Canadian guitarist Aidan Baker is a musical centipede. With his wife Leah Buckareff, he forms the duo Nadja, in 2014 he collaborated with Thisquietarmy (as the Hypnodrone Ensemble), but also with Adoran and The Whisper Room, and now the second album of Caudal is in the shops, a joint venture with the Irish bassist Gareth Sweeney (Gout) and the Colombian drummer Felipe Salazar (Muerte en Pereira). Ascension was recorded live in the Golden Retriever Studios in Berlin in June 2013. The concept is similar to what Baker previously recorded with Thisquietarmy, which means that this is a collection of carefully designed improvisations with a high lounge quality for the quiet late night hours in good company and with a bottle of champagne. Music to feel good by.
The new album includes three compositions, which together account for more than 45 minutes atmospheric music. Sweeney and Salazar ensure a peaceful and rhythmic backing track, which Aidan covers with layered guitar riffs , dark, ambient, psychedelic and space rock-like, without dangerous bends or sudden interruptions, tuneful and entertaining, post-rock in the true sense of the word. Aidan Baker releases this type of albums every few months. The quality is always high, but in terms of content, the difference is getting smaller with each new album. Fortunately Ascencion is a strong trio, which protrudes above the average.
Tracklist:
1. Uprise
2. Slow Bow
3. 451S2