Aidan Baker is a musician from Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Canada

Canada

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 who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and with his groups Nadja

Nadja (band)

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff . Nadja began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient music performed mainly on the electric guitar...

, ARC, 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

OM Festival

The OM Festival was a community-based summer solstice festival that ran annually in southern Ontario for seven years from 1998 to 2004. The festival, organized by Sumkidz, featured music, dance and art, and encouraged its attendees to participate by volunteering. The event promoted free expression...

, MUTEK

Mutek

Founded in 2000, MUTEK is an international festival organization dedicated to the promotion of electronic music and the digital arts. Its central platform is an annual five-day event in Montreal that takes place in late May and early June...

, South by Southwest

South by Southwest

South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...

, and the Distillery Jazz Festival. He is married to Nadja

Nadja (band)

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff . Nadja began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient music performed mainly on the electric guitar...

 bandmate, Leah Buckareff.

Style

Baker utilizes a very experimental style of playing guitar, influenced by artists such as Caspar Brötzmann

Caspar Brötzmann

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, James Plotkin

James Plotkin

James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer, famous for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD, but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has performed guitar duties for bands Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null, Nadja, Sunn...

, Kevin Shields

Kevin Shields

Kevin Patrick Shields is an American-born, Irish vocalist, guitarist, and producer of alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine....

, and Justin Broadrick

Justin Broadrick

Justin Karl Michael Broadrick is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.-Biography:Broadrick was born in the council estates of inner...

. Influences on his musical structures and sound include Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, Swans

Swans (band)

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, Sunn O)))

Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...

, Red House Painters

Red House Painters

Red House Painters were an alternative rock group formed in 1989 in San Francisco, California by singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek.-History:While in Atlanta, Georgia, Ohio-born Kozelek became friends with Anthony Koutsos, a drummer. He then moved to San Francisco, California, adding guitarist Gorden...

, Godflesh

Godflesh

Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...

, Codeine

Codeine (band)

Codeine was an American indie rock/slowcore band formed in 1989. They released two full-length albums — Frigid Stars in 1990 and The White Birch in 1994.-History:...

, and PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.Harvey began her career in...

.

Most of his records consist of some lengthy 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)
  • 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)
• Black Flowers Blossom (CD-R, Sonic Syrup, 2003)
• Cicatrice (CD-R, Dreamland Recordings, 2003)
• Concretion (CD-R, DTA Records, 2003)
  • Re-released (MP3, .Angle.Rec., 2007)
• 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
  Drone Records
  Drone Records is an independent record label based in Germany specialising in drone, ambient, and noise music.-Overview:Drone Records was founded by Stefan Knappe . The label releases exclusively 7" and 10" vinyl, and all the artists design their own release artwork.-External links:* - official...
  
  , 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)
  • Re-released (CD, Volubilis Records, 2007)
• 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)
  • Re-released (CD, Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2010)
• Still My Beating Heart Beats (CD-R, Pertin_nce, 2005)
• The Taste of Summer on Your Skin (CD-R, taâlem, 2004/2005)
  • 1st & 2nd editions released in 2004 & 2005 respectively
• Traumerei (CD-R, Evelyn Records, 2005)
• Undercurrents (CD, Zenapolae, 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 (CD, 2xCD, Die Stadt, 2006)
  • 2CD version contains a second disc with an Untitled Live Performance
• Peau Sensible (MP3, Zenapolæ, 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)
• 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)
  • Re-released (CD, Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2008)
• I Will Always and Forever Hold You in My Heart and Mind (CD-R, Small Doses, 2007)
  • Limited 2nd Edition was released in 2008 with slightly different artwork
  • Re-released (CD, Basses Frequences/Small Doses, 2010)
• Noise of Silence (CD-R, Hyperblasted, 2007)
• Scalpel (CD, The Kora Records, 2007)
• Second Week of the Second Month (MP3, Kikapu Net.Label, 2007)
• Thoughtspan (CD-R, Tosom, 2007)
  • Re-released (LP, Blackest Rainbow, 2009)
• Fragile Movements in Slow Motion (CD-R, Universal Tongue, 2008)
• Suchness #1 (CD-R, Gears Of Sand, 2008)
• 20080307 (3"CD-R, Walnut + locust
  Walnut + locust
  [walnut + locust] is an independent music label based in Montreal, Canada which started as a webzine in 1999.Since 2007, [walnut + locust] works with the Distroboto machines in Quebec. These automatic vending machines are former cigarette machines which no longer sell cigarettes, but sell art instead...
  
