Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Nadja Announces North American, European Tours

Sometimes lush and sometimes violent - and occasionally both - Nadja creates walls of layered guitars, synths, samples, textures and vocals. The Canadian duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff will be hitting the road again at the end of September for dates around North America (including an NYC Halloween appearance curated by NYC underground gurus Unsound alongside Black Sun, Steve Moore, and Menace Ruine), followed by a tour of Europe. Dates are as follows, please note that some dates in Europe are still to be confirmed:

Nadja - North American Tour - Fall 2008
10/03/08: Portland, OR - TBA, with Troum, Tecumseh
10/05/08: Oakland, CA - i.am.indust2008 Festival (Aidan Baker + Nadja sets)
10/06/08: Oakland, CA - Stork Club, with Tecumseh, Maleficia
10/07/08: San Francisco, CA - Hemlock, with Kris Force, Tecumseh
10/08/08: Los Angeles, CA - Relax Bar, with Tecumseh
10/24/08: Kingston, ON – TBA (Tone Deaf Festival)
10/25/08: Toronto, ON - The Music Gallery (Aidan Baker show)
10/31/08: New York, NY – Fontana`s, with Unsound, Black Sun, Steve Moore, Menace Ruine
11/01/08: Montreal, QC - Il Motore, with Menace Ruine


Nadja - Europe Tour - Fall 2008
11/08/08: Metz, France - TBA, with Picastro
11/09/08: Lyon, France - Sonic, with Picastro
11/11/08: Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Romandie, with Picastro
11/14/08: Augsburg, Germany - Lab30 Festival
11/15/08: Nuremburg, Germany - K4, with Picastro
11/18/08: Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang, with Picastro
11/19/08: Berlin, Germany - West Germany, with Picastro
11/21/08: Edinburgh, Scotland - Henry’s Cellar Bar, with Atavist
11/22/08: Birmingham, England - TBA, with Atavist
11/23/08: Croft w/ Atavist - Bristol, England, with Atavist and Satori
11/24/08: Coventry, England - Taylor Johns House, with Atavist
11/25/08: London, England - Underworld, with Atavist and Satori


Nadja`s fourteen-minute-long song "Sandskin," from Skin Turns To Glass, released earlier this year by The End Records (originally released as a limited CD-R run by Belgium`s Nothingness Records), is available for download for free from Amazon.com


Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitars/vocals/piano/woodwinds/drums) and Leah Buckareff (bass/vocals) currently based in Toronto, Canada. Nadja originally began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient guitar-based music. In 2005 Buckareff joined in order to make the project more than just a studio endeavour and allow Nadja to perform live.


Nadja creates music that has been variously described as drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, incorporating influences from such diverse artists as Swans, Godflesh, My Bloody Valentine, and B>Codeine. Nadja combines soundscapes, electronics, and atmospheric vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs and dirge-like percussion, tempering the cacophany with a certain ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of amorphous sound.


After several limited edition cdr releases, Nadja released their first official album, Truth Becomes Death, on Montreal`s Alien8 Recordings in 2005. They have since released material on Conspiracy Records, Profound Lore Records, and Archive Records, and have material out via The End Records and Crucial Blast Records.


www.Nadjaluv.ca
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