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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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Obviously Adrian has a musical background against which he manifests his musical ideas....Rhythmic meditations of the highest caliber. At times the measured, pounding drums recall those you'd find on a GAS record, surrounded by ghostly vocals and electronic curiosities.



<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/GzdWr">VA - The Threshold Of Silence</a> ( flac 220mb)

01 Thalia - Offertorium 11:58
02 Aidan Baker - Untitled Guitar Drone 5:31
03 Seconds In Formaldehyde - I Could Have Painted You The Sky With Silence 8:35
04 Propeller Island - Saphir 8:38
05 Troum - Ultrachronos 9:49
06 Oophoi - In Deep Waters 11:43
07 Paul Bradley - Fissure 8:19


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Invisible Cities, the first collaboration between Aidan Baker (Nadja, B/B/S) and bass clarinetist Gareth Davis (Oiseaux-Tempête), offers the finest ambient/chamber jazz/subtle drones of a highly meditative quality.This marks Baker's first collaboration with Gareth Davis whose eclectic oeuvre spans contemporary classical, free improvisation, and orchestral music through to rock, noise, and electronica. The bass clarinetist is a steady member of the critically acclaimed post-rock formation Oiseaux-Tempête and A-Sun Amissa, interpreted compositions by Alvin Lucier with Machinefabriek, worked with Bernhard Lang and Peter Ablinger, performed with musicians like New York downtown veteran Elliott Sharp, Merzbow, or Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) and realized multimedia work with artists including Christian Marclay and Peter Greenaway. Recorded in November 2016 at Muziekhuis, Utrecht, the four tracks create a calm, even meditative atmosphere in their reduced manner that gives much room to the individual instruments/sounds, occasionally spiced up by field recordings that intensify the overall chamber jazz/ambient moods



<a href="http://depositfiles.com/files/mx26bmbri">  Aidan Baker and Gareth Davis - Invisible Cities </a> ( flac 163mb)

01 Memory 11:42
02 Sky 11:40
03 Signs 7:21
04 Desire 15:30

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See Through is a mesmerising collaboration that sees the best of the very best of the instrumental underground school us in how collaborations should be done. Collaborations, by their very nature, are an inherently risky proposition. While we all have our own ever-expanding list of artists we’d pay good money to see, a meeting of the minds can just as often produce underwhelming results as it can produce gold – in fact, it’s probably more the former than the latter. Just because two artists work great individually does not mean that when you put them together it will instantly produce results that are the sum of their parts. Does anyone remember the horror show that was Lulu? Which means it’s almost a public duty to raise awareness about collaborations that actually justify their existence artistically beyond name recognition of the people involved. Which brings us to See Through, which is certainly deserving of such accolades.
On paper, the intriguing combination of experimental workhorse Aidan Baker (Nadja), ethereal vocal gymnast Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer), and noted percussive adventurer Jon Mueller makes for an an enthralling concept. Thankfully, in execution, it proves itself to be just as exciting. The record has a keen focus on texture and tone, opting for emotive triggers layered into complex structures, rather than opting for more traditional songwriting, allowing each of the collaborators to shine in their respective pursuit – giving each other more than enough breathing room to reach their accumulative goal. There is an organic grandeur to this record that is rarely heard, and it comes from the honesty poured into the exploratory nature of the project by the trio. While this may be a flash in the pan type of project, this collective are too good together not to give it another go.

<a href="https://multiup.org/09c689d5b58a1fbf1f6ddd56362c2ead">  Aidan Baker, Faith Coloccia, Jon Mueller - See Through-</a> ( flac 262mb)

01 Yellow 6:16
02 Repeat 8:34
03 Summer 8:39
04 See Through 11:34
05 Mauve 5:20
06 Harmony in Distance 6:27

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Aidan Baker (Nadja, b/b/s) and bass clarinetist Gareth Davis continue their fruitful collaboration with "invisible cities ii" - five new tracks of finest ambient / chamber jazz / subtle drones of a highly meditative quality.

"2 years ago, the canadian guitar player aidan baker and clarinetist gareth davis from belgium released their duo debut "invisible cities" that surprised many by its quiet, even meditative quality. davis had made himself a name in a wide range of fields, from the postrock of a-sun amissa or oiseaux-tempête, new music (peter ablinger, bernhard lang), or experimentation with the likes of elliott sharp, merzbow or scanner, while baker is mostly known for his drone / postmetal duo nadja, but that's just one out of several steady projects (e.g.b/b/s with andrea belfi and erik skodvin aka svarte greiner) and a multitude of solo albums. On "invisible cities" the duo explored the calmer side of things – from chamber jazz to ambient / drone and back, giving much space and air to breathe to their respective instrument. subtle guitar drones, sonore clarinet sounds, a sonic scenery of peacefullness and meditative introspection – all this you'll also find on the new album "invisible cities ii" which is an accomplished continuation and refinement of the duo's first collaborative effort from 2018. recorded between 2018 and 2019 in berlin and amsterdam, mastered and cut at d&m berlin by kassian troyer."



<a href="https://mir.cr/0VLAHZS9">Aidan Baker and Gareth Davis - Invisible Cities II-</a> ( flac 191mb)

01 Hidden
02 Eyes
03 The Dead
04 Continuity
05 Names

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