Of an entirely different nature of course is the music by Aidan Baker, well-known by now through his many releases on as many CDR labels, although things have been quiet a bit of lately.
Here he plays everything again, except of some violin and some trumpet parts. Baker plays guitars, drums, bass and vocals.
Through the use of a four track machine, Baker has the possibility of playing everything by himself. More than before it seems, he now crosses the line of ambient guitar to psychedelic krautrock and a whole new territory lies open.
It seems to me that there is some emphasis on the drums, more than before, and it beats a nice free floating beat, over which it's nice to let your guitar tapestries float free. The bass holds things together.
Perhaps it's all a bit too retro krautrock for me, but at the same time it's also pleasant head trip music. And that is sometimes more than enough.
(Frans de Waard)Here he plays everything again, except of some violin and some trumpet parts. Baker plays guitars, drums, bass and vocals.
Through the use of a four track machine, Baker has the possibility of playing everything by himself. More than before it seems, he now crosses the line of ambient guitar to psychedelic krautrock and a whole new territory lies open.
It seems to me that there is some emphasis on the drums, more than before, and it beats a nice free floating beat, over which it's nice to let your guitar tapestries float free. The bass holds things together.
Perhaps it's all a bit too retro krautrock for me, but at the same time it's also pleasant head trip music. And that is sometimes more than enough.
Label: Tosom
Cat. #: TOSOM 028
Format: CDr
Release date: 2007
Tracklisting:
01 - Speed Of Thought (22:17)
02 - Thought Climate (17:12)
03 - Thoughtspan (16:34)
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Previous releases:
- 24.2.24.4. (2005, Dark Winter)
- Antithesis (2004, petite sono])
- Approaching A Black Hole (2006, Fargone Records, FAR-048) (w/ DD6)
- At Home With... (2005, Infraction) (w/ Ultra Milkmaids)
- At The Base Of The Mind Is Coiled A Serpent (2004, Le Cri De La Harpe)
- At The Fountain Of Thirst (2003, Mystery Sea)
- Blauserk (2004, The Locus Of Assemblage, mass10)
- Black Flowers Blossom (2003, Sonic Syrup, ss-12)
- Broken & Remade (2007, Volubilis Records)
- Butterfly Bones (2004, Between Existence Productions)
- Candescence (2005, Verato Project)
- Cicatrice (2003, Dreamland Recordings)
- Concretion (2003, DTA Records)
- Dance Of Lonely Molecules (2007, Blade Records) (2013, Broken Spine Productions, --)
- Dog Fox Gone To Ground (2006, Afe Records)
- Dreammares (2003, Mechanoise Labs)
- Element (2000, Arcolepsy Records)
- Exoskeleton Heart (2007, Crucial Bliss, Bliss23)
- Field Of Drones (2004, Arcolepsy Records)
- Green & Cold (2007, Gears Of Sand)
- I Will Always And Forever Hold You In My Heart And Mind (2007, Small Doses) (reissued in 2008)
- Ice Against My Skin (2004, Arrêt Arrêt Recordings)
- Ichneumon (2004, TIBProd.)
