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We got a box in from our favourite Brazilian label this week...Essence records. In that box was a bunch of old things and a coupla newies, one of which was this - a brand new Aidan Baker album! Aidan has baked many records over the recent years encompassing varying styles with his recent output being less doomy and dark ambient than his earlier stuff. This one sees him going back to the doomier/dark ambient side of things. Atmospherically this is kinda dark sounding with weird little noises that sound like paranoid whispering (people saying bad things about YOU!!) but if you crank it up that dissipates a little. In the background there's some nice droney work going on, nice layers and textures and it slowly builds up (as these 50 minute tracks do) from slight paranoia into a dark schizophrenic episode. About midway through it gets proper intense with walls of fuzz taking over proceedings, blasting the cobwebs from your mind. I've just head a voice say "I became suicidal"...I wasn't imaging it after all! Remember kids, listen to Mr Mackey, 'drugs are bad, m'kay'. Dark fun times as ever from Mr Baker.
The always impressive and prolific Aidan Baker creates thick walls of doomgaze on the Nadja duo, but under his own name he manages to explore a much more personal world, offering inspiring and mind altering drone music to his established fan base.
Released in 2007 as a very limited edition CDR, Noise Of Silence is one of our top favorite Baker’s lost gems that truly deserved a special treatment.
A single, spontaneously composed, yet majestically structured 50 minute opus of swirling processed guitars, tape loops and noise bursts. Fear-inspiring in essence, the album slowly builds up a suffocating and trance inducing atmosphere around fragmented subliminal messages from a suicidal voice. Dangerously persuasive, we dare to say. Utterly intoxicating, Aidan exercises patience to reach the disturbing climaxes of Noise Of Silence. Definitely not your typical dose of gentle and dreamy Baker solo.
As an interesting note, a friend and fellow Baker fan reveals that the suicidal voice heard on the album is from Romeo Dallaire, a Canadian general who in the 90′s headed the UN troops ill-fated attempt to stop the genocide taking place in Rwanda. He returned to Canada with post-traumatic stress syndrome and actually attempted suicide in 2000.
We care for sound quality as much as we care for presentation, so the album is now fully revised and remastered by James Plotkin, unveiling buried sounds we couldn’t notice on the original release.
Beautiful 5-color printing on a custom 6-panel packaging. Limited to 400 copies.
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