, 2007)
  • Orange (CD-R, thisquietarmy Records, 2007)
  • Scalpel (CD, The Kora Records, 2007)
  • Second Week of the Second Month (MP3, Kikapu Net.Label, 2007)
  • Thoughtspan (CD-R, Tosom, 2007)
  • My Own Wolf: A New Approach (a tribute to Ulver, MP3, CD-R, Aspherical Asphyxia Prod., 2007)
  • Fragile Movements in Slow Motion (CD-R, Universal Tongue, 2008)
  • Suchness #1 (CD-R, Gears Of Sand, 2008)

[edit] Collaborations

  • Live Collaboration with Leah Buckareff & Datashock (12" ,Meudiademorte/Hlava Temple, 2007)

[edit] 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)
  • Touched (Alien8 Recordings, 2007)
  • Corrasion (Foreshadow Productions, 2007)
  • Radiance of Shadows (Alien8 Recordings, 2007)
  • 12012291920/1414101 with Atavist (Invada Records, 2007)
  • Nadja with Fear Falls Burning (Conspiracy Records, 2007)

[edit] 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)

[edit] With Mnemosyne

  • Spiritsized (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2003)
  • The Air Grows Small Fingers (CD-R, Piehead Records, 2004

[edit] Bibliography

  • Fingerspelling (Penumbra Press)
  • Wound Culture (Unbound Books)
  • The Adventures of Me & You (Eraserhead Press)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Thorn, Malahki (2004-10-16). Aidan Baker Interview; Butterfly Bones. Heathen Harvest. Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
  2. ^ a b Hörner, James. Aidan Baker: DIY. Canadian Content. Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
  3. ^ a b Adian Baker on discogs.com