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.
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.
Discography[]
- Touched (2003)
- Skin Turns to Glass (2003)
- Corrasion (2003)
- Bodycage (2005)
- Bliss Torn from Emptiness (2005)
- Truth Becomes Death (2005)
- Thaumogenesis (2007)
- Radiance of Shadows (2007)
- Desire in Uneasiness (2008)
- The Bungled & the Botched (2008)
- Belles Bêtes (2009), CD/LP: Beta-lactam Ring Records
- When I See the Sun Always Shines on T.V. [Cover album] (2009)
- Under the Jaguar Sun (2009)
- Autopergamene (2010)
- Don't Bring Me Monkeys [Cover album] (2011)
- Excision (2012)
- Dagdrøm (2012)
- Flipper (2013)
- Queller (2014)