Nadja is the duet of Aidan Baker and Leah Bakareff. The group was founded in 2002 as a solo project for Baker. He performed a weighted version of ambient and experimental music primarily on electric guitar. In 2005, Leah Bakareff joined Aidan.
| Nadja | |
|---|---|
| basic information | |
| Genres | drone metal ambient shugeyzing |
| Years | since 2002 |
| A country | |
| City | Toronto |
| Where from | |
| Labels | Different |
| Structure | Aidan Baker Leah Bakareff |
| nadjaluv.ca | |
The group’s compositions combine electronic and atmospheric vocals with slow, powerful riffs and funeral percussions , creating a slowly moving wave of music. The style of the band can be characterized as drone doom , ambient and noise .
After several worldwide editions of CD-Rs on a number of small limited-edition labels , Nadja released their first official album, Truth Becomes Death, at the 2005 Alien8 Recordings label in Montreal . Since then, they have been releasing material on more widespread labels and are now in the process of re-publishing old records either updated or completely re-composed (for example, Touched (2007) was re-recorded on Alien8 , as well as the album Bodycage , which is now released on Equation . Nadja performed Canada , Europe , the United States and Ukraine along with other artists, including Kayo Dot , Knurl , Khanate , Francisco Lopez , Isis , Ocean and Mare .
Composition
- Aidan Baker ( born Aidan Baker) - guitar , vocals , synthesizer , winds , drums (since 2002)
- Leah Buckareff - bass , vocals (since 2005)
Discography
- Touched (2002)
- Skin Turns To Glass (2003)
- Split w / Moss (2003)
- Corrasion (2003)
- I Have Tasted The Fire Inside Your Mouth (2004)
- Absorption Split (2005, with Methadrone )
- Bliss torn from emptiness (2005)
- Truth Becomes Death (10/17/2005), CD
- Bodycage (2005)
- Trembled (2006)
- We Have Departed the Circle Blissfully (2006, with Fear Falls Burning )
- Thaumogenesis (01.01.2007)
- Touched (03/13/2007, rewriting)
- Guilted By The Sun [PWYC] (05/01/2007), EP
- Bodycage DLP (2007)
- 12012291920-1414101 (2007, in conjunction with Atavist )
- Corrasion (12/05/2007, rewriting), CD
- Untitled (2007, with Fear Falls Burning )
- Radiance of shadows (10/09/2007), LP
- The Bungled & the Botched (06/10/2008), CD: Consouling Sounds, (2009) LP: Blocks Recording Club
- Bliss torn from emptiness (2008, rewritten)
- Belles Bêtes (04/01/2009), CD / LP: Beta-lactam Ring Records
- When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV [Cover album] (04/28/2009), CD: The End Records
- s / t (10.27.2009)
- Autopergamene ( 05/10/2010 ), EP
- The Life And Death Of A Wasp (04/01/2010) (with OVO), EP
- Ruins of Morning (2010), EP
- Under The Jaguar Sun (03/12/2010), LP
- Sky Burial (08/02/2010), EP
- Bodycage (01/18/2011, rewriting), CD
- The Primitive World (02/01/2012), LP
- Excision (02.28.2012), LP
- Dagdrøm ( 10.30.2012 ), LP
- Flipper (05/13/2013), LP
- Queller ( 02.20.2014 ), LP
- Tangled (04/01/2014), EP
- / ɪmpəˈfɛkʃ (ə) n / (06/20/2014), LP
- Cystema Solari ( 06/21/2014 ), LP
- Dark Circles (2014)
- Tabernanthe (2015)
- Songs for Wong Kar - wai (11/10/2015)
- SV (03/14/2016)
- The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife (04/04/2016)
Links
- Nadja at Encyclopaedia Metallum
- Nadja on Discogs
- Nadja Official Myspace Page
- Nadja at bandcamp
- Nadja on Facebook