* * * * * Nadja * * * * *

Nadja Review under A Storm Of Light & Nadja – Primitive North Nadja – When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV, “RELEASE NOTE…” is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitars/vocals/piano/woodwinds/drum programming) and Leah Buckareff (bass/vocals) from Toronto,Canada creating what has been called ambient doom – music that combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock, experimental, and neo-classical.
The debate over whether Nadja is a metal or an ambient band has been long-standing, so they decided to put the issue to rest once and for all by recording an album of covers from some of their favourite bands.
Consider this album an exploration of the roots of Nadja: everyone compares us to My Bloody Valentine, so we had to cover them; Codeine and Swans were both bands exploring the heaviness of metal without actually being metal (sound familiar)…
The Cure have that lovely, bittersweet gloominess; Elliott Smiths Needle in the Hay is simultaneously so simple and so devestating; no one believed us when we said we covered a song from The Kids in the Hall movie, a staple of our live set, so we had to get that one to tape; how could we resist the opportunity to cover A-has heaviest (but oh so catchy) tune And Slayer is just Slayer.
In an effort to illustrate our motivations behind this album, we asked our friend Mathew Smith to create a series of childrens-storybook-like drawings to go with each cover song.
Artist – Nadja & Troum
Album – Dominium Visurgis [ * * * * * ]
Release Date – 2010
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Minimal, Dark-core, Music-noir
Tracklist
01 – Part 1 – 11:34
02 – Part 2 – 12:45
03 – Part 3 – 25:12
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Nadja & Troum – Dominium Visurgis
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Artist – Nadja & OVO
Album – The Life And Death Of A Wasp
Release Date – 2010
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Minimal, Dark-core, Music-noir
Tracklist
01-nadja-ovo-movement ~ A wasp Flying Around The Sugar
02-nadja-ovo-movement ~ Trapped In A Jar
03-nadja-ovo-movement ~ Put Some Sugar In My Cup Please
04-nadja-ovo-movement ~ Drowned In Coffee
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Nadja & OVO – The Life And Death Of A Wasp
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Ruins Of Morning
Release Date – 2010
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze, Minimal, Dark-core, Music-noir
Tracklist
01 – Nadja Pt 01 – 20:48
02 – Nadja Pt 02 – 19:29
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Nadja – Ruins Of Morning
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Autopergamene
Release Date – 2010
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze, Minimal
Tracklist
01. You Write Your Name In My Skin [ 25:39 ]
02. You Write My Name In Your Head [ 07:11 ]
03. You Write Your Name In My Blood [ 26:13 ]
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Nadja – Autopergamene Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Belles Betes
Release Date – 2009
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze, Minimal
Tracklist
01. Skin Like Sand
02. Beautiful Beast
03. Machina
04. Chainsaw
05. Green + Cold
06. Wound Culture
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Nadja – Belles Betes Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja And Black Boned Angel
Album – Nadja And Black Boned Angel
Release Date – 2009
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze, Minimal
Tracklist
01 – Angel I – 23:23
02 – Angel II – 26:19
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Nadja and Black Boned Angel – Nadja and Black Boned Angel Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Pyramids with Nadja
Album – Pyramids with Nadja ( * * * * * )
Release Date – 2009
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze, Minimal
Tracklist
1 Into the Silent Waves
2 Another War
3 The Sound of Ice and Grass
4 An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome
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Pyramids with Nadja Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Under The Jaguar Sun
Release Date – 2006
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze, Minimal
Disc One
01 – SUN1jaguar
01 – SUN1jaguar
03 – SUN3fieryrain
04 – SUN4flood
05 – SUN5earthquake
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Nadja – Under The Jaguar Sun – Disc 01 Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Disc Two
01 – Ocelotonatiuh
02 – Ehecatonatiuh
03 – Quiuhtonatiuh
04 – Atonatiuh
05 – Nahui-Ollin
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Nadja – Under The Juguar Sun – Disc 02 Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
Release Date – 2009
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1. Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine) 6:35
2. Pea (Codeine) 4:09
3. No Cure For The Lonely (Swans) 6:56
4. Dead Skin Mask (Slayer) 10:06
5. The Sun Always Shines On TV (A-Ha) 6:01
6. Needle In The Hay (Elliott Smith) 4:45
7. Long Dark Twenties (Kids In The Hall) 6:35
8. Faith (The Cure) 12:47
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Nadja – When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Touched
Release Date – 2003
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Mutagen 12:00
2 Stays Demons 10:22
3 Incubation / Metamorphosis 12:15
4 Flowers of Flesh 9:05
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Nadja – Touched Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Skin Turns to Glass
Release Date – 2003
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Sandskin 11:40
2 Skin Turns to Glass 12:20
3 Slow Loss 20:05
