Touched10
06/07/2017 § Leave a comment
2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of our album Touched on Alien8 Recordings/Conspiracy Records. To mark that anniversary, our friends at Consouling Sounds have released a 2CD version of the album, the second disc containing demo versions, recorded mostly live in studio, of the full album. The album is packaged in a 6-panel digipack sleeve with new artwork.
The album is available directly from us here and digitally below:
Nonlanded
05/12/2017 § Leave a comment
Newly released on Gizeh Records: Aidan Baker & Karen Willems’ Nonland, a limited LP on translucent vinyl, available physically here and digitally here:
Baker & Willems will be performing live on May 26 in support of the release at this year’s Dunk!Festival in Belgium.
This show will be a waypoint on the upcoming Caudal tour:
24-05: Waggon am Kulturgleis, Offenbach, DE
25-05: La Chaouée, Metz, FR
27-05: X Scandalous asbl, Dour, BE
28-05: L’auréole, Béthencourt, FR
29-05: SPLINTERsessie, Brugges, BE
30-05: Consouling Store, Ghent, BE
31-05: Magasin 4, Brussels, BE – w/ Yawning Man (Official)
01-06: Djäzz Jazzkeller, Duisburg, DE – w/ N & Moloch
03-06: TRXTR, Berlin, DE – w/ alphatrip
In other release news, also check out these recent limited cassette releases from Aidan Baker and his trio Whisper Room:
Delirious Lands
01/27/2017 § Leave a comment
A bunch of new Aidan Baker releases out today:
An album of synth-pop/coldwave/shoegaze tunes, Delirious Things, with Claire Brentnall (of Shield Patterns) providing vocals, released on LP by Pleasence Records and CD by Gizeh Records:
A cassette EP from Baker’s krautrock/spacerock/trancepunk trio Caudal on Land Animals Tapes:
And a collaborative cassette with Dutch noise/jazz duo Lärmschutz, also on Land Animals Tapes:
The LP of Delirious Things is available now in the BSP webshop. The CD version and Land Animals Tapes cassettes will be available shortly. Also, for a limited time, we are offering a package deal of Delirious Things and Baker’s previous Pleasence Records release, The Confessional Tapes.
Lastly, here are videos for two of the songs from Delirious Things:
Winter Tours
01/14/2017 § Leave a comment
It’s a brand new year and Nadja will be heading out on tour again in February. But first a handful of dates with B/B/S/, Aidan’s trio with Andrea Belfi and Erik Skodvin:
19-01-17: Grölle Gallery, Wuppertal, DE
20-01-17: W71, Weikersheim, DE
21-01-17: Famu, Prague, CZ
22-01-17: Akko, Leipzig, DE
And the Nadja dates:
01-02-17: Hühnermanhattan, Halle, DE
02-02-17: Komma, Esslingen, DE
03-02-17: P8, Karlsruhe, DE
04-02-17: Moving Noises Festival, Bochum, DE – also w/ Aidan Baker
05-02-17: MTS Records, Oldenburg, DE
06-02-17: Hafenklang, Hamburg, DE
07-02-17: Zukunft am Ostkreuz, Berlin, DE – w/ Becky Johnson
08-02-17: LAS, Posnan, PL – also w/ Aidan Baker
09-02-17: Hydrozagadka, Warsaw, PL
10-02-17: Warsztat, Krakow, PL
11-02-17: Stanica, Zilina, SK – w/ Josef Van Wissem
12-02-17: Divadlo 29, Pardubice, CZ
Check out a tour trailer made by Chariot of Black Moth:
In release news, there will be a new Aidan Baker album, Delirious Things, with guest vocals from Claire Brentnall of Shield Patterns, out at the end of the month on Pleasence Records (LP) and Gizeh Records (CD). Here is a video of the title track:
Also this month, Land Animal Tapes will be releasing two cassettes, one a Caudal EP, Slope/Land, and the other a collaboration between Aidan Baker and Dutch noise-jazz duo Lärmschutz . Pre-order options for both releases can be found on the Land Animal Tapes bandcamp page, but copies will be available directly from the BSP Webshop soon.
Ενωμένοι
10/18/2016 § Leave a comment
Aidan Baker has a new collaborative LP with guitarists N and Dirk Serries on Midira Records, copies of which are now available in the BSP webshop.
The album documents a live, improvisational performance at our friends’ wedding, released as a limited-edition double LP, in both black (available here) and coloured vinyl (available here editions:
The album is not yet available digitally, but you can stream two of the tracks here:
Whirl
09/29/2016 § Leave a comment
My new collaborative album Werl with Swedish drummer Tomas Järmyr is out now on Consouling Sounds. The double album is available in the BSP Webshop and digitally below:
In other release news, Nadja’s forthcoming release The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife is available now for pre-order from Gizeh Records. The album will be released in November in time for a few select dates that month:
10-11-16: Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht, NL
11-11-16: Bannerman’s, Edinburgh, UK
12-11-16: GNAW Festival, Newcastle, UK
13-11-16: The Face Bar, Reading, UK
15-11-16: Cafe Oto, London, UK
20-11-16: Dio Drone Festival, Florence, IT
30-11-16: Urban Spree, Berlin, DE
Preview the opening track from The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun… here:
Palace Music
06/20/2016 § Leave a comment
Three years since their debut, Brick Mask, comes Palace, the second full-length, studio-recorded album from B/B/S/, a trio of Aidan Baker, Andrea Belfi, and Erik Skodvin. Copies of the limited 2LP release are available now in the BSP webshop:
http://brokenspine.bigcartel.com/product/b-b-s-palace-2lp
And digitally on the BSP bandcamp page:
In other release news, Nadja’s Queller has seen a CD re-issue from Essence Music with slightly new artwork and an accompanying silk-screened poster:
This is also available in the BSP webshop: