Friday, December 2, 2016

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ALBUMS:


Durations


Balls To Farris
Dance Macabre
Am I Getting Through
Lowtide
The Batavia Mutiny
As Was Then
Same As I Got Tomorrow
The Waterloo Creek Massacre
Leg Up My Head Up

CD & Download
Unlabel un086
http://www.unlabel.net
http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/durations
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/durations
November 2010



Propeller




Automatic Harp
Bulldog
Autoarp
Starman Pitch
Automatic Harp (Drone) - remixed by Queens Of Swords (bonus track on download version)

CD & Download
Bunkland blr07
http://bunkland.blogspot.com
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/propeller
November 2010

The download version includes a bonus track: Automatic Harp (Drone) - remixed by Queens Of Swords.



Dirge / Misry


Disc 1 - Dirge:
Dirge
Younger
Blues
Prize Eye
Dumb Fuck
Indian Dance
Fifty Of One And None Of The Other
Single Note Beginning

Disc 2 - Misry:

I Couldn't Do Everything
The Round
What Crisis
Endless Pain
Statement
Voice
Misry
You Liar
Outstay The Welcome
In The Ground
Winter Madness
Happy Cat
I Couldn't Do Anything

2 CD & Download
Unlabel un093
http://www.unlabel.net
http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/dirge-misry
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/dirge-misry
September 2011



Persuasion




Poseidon
Slide II
Mandarin
Elac
Slide I

CD & Download
Bunkland blr08
http://bunkland.blogspot.com
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/persuasion
January 2012



Single Note Theory




Single Note Theory
Rattled
Judas

CD & Download
Bunkland blr09
http://bunkland.blogspot.com
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/single-note-theory
January 2012



Modes



Stomp
This Beats The Crap
Little Bop
It's Never Just Alright
Bill's Approach
Get Message
It's All Pants
Horse Fall
Ditty
Ribs
Misry One

Download 
Rotations ROT001
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/modes
March 2012

A collection of acoustic demos written for a Billy Mahonie album that has yet to be recorded. Demos themselves recorded in summer 2009 and spring 2010.



Ten Years Dead



Homesickness
Recoil
In The Evening
That's My Name
Skip's Song
Goodnight Sweetheart
Wait
Keep Quiet
I'm Not Home
What Scientists Do

Download 
Rotations ROT002
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-dead
March 2012

A collection of acoustic songs recorded between 2009 and 2011.



Outs



Fifty Of One And None Of The Other
Blues (Part One)
Blues (Part Two)
Indian Dance
Dirge (Take One)
Younger (Take One)
Dumb Fuck
Prize eye
Outstay The Welcome
Dirge (Take Two)
Younger (Take Two)

Download 
Rotations ROT004
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/outs
March 2012

A collection of alternate takes of tunes from the Dirge/Misry double album released by Unlabel in 2011.



Mineralism



Number One
Number Two
Number Three
Starman Pitch (First Mix)
Slide II - Juice (First Mix)
Alert
Automotive Harp
Mandarin (Part Two)

Download 
Rotations ROT005
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/mineralism
March 2012

A collection of out takes from the sessions for the Bunkland album trilogy: Propeller, Persuasion and Single Note Theory.



Tunes For R.W.



Indisk
Rem Thud
Done Am Blues
Thousands Of Nothings
Mountains Of Piss
Toyko
Balls To Farris
Lowtide
Homesickness
Recoil
In The Evening
Ten Years Dead
In The Evening

Download 
Rotations ROT006
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-for-r-w
March 2012

Tracks 1 - 6 were recorded in 2007 for Mr R.W. with a view to him putting some words to them. This never happened. Tracks 7 - 8 were demos for the album entitled Durations released by Unlabel in 2010. They were recorded to mini disc in 2009. Tracks 9 -13 were recorded in 2010 to mini disc and are demos of tunes which appeared on the Ten Years Dead album, released in 2012.



It Took A Thousand Years To Make and A Fucking Short Time To Break


With A Nod
The Sea At Last
The Battle And The Peace
Shattered Mirrors
It Was What It Was
The Hanging Tree
A Pugilist At Last
Is All...

CD & Download
Unlabel un100
http://www.unlabel.net
http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/it-took-a-thousand-years-to-make-and-a-fucking-short-time-to-break
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/it-took-a-thousand-years-to-make-and-a-fucking-short-time-to-break 
October 2012



The Grinder And The Curse


The Way Without The Worry
Ever Increasing Circles
Hen And Chickens
The Grinder
Ringing In The Round
Sun Song
The Curse

CD & Download
Unlabel un103
http://www.unlabel.net
http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-grinder-and-the-curse
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/the-grinder-and-the-curse
October 2012



It's Out There Somewhere


Dance For Tomorrow
The Birds We Have Known
Journey To Flatön
The Poor Ditching Boy
Twelfth Street Dirge
Daisy Derbyshire
Our Ghosts
First And True
Visit From The Past
It's Out There Somewhere
Little Sense In Trying
Mighty Good Leader

