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Aidan Baker (born 1974/75) 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 in both North America and Europe, and has made appearances at the OM Festival, MUTEK, South by Southwest, and the Distillery Jazz Festival. He is married to Nadja bandmate, Leah Buckareff.
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Style
Baker utilizes a very experimental style of playing guitar, influenced by artists such as Caspar Brötzmann, James Plotkin, Kevin Shields, and Justin Broadrick. Influences on his musical structures and sound include Sonic Youth, Swans, Sunn O))), Red House Painters, Godflesh, Codeine, and PJ Harvey.
Most of his records consist of some lengthy songs and are usually improvised, as are his live shows.
Discography (abridged)
Element (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2000)
I Fall into You (CD-R, Public Eyesore, 2002)
Re-released (CD, Basses Frequences, 2008)
Letters (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2002)
Re-released (LP, Basses Frequences, 2008)
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)
Rictus (CD, OHM Records, 2011) - compilation of the 3" CD-R releases Cicatrice (2003), Blauserk (2004), The Taste of Summer on Your Skin (2004) and Fragile Movements in Slow Motion (2008)
Passing Thru (CD/Book, Beta-lactam Ring Records, forthcoming)
Only Stories (CD, The Kora Records, forthcoming)
Lost in the Rat Maze (CD, ConSouling Sounds, 2011)
Pure Drone (Drone Compendium vol 1) (LP, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, 2011)
The Spectrum of Distraction (2xCD, Robotic Empire, 2012) - Comes with download card containing over 6 hours of extra material / full mixes.
Already Drowning (LP, CD, Gizeh Records, 2013)
Collaborations
Approaching a Black Hole with DD3 (CD-R, Fargone Records, 2006)
An Open Letter to Franz Kafka with Beta Cloud (CD-R, Laughing Bride Media, 2007)
Nagual with Todd Merrell & Patrick Jordan (CD, aRCHIVE, 2007)
Orange with thisquietarmy (CD-R, thisquietarmy Records, 2007)
Live Collaboration with Leah Buckareff & Datashock (12", Meudiademorte/Hlava Temple, 2007)
Fantasma Parastasie with Tim Hecker (Alien8 Recordings, 2008)
Live 2008-14-11 with Brandon Valdivia (CD, Universal Tongue, 2009)
A Picture of a Picture with thisquietarmy (CD, Album, Killer Pimp, 2009)
White Nights / Drone Fields / DOM with Nadja (2xDVD, 2xCD, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, 2009) - 1 DVD & 1 CD each for Nadja / Aidan Baker solo
Infinite Light Ltd. with Nathan Amundson of Rivulets and Mat Sweet of Boduf Songs. (CD, LP Denovali Records, 2011)
Splits
Untitled with Z'EV, John Duncan & Fear Falls Burning (2x7", Die Stadt, 2005)
Colorful Disturbances with Noveller (LP, Divorce, 2009)
The Sun is Bleeding & Has Black Hands with ARC (2CD, Kokeshidisk, 2009)
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, 2010)
With ARC
Untitled (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2000)
Two (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records/Mathbat Records, 2001)