- Letters (2002, Arcolepsy Records) (reissued in 2008, Basses Frequences, BF10)
- Loop Studies Remixed (2003, Arcolepsy Records) (w/ Cymbl)
- Noise Of Silence (2007, Hyperblasted, HyRe002)
- Métamorphose (En Sept Etages) (2003, S'agita Recordings)
- Oneiromancer (2006, Die Stadt)
- Orange (2007, thisquietarmy Records) (w/ Thisquietarmy)
- Peau Sensible (2006, BitPhitz)
- Pendulum (2006, Gears Of Sand)
- Periodic (2005, Crucial Bliss)
- Pretending To Be Fearless (2002, Fleshmadeword)
- Same River Twice (2004, Drone Records)
- Second Week Of The Second Month (2007, Kikapu Net.Label) (w/ Ben Fleury-Steiner)
- Skein Of Veins (2005, Phoniq)
- Still My Beating Heart Beats (2006, Pertin_nce)
- Tense Surfaces (2004, Panospria)
- The Sea Swells A Bit... (2006, A Silent Place)
- The Taste Of Summer On Your Skin (2004, taâlem)
- Undercurrents (2005, Zenapolae, zen007) (w/ Matt Borghi)
- Within The Final Circle (2005, Mirakelmusik)
Subsequent releases:
- Scalpel (2007, The Kora Records, TKR#8)
- An Open Letter To Franz Kafka (2007, Laughing Bride Media, LBM004)
- Fragile Movements In Slow Motion (2008, Universal Tongue, universal tongue 08)
- Suchness #1 (2008, Gears Of Sand, Suchness #1)
- Trinity (2008, Die Stadt, DS107) (w/ Leah Buckareff, Nadja)
- A Bout De Souffle (2008, Waterscape Records, WS 10) (w/ Jakob Thiesen)
- Book Of Nods (2008, Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt163)
- Ostinato 11 (2008, Oral, Ostinato 11) (w/ Freida Abtan, Joda Clément, Kolumkilli, Gyges, Vromb)
- I Fall Into You (2008, Basses Frequences, BF4)
- Noisejihad Live 24-04-08 (2008, Noisejihad, NJL019)
- Green & Cold (2008, Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt164) (reissue of GOS release plus two live tracks)
- Fantasma Parastasie (2008, Alien8 Recordings, Alien081) (w/ Tim Hecker)
- I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed (2008, Important Records, imprec214)
- Trinitarian (2008, Important Records, imprec215) (w/ Leah Buckareff, Nadja)
- Rural Sprawl (2008, Zhelezobeton, ZHB-XVII) (w/ The Infant Cycle)
- Untitled (2008, Meudiademorte, --) (w/ Datashock, Leah Buckareff)
- The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands (2009, Kokeshidisk, kodi 12) (w/Arc)
- A Picture Of A Picture (2009, Killer Pimp Music, PIMPK009) (w/ Thisquietarmy)
- Dry (2009, Install, INST007)
- Live In Montreal (2009, Blocks Recording Club, --)
- 20080307 (2009, [walnut + locust], Wl021)
- PMT#60 Playmytape @ Dom Club (2009, Play My Tape, PMT#60)
- Gathering Blue (2009, Equation Records, E=mc17)
- Live 2008-14-11 (2009, Universal Tongue, UT22) (w/ Brandon Valdivia)
- Colorful Disturbances (2009, Divorce Records, ) (w/ Noveller)
- Blue Figures (2009, Basses Frequences, BF20)
- Liminoid / Lifeforms (2010, Alien8 Recordings, ALIENCD87)
- I Will Always And Forever Hold You In My Heart And Mind (2010, Basses Frequences / Small Doses, BF26 / DOSE87)
- Songs Of Flowers & Skin (2010, Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt165)
- DOM Edition: White Nights / Drone Fields (2010, Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt236) (w/ Nadja)
- White Nights / Drone Fields / DOM (2010, Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt223/mt224) (w/ Nadja)
- Shape Of Snakes (2010, Broken Spine Productions, BSP02)
- Timber Piles / Once Upon Time There Was (A Beginning & An End) (2010, Art Metronome, AM 002) (w/ Guayaveras, The With Josh Thorpe)
- Lost In The Rat Maze (2011, ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0010)
