Aidan Baker

Infobox musical artist
Name = Aidan Baker


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Background = solo_singer
Born = 1974/1975
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Origin = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Instrument = Guitar, drums, flute, among others
Genre = Experimental, ambient, drone doom, post-rock, space rock
Occupation = musician, writer, poet
Years_active = 1999-present
Label = Arcolepsy Records, among others
Associated_acts = Nadja, ARC, Mnemosyne
URL = [http://www.aidanbaker.org link]

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.Adian Baker on [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Aidan+Baker discogs.com] ]

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.

tyle

Baker utilizes a very experimental style of playing guitar, influenced by artists such as Caspar Brotzmann, James Plotkin, Kevin Shields, and Justin Broadrick.cite web | last = Thorn | first = Malahki | title = Aidan Baker Interview; Butterfly Bones | publisher = Heathen Harvest | date = 2004-10-16 | url = http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20041016153736179 | accessdate = 2008-02-03] Influences on his musical structures and sound include Sonic Youth, Swans, Sunn O))), Red House Painters, Godflesh, Codeine, and PJ Harvey.cite web | last = Hörner | first = James | title = Aidan Baker: DIY | publisher = Canadian Content | url = http://www.canadiancontent.ca/interviews/050104baker.html | accessdate = 2008-02-03]

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

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)
*"" (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)

Collaborations

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

=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, forthcoming)

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)

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)

References