Aidan Baker Book Project

We’re extremely proud to be able to announce a collaboration with Aidan Baker on a project, which we’ll be present this summer. Aidan is a writer and musician hailing from Canada and his music has been one of my personal discoveries and constant companions in early 2006 – from his magnificent contribution to “Die Stadt”’s monumental double 7’’ and double disc release with Z’EV, John Duncan and Fear Falls Burning to the too-good-to-true harmonic soundscapes of “Candescence” and “At the fountain of thirst”, his floating electric guitar patterns turn and twist in your mind till they hit hypnosis. This, to me, is timeless and deeply emotional music. While I was preparing an interview and an article on him, Aidan was so kind as to send me a couple of his releases, including “Songs of Flowers & Skins”, a disc featuring his poems and a more rock-oriented approach, albeit at an almost subconscious, dream-guided level. A wonderful album with wonderful lyrics, which allows for concentrated listening as well as for providing a deep, atmospheric background ambiance (I’m spinning it right now, in fact). As I suggested to him that Rexime Productions would be interested in releasing some of his poems alongside a CD with accordingly arranged music, he immediately offered us to use some previously written texts, taking specific songs as inspiration, and record an entire disc worth of cover-versions of these tracks. I really can’t wait to listen to some of his interpretations – this promises to be an absolute gem.