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Nadja – Skin Turns to Glass Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Corrasion
Release Date – 2003
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Base Fluid 11:45
2 You Are as Dust 10:35
3 Corrasion 8:35
4 Amniotic 21:00
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Nadja – Corrasion Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Bodycage
Release Date – 2005
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Clinodactyl 21:43
2 Autosomal 10:10
3 Ossification 20:42
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Nadja – Bodycage Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Bliss Torn From Emptiness
Release Date – 2005
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Bliss Torn From Emptiness 48:54
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Nadja – Bliss Torn From Emptiness Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Truth Becomes Death
Release Date – 2005
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Bug / Golem 22:54
2 Memory Leak 16:23
3 Breakpoint 11:28
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Nadja – Truth Becomes Death Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Trembled
Release Date – 2006
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Breakpoint 8:52
2 No Cure for the Lonely 7:44
3 Corrasion 10:55
4 Tremble 17:42
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Nadja – Trembled Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Thaumogenesis
Release Date – 2007
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Thaumogenesis 61:43
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Nadja – Thaumogenesis Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Radiance of Shadows
Release Date – 2007
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Now I Am Become Death the Destroyer of Worlds 23:26
2 I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth 27:26
3 Radiance of Shadows 28:59
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Nadja – Radiance of Shadows Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – A Storm Of Light & Nadja
Album – Primitive North ( * * * * * )
Release Date – 2009
Genre – Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze-metal
Tracklist
01 – A Storm Of Light – brother
02 – A Storm Of Light – sister
03 – Nadja – i make from your eyes the sun
04 – Nadja – brother (remix)
05 – A Storm Of Light – i make from your eyes the sun (remix)
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A Storm Of Light & Nadja – Primitive North Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Desire in Uneasiness
Release Date – 2008
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Disambiguation 7:12
2 Signs-Expressions 13:16
3 Affective Fields 7:43
4 Uneasy Desire 15:16
5 Deterritorialization 18:49
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Nadja – Desire in Uneasiness Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja / Netherworld
Album – Magma to Ice
Release Date – 2008
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Netherworld – Closing to a Winter Night 8:59
2 Netherworld – Frozen Divinity 7:17
3 Netherworld – Closing to a Glacial Dawn 10:13
4 Nadja & Netherworld – Ice to Magma 9:15
5 Nadja – Kriplyana (Melted & Refrozen Snow that Looks Blue in Early Morning) 19:00
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Nadja / Netherworld – Magma to Ice Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Moss / Nadja
Album – Split
Release Date – 2003
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Moss – …of Flesh and Blood 9:52
2 Nadja – I Am as Earth 10:26
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Moss / Nadja – Split Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja / Methadrone
Album – Absorption
Release Date – 2005
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Nadja – Absorbed in You 30:43
2 Methadrone – A View Into the Empty 8:31
3 Methadrone – Absorbed 3:56
4 Methadrone – Sustained Presence of Loss 4:09
5 Methadrone – Placebo, Part 2 6:37
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Nadja / Methadrone – Absorption Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Atavist & Nadja
Album – 12012291920 / 1414101
Release Date – 2007
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Twentyfour: Sixteen 24:16
2 Twentynine: Thirtyseven 29:37
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Atavist & Nadja – 12012291920 / 1414101 Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja
Album – Guilted by the Sun
Release Date – 2007
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 Guilted 10:04
2 By 4:52
3 The 4:26
4 Sun 8:40
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Nadja – Guilted by the SunGuilted by the Sun Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja / Fear Falls Burning
Album – We Have Departed the Circle Blissfully
Release Date – 2006
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
A Untitled # 1 20:09
B Untitled # 2 20:07
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Nadja / Fear Falls Burning – We Have Departed the Circle Blissfully Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Artist – Nadja / Fear Falls Burning
Album – Split With Fear Falls Burning
Release Date – 2007
Genre – Experimental, Ambient-metal, Drone-metal, Shoegaze
Tracklist
1 14:25 14:25
2 15:32 15:32
3 14:41 14:41
4 15:43 15:43
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Nadja / Fear Falls Burning – Split With Fear Falls Burning Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com
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Recommendations: ~ Eluvium ~ Ender ~ A Storm Of Light ~ Ghastly City Sleep ~ Landing
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