BAKER, AIDAN - Letters

Format: LP

Label & Cat.Number: Basses Frequences BF10

Release Year: 2008

Note: re-issue of this very early BAKER-CDR from 2001; lim. ed. 400 180 gr vinyl

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LETTERS war 2001 einer der allerersten CDRs, die wir von AIDAN BAKER ins Programm nahmen... und die Begeisterung war groß! Jetzt gibt es das lange vergriffene Frühwerk als Vinyl-Wiederveröffentlichung. Damals vermerkten wir: "Neues Werk des kanadischen Ambient-Composers mit zwei langen, verträumten Stücken: guitar, bass, cymbals, vocals und tapes ergeben sinnliche, analog tönende Klangsphären mit genügend experimentellem Potential, insgesamt recht „gitarrig“... very soft & dreamy experimental ambient from this canadian composer, reminds on ULTRA MILKMAIDS i.e., recommended! [BarakaH, 2001]

"...On Letters, Baker offers up soft billows of sound, which are wrapped around a hushed vocals, more of a murmur actually, but instead of a drone record, it transforms the sound into some super minimal slowcore, the pop element sublimated to almost non existence, the vocal melody being the only thing keeping the track from sprawling out into abstract smears and blurs (not that we mind that either mind
you). The instrumentation is simple, just guitars and cymbals, but deftly processed into something deep and sonorous, and surprisingly melodic. Streaks of high end drift in and out (guitar or falsetto vocal, it's hard to say), as the record drifts dreamily. The sound does change dramatically here and there, deep overlapping low end tones, soft squalls of spaced out effects, glimmering streaks of washed out doomic blur, stretches of almost symphonic shimmer, the guitars transformed into hushed string sections, but it all resolves in an extended outro of soft deep swells. As always, absolutely ovely."[Aquarius Records review]

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