Uneasy Desire

Nadja’s 2008 album Desire In Uneasiness, originally released on CD by Crucial Blast, has finally seen a vinyl release care of Dirter Promotions. For the vinyl, the audio was re-mixed and -mastered and our good friend Reverend Aitor (who did the original CD artwork) made brand new art for the gatefold vinyl sleeve:

We have copies available now on our bandcamp page, physical and digital:

In touring news, we have a last few summer festival dates coming up this month, plus a few October shows, including two in Russia supporting Godflesh!

11.08: Freiluftkino Pompeji, Berlin, DE
18.08: Fekete Zaj Festival, Matra-Sasto, HU
23.08: Wir Am Bahnhof Festival, Bralitz, DE
29.08: Stereo, Glasgow, UK
30.08: The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
31.08: Torfest, Todmorden, UK
04.10: Urban Spree, Berlin, DE
05.10: Pawilon, Poznan, PL
12.10: Amplifest, Porto, PT
17.10: K4, Nuremberg, DE
19.10: Bergmal Festival, Zurich, CH
25.10: Opera, St. Petersburg, RU
26.10: Agleromat, Moscow, RU

Seeing Through Tableaus

A new collaborative album, See Through with Aidan Baker on guitar, Jon Mueller (formerly of Pele) on drums, and Faith Coloccia (of Mamiffer) on vocals is out now on Gizeh Records.

The album is available physically from Gizeh and digitally here:

In performance news, Aidan Baker will be soundtracking a dance performance, TABLEAU – Kanon für vier Tänzer*innen, this month in Hamburg and Berlin:

16/19-05-19: Sprechwerk, Hamburg, DE
24/25-05-19: Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, DE

More info here

Orchestral Pills

 
Two new LP side-project releases from are out now: Caudal’s EP Let’s All Take The Yellow Pills and Hypnodrone Ensemble’s second studio-recorded album (in which the group expands to a nontet), Plays Orchestral Favourites.

The albums are available physically and/or digitally from the BSP bandcamp page:

Hypnodrone Ensemble will be having a release party for the album in Berlin on November 3 at Zukunft Am Ostkreuz – more info here.

In touring news, both Nadja and Aidan Baker will be heading to Japan next month for a handful of shows:

Aidan Baker:

15-11-18: Club Doctor, Tokyo, JP
16-11-18: Knock Koenji, Tokyo, JP
17-11-18: Sonihouse, Nara, JP
18-11-18: Space Eauuu, Kobe, JP
22-11-18: Environment 0g, Osaka, JP

Nadja:

23-11-18: Conpass, Osaka
24+25-11-18: Shimokitazawa Era

Noplace In The Sun

Nadja’s Sonnborner is out now! The LP is available on the BSP Webshop (and we will have copies of the Daymare Recordings CD version soon) and digitally here:

In other release news, Aidan Baker has a new limited cassette release, Portraits:

And there will be a special, numbered CD release of the Baker/Goff/Harris album Noplace available exclusively on our upcoming EU tour:

The shows start next week:

27-09: Stengade, Copenhagen, DK
28-09: Tape, Aarhus, DK
29-09: SCHXTX, Hamburg, DE
30.09: Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
02-10: Hausbar Münzgasse 13, Tübingen, DE
03-10: Le Bourg, Lausanne, CH
04-10: Umbo, Zürich, CH
05-10: Circolo Gagarin, Varese, IT
06-10: Maggazino sul Po, Torino, IT
07-10: Sonic, Lyon, FR
08-10: Intergalatique, Tours, FR
09-10: Supersonic, Paris, FR
10-10: Le 2 Pieces, Rouen, FR
11-10: La Villa Douce, Reims, FR
12-10: La Zone, Liege, BE
13-10: W71, Weikersheim, DE
14-10: Lokomov, Chemnitz, DE
15-10: Portvá, Prague, CZ

Fighting & Crying

The latest album from Caudal, the ‘trancepunk’ trio with Aidan Baker’s on guitar, Fight Cry Fight, is out now on LP from the UK label Drone Rock Records and cassette from the US label Katuktu Collective. Both versions are available in the BSP webshop or digitally below:

In performance news, Aidan Baker will be playing support for two shows with Godspeed You Black Emperor’s violinist Jessica Moss this week and, later next month, a first live performance of his duo project with Gareth Davis following on the release of their collaborative album Invisible Cities on Karlrecords:

09-05-18: Weltecho, Chemnitz, DE
10-05-18: Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
21-06-18: Blind Signal, Berlin, DE

And Nadja has two upcoming concerts one the opposites of the European continent, one in Palma de Mallorca and the other in Oslo:

25-05-18: Teatre Mar i Terra, Palma de Mallorca, SP
14-06-18: Revolver, Oslo, NO

Cities Aren’t Visible

Out today on Berlin’s Karlrecords, Aidan Baker & bass clarinetist Gareth Davis’ collaborative album, Invisible Cities:

Available digitally at the above link and physically in the BSP Webshop.

In other news, Nadja will be heading out on tour next month for a few dates in Great Britain:

15-02-18: Stereo, Glasgow, UK
16-02-18: The Hammer & The Anvil, Birmingham UK
17-02-18: Gizehfest, Manchester, UK
18-02-18: The Exchange, Bristol, UK
20-02-18: The Pickle Factory, London, UK

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: