Monday 15 September 2025, 7.30pm
Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff, formed in Toronto in 2005, but currently based in Berlin, Germany. The duo makes music which has been described as ambient doom, dreamsludge, or metalgaze. Over their nearly two decade long career, Nadja has established a unique and signature sound which combines the atmospheric textures of shoegaze and ambient or electronic music with the heaviness, density, and volume of metal, noise, and industrial.
The duo has toured extensively around the world—including performances at such festivals as SXSW, FIMAV, Roadburn, Donaufest, Le Guess Who, Incubate, and Unsound—and has shared stages with artists like Earth, OM, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Khanate, Neurosis, and Godflesh. Nadja has released numerous albums on many respected underground labels—including Alien8 Recordings, Daymare Records, Southern Lord, Hydrahead Records, Gizeh Records, and Important Records—and their own imprint, Broken Spine Productions.
For this show, they'll be performing material from their new album, cut, on Midira Records:
https://midirarecords.com/release/md-156-nadja-cut/
UK-based Turkish artist Elif Yalvaç will be opening the night, joined by bassist Jordan Muscatello, her collaborator in her project Diaries of Destruction.
Elif Yalvaç (née Hazal Elif Yalvaç) is a producer, composer and guitarist. Her music has received international acclaim including reviews in The Guardian, and The Wire, alongside features and broadcasts including WDR and BBC. Her latest solo album “Vection” was released in April 2024 by the Amsterdam-based experimental music label Moving Furniture Records under the Eliane Tapes series dedicated to Eliane Radigue. She is preparing to self-release her next solo album on hazalelif.bandcamp.com with elements of noise, drone metal, IDM, speedcore and ambient music.
Elif collaborates with others extensively, including her avantgarde metal project Diaries of Destruction, contemporary ambient project with Philamelian, and Green Drift with Expert Sleepers (September 2022). She has performed with a wide range of artists internationally including Eraldo Bernocchi, Colin Edwin, Jon Durant, Darkroom, and Jono Podmore.
Alongside performance and production, Elif curates and hosts “Talk to the Chip”, a podcast on pioneering electronic music on Resonance FM with Jono Podmore. She teaches electronic music composition at Guildhall School in London. She is the curator of the bi-monthly live electronics event series “Heart of Noise Cambridge” at Cambridge Junction.
Jordan Muscatello is active in experimental and improvised music in London. Predominantly playing bass, he has been a frequent attendee of Eddie Prévost’s weekly workshop for over a decade and has performed with many members of London’s community of improvising musicians. His regular activities include the noise project West Grealing, playing double bass with the Rick Jensen Trio and with petals and Ed Shipsey as dogs paw trio. He plays electric bass in Diaries of Destruction II, an experimental drone metal project with producer/composer/guitarist Elif Yalvaç, recordings of which were released as an album in 2024. He also operates Spinky Records, releasing noise and beats.
