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:

Whirl

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

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:

http://brokenspine.bigcartel.com/product/nadja-queller

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:

Dualities

Out now from Midira Records: Aidan Baker’s new album Dualism, a double CD release featuring two versions of the same songs, one set recorded at Broken Spine Studios and the other at Legato Studios, both in Berlin.

A special, limited 3CD set in a handmade cloth pouch is available directly from Midira or one can order the 2CD version directly from the us at the BSP webshop.

And in touring news, Nadja will be heading out next month for a show tour in Germany, Czech Republic, and Switzerland:

11-02-16: K4, Nuremberg, DE
12-02-16: Papirna, Pilsen, CZ
13-02-16: Kabintet, Muz Brno, CZ
14-02-16: Fuga, Bratislava, SK
15-02-16: Klub Famu, Prague, CZ
16-02-16: Klubi, Zurich, CH
17-02-16: Diamant d’or, Strasbourg, FR (Aidan Baker solo show)
18-02-16: Jubez, Karlsruhe, DE
19-02-16: Komma, Esslingen, DE (AB solo show)
20-02-16: W71, Weikersheim, DE (also w/ AB solo)

Los Perros de la Navidad

Next week, Wednesday December 16, Nadja will be performing in Madrid (for the first time since 2010) at El Perro:

And, Thursday December 17, at Lounge in Lisbon (first Lisbon show since 2008!):

Aidan Baker will also be playing in Lisbon (for the first time, solo), the next day, Friday December 18, at Zaratan:

In conjunction with our Madrid show, Nadja will be releasing a super limited cassette, Tabernanthe…which is actually already sold out…but is at least available digitally here:

Aidan Baker also has a new release, Ecliptic Plane, a limited CD out on the Russian label Dronarivm, which is also almost sold out (though we will have some copies in the BSP webshop, eventually), but likewise available digitally:

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