a r t i s t : Aidan Baker
t i t l e : Exoskeleton Heart
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Crucial Bliss (Bliss23)
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : nov/2007
t r a c k s : 02
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 72,7 MB
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Following up his amazing Periodic disc that was issued through
Crucial Bliss two years ago, acclaimed Toronto drone-guitarist
Aidan Baker is back with Exoskeleton Heart, his newest entry
into our ongoing Crucial Bliss series. And this 2-track, hour
long excursion into deep feedback bliss is stunningly
beautiful. Split into two halves, "Interior" and "Anterior",
Baker once again taps into his visions of the bodycage using
only his electric guitar, performed and recorded live; the
result is an evocative feedback-heavy dronescape drifting with
the gritty hum of the amplifier, layers of shimmering, chiming
feedback, crushing distorted ambient dirge that borders on
Sunn O)))-levels of sonic weight, and shafts of elegiac melody
breaking through the stormclouds of Baker's cavernous rumbling
like rays of sunlight. Aidan Baker is without question the
North American counterpart to the Tuetonic guitar drones of
Troum, and Exoskeleton Heart delivers some of his most
massive, meditative, crushing, and beautiful subterranean
drift yet. Hell, the final 10 minutes of "Anterior" is without
questions one of the most beautiful things we have ever
presented through this label, an angelic glacial melody that
builds inexorably into a wall of blissed out fuzz a la
something you'd expect from Aidan's dronesludge band Nadja.
Essential. The disc comes in a full-color signature Crucial
Bliss foldover sleeve with the disc affixed to a plastic hub
on the interior of the sleeve, and has been pressed in a
limited edition of 300 copies.
http://www.crucialblast.net/
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01-Interior [27:58]
02-Anterior [32:03]
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60:01 min