NADJA
  Biog
   Nadja is ::
  • Aidan Baker :: guitars/vocals/drum programming
  • Leah Buckareff :: bass/vocals
Originally formed in 2003 as an Aidan Baker solo project, the now-duo creates ambient-drone-metal, combining ambient electronics & fragmentary vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs & dirge-like percussion.
 
Ever since their inception, NADJA have been quite prolific within experimental music scenes, and quickly gaining a reputation with their solidified sound, which unearths itself as intense and moving ambient drone doom metal, combining ambient electronics and fragmentary vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs and dirge-like percussion, all tempered with a certain ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a swirling, sublimating wall of amorphous, cacophanous sound.

By gaining a respectable reputation from playing many shows and art exhibitions, NADJA have quickly earned themselves the title of Canada’s most respectable act within this specific genre of extreme music. To date NADJA has released 5 full-length cdrs, an EP, split releases with Moss and Methadrone, and has appeared on several compilations. They released their official debut CD release this past year on the respected label Alien8 Recordings.

Aidan Baker himself is a musician and writer currently based in Toronto, Canada. Classically trained in flute, he is self-taught on guitar, drums and various other instruments. A regular performer in and around Toronto, he has also performed in New York, Montreal, Chicago, San Francisco and such festivals as The Om Festival, Saturation Bombing and The Distillery Jazz Festival. He has released numerous cds on independent labels from around the world and is the author of two books of poetry, two poetry chapbooks and has published poetry, fiction and criticism in various international and scholarly journals.

 
  Links  
Nadja:: Nadja home page
Aidan Baker:: www.aidanbaker.org
Leah Buckareff:: www.coldsnapbindery.com
Nadja on discogs.com:: discogs.com
 
  Images
  
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  Discography

  
1 :: All Major Releases :: all formats :: listed chronologically
Release # 1:01

Title:: Truth Becomes Death
Label:: Alien8 Recordings
Cat #:: aliencd58
Country:: Canada
Edition:: ?
Format:: CD in standard jewel case
Dated:: 17/10/2005
Other:: Artwork by Matt Daley
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. The Bug / Golem
  2. Memory Leak
  3. Breakpoint
Release # 1:02

Title:: Bodycage
Label:: Profound Lore
Cat #:: PFL-016
Country:: Canada
Edition:: 500 copies
Format:: CD in card sleeve
Dated:: 06/2006
Other:: Comes with insert. Reissue of the 2005 CDr on Nothingness Records with 2 extra untitled tracks (not mentioned on the sleeve)
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Part 1: Clinodactyl [21:43]
  2. Part 2: Autosomal [10:10]
  3. Part 3: Ossification [20:42]
  4. untitled [8:08]
  5. untitled [11:36]
Release # 1:03

Title:: Trembled
Label:: Utech Records
Cat #:: UR-046
Country:: USA
Edition:: 200 numbered copies
Format:: CD
Dated:: 06/2006
Other:: Live album, recorded in Toronto, Canada April 2006
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Breakpoint
  2. No Cure For The Lonely**
  3. Corrasion
  4. Trembled
** This is a cover of a Swans track
 Release # 1:04

Title:: We Have Departed The Circle Blissfully
Credited:: Nadja / Fear Falls Burning
Label:: Conspiracy
Cat #:: CORE 035
Country:: Holland
Edition:: 250 copies
Dated:: 07/2006
Format:: 180g vinyl LP, g/f sleeve
Other:: Artwork by Seldon Hunt. Released as part of a 10-LP 10th anniversary series
Side 1 ::
  1. untitled #1 [20:09]
Side 2 ::
  1. untitled #2 [20:07]
Release # 1:05
Title:: Thaumagenesis
Label:: Archive
Cat #:: #30
Country:: USA
Edition:: 600 copies
Format:: CD
Dated:: 02/2007
Other:: Artwork by Seldon Hunt
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Thaumagenesis [61:00]
Release # 1:06

Title:: Bodycage
Label:: Equation
Cat #:: E=mc15
Country:: USA
Edition:: 300 copies on 180g vinyl
Format:: Double vinyl LP in glossy gatefold sleeve
Dated:: 03/2007
Other:: 200 copies on black vinyl, 100 copies pressed on pure white vinyl (record #1) and corrupted white vinyl (record #2)
Side 1 ::
  1. Clinodactyl [21:43]
Side 2 ::
  1. Autosomal (Version Two) [20:38]
Side 3 ::
  1. Autosomal (Version Three) [23:00]
Side 4 ::
  1. Ossification [20:42]
Release # 1:07
Title:: Touched
Label:: Alien8 Recordings
Cat #:: alien67
Country:: Canada
Edition:: ?
Format:: CD
Dated:: 03/2007
Other:: Older tracks completely re-recorded & re-arranged
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Mutagen
  2. Stays Demons
  3. Incubation/Metamophosis
  4. Flowers Of Flesh
Release # 1:08
Title:: Guilted By The Sun
Label:: Roadburn
Cat #:: RBR004
Country:: Holland
Edition:: Vinyl ...
300 copies :: black
100 copies :: green
100 copies :: white
Format:: CD
2xLP
Dated:: 10/2007
Tracks:: . . . 
Side 1 ::
  1. Guilted [10:03]
  2. By [4:52]
Side 2 ::
  1. The [4:26]
  2. Sun [8:40]
Side 3 ::
  1. unknown
Side 4 ::
  1. unknown
Release # 1:09
Title:: Radiance of Shadows
Label:: Alien8 Recordings
Cat #:: alien 072
Country:: Canada
Edition:: ?
Format:: CD
Dated:: 9th Oct 2007
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Now I Am Become Death The Destroyer Of Worlds [23:20]
  2. I Have Tasted The Fire Inside Your Mouth [27:18]
  3. Radiance Of Shadows [28:51]
Release # 1:10
Title:: Desire In Uneasiness
Label:: Crucial Bliss
Cat #:: ?
Country:: USA
Edition:: ?
Format:: CD
Dated:: Oct 2007
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. - [x:x]
2 :: CDr Releases :: listed chronologically
Release # 2:01

