New Year Of Snake Listenings

Happy year of the Snake!

If anyone would like a teaser of songs from Caudal‘s forthcoming release Forever In Another World on Oaken Palace Records, here is a recording of our debut show in Berlin last month:

And if anyone would like to sample the first track from B/B/S/‘s likewise forthcoming debut Brick Mask on Miasmah Records, you can stream it here:

B/B/S/ will be heading out on a short tour at the end of the month:

01-23 @ Monarch, Berlin, DE
01-25 @ Christuskirche, Bochum, DE
01-26 @ Plane Ari Home Gigs/L’auréole, Bethencourt, FR
01-27 @ Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels, BE

And in other new project news, Adoran Aidan‘s collaborative project with Dorian Williamson (of Northumbria) will be releasing a full-length album with Consouling Sounds later this year. An unmastered excerpt of the first track from this album is streamable here:

Some of you may recognize Adoran‘s name from the Drone Compendium Series slowly making its way into the world via Beta-lactam Ring Records. I know this series has been long-delayed…but these LPs will eventually get out there! The third in the series, Mnemosyne‘s Air Grows Small Fingers, should be out soon!

And finally, here are a few older/out-of-print Aidan Baker/Nadja releases newly available on the BSP Bandcamp page as pay-what-you-want downloads:

End Of Days

As the penultimate month of 2012 nears its end, we’ve a few last shows of the year to announce. Nadja will be performing in Israel (assuming the ceasefire holds) for the first time on December 6 at Uganda in Jerusalem and December 7 at Levontin 7 in Tel Aviv.

Aidan will be opening for Scott Kelly of Neurosis at Jägerklause in Berlin on December 14.

And lastly, Caudal, Aidan‘s new “rock” band, will be playing their debut show December 15 at Antje Øeklesund in Berlin (presented by Cranky Booking).

Here is a rough mix of one of the tracks from Caudal‘s forthcoming debut on the UK charitable label Oaken Palace Records:

And if anyone might be interested in what we are listening to ourselves these days, we did three mp3 “mixtapes” recently for your downloading pleasure: CVLT Nation: Sonic Cathedrals Vol LXXVIII, Secret Thirteen Mix 034, and
Self-Titled Mag: Needle Exchange #112.

And lastly, here’s an older, out-of-print solo album from Aidan available as a pwyw download: Periodic.

Stocking The (Virtual) Shelves

We have a number of releases from Nadja, Aidan Baker, ARC, and Whisper Room available digitally on our Bandcamp page at a free or pay-what-you-want rate, should you feel inclined to give a donation.

Here, for your convenience, is a complete list of those albums:

[A] deep, autumnal tone, / Sweet though in sadness

Having survived the trolls of Scandinavia and the roads of Eastern Europe, we’ll be winging westward next month for a few shows in our old stomping grounds, the first in over two years:

17-06-12: The Garrison, Toronto, ON – w/ Picastro (part of the NXNE Festival)
18-06-12: Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, QC – w/ Grouper & Picastro
20-06-12: Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY – w/ Noveller & Lazurite
21-06-12: Kungfu Necktie, Philadelphia, PA – w/ James Plotkin

I won’t be playing any solo shows whilst in Canada, so to make up for that here is a recording of my show at Soup in Tokyo last February:

Free Music Archive: Aidan Baker – Live @ Soup – Tokyo, JP – 2012-05-02.

“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)

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.

Drone Purity

We now have copies of the first LP from the Drone Compendium Series, Pure Drone, available here in the BSP webstore.

The Drone Compendium is a 6LP series (7 for subscribers) featuring music by me &/or various musical projects with which I am or have been involved. You can read more about it in this earlier post here, in case you missed it.

& you can stream &/or download Pure Drone here:

“In einem perfekten, tief texturierten, bassbetonten Sound; körperlich, fast greifbar. So, dass man sich wünscht, die Platte würde nie aufhören. Egal, welche der beiden Seiten.”
– ThePostRock

Silence = Death

In the quest for online listening opportunities, there are other options besides our respective Bandcamp pages (AB, Nadja, & BSP) which, of course, are linked somewhere over there to the right and easy to find.

So in the interests of expediency, here’s a list of other places for you to find some streaming &/or free music:

Nadja Live Performances:
Free Music Archive (2 shows)
2010-02-21: Toronto

Streaming Links:
Pyramids With Nadja
Radiance of Shadows
Touched
Truth Becomes Death

Aidan Baker Live Performances & Various Net Releases:
Free Music Archive (3 shows – & also here)
Internet Archive (& also here)
Dark Winter – 24.2.24.4.
Zenapolae – Peau Sensible

Streaming Links:
Liminoid/Lifeforms
Fantasma Parastasie

Inanimate Subject Matter

Slightly in advance of the official release date (July 5th) on Primary Numbers, I now have copies of my latest solo release, Still Life, available for sale here on our webstore.

This album is a bit of a departure, entirely eschewing the guitar, and exploring a more minimal ‘drone jazz’ approach, with just piano, electric bass, and drums for instrumentation. The album can be streamed and/or downloaded on my Bandcamp page.

Brokened

We’ve just launched a Broken Spine Bandcamp page for the dissemination of digital downloads (vbr mp3 and lossless formats). We’ve upped a couple pay-what-you-want albums as well, including the vinyl mix of Under the Jaguar Sun which features our mix of the 2 separate cds from the cd release.

Nb: if anyone’s wondering at the flurry of recent activity…we’ve been attempting to take greater control of our output so that we actually see more of the profit from our artistic endeavours (and, accordingly, are better able to continue making art and music)…so if you purchase files from our bandcamp page, the money goes straight to us, unlike downloads via the usual channels (iTunes, Emusic, what-have-you), which more often than not filters through who knows how many number of virtual hands before reaching us (if it ever does).