- Rictus EP Collection (2011, [OHM] Records, 2.0 ohm)
- Only Stories (2011, The Kora Records / Broken Spine Productions, TKR019 / BSP003)
- Orange [extended] (2011, Lunasylum, Patient 01 & Patient 02 - Session 01) (w/ Thisquietarmy)
- Noise Of Silence (2011, Essence Music, ESS015-B)
- Still Life (2011, Primary Numbers, PRIMA002)
- Pure Drone (Drone Compendium One) (2011, Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt249)
- Tonstreifen (2011, Broken Spine Productions, BSPD01)
- Pretending To Be Fearless / Dreammares (2011, Broken Spine Productions, --)
- Plague Of Fantasies (2011, Blackest Rainbow, BRR212)
- Green Figures (2011, Basses Frequences, BF38) (w/ Kevin Micka)
- Infinite Loop # 1 (2011, Inselkind-Schalltraeger, Querschalltapes # 1)
- Bach Eingeschaltet, Vierter Band (2011, Reue Um Reue, RUR020)
- Closure Axioms (2011, The Miskatonic Soundlab , MSLABCD001)
- Loop Studies (2011, Paradigms Recordings, Paradigms # 55)
- The Spectrum Of Distraction (2012, Robotic Empire, ROBO098)
- Document: Eurotour 2011 - Live In Paris & Ljubljana (2012, TQA Records, TQA021) (w/ Thisquietarmy)
- Variations On A Loop (2012, Broken Spine Productions, BSPD03)
- Breathing Heavy Breathing (2012, Thisquietarmy Records, TQA023) (w/ Leah Buckareff)
- Isolated Landscapes - A Singles Collection (2012, Broken Spine Productions, BSPD05)
- Smudging (2012, Backwards, BW06) (w/ Richard Baker)
- Wound Culture (2012, Broken Spine Productions, --)
- Origins & Evolutions (2012, Install, INST019)
- Nihtes Niht (2012, Alone At Last, AAL[4]) (2013, Broken Spine Productions, BSPD06) (w/ Troum)
- B/B/S/ - Brick Mask (2013, Miasmah, Miacd022) (w/ Andrea Belfi, Erik Skodvin)
- B/B/S/ - Brick Mask (2013, Miasmah, Mialp022-7) (w/ Andrea Belfi, Erik Skodvin)
- Mépris (2013, Interior Massacre, I.M.02) (w/ Jacob Thiesen)
- Glass Crocodile Medicine (2013, Latitudes, GMT032) (w/ Plurals)
- Scarpe Sensée (2013, Drowning, DROWN12) (w/ A-Sun Amissa)
- Aneira (2013, Glacial Movements Records, GM17)
- Live At Lab.30 (2013, Attenuation Circuit, ACLAB 1004)
- Souvenirs Of The Eternal Present (2013, Anthem Records, --)
- Already Drowning (2013, Gizeh Records, GZH43)
- At Home With... (2013, Broken Spine Productions, --) (w/ Ultra Milkmaids)
- Remixes (2013, Broken Spine Productions, --)
- Synth Studies (2013, Broken Spine Productions, BSPD06)
- Untitled (2014, Midira Records, MD 008) (w/ A-Sun Amissa)
- Hypnotannenbaumdronefuzz (2014, Broken Spine Productions, BSPD07)
- Triptychs: Variations On A Melody (2014, Important Records, imprec410)
- Hypnodrone Ensemble (2014, ) (w/ Thisquietarmy)
- The Confessional Tapes (2015, Pleasence Records, PR044)
- Half Lives (2015, Gizeh Records, GZH61)
- BSP Live Series - 2010.11.16 Les Instants Chavirés, Paris (2015, Broken Spine Productions)
- Terza Rima II (Drone Compendium Four) (2015, Beta-lactam Ring Records, mt252) (w/ Thomas Baker, Alan Bloor)
- Sorry For What I Said To You In Your Dream (2015, Broken Spine Productions, BSPD08)
- Stimmt (2015, Naked Lunch Records, NLR018CD)
- Ecliptic Plane (2015, Dronarivm, DR-35)
- Werl (2016, Consouling Sounds, SOUL0066) (w/ Tomas Järmyr)
- Enomemi (2016, Midira Records, MD025) (w/ N, Dirk Serries)
- Invisible Cities (2018, Karlrecords, KR045) (w/ Gareth Davis)
- Invisible Cities II (2020, Karlrecords, KR073) (w/ Gareth Davis)
Aidan Baker appears on:
- Luke Lund - As Above So Below (2015, Terranean Recordings, TERR074)
Links:
Aidan Baker
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