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

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

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

Skin Written On Glass

Nadja’s older albums Autopergamene and Skin Turns To Glass, previously only available on CD, have now seen vinyl release via Spain’s Throne Records.

There are three versions of both albums — regular black and special editions of white and splatter vinyl. Both albums have new artwork and have been re-mixed and -worked (Skin Turns To Glass even re-recorded, in parts) specifically for these vinyl releases. We have copies of all three editions available in the BSP webshop and digitally here:

We’ll also have copies available at our upcoming shows, if we’re coming anywhere near you in the near future:

31-03-18: H.A.N.Sfest, Diepenheim, NL
01-04-18: ACU, Utrecht, NL (Aidan Baker matinee show)
01-04-18: Galerie Groelle, Wuppertal, DEy
12-04-18: Urban Spree, Berlin, DE
21-06-18: 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

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:

Avriling

We are heading out on a Nadja tour again next week with select dates in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, and Netherlands – click on dates for FB event pages & more info:

19-04-17: AKKO, Leipzig, DE
20-04-17: Zietstatt 37, Munich, DE
21-04-17: Cafe Bar Balthes, Ravensburg, DE
22-04-17: PMK, Innsbruck, AT
25-04-17: Paniere il Circolo, Crema, IT – w/ Uochi Toki
26-04-17: Il Laborinto, Crema, IT
27-04-17: Sonic, Lyon, FR – w/ Matt Jencik
28-04-17: Le Royal, Nancy, FR (Aidan Baker solo show)
29-04-17: La Zone, Liege, BE
30-04-17: Supersonic, Paris, FR – w/ Matt Jencik & Ensemble Economique
01-05-17: OCCII, Amsterdam, NL

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.

Happening Knives

Two last shows of 2016, in Berlin, one from Nadja, the other B/B/S/:

30.11 – Nadja at Urban Spree (opening for Wrekmeister Harmonies)

02.12 – B/B/S/ (Aidan’s trio with Andrea Belfi & Erik K Skodvin) at A Happening at Silent Green

We also have added the Nadja ‘knives’ tour t-shirt to the BSP webshop, for those of you unable to attend any of our recent shows:

This is available in S, M, L, and Xl, grey/silver silkscreened print on a black Gildan shirt (limited sizes remaining, so order now if you want one!).

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: