Sundaze 2050

 Hello,  final F1 race of the season without public, to be honest i didn't miss them, very unlike footbal. Anyway mr Hamilton was back but a bit rusty, no pole for him this time, neither for his back up, Bottas, no for the first time this season that honor went to Max Verstappen, that could be an interesting race tomorrow....


Today's Artist is a 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. He has toured around world, and has made appearances at the Unsound Festival, MUTEK, and South by Southwest. He is married to Nadja bandmate, Leah Buckareff. ..... N'Joy

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An accomplished writer and musician, Aidan Baker has his artistic fingers in many pies. After graduating from Montreal's McGill University with a degree in Literature and Religious Studies, Baker released a four-song acoustic cassette as "Aodhan" (the Gaelic spelling of his name). He also teamed up with two fellow Toronto musicians to create ARC, an ambient guitar-driven trio which garnered much praise for its innovation and integrity. The group released three albums, including Two in 2001. Having been published in major literary magazines nationally and internationally, Baker released his debut album Element in 2000. In 2001, he released his follow-up, Letters, a concept album based loosely around letters from both Jack the Ripper and the Marquis de Sade.
Aidan Baker is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist using the electric guitar as his primary instrument. Using prepared and alternate methods of playing the guitar, along with various electronic effects, Baker creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genre but draws on influences from rock, electronic, classical, and jazz. A highly prolific artist, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with various group projects, on such independent labels as Gizeh Records, Pleasence Records, Important Records, Alien8 Recordings, and his own imprint, Broken Spine Productions. Baker is also the author of several books of poetry. A regular live performer, Baker has toured extensively around the world, including appearances at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Incubate, Unsound, and Mutek, among others. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Baker currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

Mnemosyne was a trio formed in Toronto, Canada in 2002 featuring Aidan Baker on guitar, Richard Baker (ARC) on drums, and Rodin Columb on bass. The group created atmospheric post-rock and released one full-length album, The Air Grows Small Fingers, on Piehead Records.

ARC was a trio made up of Aidan Baker, Richard Baker, & Christopher Kukiel formed in Toronto, Canada in 2000. The group’s sound is centred on the melodic loops, textures, & samples provided by heavily-effected guitar & other melodic instruments. This is overlaid with tribal-esque rhythms provided by various percussive instruments, creating a roiling tapestry of both rhythmic & ambient sound, music simultaneously primeval & avant-garde.

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff alternately based in Toronto & Berlin. The duo makes music that encompasses experimental/drone, ambient, industrail, & doom metal. Originally formed by Baker in 2003 as a solo project, Buckareff joined in 2005 to bring the project out of the studio & into a live setting. They have since released numerous albums on such labels as Essence Music, Hydrahead Records, & their own label, Broken Spine Productions.


B/B/S/, formed in 2012 in Berlin, Germany, is a trio of Aidan Baker (CA - Nadja, Whisper Room, ARC) on guitar, Andrea Belfi (IT - David Grubbs, Hobocombo, Il Sogno del Marinaio) on drums/electronics, and Erik Skodvin (NO - Svarte Greiner, Deaf Center) on guitar. The group makes improvisational music, combining abstract melodies and experimental drone textures. Their debut album Brick Mask was released in 2013 and their second full-length album Palace was released in 2016, both on Miasmah Records.

Hypnodrone Ensemble is Aidan Baker & Eric Quach (aka Thisquietarmy) joined by three drummers, Felipe Salazar (Caudal, Muerte En Pereira), Jérémie Mortier (Alice in the Cities, Lady Shot from a Tree), and Dave Dunnett (Man Meets Bear), to create propulsive, poly-rhythmic space rock. Hypnodrone Ensemble released their live debut in 2014 on Consouling Sounds & a studio-recorded follow up in 2015 on Calostro Recordings.

Whisper Room is a trio of Aidan Baker (guitar), Jakob Thiesen (drums/effects), & Neil Wiernik (bass/effects). The three members of Whisper Room moved in similar musical circles in Toronto & Montreal for many years, sporadically playing together &/or sharing stages, but did not actively come together as a group until late 2006. As an improvisational unit combining their disparate musical backgrounds, the trio creates music which explores the conjunction of electronic rhythms & textures with the pulsations & psychedelics of shoegaze & krautrock music. They released their debut full-length album, Birch White on Elevation Recordings and their follow-up The Cruelest Month on Consouling Sounds in 2014

Adoran is a duo consisting of Aidan Baker on drums & Dorian Williamson on bass. The project makes music combining elements of post-rock, drone, industrial, and sludge. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2012 and their second album Children of Mars is the autumn of 2015, both by Consouling Sounds.

Caudal was a trio featuring Aidan Baker on guitar, Gareth Sweeney on bass, & Felipe Salazar on drums. Baker’s multi-layered, heavily affected guitar overlays Sweeney & Salazar’s driving, propulsive rhythm section creating music equally influenced by krautrock, post-punk, and spacerock. Their debut album Forever In Another World was released in 2013 Oaken Palace Records. Their second full-length album Ascension was released by Consouling Sounds in 2014.

Infinite Light Ltd was a collaborative project between Aidan Baker, Nathan Amundson (Rivulets), and Mat Sweet (Boduf Songs). The trio released one album combining folk, ambient, and shoegaze sounds on the German label Denovali Records in 2011.


Scythling was a collaborative project between Aidan Baker and Josh Rothenburger of Bloody Panda exploring sounds conflating dark-ambient and doom metal. The group released one album, Smokefall, with various guest contributors on Aurora Borealis records in 2012.


WERL is a duo of Aidan Baker on guitar with Swedish drummer Tomas Järmyr creating improvisational music which explores noise, metal, drone, & freejazz. Their debut release came out in 2016 on Consouling Sounds and their follow-up is forthcoming September 2017 on Wolves&Vibrancy/Dio Drone Records.



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Probably, there is something symbolic in the fact that "Nihtes Niht" (a phrase in the ancient Germanic dialect, it also gives names to tracks that denote the cardinal points) came out in in the middle of winter: The album is a kind of soundtrack for desert ice landscapes, which is well reflected in the music - cold, minimalistic (someone will call it the actual word "isolationism"), spatial and sometimes threatening. Starting his journey from the zero mark, from where you can choose a direction in the direction of any of the four parts of the world, the listener will have to overcome endless ice fields that do not want to let him go alive and well. The streams of viscous, sleepy ambient that roll into "Sunt" very vividly describe this space, over which the veil of the endless polar night is thrown. A long way from nowhere to nowhere is accompanied by a sharp metal grinding, as if fate sharpens a knife, which very soon plans to cut the thread of the traveler's life. Cyclic noises and guitar overloads bursting into the canvas of an enveloping drone can be pretty nerve-racking. Choosing the path to the north, "Nort", we fall into the captivity of snow blindness - the music really conveys a blinding light that turns into complete darkness, in which the ear is sharpened, catching the smallest, even the most distant and barely audible sounds. And when your hearing finally adapts to the quietest of them, the authors will add a hard and sharp guitar rumble, from which walls and brains will resonate. "Westan" is a realm of hallucinations, delirious muttering, turning into the roar of ice monsters. The cries of polar birds and the sound of breaking ice make it clear that somewhere nearby there is an ocean shore, but the inexorable call forces you to go in the other direction, getting lost in the snowy plain. This is a reference dark ambient, which immediately brings to mind the "Stalker" by Robert Rich and "Lustmord". "Ostan" is a deceptively calm atmospheric drone, into which, again, resonating and grinding noises are aggressively embedded, and closer to the finale, the ice fields of this track are given over to the possession of harsh guitar psychedelia. Agony of consciousness or the opened second, and precisely the last breath, forcing you to make the last leap?



<a href="https://mir.cr/1TTHBY6K">Aidan Baker & Troum -  Nihtes Niht </a> ( flac 216mb)

01 Sunt 17:39
02 Nort 15:06
03 Westan 10:26
04 Ostan 14:20


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Canadian ambient/experimental composer Aidan Baker made his name on his unique tonal guitar explorations, merging dark emotional territory with achingly beautiful compositional elements. Already Drowning departs somewhat from his more textural work, presenting instead seven songs of more structured post-rock, each with a different guest vocalist. Themes taken from various folklore run throughout the album, with an emphasis placed on female water spirits. This nymph-ish thread works well with the darkly dreamlike songs, in particular the harrowing title track and the drifty spoken parts of "30 Days/30 Nights" featuring Jessica Bailiff.



<a href="https://multiup.org/14bcfe1fe8377f1b960d7315b9112e99">  Aidan Baker - Already Drowning</a> ( flac 336mb)

01 Already Drowning feat. Clara Engel 8:47
02 30 Days / 30 Nights feat. Jessica Bailiff 8:55
03 Mélusine feat. Valérie Niederoest & Maude Oswald 6:04
04 Mein Zwilling, mein Verlorener feat. Joanna Kupnicka 6:09
05 Tout juste sous la surface, je guette feat. Geneviève Castrée 7:59
06 Ice feat. Liz Hysen 10:58
07 Lorelei / Common Tongue feat. Carla Bozulich 6:03

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Multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker's 2014, 40 minutes long, 3 piece project , "Hypnotannenbaumdronefuzz", focuses entirely on melody, beyond his previous experiments with noise. Again, he projects a low-keyed , no frills, up front, songwriting, similar to that of his earlier efforts. Each piece relies on its own melody line, which is an almost invisible thread, that moves along extraordinary, yet almost imperceptible arrangements. The variety in its instrumentation, enhances its scope and depth. But nevertheless, its slow-paced melodical moods set the evocative and nocturnal tone of the whole project.



<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/Fkknb">   Aidan Baker - Hypnotannenbaumdronefuzz -</a> ( flac 296mb)

01 HTBDF I 11:40
02 HTBDF II 9:10
03 HTBDF III 19:47

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The phrase ‘ecliptic plane‘ refers to the Sun’s apparent path or orbit around the Earth, as seen from a terrestrial perspective. As such, the music contained on the album Ecliptic Plane explores orbits and perspective, with multi-layered guitar loops slowly evolving and gradually changing through the course of their repetition. Even if Ecliptic Plane doesn't refer to it, I see it like a travel to the borders of the solar system, and beyond. A lone journey where the distant melodies will dissolve into the emulated eternity of the processed guitar loops, without any break. Aiming for the universe, the sounds grow more silent and cold as the solar wind carries us outside the Kuiper belt, but it's only to reach an other star as the opening melody appears again at the very end. A unidirectional path on a Möbius ring. Anyway in this (un)controllable taggings, Aidan Baker's style has always stepped indifferently wherever his creativity leads on and the real deal about Ecliptic Planes goes beyond all this info. Hypnotic, uninterrupted, strangely beautiful, addictive musical structures display shamelessly the altitudes Baker's self made musical idiom has reached and holds no quarter in doing so.



<a href="https://bayfiles.com/Rdaav2yep3/Adn_Bkr_Eclptc_Pln_zip">Aidan Baker - Ecliptic Plane -</a> ( flac 237mb)

01 Ecliptic Plane 08:16
02 Termination Shock 03:47
03 Terrella 08:14
04 Heliosphere 06:27
05 Heliopause 05:50
06 Heliotail 10:31

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