Shove It 2016

To encourage the end of this turbulent year, I thought I would offer a 15% discount for the remainder of the year on all digital downloads of all solo and group releases from 2016. Just use the code “shoveit2016” (remove quotes) on the Nadja, Aidan Baker, and Broken Spine Productions bandcamp pages for any of the below releases:

Aidan Baker – Live Estate50hz

Aidan Baker & Tomas Järmyr – Werl

Aidan Baker – objekts

Aidan Baker – Synth Studies II

Nadja – The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun…

Nadja – Sv

Nadja – The Bungled & The Botched (Moving Noises Version)

B/B/S/ – Palace

Caudal – Let’s All Take The Yellow Pills

Aidan Baker – Isolated Landscapes II

Aidan Baker – Ergine/Epimer

Aidan Baker – The Spectrum of Distraction (Complete Sessions)

Dosimetry

The brand new Nadja album Sv from Brazilian label Essence Music is out now and available digitally from our bandcamp page and physically in the BSP webshop:

This CD-only release is packaged in a 6-panel digisleeve, with artwork by Seldon Hunt and mastering by James Plotkin.

Also in new release news, Aidan has a new limited cassette release from Manyfeetunder, Synth Studies II, a collection of ambient/drone pieces created with synth alone:

Fantasies, Plagues…

Back in 2011 Aidan Baker released a limited LP, Plague of Fantasies, with Blackest Rainbow Records. This album was supposed to have a companion LP, Sorry For What I Said To You In Your Dream, which ended not being released…so, we have made it (along with Plague of Fantasies) available digitally on the BSP bandcamp page as a ‘buy now/pay-what-you-can’ release:

Both of these albums were originally recorded on cassette 4-track back in 2005 (around the same time as Lost In The Rat Maze, released on CD by Consouling Sounds) and digitally re-worked/-mixed/-mastered in 2010. For anyone interested in comparing, some of those earlier, 2005 versions of these tracks are available digitally now on Aidan’s bandcamp:

In touring news, things are quite busy in the next two months, as we jaunt around the European continent:

Nadja

01.11 – Sonic Ballroom, Köln, DE – w/ [ B O L T ]
02.11 – OCCII, Amsterdam, NL (also w/ Aidan Baker solo set)
03.11 – Magasin 4, Brussels, BE – w/ Enablers
04.11 – Espace B, Paris, FR
06.11 – Trauma, Marburg, DE
28.11 – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, DE – w/ Insect Ark
03.12 – Loppen, Copenhagen, DK
04.12 – 1000Fryd, Aalborg, DK
10.12 – Glimps Festival, Ghent, BE
16.12 – El Perro, Madrid, SP
17.12 – Lounge, Lisbon, PT
27.12 – Revolver, Oslo, NO – w/ Svarte Greiner

Aidan Baker will be touring with a trio of Lori Goldston (cello) and Andrea Belfi (drums) playing live-soundtracking performances to Dreyer’s La passion de Jeanne d’Arc:

07.11 – Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, DE
08.11 – Golden Pudel, Hamburg, DE
09.11 – Consouling In-store Session, Ghent, BE
10.11 – Café des Images, Caen, FR
11.11 – Le Picolo Café, Paris, FR
12.11 – The Hanger, Brussels, BE
13.11 – Christuskirche, Bochum, DE
14.11 – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, DE

And the following solo performances:

26.11 – Palác Akropolis, Prague, CZ – w/ Ulrich Schnauss
27.11 – Festiwal Ambientalny, Wroclaw, PL
19.12 – Zaratan, Lisbon, PT

Post-Incubation

Post-Incubate Festival residency and there are a number of new releases from our friends at Consouling Sounds:

Nadja’s performance at Incubate on Monday September 15 was recorded, mastered, pressed to vinyl, and released on Saturday September 20…somewhat blindly (or ‘deafly,’ so to speak) in that we didn’t get to hear the mix or the master before the looming production deadlines. The LP+CD set, available here is limited to 300 copies and features artwork by Stefan Serneels (whose work you might recognize from our album The Bungled & The Botched).

Also available: Aidan Baker / thisquietarmy Hypnodrone Ensemble recorded live at NK in Berlin on May 2, 2014, featuring the two afore-mentioned guitarists with the three drummers Felipe Salazar, Jeremie Mortier, and David Dunnett. Available on CD here and digitally below:

Lastly, Caudal’s second full-length album Ascension is now available on CD, limited LP, or digital:

Caudal will also be playing a few shows this week, along with thisquietarmy, in support of the new album:

24-09-14: Jaegerklause, Berlin, DE
26-09-14: Glashaus, Bayreuth, DE
27-09-14: Contain’t, Stuttgart, DE

Incubation/Metamorphosis

Nadja will be heading out on tour in September around Aidan Baker’s residency at this year’s Incubate Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. This residency will feature five separate performances from five different Aidan Baker projects. Here are the tour dates:

