“Jag dras in som en nattfjäril och jag flyger norrut igen…”

Happy International Workers’ Day!

In the spirit of socialism, here’s a free album to download:

Nadja is flying north next week for a Scandinavian tour with additional dates in the Baltics and Poland, ending up back in Berlin in time for Occulto Fest:

09-05-12: Alte Meierei, Kiel, DE
10-05-12: KB18, Copenhagen, DK
11-05-12: tba, Malmo, SE
12-05-12: Revolver, Oslo, NO
13-05-12: Betong, Oslo, NO (AB solo show)
15-05-12: Fyklingen, Stockholm, SE
17-05-12: Dynamo, Turku, FI
18-05-12: Von Krahl Bar, Tallinn, ES
19-05-12: Kino Balle, Liepaja, LV
20-05-12: XI20, Vlinius, LT
22-05-12: Sen Pszczoły, Warsaw, PL
23-05-12: Alchemie, Krakow, PL
26-05-12: Occulto Fest, Berlin, DE

(bonus points to anyone who can figure our what the google-translated title of this post refers to)

Documenting The Process 3

Second in the Broken Spine cd re-issue series (the first being Bodycage) is Nadja‘s 2007 album Thaumogenesis, originally released on cd by Archive and long out of print (apart from the vinyl version on Important Records).

The official release date for Thaumogenesis is April 23, 2012 but we will have copies available on our upcoming tour. The album is available digitally here, though, if you just can’t wait for a physical copy:

Documents

A brief respite from touring…but of course we’ve some upcoming shows, including these two support slots in Berlin:

06-03-2012: Aidan opening for Sharon Van Etten at the Grüner Salon
10-04-2012: Nadja opening for OM at the Berghain

Also, Nadja will also be heading out on tour with our friends Off The International Radar in a couple weeks. There might be some last minute additions to this list, but here’s what the dates are looking like at the moment:

14-03-2012: NK, Berlin, DE (w/ Portraits)
15-03-2012: Markthalle, Hamburg, DE
16-03-2012: Alhambra, Oldenburg, DE
17-03-2012: Vera, Groningen, NL
18-03-2012: Magasin4, Brussels, BE (w/ OvO)
20-03-2012: Les Instants Chavires, Paris, FR
21-03-2012: Allones, Le Mans, FR
23-03-2012: Mix’art Mryrs, Toulouse, FR
24-03-2012: L’Embobineuse, Marseilles, FR
25-03-2012: Mattatoio, Carpi, IT
28-03-2012: Klub Place, Rijeka, HR
29-03-2012: Rhiz, Vienna, AT
30-03-2012: Kafe Kult, Munich, DE
31-03-2012: Klub K4, Prague, CZ

Thisquietarmy also recently released a 3CD Tour Document from our tour last spring, which sold out nearly immediately. I have a few copies left, so if you’d like one get in touch sooner than later. Alternately, the tracks are available digitally here:

And iff you need some consolation for missing out on the above Tour Document, you can always download a performance from my last tour with A-Sun Amissa on Free Music Archive.

Primitive Loops

We have copies of The Primitive World, our collaborative album with Japan’s Vampillia, released in conjunction with our recent Japanese tour, available here in our webstore or digitally below. It is available in Japan from Iscollage Collective and may see a domestic North America release one of these days…

We also have copies of AB’s 2CD Loop Studies collection from Paradigms Recordings available in the webstore. It’s exclusively available physically (oh, the novelty) at the moment, but should you like a preview, you can stream the tracks here:

I will have copies of both cds, among various other sundry releases, available on my solo tour with A-Sun Amissa starting next week:

15-02-12: West Germany, Berlin, DE (performing w/ Erik Skodvin & Andrea Belfi)
16-02-12: Astrostube, Hamburg, DE
17-02-12: Christuskirke, Bochum, DE (performing w/ Maik Parker of Kodiak)
18-02-12: (H)ear, Heerlen, NL (also w/ John Chantler)
19-02-12: DB’s, Utrecht, NL
20-02-12: Waggon, Offenbach, DE
21-02-12: Komma, Esslingen, DE
23-02-12: L’inventaire, Le Mans, FR
24-02-12: L’espace B, Paris, FR
25-02-12: Le Plané Ari Home, Wanquetin, FR

Bungling Addendums

As a brief addendum to our last post: Consouling Sounds has just re-issued our album The Bungled & The Botched on cd. If you’d like a copy, you can order it from Consouling or direct from our webstore.

気晴らしのスペクトラム / Kibarashi no supekutoramu

I have copies of my new (albeit not-quite-released) album The Spectrum of Distraction (official release date January 17 2012) available now on the Broken Spine Productions webstore for the Europeans who’d like to save on international shipping (North Americans can order it direct from Robotic Empire).

If you’d like to read some more about the album and sample a few tracks from the Complete Sessions (available as a download with the CD — almost 6 hours of music) you can do so here on Pitchfork, Exclaim, and The Post Rock (Deutsch).

