Aidan Baker - The Sea Swells A Bit... CD

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• ASP06 - A Silent Place 2006
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FROM THE ORIGINAL PRESS-RELEASE:
A Silent Place proudly presents the new AIDAN BAKER cd album! Aidan Baker is one of the most important emerging artist of the last years...! Probably this is the most important "musical" Aidan Baker release to date, in fact here the sound is comparable to the best (obscure) psychedelic post-rock releases including great droning, hypnotic and honeiric atmospheres. Spontaneously composed by Aidan, who plays guitar (electric & acoustic), bass, tapeloops, drum machine and percussion in his droning 'fashion soup'. In this album Aidan uses (as usual) his guitar but also other instruments and tools like tapeloops and sampled dialogue. The result is the three long and beautiful tracks that constructs this album. 44 minutes of hypnotic ambient drone textures in a deep psychedelic & post-rock attitude. His guitar treatments and amazing looping work get more and more marvellous, as the droning increasing percussions take the listener to a peaceful state of mind. The sound rises all around as the stream floods to the seaside, giving refuge to emotions through numbing clouds of murmuring electric voices. Aidan's performances high standards and his instantly recognizable style are here well confirmed, adding to the excellent level of his discography!

Aidan Baker bio:
Aidan Baker is a Canadian musician living in Berlin making ambient / experimental / slowcore music, both solo & with such groups as Nadja, Hypnodrone Ensemble, Arc & Tavare.

Laudatory Quotes
"It begins with something that could be the sound of DNA gently floating in a mitochondrial soup, and ends with an ambient texture piece with lyrics culled from a particularly dense passage from Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. In between lies an intriguing exploration of worlds of tactile sensualism (a topographic map of the skin, as it were) and a deeper look at the inner forces and powerful unseen drives that lurk below. It's dense and prickly world created on 'I fall Into You', by Canadian guitarist, loppist and lyricist Aidan Baker."
― James F. Lein, Dusted Magazine

"Super low key loops melt your mind in a trance-like manner. I almost hear a voice and another time I hear a bird chirping, but the liner notes say all guitar. fascinating to examine the music and turn internally on your own mind as well. It is so nice to be hearing this disc in the spring ― I feel uplifted and energized. But, listen to this on cold day and it would still be pleasant, but take on the artifacts of hard crystalline snow, piles and mounds surrounding your house."
― Don Poe, Ear Rational