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▐▓█ ARTiST.... Aidan Baker ▄▓▓▓▄ ████▓▓▓▄
▓█▌ TiTLE..... Concretion ▀ ▀▓▓▓ ███▓▓▓▓▌
██ LABEL..... DTA Records ▄▓▀ ▄██▓▓▓▀▀
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██▌ GENRE..... Ambient SOURCE... CDDA ▐▓ █████▓▓▄
▐██▄ RiP.DATE.. Feb-10-2004 QUALiTY.. 192kbps ▀▄ ▀▀███▓▓▓▓▄▄
████▄▄ STOREDATE. 000-00-2003 TRACKS... 03 ▓▄ ▀██████▓▓▄
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█▓ NR. TRACKNAME TiME ▀▓▓▓▓▄
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█ 01 When You Scream I Can See Your Skull 23:24 ▐▓▓█
█ 02 'twas in the Moon of Wintertime 15:58 ▐▓▓█
█ 03 Sequestered 16:19 ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ RELEASE NOTES: ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ [concretion: the act or process of concreting into a mass; ▐▓▓█
█ coalescence] ▐▓▓█
█ 3 long tracks of experimental/ambient guitar & voice, including a ▐▓▓█
█ looping/deconstructive arrangement of the 16th Century French ▐▓▓█
█ Canadian carol (track 2). ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ "Toronto native and writer-musician Aidan Baker has issued a ▐▓▓█
█ three song disc totaling fifty-minutes of ambient electronica, ▐▓▓█
█ which he labels as music with "deconstructive sonic ▐▓▓█
█ possibilities." Classically trained in the flute and self-taught ▐▓▓█
█ on the guitar and other assorted instruments, Baker has a bevy of ▐▓▓█
█ musical releases to coincide with his poetry. If Concretion is a ▐▓▓█
█ musical extension of his literary work, one might presume that ▐▓▓█
█ Baker works and feels comfortable in a fugue. ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ The twenty-three minute opener, When You Scream I Can See Your ▐▓▓█
█ Skull, strives to be epic, yet fails to be grandiose with its ▐▓▓█
█ drawn-out marathon of coldwave that smothers the frolicking ▐▓▓█
█ digital and occasional guitar that subliminally materializes and ▐▓▓█
█ jockeys for space between the long-shifting tempos in the latter ▐▓▓█
█ parts. Like other musicians in this experimentalist genre, this ▐▓▓█
█ track takes itself too seriously and lambastes the listener, who ▐▓▓█
█ is searching for the hidden beauty in Baker's work, obviously ▐▓▓█
█ there, but not omnipresent. ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ However, Baker assembles a very crafty follow-up track, 'Twas in ▐▓▓█
█ the Moon of Wintertime. Based on a French-Canadian hymn, ▐▓▓█
█ Wintertime is a perfect expression of Baker's poetry with its ▐▓▓█
█ somber tones that offer something concrete and tangible in the ▐▓▓█
█ project amidst the harrowing coldwave, which, ironically, go ▐▓▓█
█ hand-in-hand. Too bad more musicians practicing this discipline ▐▓▓█
█ of music haven't learned this lesson. Wintertime seems to have a ▐▓▓█
█ loss of faith theme about it. As the key tones lose their melodic ▐▓▓█
█ way, so too does Baker's muse, especially when chaos reigns ▐▓▓█
█ supreme in the track, ripping away fragments of reason with his ▐▓▓█
█ dreadful splices of disorder. The tones fight back desperately to ▐▓▓█
█ be heard, as if searching for the epiphany that will serve as ▐▓▓█
█ their salvation and ultimately let them play freely. By the ▐▓▓█
█ track's end, the tones resume cautiously but assuredly. Has ▐▓▓█
█ Baker's muse found faith once again? He leaves a vague, but ▐▓▓█
█ hopeful ending, the stamp of a true poet. ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ That hope, alas, is squashed by the dark and brooding closer, ▐▓▓█
█ Sequestered" Brutal and chock full of outrage, the track begins ▐▓▓█
█ with a soothing piano melody that rapidly gets lost within ▐▓▓█
█ itself, slipping into melancholy and accompanied by Baker's aloof ▐▓▓█
█ guitar. The pair grows distant from each other, as well as the ▐▓▓█
█ listener, suddenly growing angrier and angrier, leaving one to ▐▓▓█
█ imply Baker is sharing something with his audience that is truly ▐▓▓█
█ upsetting to him. Piercing shrills at the ten minute mark cry out ▐▓▓█
█ and near-harpsichord-like synths puncture the eardrum by ▐▓▓█
█ conveying rage with hidden guitar strokes that indicate ▐▓▓█
█ frustration. Perhaps Baker is frustrated with his craft, ▐▓▓█
█ frustrated with someone or something in his life, but it is ▐▓▓█
█ apparent he is deeply disturbed on this track. Baker effectively ▐▓▓█
█ shares his scarred emotions by pissing off the listener in turn ▐▓▓█
█ on Sequestered. Thanks for sharing, man. ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ Aidan Baker has a gift, most definitely. Concretion drops clues ▐▓▓█
█ that he has abundant talent, as well as a promiscuous muse. ▐▓▓█
█ Perhaps this genre of music allows him to wax and wane in a true ▐▓▓█
█ sense of bloodletting, but, aside from the second track, it seems ▐▓▓█
█ painful to know that there is something deeper, richer and more ▐▓▓█
█ fulfilling waiting to spew forth from his mind and fingers." ▐▓▓█
█ ▐▓▓█
█ http://www.listen.to/aidan ▐▓▓█
█ http://www.turn.to/nadja ▐▓▓█
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░█ ▄▄▄▓▄ ▄ ▀ ▄ TOTAL TiME: 55:41 min █▓█▌
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