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cat-nr: verazität: 034, release date: March 2005, ltd.-edition: 60, mp3 
`Candescence´ features five wonderful silent ambient pieces by Aidan Baker and one song based on an `Autechre´ track. All sounds produced by electric/acoustic/bass guitars: no computers used. | |
Aidan Baker combines minimalist, oscillating loops and lo-fi aestheticism into a dynamic and futuristic "biochemical lo-fi kill out". Spicing it up with elements of lounge style technology-romanticism, Aidan Baker has created a concept of individualism. It doesn't really stand out as something completely genuine, but is interesting all the same. A nice album for a fan of minimalism, "Candesecence" could even work as a relaxation record. by GIAG How impressive is being a watchmaker. Attaching these tiny cogs one next to the other in order to produce an exact and constant result. How delicate and complex! Nadja and Arc's member and prolific artist on his own account Aidan baker has released through the years many different releases on many different labels. Being composed from the sounds of electric, acoustic and bass guitars, Candescence is a delicate and beautiful work of sounds, carefully layered one on top of the other. Six tracks, all bearing the marks of a professional watchmaker and making tiny sounds collide and interact with each other for the greater purpose. "Clipper", being a (cover) version of Autechre's track of the same name, is clean and gentle dive into the subconscious. Not the hard rhythmic work of it's original creator, but rather a soft image. "Caliper" goes into a more tribal system of rhythms, with the ghostly movement behind the sounds of the "percussion" (these are all guitars, remember?) and slowly growing more and more intensive. The strongest feeling is being outdoors. The sounds are engulfing. Even breathtaking. "Calibrate" take things a step forward by making the sound denser and more concentrated on the lower part of the audio spectrum. "Candescence" continues to dive deeper, allowing slow and subtle sounds behind the complicated , rather rhythmic, front. "Clairvoyance" , while going with the sublime flow of the album, offers a more concrete line of music and an interesting evolution from the previous track. It is all one slow process, after all. The musical ideas are there on every track, aligned in different compositions to produce different results. So essentially the flow is constant, not breaking or changing direction on any point. But it is these places, this six events on the musical stream that are so interesting. Time to visit the last one. Pulsing with tiny breathes of sounds, "Calix" releases the hold on the various complexes of sounds and is left with vibrating ambient sounds . those fade slowly, to be replaced with bass pulses that go to the end of the album. I have heard several works of Aidan Baker. Not all of them, not even most of them. Candescence is a beautiful work that stands high in my limited scale of his works. I am not sure how many copies of this album are even available today, but Candescence is worthy to look for. by heathen harvest | ||