Aidan Baker, The Taste of Summer on Your Skin, Taâlem, 2003
Un enchevêtrement de longs cycles apaisants, comme une pulsation bénéfique qui laisse une large place au voyage intérieur. Une cassette de sophrologie qui atteindrait son but, parce qu'on ne s'ennuie pas ici. Aidan Baker nous rappelle que la musique c'est la combinaison harmonieuse de sons. La photo de Malika Uhien et l'artwork de Cyril Herry ainsi que le format peu coutumier du disque ne gâchent rien à l'affaire et semblent affirmer que le label Taâlem entend tracer sa propre voie. Un monde étrange, mais pas étranger, s'ouvre à l'intérieur de l'auditeur et on est surpris, soudain, de toute la place qu'on a là à l'intérieur, bercé par l'extérieur. Il fait bon passer le temps avec the taste of summer on your skin.
& les 3 questions du dj duclockAidan Baker a répondu depuis Toronto, en français dans le texte, aux trois questions du Dj Duclock. Merci à lui !
Dj Duclock : Que lis tu en ce moment ?
Aidan Baker : Je lis "Ha: A Self Murder Mystery" par Gordon Sheppard. C'est un roman et un biographie et une recherche de la suicide, tout a la meme temps, d'un ecrivan Quebecois, Hubert Aquin, qui suicider a 47 ans avec la permission de sa femme.
Dj Duclock : Qu'écoutes tu comme musique ces derniers temps, l'album qui tourne sur la platine ?
Aidan Baker : Comme j'écris ceci, j'ecoute l'album "O True Believer" de James Blackshaw. Et les autres: Boris - Smile, Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds, Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward, Sixteen Horsepower - Live, etc.
Dj Duclock : Qu'est-ce qui t'as surpris dernièrement... Quand as tu été surpris pour la dernière fois ?
Aidan Baker : Hmm...Je pense que je ne suis pas quelqu'un qui est souvent surpris...ou...je ne souviens pas.
I'ts a bilingual review, translation by Caroline de Benedetti.
Aidan Baker, The Taste of Summer on Your Skin, Taâlem, 2003
A jumble of longs soothing cycles, like a beneficient pulse leaving a large place to an inner trip. A sophrology cassette that would achieve its purpose, because you won't get bored here. Aidan Baker reminds us that music is the harmonious combination of sounds. Malika Uhien's photo and Cyril Herry's artwork, as the unusual disc size, are in the mood and seem to say that Taâlem label intends to make its own way. A strange world, but not foreigner, opens inside the listener and you are suddenly surprised of this huge place you have here inside, rocked by the outside. It is good to spend time with the taste of summer on your skin.
& dj duclock's three questions
Dj Duclock : What do you listen to these days ? What is the album on the turntable ?
Dj Duclock : What is your last surprise, the last time you were surprised by something ?
Aidan Baker : Hmm... I think I am not someone who is often surprised... or... I don't remember.
I'ts a bilingual review, translation by Caroline de Benedetti.
Aidan Baker, The Taste of Summer on Your Skin, Taâlem, 2003
A jumble of longs soothing cycles, like a beneficient pulse leaving a large place to an inner trip. A sophrology cassette that would achieve its purpose, because you won't get bored here. Aidan Baker reminds us that music is the harmonious combination of sounds. Malika Uhien's photo and Cyril Herry's artwork, as the unusual disc size, are in the mood and seem to say that Taâlem label intends to make its own way. A strange world, but not foreigner, opens inside the listener and you are suddenly surprised of this huge place you have here inside, rocked by the outside. It is good to spend time with the taste of summer on your skin.
& dj duclock's three questions
Aidan Baker answered from Toronto, in French language, to Dj Duclock's three questions. I thank him !
Dj Duclock : What are you reading now ?
Aidan Baker : I read "Ha : A Self Murder Mystery" by Gordon Sheppard. It is a novel and a biography, and a look for suicide at the same time, of a Quebec writer, Hubert Aquin, who committed suicide at the age of 47 with its wife's permission.
Dj Duclock : What do you listen to these days ? What is the album on the turntable ?
Aidan Baker : As I am writing this, I listen to the album "O True Believer" from James Blackshaw. And the others : Boris - Smile, Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds, Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward, Sixteen Horsepower - Live, etc.
Dj Duclock : What is your last surprise, the last time you were surprised by something ?