Title:: Touched
Label:: Deserted Factory
Cat #:: DF 003
Country:: Japan
Edition:: ?
Format:: CDr
Dated:: 05/2003
Other:: In jewel case with colour sleeve
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Mutagen [12:00]
  2. Stays Demons [10:22]
  3. Incubation/Metamorphosis [12:15]
  4. Flowers Of Flesh [9:05]
Release # 2:02

Title:: Skin Turns To Glass
Label:: Nothingness Records
Cat #:: NOTH-001
Country:: Belgium
Edition:: 120 copies
Format:: CDr
Dated:: 2003
Other:: In clear slimline case with colour sleeve
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Sandskin
  2. Skin Turns To Glass
  3. Slow Loss
Release # 2:03

Title:: untitled split release
Credited:: Nadja / Moss
Label:: Foreshadow Productions
Cat #:: FSH 005
Country:: Poland
Edition:: 100 copies
Format:: split mini 3" CDr
Dated:: 11/2003
Tracks:: . . . 
Moss track ::
  1. ... Of Flesh And Blood
Nadja track ::
  1. I Am As Earth
Release # 2:04

Title:: Corrasion
Label:: Foreshadow Productions
Cat #:: FSH 006
Country:: Poland
Edition:: ?
Format:: CDr
Dated:: 2003
Track:: . . . 
  1. Base Fluid [11:45]
  2. You Are As Dust [10:35]
  3. Corrasion [8:35]
  4. Amniotic [21:0]
Release # 2:05

Title:: I Have Tasted The Fire Inside Your Mouth
Label:: Deserted Factory
Cat #:: DF 017
Country:: Japan
Edition:: ?
Format:: mini 3" CDr
Dated:: 03/2004
Other:: In jewel case with colour sleeve
Track:: . . . 
  1. I Have Tasted The Fire Inside Your Mouth [21:00]
Release # 2:06

Title:: Bodycage
Label:: Nothingness Records
Cat #:: NOTH-015
Country:: Belgium
Format:: CDr
Edition:: 1st edition :: 111 copies
2nd edition :: 66 copies
Dated:: 18/04/2005
Other:: In slimline DVD-case
Tracks:: . . . 
  1. Part 1: Clinodactyl
  2. Part 2: Autosomal
  3. Part 3: Ossification
Release # 2:07

Title:: Absorption
Credited:: Nadja / Methadrone
Label:: Nothingness Records
Cat #:: NOTH-019
Country:: Belgium
Edition:: 111 copies
Format:: Split release CDr
Dated:: 2005
Other:: In slimline DVD-case with full colour cover
Tracks:: . . . 
Nadja track ::
  1. Absorbed In You
Methadrone tracks ::
  1. A View Into The Empty
  2. Absorbed
  3. Sustained Presence Of Loss
  4. Placebo (pt 2)
Release # 2:08

Title:: Bliss Torn From Emptiness
Label:: Fargone Records
Cat #:: FAR-033
Country:: USA
Edition:: 60 copies
Format:: CDr
Dated:: 06/2005
Other:: Deleted 12/2005
Track:: . . . 
  1. Bliss Torn From Emptiness [48:54]
Compilation Appearances (all formats and in chronological order)
Release # 3:01

Title:: Holiday Masterpieces
Label:: Blod
Cat #:: blod04
Country:: Canada
Edition:: ?
Dated:: 2003
Format:: CD-R
Track :: ?
Release # 3:02

Title:: Chariots Arrive Again v.2
Label:: Foreshadow Productions
Cat #:: FSH 012
Country:: Poland
Edition:: ?
Dated:: 2004
Format:: CD-R
Track :: ?
Release # 3:03

Title:: Foresee The Shadows v.1
Label:: Foreshadow Productions
Cat #:: FSH 018
Country:: Poland
Edition:: ?
Dated:: 2004
Format:: CD-R packaged in a DVD case
Track :: White Lies [9:51]
Release # 3:04

Title:: Shadows Infinitum
Label:: Crucial Blast
Cat #:: cbr042
Country:: Canada
Edition:: ?
Dated:: 2004
Format:: CD-R
Track :: Veil Of Disillusion
 
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