Nadja (band)

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Nadja
Origin Toronto, Canada
Genre(s) Drone Doom
Shoegaze
Years active 2003–present
Label(s) Alien 8 Recordings
Website Official homepage
Members
Aidan Baker
Leah Buckareff

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitars/vocals/piano/woodwinds/drums) and Leah Buckareff (bass/vocals). Nadja began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient music performed mainly on the electric guitar. In 2005 Buckareff joined in order to make the project more than just a studio endeavour and to allow Nadja to perform live.

The duo combines soundscape, electronics and atmospheric vocals with slow, epic riffs and dirge-like percussion, creating a slowly moving grand wall of music that has been described as drone, ambient-doom, and shoegazer-metal.

After several limited edition CD-R releases on various small labels worldwide, Nadja released its first official album Truth Becomes Death on Montreal's Alien8 Recordings in 2005. The duo has since released material on wider distributed labels and is in the process of rereleasing older recordings either remastered or completely re-arranged, such as the new Touched 2007 version back on Alien8 or the Bodycage album on Profound Lore Records/LP version on Equation.

They have performed in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, sharing the stage with, among others, artistes as Kayo Dot, Knurl, Khanate, Francisco Lopez, Isis and Mare. They successfully toured Europe in Spring 2007.

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[edit] Discography

[edit] Full-length

  • Touched (2003) Deserted Factory Records
  • Skin Turns To Glass (2003) Nothingness Records
  • Corrasion (2003) Foreshadow Productions
  • Bodycage (2005) Nothingness Records
  • Bliss torn from emptiness (2005) Fargone Records
  • Truth Becomes Death (2005) Alien8 Recordings
  • Trembled (2006, Live Album) Profound Lore Records
  • Thaumogenesis (2007) Archive Records
  • Touched (Rerecorded) (2007) Alien8 Recordings
  • Corrasion (Rerecorded) (2007) Foreshadow Productions
  • Radiance of Shadows (2007) Alien8 Recordings
  • Bliss Torn From Emptiness (Rerecorded) (2008) Profound Lore Records
  • Skin Turns to Glass (Rerecorded) (2008) The End Records
  • Desire in Uneasiness (2008) Crucial Blast Records

[edit] EPs

  • I Have Tasted The Fire Inside Your Mouth (2004) Deserted Factory Records
  • Guilted By The Sun (2007) Roadburn Records
  • Long Dark Twenties (2008) Anthem Records

[edit] Splits & Collaborations

  • Split w/ Moss (2003)
  • Absorption Split (2005, with Methadrone)
  • We Have Departed the Circle Blissfully (2006, Collaboration with Fear Falls Burning) Conspiracy Records
  • 12012291920/1414101 (2007, Collaboration with Atavist) Invada Records
  • s/t (2007, Collaboration with Fear Falls Burning) Conspiracy Records
  • Aidan Baker & Leh Buckareff & Datashock "Live Collaboration" (12",Meudiademorte/Hlava Temple, 2007)
  • Christ Send Light (2008, Collaboration with Black Boned Angel) Conspiracy Records

[edit] Upcoming

  • Autopergamene (Rerecorded)

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