  , 2009)
• Blue Figures (CD, Basses Frequences, 2009)
• Dry (CD, Install, 2009)
• Gathering Blue (2LP, Equation Records, 2009)
• Live in Montreal (MP3, Blocks Recording Club, 2009)
• PMT#60 Playmytape @ Dom Club (MP3, Play MY Tape, 2009)
• Liminoid | Lifeforms (CD, Alien8 Recordings, 2010)
• 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)

Collaborations

• 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
  Tim Hecker
  Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. Hecker previously recorded under the moniker Jetone, but has become better known internationally for his ambient recordings released through Kranky, Mille Plateaux, Alien8, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat under his...
  
   (Alien8 Recordings
  Alien8 Recordings
  Alien8 Recordings is an independent record label founded in 1996 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The music label was founded by Sean O'Hara and Gary Worsley...
  
  , 2008)
• Live 2008-14-11 with Brandon Valdivia (CD, Universal Tongue, 2009)
• A Picture of a Picture with thisquietarmy (CD, Album, Killer Pimp, 2009)

Splits

• Untitled with Z'EV
  Z'EV
  Z'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...
  
  , John Duncan
  John Duncan
  John Duncan may refer to:* John Duncan , American artist and musician* John Duncan , Scottish weaver and botanist* John Duncan , MP from British Columbia...
  
   & 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
  Moss (band)
  Moss is a three-piece English doom metal band that formed in 2000. Influenced by H. P. Lovecraft and the occult, songs usually average the 20 minute mark and incorporate dense and otherworldly atmospheres...
  
   (2003)
• I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth (Deserted Factory Records, 2004)
• Bodycage (Nothingness Records, 2005)
• Bliss Torn from Emptiness
  Bliss Torn from Emptiness
  Bliss Torn from Emptiness is the fifth full length album by drone doom band Nadja, first released on June 15, 2005 by Fargone Records. This album consists of one 48 minute instrumental track, also this edition of the album was limited to only 60 copies....
  
  (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
  Thaumogenesis
  Thaumogenesis is the seventh full length album by drone doom band Nadja, it was released in January 2007 by aRCHIVE recordings. It consists of only one long instrumental track lasting over 60 minutes, and the album was limited to 600 copies....
  
  (Archive Records, 2007)
• Guilted by the Sun (Roadburn Records, 2007)
• Radiance of Shadows
  Radiance of Shadows
  Radiance of Shadows is the eighth full-length by Canadian drone doom band Nadja, released on October 8, 2007 by Alien8 Recordings.-Track listing:#"Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" - 23:27#"I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth" - 27:26...
  
  (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
  The Bungled & the Botched
  The Bungled & the Botched is the tenth full-length studio album by drone doom band Nadja, released in July 2008 on ConSouling Sounds and limited to 500 copies....
  
  (ConSouling Sounds, 2008)
• Autopergamene (Essence music, 2010)

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)

Tracks Appear On

• My Own Wolf: A New Approach
  My Own Wolf: A New Approach
  My Own Wolf: A New Approach to Ulver is a tribute album to the Norwegian band Ulver. It features twenty-six different artists from around the world covering material from almost every Ulver release, ranging from the demo Vargnatt up through the album Blood Inside. The album was released for free...
  
  [Track titled 'Eitttlane'](a tribute to Ulver, MP3, CD-R, Aspherical Asphyxia Prod., 2007)

With Mnemosyne

• Spiritsized (CD-R, Arcolepsy Records, 2003)
• The Air Grows Small Fingers (CD-R, Piehead Records, 2004)

External links

• Two and a Half Questions with Aidan Baker on Headphone Commute (2009)