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Hooray, hallelujah, and cock-a-doodle-doo, people: we've finally got ourselves a bonafide Tim Hecker/Aidan Baker of Nadja collaborative LP. The joint offering, first mentioned way back in June, bears the title Fantasma Parastasie and collects eight movements spread across seven tracks and recorded by Baker and Hecker in tandem at Hecker's Montreal studio.

All this glorious heavy buzzing and droning and bass-y warmth comes to us October 14, courtesy of Alien8 Recordings. Fans can opt for a CD version of Fantasma, a limited edition (500 copies) LP version on white vinyl, or one of several digital versions in various formats. And what do you know, this also marks Mr. Hecker's very first collaborative release.

If you just can't stand the wait, you'll be thrilled to know that Alien8 is streaming the album in full as you read this. Check the link below.

Both Hecker and Baker's Nadja have a number of dates on the way, with the former mostly sticking close to his native Canada, and the latter venturing off to Europe in November and again in the new year.

Baker, naturally, has some other releases in the pipeline with Nadja. Deep breaths, everybody: October will see the Trinitarian 12" on Important, followed by a CD/12" split with A Storm of Light on Robotic Empire. November has Nadja hitting us with a U.S. tour 12" called Belles Betes via Beta-Lactam Ring, and a UK tour split CD (with Atavist and Satori) called Triptych via Cold Spring. December should find a double CD collecting Nadja's Thaumogenesis and Thaumoradiance hitting shelves thanks to Daymare, with a double-LP edition of Thaumogenesis due sometime this fall on Level Plane.

Better listen to all those records quickly, because the new year holds a CD called Autopergamene (Essence Music), vinyl editions of Nadja's two previous Atavist collaborations (Kreation and Invada), a double vinyl edition of Skin Turns to Glass (The End), a double-disc edition of previous CD-R release Bodycage (Profound Lore), a collaboration with Pyramids (!) (Hydrahead), a full-length collaboration with Black Boned Angel (20 Buck Spin), a DVD entitled White Nights/Drone Fields (Beta-Lactam Ring), and, why not, a CD of covers called When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV (The End). And exhaaaaaaale.

As for that slacker Tim (JK), we can expect a full-length follow-up to Harmony in Ultraviolet, entitled An Imaginary Country, to arrive early next year from Kranky. Woo!

Fantasma Parastasie:

01 Phantom on a Pedestal
02 Hymn to the Idea of Night
03 Auditory Spirits
04 Skeleton Dance
05 Gallery of the Invisible Woman
06 Dream of the Nightmare
07 Fantasma-Parastasie

Tim Hecker:

10-24 Kingston, Ontario - Tone Deaf Festival
10-25 Toronto, Ontario - The Music Gallery *
11-08 Torun, Poland - Plateaux Festival
12-04 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge (Wordless Music Series) ~
12-05 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge (Wordless Music Series) ~

* with Aidan Baker, Pram
~ with the Wordless Music Orchestra

Nadja:

10-03 Portland, OR - Five Star Theatre *#
10-05 Oakland, CA - i.am.indust2008 Festival
10-06 Oakland, CA - Stork Club #
10-07 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock #
10-08 Los Angeles, CA - Relax Bar #
10-23 Montreal, Quebec - Casa del Popolo
10-24 Kingston, Ontario - Tone Deaf Festival
10-25 Toronto, Ontario - The Music Gallery (Aidan Baker solo) +
10-31 New York, NY - Fontana's
11-09 Lyon, France - Sonic ^
11-11 Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Romandie ^
11-14 Augsburg, Germany - Lab30 Festival
11-18 Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang ^
11-19 Berlin, Germany - West Germany ^
11-21 Edinburgh, Scotland - Henry's Cellar Bar %
11-23 Bristol, England - The Croft %
11-24 Coventry, England - Taylor Johns House %$
11-25 London, England - Underworld %$
01-21 Cologne, Germany - Sonic Ballroom
01-22 Karlsruhe, Germany - Jubez
01-23 Dresden, Germany - AZ Conni
01-24 Berlin, Germany - Schokoladen

* with Troum
# with Tecumseh
+ with Tim Hecker, Pram
^ with Picastro
% with Atavist
$ with Satori