Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitars, vocals, piano, woodwinds, drums) and Leah Buckareff (bass, vocals). Nadja began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient music performed mainly on the electric guitar. In 2005 Buckareff joined in order to make the project more than just a studio endeavour and to allow Nadja to perform live.[1]

The band's name comes from Aidan's name spelled backwards in order to match the concept of a musical style different from his own work. The J replacing the I is, according to Aidan, a reference to the Nadja character from André Breton's book of the same name and Elina Löwensohn's character from the vampire movie.[2]

Contents 1 History 2 Musical style 3 Line-up 4 Discography 4.1 Full-length 4.2 Compilation 4.3 EPs 4.4 Splits and collaborations 4.5 Rerecordings 4.6 Live albums 4.7 DVD 5 External links 6 References History

After several limited edition CD-R releases on various small labels worldwide, Nadja released its first official album Truth Becomes Death on Montreal's Alien8 Recordings in 2005. The duo has since released material on wider distributed labels and went through re-releasing older recordings either remastered or completely re-arranged, such as the newer Touched 2007 version back on Alien8 or the Bodycage album on Profound Lore Records/LP version on Equation.

They have performed in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Japan and the United States, sharing the stage with, among others, artists as Kayo Dot, Knurl, Khanate, Francisco López, Isis, thisquietarmy, BHUTAN drone, stilte, Dronevil and Mare.

Musical style

The duo combines soundscape, electronics and atmospheric vocals with slow, epic riffs and dirge-like percussion, creating a slowly moving grand wall of music that has been described as drone, ambient-doom, and shoegazer-metal. Aidan noted that they prefer to call their style of music "ambient metal" or "ambient doom", though he's fond of the term "dreamsludge" as well.[3]

Line-up Aidan Baker – Guitars, piano, programming, woodwinds, vocals (2002–present) Leah Buckareff – Bass, vocals, violin (2003–present) Discography Full-length Touched (2003), CD-R: Deserted Factory Records Skin Turns to Glass (2003), CD-R: NOTHingness REcords Corrasion CD-R: (2003), Foreshadow Productions Bodycage (2005), CD-R: NOTHingness REcords, (2006), CD: NOTHingness REcords, (2008), 2LP: Equation Records Bliss Torn from Emptiness (2005), CD-R: Fargone Records Truth Becomes Death (2005), CD: Alien8 Recordings, (2008) 2LP: Conspiracy Records Thaumogenesis (2007), CD: aRCHIVE Recordings LP + unitled CD: IMPORTANT RECORDS Radiance of Shadows (2007), CD: Alien8 Recordings, (2008) 2LP: Conspiracy Records Desire in Uneasiness (2008), CD: Crucial Blast Records The Bungled & the Botched (2008), CD: Consouling Sounds, (2009) LP: Blocks Recording Club Belles Bêtes (2009), CD/LP: Beta-lactam Ring Records When I See the Sun Always Shines on T.V. (2009), CD: The End Records Under the Jaguar Sun (2009), 2CD/2LP: Beta-lactam Ring Records Autopergamene (2010), CD: Essence Music Don't Bring Me Monkeys (2011), Digital: Self Released Excision (2012), 2CD/digital: Important Records[4] Dagdrøm (2012), CD/LP: Broken Spine Productions Flipper (2013), Digital/LP: Oaken Palace Records[5] Queller (2014), CD/LP: Essence Music Sv (2016), CD: Essence Music The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife (2016), CD/LP: Gizeh Records Sonnborner (2018), LP: Broken Spine Productions, CD: Daymare Recordings Compilation Numbness (2009), CD: Happy Prince EPs I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth (2004), CD-R: Deserted Factory Records Base Fluid (2007), Digital: Foreshadow Productions Guilted by the Sun (2007), CDEP & LP: Roadburn Records Long Dark Twenties (2008), LP Single: Anthem Records Trinity (2008), CD: Die Stadt Records Trinitarian (2008), LP: Important Records Clinging to the Edge of the Sky (2009), LP: Adagio830/ Vendetta a.k.a. xmesserx03 Ruins of Morning (2010), 10" : Substantia Innominata Sky Burial (2010), CD/LP: Latitudes/ Southern Records Splits and collaborations Split with Moss (2003), CD-R: Foreshadow Productions Absorption with Methadrone (2005), CD-R, NOTHingness REcords We Have Departed the Circle Blissfully with Fear Falls Burning (2006), LP: Conspiracy Records 12012291920/1414101 with Atavist (2007), CD: Invada Records/ LP Kreation Records S/T Nadja with Fear Falls Burning (2007), CD: Conspiracy Records Live collaboration with Datashock (2007), Meudiademorte / Hlava Temple magma to ice Nadja/ Netherworld (2008), CD: Fario Untitled release with Year of No Light, Fear Falls Burning and Machu Picchu Mother Future(2008) LP: MusicFearSatan Christ Send Light with Black Boned Angel (2008), CD/LP: Battlecruiser / Sound Devastation II: Points at Infinity with Atavist (2008), CD: Profound Lore Infernal Procession...And Then Everything Dies split with Atavist and Satori (2008), CD: Cold Spring tümpisa" nadja / 5/5/2000 -(2009), CD + LP accident prone records Primitive North with A Storm of Light (2009), Split CD/LP: Robotic Empire S/T nadja / Black Boned Angel (2009), CD/LP 20 Buck Spin Pyramids with Nadja with Pyramids (2009), CD: Hydra Head Records Nadja/ Kodiak (2009), CD/ LP Denovali Records The Life and Death of a Wasp NADJA & OvO (2010), CD/ LP Broken Spine Records/ Adagio 830 & Vendetta Records Dominium Visurgis Nadja & Troum (2010), CD Transgredient Records NADJA & GALENA Konstruktion (2011) LP Adagio 830 The Primitive World with Vampillia (2012), CD is collage collective Records Cystema Solari Nadja and Uochi Toki (2014), LP/DIGITAL: CORPOC Rerecordings Touched (2007), CD: Alien8 Recordings, (2008) LP: Conspiracy Records Corrasion (2007), CD: Foreshadow Productions, (2009) LP: Basses Frequences Bliss Torn from Emptiness (2008), CD: Profound Lore Records Skin Turns to Glass (2008), CD: The End Records Live albums Trembled (2006, rereleased 2008), CD: Utech Records Thaumoradiance (2007), CD: aRCHIVE Recordings DVD White Nights/Drone Fields (2010), Beta-lactam Ring Records External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nadja (band).