CD Tip:NADJA - Touched

Announcing "Touched", our second release by the up and coming ambient doom band Nadja.

NADJA - Touched
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Streetate: March 13 // Hausmusik
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Announcing "Touched", our second release by the up and coming ambient doom band Nadja.

The Outsider Metal genre of has really taken off over the last couple
of years and while some projects may suffer from its over-saturation,
we feel Nadja's versatility will allow them to escape this fate.

Nadja is made of AIDAN BAKER and LEAH BUCKAREFF. Baker, the project's founder is an insanely prolific musician under his own name under which he releases solo works for such prestigious labels as Germany's Die Stadt, as well countless CD and CD-R releases all over the world. He is also an accomplished poet and visual artist. Buckareff rounds out the band on bass guitar and backing vocals.

While credit is owed to likes of such pioneering legends Earth, current
king pins SUNN((O))) and Boris for defining the genre, Nadja take more
inspiration from artists hailing from the Dark Ambient and Electronica
fields. Passages on this latest release can be compared to saturated
wall of ambient noise perfected by the likes of Tim Hecker and Fennesz
or Justin K. Broadrick's Jesu project.

Like the sound of our earlier "Truth Becomes Death" release, "Touched"
is ambient music being pushed to it's breaking point, yet the overall
feel is a slightly more gentle. Parts of the album feature the use of
clean undistorted vocals, something rather unique in the genre, hinting
at the sounds of such bands as Codeine, Swans or Joe Preston's Thrones project.

In a very short time Nadja have established themselves as a band to
watch due to their hard work ethic, prolific output and live
performances. In this year alone Nadja have managed to tour or open for the likes of ISIS, Khanate, Tim Hecker, Troum, Fear Falls Burning,
Helios Creed and the End among countless others.

"Utter and absolute loveliness drenched in a thick patina of crushing
heaviness. Impossible but perfect." - Aquarius Records

Tip der HALLE, www.halle-tanz-theater.de

CD Tip:NADJA - Touched