And here are some photos highlighting Matt Smith‘s delightful illustrations:

In other release news, my (other) new solo album Closure Axioms is now available from Miskatonic Sound Lab and Nadja‘s The Bungled & The Botched has been newly re-issued on CD by Consouling Sounds (it’ll be in our webstore later this week).

And lastly some tourdates:

Nadja will be heading off to Japan in a few weeks for a few shows with our Important Records labelmates, Vampillia:

28-01-12: Shibuya O-Nest, Tokyo
29-01-12: Unagidani Sunsui, Osaka
01-02-12: Club Quatro, Hiroshima
02-02-12: Voodoo Lounge, Fukuoka
03-02-12: Wakayama, Rub Luck Cafe
05-02-12: Soup, Tokyo (AB solo show only)

More info and tickets here.

And in February, I will be doing a solo tour with the UK trio A-Sun Amissa:

15-02-12: West Germany, Berlin, DE
16-02-12: Astrostube, Hamburg, DE
17-02-12: Christuskirke, Bochum, DE
18-02-12: (H)ear, Heerlen, NL
19-02-12: DB’s, Utrecht, NL
20-02-12: Waggon, Offenbach, DE
21-02-12: Komma, Esslingen, DE
22-02-12: tba
23-02-12: L’inventaire, Le Mans, FR
24-02-12: L’espace B, Paris, FR
25-02-12: Le Plané Ari Home, Wanquetin, FR

Distracting Spectrums Con’t

Some press/interviews about The Spectrum of Distraction with streamable tracks from Jakob Thiesen, Mac McNeilly, and Steven Hess:

Exclaim
Pitchfork
The Post Rock

And in the meantime, here’s something to tide you over while you’re waiting for The Spectrum of Distraction to come out:

Distracting Spectrums

I have a new a solo release, The Spectrum of Distraction, coming out January 17, 2012 with Robotic Empire. This will be a 2CD album, containing 96 tracks edited and designed in such a way as to be played on random, and features contributions from 18 different drummers:

Mac McNeily (The Jesus Lizard), Ted Parsons (Swans, Godflesh, Jesu, Prong, & many others), David Dunnett (Ca Va Mal), Brandon Valdivia (Picastro), Richard Baker (ARC), Victor Cirone, Jakob Thiesen (Whisper Room, Nadja), Thor Harris (The Angels of Light, Shearwater, Swans), Geoff Summers (Batillus), Alessandro Curvaia (Shora), Simon Scott (Slowdive), Steven Hess (Locrian, Panamerican), Bruno Dorella (OvO), H. Walker (Kerretta), Andrew Crawshaw, Kevin Micka (Animal Hospital), Phil Petrocelli (Jesu, Great Falls, Grey Machine), & myself.

The album is available for pre-order from Robotic Empire here. The 2CD also comes with a download card for the complete, unedited sessions that made up this album — almost 6 hours of music! You can stream the ‘first’ track from the album, “At War With The Evil Power Master” (drums by Phil Petrocelli), here on my Bandcamp page:

(Obviously, these tracks should flow seamlessly together, which they don’t in the stream, but hopefully it’ll give you an idea what to expect)

The artwork for the album is by Matt Smith, whose work you may recognize from Nadja’s covers album, When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV.

Sprachform

We will be heading out next week for our last tour of 2011, beginning in Greece and then making our way north through the Balkans:

09-11-11: Six Dogs, Athens, GR
10-11-11: Stage Performances, Larissa, GR
11-11-11: 1ος Όροφος, Thessaloniki, GR
12-11-11: La Kaña, Skopje, MK
13-11-11: CK13, Novi-Sad, SRB
14-11-11: Irish & Music Pub, Cluj-Napoca, RO
15-11-11: Trafik Klub, Budapest, HU
16-11-11: Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb, CR
17-11-11: Menza Pri Koritu, Ljubljana, SL

And then back to Berlin for a show with fellow Canadian ex-pat, [sic]:

23-11-11: Marie Antoinette’s, Berlin, DE

And finally off to a festival on an island out in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal:

02-12-11: Madeiradig Festival, Madeira, PT

NO v LT

A couple upcoming one-off/festival shows:

Nadja:
19-10-11: Revolver, Oslo, Norway
30-10-11: Propoganda, Vilnius, Lithuania

Aidan Baker:
20-20-11: Brugata, Oslo, Norway
28-10-11: Zemlika Festival, Durbe, Latvia

I will be performing my composition Liminoid at the Zemlika Festival with the Sinfonietta Riga String Quartet and The Burning Kulba. You can stream the piece at the above link (although of course this performance might sound completely different, since it will be an entirely different group of players [apart from me, of course]).

Also, my new lp Plague of Fantasies and live cd Green Figures (w/ Kevin Micka aka Animal Hospital on drums) are now available in our webstore (and digitally at above links).