Aidan Baker


Aidan Baker is an electronic 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 around the world, and has made appearances at the Unsound Festival, MUTEK, and South by Southwest. He is married to Nadja bandmate, Leah Buckareff.

Style

Baker utilizes a very experimental style of playing guitar, influenced by artists such as Caspar Brötzmann, James Plotkin, Steve Albini, and Justin Broadrick. Influences on his musical structures and sound include Sonic Youth, Swans, Sunn O))), Red House Painters, Godflesh, Codeine, and PJ Harvey.

Discography

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  • Element
  • I Fall into You
  • *Re-released
  • Letters
  • *Re-released
  • Pretending to Be Fearless
  • Repercussion
  • Rural
  • Wound Culture
  • At the Fountain of Thirst
  • Black Flowers Blossom
  • Cicatrice
  • Concretion
  • *Re-released
  • Corpus Callosum
  • Dreammares
  • Eye of Day
  • Loop Studies One
  • Loop Studies Remixed
  • Métamorphose
  • Terza Rima
  • Threnody One: Lamentation
  • An Intricate Course of Deception
  • Antithesis
  • At the Base of the Mind Is Coiled a Serpent
  • Blauserk
  • Butterfly Bones
  • Field of Drones
  • Ice Against My Skin
  • Ichneumon
  • Same River Twice
  • Scouring Thin Bones
  • Tense Surfaces
  • The Taste of Summer on Your Skin
  • 24.2.24.4.
  • At Home With…
  • Candescence
  • Figures
  • *Re-released
  • Periodic
  • Remixes
  • Skein of Veins
  • Songs of Flowers & Skin
  • *Re-released
  • Still My Beating Heart Beats
  • The Taste of Summer on Your Skin
  • *1st & 2nd editions released in 2004 & 2005 respectively
  • Traumerei
  • Undercurrents
  • Within the Final Circle
  • 030706
  • Dog Fox Gone to Ground
  • Oneiromancer
  • *2CD version contains a second disc with an Untitled Live Performance
  • Peau Sensible
  • Pendulum
  • Still My Beating Heart Beats
  • The Sea Swells a Bit…
  • Broken & Remade
  • Concretion
  • Convs. w/ Myself
  • Dance of Lonely Molecules
  • Exoskeleton Heart
  • Figures
  • Green & Cold
  • *Re-released
  • I Will Always and Forever Hold You in My Heart and Mind
  • * Limited 2nd Edition was released in 2008 with slightly different artwork
  • * Re-released
  • Noise of Silence
  • Scalpel
  • Second Week of the Second Month
  • Thoughtspan
  • *Re-released
  • Fragile Movements in Slow Motion
  • Suchness #1
  • 20080307
  • Blue Figures
  • Dry
  • Gathering Blue
  • Live in Montreal
  • PMT#60 Playmytape @ Dom Club
  • Liminoid | Lifeforms
  • Rictus – compilation of the 3" CD-R releases Cicatrice, Blauserk, The Taste of Summer on Your Skin and Fragile Movements in Slow Motion
  • Passing Thru
  • Only Stories
  • Lost in the Rat Maze
  • Pure Drone
  • The Spectrum of Distraction – Comes with download card containing over 6 hours of extra material / full mixes.
  • Already Drowning
  • Objekts
  • Aberration
  • ''Children of the Sun ''

    Collaborations

  • Aidan Baker vs. Straiph Wilson– Scouring Thin Bones
Noiseusse N12.2004