02-09-14: Nabaklab, Riga, LV
06-09-14: Klub Boro, Brno, CZ
07-09-14: A38, Budapest, HU
08-09-14: Rhiz, Vienna, AT
09-09-14: PMK, Innsbruck, AT
10-09-14: Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, AT
11-09-14: K4, Nuernberg, DE
14-09-14: L’auréole Bethencourt, Tinques, FR (AB solo)
20-09-14: L’an Vert, Liège, BE
21-09-14: Monasterium Poortackere, Ghent, BE

And the Incubate performances, all of which take place at Paradox Tilburg:

15-09-14: Nadja
16-09-14: Aidan Baker
17-09-14: Nadja & Uochi Toki performing Cystema Solari
18-09-14: Caudal
19-09-14: Aidan Baker/thisquietarmy Hypnodrone Ensemble

Aidan will also be doing a reading from his recent book Passing Through (Wounded Wolf Press) at the Consouling Sounds mobile offices. At the festival, Consouling Sounds will also be releasing Caudal’s second album Ascension (CD/LP) and the Hypnodrone Ensemble’s debut CD, a document of their performance at NK last spring in Berlin:

And in addition to those two releases, Consouling also plans to record Nadja’s Incubate performance on the Monday night and release it as a vinyl LP on the Saturday!

Lastly, here is a new digital release from Aidan Baker, an album of droning vaguely ethno-ambient jazzy psych rock, available for free/pay-what-you-want:

The Imperfection of The Solar System

Our collaborative “doomhop” album with Italian duo Uochi Toki is now available from Corpoc Records:

This is available as a limited, vinyl-only (and digital) release, and comes in a hand silkscreened sleeve, with an 8-page insert. We have copies now in the Broken Spine Webshop and will have copies with us at these upcoming shows in Italy:

16-07-14: Bagnacciuga, Pesaro
18-07-14: Spazio211, Torino
19-07-14: Rock Valley Festival, Santa Maria della Versa, IT

We also have a couple leftover items from our Japan tour with Vampillia, the CD version of Tangled from Tokyo Jupiter Records and a tour-only CD collaboration with Vampillia, ɪmpəˈfɛkʃ​(​ə​)​n:

The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter

Whisper Room, a trio of Aidan Baker, Jakob Thiesen, and Neil Wiernik, have just released their second album The Cruelest Month, recorded one year ago at The Ambient Ping in Toronto and mastered by James Plotkin. The album is available on CD from Consouling Sounds, directly from the Broken Spine webshop, and digitally here:

Also newly available in the BSP webshop is Nadja’s first official CD album Truth Becomes Death, released by Alien8 Recordings back in 2005, and otherwise out of print.

In performance news, Nadja will be playing on May 1 in Wroclaw at a pre-Asymmetry Festival event – more info here.

And on May 2, Aidan Baker and thisquietarmy will be presenting a special ‘Hypnodrone Ensemble’ performance with two guitars and three drummers in Berlin at NK – more info here.

Incubation

It is with pleasure to announce that I will be something of an artist in residence at this year’s edition of Incubate Festival, in Tilburg, NL performing five times with five different projects: Nadja, Aidan Baker (solo), Caudal, and collaboratively with Uochi Toki and thisquietarmy.

In more immediate performance news, Caudal will be playing at Rhiz in Vienna next week and Nadja will be doing a short tour around an appearance at this year’s Dunk Festival – full dates here:

And in release news, I’ve finally got copies of my collaborative cassette release with Jakob Thiesen CNTNTL available in the Broken Spine webshop.

Untangling Grindcrushers

A select few copies of our new 7inch Tangled are now available digitally and/or physically from the Broken Spine webshop (and will otherwise only be available at shows):

Update: the 7inch is sold out, but will still be available from us at upcoming shows!

The CD reissue of Radiance Of Shadows is still available:

And just in case you don’t have enough new music, B/B/S/’s Coltre/Manto, is also available, digitally and physically, from either the Broken Spine webshop or Midira Records:

B/B/S/ will be performing this weekend, Saturday April 5, in Carzig, Germany (just outside of Berlin) at Uwe Behrens‘s vernissage – more details here.

Continental Wasps

Aidan Baker & Felipe Salazar (who also plays drums in Caudal) will be heading out on a short EU tour in a couple weeks. Here are the dates:

Jan 31 – Mannheim, DE @ Kulturbrücken
Feb 01 – Bulle, CH @ Centre Cultural Ebullition
Feb 02 – Basel, CH @ Kaskoklang
Feb 04 – Esslingen, DE @ Komma
Feb 05 – Brussels, BE @ Magasin4 – also with OvO
Feb 06 – Rouen, FR @ Le 3 Pièces
Feb 07 – Liège, BE @ La Zone
Feb 08 – Goor, NL @ Living Room Concerts
Feb 09 – Berlin, DE @ Ackerstadt – also with Crystal Shipsss

This tour will be in support of a forthcoming limited cassette release, CNTNTL, on Broken Spine Productions and Whisper Room‘s second album, The Cruelest Month, forthcoming from Consouling Sounds. You can listen to one the new Whisper Room tracks and the entirety of CNTNTL at the below links:

And for a little free music, here is a remastered, digital version of one of Aidan‘s 2004 releases, Ichneumon: