Aidan Baker builds tracks out of guitar tones and, usually, his work is much more ambient and long drone based. He's still got the proper distance perspective on Tense Surfaces but there is a percolating, shuffling loop in the foreground that keeps the tracks fluid and in motion. "Eyes Are Dark &" flows like dark water, undulating endlessly past you, while "Encase/Enclose Me" opens with the sound of a first year student's piano recital being held underwater. Tiny bursts of electronic detritus scatter across the landscape of muffled and marred notes. The final section of Tense Surfaces is the thirteen minute "I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed" and Baker's lo-fi ambience whispers of wind through old metal tubes and distant coyote calls in the desert darkness. Breathes of glitch like meteor showers streak across your speakers, slicing the drifting loop of Baker's dusty ambience with streaks of falling noise. Tense Surfaces is an active departure from the glacial movement of Baker's earlier work that I am familiar with and is a very delightful surprise.

Mark Teppo, IgooMag
http://www.igloomag.com/

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New net-release by Aidan Baker on the label Panospria. Two lengthy tracks, totally his way, and the instruments are: electric guitar, cymbals, vocals, drum machines and tapeloops. Maybe by now the most important question for the new music by Aidan Baker has become: does it (still) deliver the goods? I think it does here. The first more lengthy track of almost 20 minutes starts sounding more like his band Mnemosyne, as far as I know, more in a post/space-rock style. It goes like that for 10 minutes and then it changes into droney ambient for another 10 minutes. Maybe a bit long, but effective. Similar thing happens in the other track 'I wish too, to be absorbed', but now it's cut to 13 minutes, which is a better length for this music I think. Here the first motive goes for about 5 minutes and then it changes into a nice repeating loop, which unfolds slowly by adding layers of gentle sounds till the end. Absorbing in a nice way.

Boban Ristevski, Vital Weekly
http://www.staalplaat.com/vital/

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Now, as I sit back down, I'm suddenly listening to Aidan Baker "Eyes are Dark &" and "Encase/Enclose Me" from the Tense Surfaces release. The latter is a good old sonic acquarium, with loopy pianos swimming through kelpy scrolls of ripples and blips. The former is a 16 millimeter trip through the corridors of HeavenCorp while a robot assembly line works behind the scenes, in funky perpetual motion, manufacturing the thick, steamy clouds through which you trip.

Zeno, Hollow Tree Experimental Music Report
http://hollowtreestudios.blogspot.com/

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Canadian ambient and experimental guitar whiz Aidan Baker unleashes this wonderful sonic excursion. Guitar with submerged beats and sounds underneath in a lo-fi production package. Relaxing and inventive, this is a great soundtrack for inner travel. What are you waiting for?

Dodds Wiley, Ambient Bulletin Board
http://www.ambient.us/

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Workoholické ovoce Aidana Bakera i zdarma

Jednemi z mnoha nových alb, které Aidan zrovna vydává, jsou také netlabelové kousky Skein Of Veins na Phoniq.net a Tense Surfaces na Panospria. Chtelo by se ríci, Âe docela klasické (a také prumerné) veci, jaké pod jeho vlastním jménem vychází  tedy roztáhlé ambientní plochy vznikající z akustických nástroju, predevÂím elektrické kytary. Souhlasí, ovÂem dríve zminované je ponekud hlukovejÂí (první track), kdeÂto Tense Surfaces obsahuje naproti tomu ÂpísnickovejÂí kompozice s nezvyklými rytmy.

Jinak té funguje pod názvy Nadja, Mnemosyne nebo Arc. Víc info na jeho domovské stránce.

Amalgam, Letmo
http:/www.letmo.net/

Typical of some other Baker releases I've heard, well-executed ambient sound, but this time with some understated beats and glitchy sounds that I haven't heard from him before.

nice and quiet. all three tracks very similar. listen to them as one big track is recomended. and then relax
yours
morten from www.clubbasement.dk