Aidan Baker is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist using the electric guitar as his primary instrument. Using prepared and alternate methods of playing the guitar, along with various electronic effects, Baker creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genre but draws on influences from rock, electronic, classical, and jazz. A highly prolific artist, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with various group projects, on such independent labels as Gizeh Records, Important Records, Alien8 Recordings, and his own imprint, Broken Spine Productions. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Baker currently resides in Berlin,
\Albums2000 Element2002 At The Fountain Of Thirst2002 Letters2002 Wound Culture2002(08) I Fall Into You(Re)2002 Repercussion(feat. ARC)2003 Black Flowers Blossom2003 Concretion2003 Eye Of Day2003 Loop Studies One2003 Loop Studies Remixed(feat. Cymbl)2003 Metamorphose(En Sept Etages)2003 Threnody One – Lamentation2004 An Intricate Course Of Deception2004 Antithesis2004 At The Base Of The Mind Is Coiled A Serpent2004 Field Of Drones2004 Ice Against My Skin2004 Ichneumon2004(17) Butterfly Bones2005 At Home With(feat. Ultra Milkmaids)2005 Candescence2005 Figures2005 Periodic2005 Remixes2005 Songs Of Flowers & Skin2005 Still My Beating Heart Beats2005 Traumerei2005 Undercurrents(feat. Matt Borghi)2006 Approaching A Black Hole(feat. DD6)2006 Dog Fox Gone Bad2006 Oneiromancer2006 Pendulum2006 The Sea Swells A Bit…2007 An Open Letter To Franz Kafka(feat. Beta Cloud)2007 Broken & Remade2007 Conversations With Myself2007 Dance Of Lonely Molecules2007 Exoskeleton Heart2007 I Will Always and Forever Hold You in My Heart and Mind2007 Nagual(feat. Todd Merrell & Patrick Jordan)2007 Scalpel2007 Thoughtspan2007(08) Green & Cold (Re)2007(11) Noise Of Silence2008 A Bout De Souffle(feat. Jakob Thiesen)2008 Book of Nods(Digifile Limited Edition)2008 Fantasma Parastasie(feat. Tim Hecker)2008 Rural Sprawl(feat. The Infant Cycle)2008 Suchness 12009 A Picture of a Picture(feat. Thisquietarmy)2009 Blue Figures2009 Colorful Disturbances(feat. Noveller)2009 Dry2009 Gathering Blue2010 Liminoid,Lifeforms2011 Closure Axioms2011 Green Figures(feat. Kevin Micka)2011 Lost In The Rat Maze2011 Plague Of Fantasies2011 Still Life2012 Breathing Heavy Breathing(feat. Leah Buckareff)2012 Origins & Evolutions2012 Smudging(feat. Richard Baker)2012 The Spectrum Of Distraction(2Cd)2012 Variations On A Loop(Rhythms)(feat. Richard Baker)2012 Variations On A Loop2013 Already Drowning2013 Aneira2013 Cameo(feat. Maik Erdas)2013 Glass Crocodile Medicine(feat. Plurals)2013 Nihtes Niht(feat. Troum)2013 Synth Studies2014 At Komma(feat. Felipe Salazar)2014 CNTNTL(feat. Jakob Thiesen)2014 Hypnodrone Ensemble(feat. Thisquietarmy)2014 Hypnotannenbaumdronefuzz2014 Triptychs – Variations On A Melody2014 Untitled(feat. A-Sun Amissa)2015 Ecliptic Plane2015 Half Lives(2Cd)2015 In The Red Room(feat. Idklang)2015 Plague Fantasies(PWYC)2015 Sorry For What I Said To You In Your Dream2015 Stimmt2015 The Confessional Tapes
\EPs2003 Cicatrice ep2004 Blauserk ep2004 Same River Twice ep2005 The Taste Of Summer On Your Skin ep2007(11) Orange(feat. Thisquietarmy) ep2010 The Shape Of Snakes ep2011 Bach Eingeschaltet, Vierter Band ep2011 Tonstreifen ep2013 Souvenirs Of The Eternal Present ep
\Lives2008 Live In London 05-14-20072009 Live 2008-14-11(feat. Brandon Valdivia)2010 BSP Live Series(2010.11.16 Paris)2012 Document-Eurotour 2011(Live In Paris & Ljubljana)(feat. Thisquietarmy)2013 Live At Lab.302015 BSP Live Series(2014.11.15 Berlin)2015 BSP Live Series(2015.08.06 Berlin)2015 BSP Live Series(2015.08.27 Berlin)(feat. Simon Goff,James Welburn)
\Compilations2008 I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed(2Cd compilation)2009 The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands(feat. ARC)(2Cd compilation)2011 Loop Studies(2Cd compilation)2011 Pretending To Be Fearless – Dreammares(compilation)2011 Rictus(compilation)2012 Isolated Landscapes – A Singles Collection(compilation)
\Sides\ARC2005 The Circle Is Not Round2008 Arkhangelsk2008 Glassine 1\Hypnodrone Ensemble2015 The Shape Of Space\Whisper Room2009 Birch White