Aberrant

At the tail end of 2017, Aidan Baker released a new album, Aberration, on the US label Somewherecold Records on limited cassette and cd. Copies of the CD are now available in the Broken Spine Webshop and/or digitally here:

Also check out the Broken Spine Webshop for the below discoutned Nadja/Aidan Baker titles in our habitual new year’s sale:

Radiance of Shadows (Broken Spine)
Thaumogenesis (Broken Spine)
Bodycage (Broken Spine)
Excision (Important Records)
Triptychs: Variations On A Melody (Important Records)
Green Figures (Basses Frequences)
Liminoid/Lifeforms (Alien8 Recordings)
/ɪmpəˈfɛkʃ​(​ə​)​n/ (Throne Records)

TPs & Body Snatchers

In an effort to raise some funds to cover future projects, we have decided to sell off a few, rare Nadja and Aidan Baker test-pressings.

Each LP is housed in a black paper sleeve with a hand-painted band of Japanese paper (courtesy of Pulp Papier) with a gold-lettered title card – go here for more info and ordering options.

Titles include:

Nadja – Touched
Nadja – Thaumogenesis
Nadja – Bliss Torn From Emptiness
Nadja – Queller
Nadja – Dagdrom
Aidan Baker – Gathering Blue
Aidan Baker – The Confessional Tapes
Aidan Baker – Letters
Aidan Baker – Candescence
Aidan Baker & Jakob Thiesen – Breathless

NB – Candescence and Breathless never actually had an actual release, so these test pressings are the only copies of these albums.

In other news, Aidan Baker’s next performance the open-air-cinema/live-soundtracking series at Freiluftkino Pompeji / Zukunft am Ostkreuz will be July 28, a duo with Belgian drummer Karen Willems, and performing to the 1956 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers:

More info on the event here.

Touched10

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

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

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

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

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: