I’ve been getting a few quite confusing records this week and this is most definitely one of them. It’s full of curious disjointed ambient loops and moods which are primarily cons…
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This is the third and final album in the A Taste of Ra trilogy. “When we moved to tent and the light was golden and we were young, and the magazine was all there was to bring, and you woke in the night when the birds were singing just…
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S/T
A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Here's a dream marriage in floaty heaven! Adam Wiltzie from Stars of The Lid and Dustin O'Halloran have a new thing and this is it. Initially it sounds like how you'd expect it to sound. O'Halloran tinkling away on the old ivories and Wiltzi…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £15.79, CD £12.69
Accrual is an irregular improvised drone project between Ruaridh Law (a member of the Glasgow electronic act Marcia Blaine School For Girls and in his own right as a solo musician as The Village Orchestra) and Alasdair Satchel (an award-winning thea…
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Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2 disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured …
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If this album had twice as many tracks plus an extra two, right about now I'd be making some hilarious quip about 'Aidan Baker's dozen'. But it doesn't, so we've all had to miss out. THANKS Aidan. Thanks a lot. I Fall Into You comes in a 500-strong C…
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Dry
Aidan Baker
Is MTV unplugged still going? I haven’t watched MTV in about 15 years... Anyway Aidan Baker has a CD out on Install called ‘Dry’ and the name is a clue to what’s happening on the recording. Basically the man is playing his electric guitar â…
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This was previously issued on CD in 2007 on Volubilis Records and is on wax for the first time. This shows yet another side to this multi-faceted artist and when I first listened I was unaware it was Baker and would never have guessed in a million…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £13.39
This man is unstoppable! He must be making records in his sleep... Ah sleep, this is a good one to whack on to ease you into the land of nod. One fifty minute plus track indexed into twelve convenient parts. He's in fine form here, creating a blis…
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While Alien8 Recordings has had the pleasure of releasing three full-length albums by Aidan Baker’s ambient doom project Nadja, as well as his collab- orative effort Fantasma Parastasie with Tim Hecker, this marks our first solo release with th…
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I'm not sure Aidan Baker really needs an introduction. Also a member or the tribal-ambient trio Arc (remember "13th" we released some months ago), he has built an impressive discography in a few months, releasing his beautiful drone/ambient…
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- Available on: CD single £4.59
Aidan Baker is a prolific classically trained multi-instrumentalist who has contributed much to the doom/drone/ambient genre. Nadja, Arc and Whisper Room are just a few of his manifestations. As a solo artist he also composed quite an impressive b…
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Only Stories continues with the 'drone folk' style established on Scalpel, simple, spare songs with quiet vocals and minimal background drones, all sounds produced by 6- and 12-string guitars.A co-operative release between Broken Spine…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £19.19
This Toronto native has been recording and releasing music for over a decade, amassing a staggering catalog as a solo artist, in numerous collaborations with musicians such as Tim Hecker, Thisquietarmy, Z’EV, and Jakob Thiesen, as well as a …
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The album title certainly does not deceive. But there is something absolutely worthy about Baker's approach to drone composition. He employs a subtle, patient counterpoint that offers an appealing spaciousness when played loud. The music is utterl…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £15.79
Subtitled ‘a composition for multiple guitars’ this features the axe talents of Jon Attwood (Yellow6), Da…
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Green Figures
Aidan Baker with Kevin Micka
It's been a while since Aidan Baker graced the Norman offices with a new record. It must have been like, atleast two or three weeks. OH! Just a little joke there for you regular Norman lads. Anyhows, Toronto's favoured guitar hero returns wi…
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This very week we received two rather lovely CDs from the Thisquietarmy label. The one I’m holding in my obes…
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Yo, this could be a load of old Cobb-lers, being yet another undulating, reverberating pile of old drone but it often has that magic profound quality that gets stuck in your throa…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £17.69