CD & Download
Unlabel un109
http://www.unlabel.net
http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/its-out-there-somewhere
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/its-out-there-somewhere
November 2014



The Same Sky


The Lights Go On
Sea Of Gold
Stars Out To Tender
Tune Of Fire Intent
Last Says Of Summer
Truth Hurts Don't It
The Difference In The Difference Does
Like Before
May The Last
There's No Way

CD & Download
Unlabel un113
http://www.unlabel.net
http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-same-sky
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/the-same-sky
January 2015



White Stone Trail



Wild Wild Woodlands
Finding Out
I Know How To Cook
How Much More
Never Done Nothing
Being Blind
Feelings
A Good Idea (First Ever Blues)
Always The Same
And Another Thing

Download 
Rotations ROT008
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/white-stone-trail
January 2016



Tiger Smile



Evening Sun
Raising Up An Army
General Seen It All Before
Holding Out For The Weekend
Plod Song
Half A World Away
Breath In Breath Out
A Hundred Days
Begone The ghosts
Run The Wilds
Paint On Paint
Before You Know What's Going On

Download 
Rotations ROT009
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/tiger-smile
February 2016



The View From Cley Hill

 

Cley Hill #1
Cley Hill #2
Cley Hill #3
Agra Adieu
Fireside
Recoil (live version)
What's Wrong With You (live version)
No Turning Back

Download 
Rotations ROT024
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/the-view-from-cley-hill
January 2017

Album of demos and live recordings.



Rise With The Sun


Rise With The Sun
Breaking The Fall
Didn't We Almost
My Song
In The Morning Of The Day Before
Tidy Mood
All Through The Winter
Everydays Like Monday
Won't You Come Along And Call On Me
The Mask
Secondhand Columbus

CD & Download 
Big Pink Records BPREC005 / Reverb Worship RW 381
http://www.bigpinkrecords.com/shop
http://www.reverbworship.com
http://shop.klicktrack.com/510563
http://open.spotify.com/album/7rEgmTIT7Lw0uK4qK8gsLH
http://itunes.apple.com/…/a…/rise-with-the-sun/id1260219957
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/rise-with-the-sun

July 2017



A Meal For Two - David CW Briggs & Gavin John Baker


Who Knows Where The Times Goes
Stung By A Bee
Journey To The End Of Night
All I Ever Wanted
Have You Decided Who I Am To Be
Crosby
Sea Legs
Howl Of Rage
Always The Same
Lose Me In The Forest
Secret Santa
Headphone Drone

CD & Download
Reverb Worship RW377 / Big Pink Records BPREC006
http://www.reverbworship.com
http://www.bigpinkrecords.com
http://shop.klicktrack.com/514657
http://open.spotify.com/album/1ckk2O1Zbyz3rIkh1nxhxP 
http://itunes.apple.com/no/album/a-meal-for-two/id1282526159
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/a-meal-for-two
http://davidcwbriggs.bandcamp.com/album/a-meal-for-two
August 2017

Recorded in collaboration with David CW Briggs. With Albert Baker (drums) & Caroline Nesbø (backing vocals).



Night In The Open


Summer Layabout
Night Spent In The Open
Eggcup
Traitor's gate
Steady From The Wreck
Clay Man
Hiding Under Leaves
The Lights Go On
Fortune
Reading The Runes

CD & Download
Folk Archive FA026 / Big Pink Records
http://folkarchiverecords.bigcartel.com
http://www.bigpinkrecords.com/shop
http://open.spotify.com/album/6DXt8uBOrLsYg2rnra9H4H?si=i5h12c-7SV-GHMZVfGEVhw
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/night-in-the-open/1436430504
http://shop.klicktrack.com/536782
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/night-in-the-open
http://davidcwbriggs.bandcamp.com/album/night-in-the-open
February 2018

Recorded with the help of Kenneth Bjæver Bjerke, Svein Olav Eriksen and David CW Briggs.



Silent Spring


Grown Upsad
Doone
Barzim
Billy No Mates
Magnetik
Recount
Yakut
Fly Drunk
Rats (Part One)
Rats (Part Two)

2CD & Download
Folk Archive FA034 / Rotations ROT036
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/silent-spring
http://davidcwbriggs.bandcamp.com/album/silent-spring
http://open.spotify.com/album/046C39rXLsuMbMQjQWEY33?si=JAIDJg4bTaSSfoi5G54W4w
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/silent-spring/1402578895
May 2018

Recorded with the help of the following drummers: Albert Baker, Kenneth Bjæver Bjerke, Christian Børke, Howard Monk.



Escargot To Go - David CW Briggs & Gavin John Baker


Groundhog Daze
No Party
Walking Distance
Come To The Fair
Clockwork Seasons
Don't Want To ramble
Heigh Ho
Fortuna North
I Lost My Shoe
Exquisite Copse

CD & Download
Folk Archive FA031 
http://folkarchiverecords.bigcartel.com
https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/esgargot-to-go
https://davidcwbriggs.bandcamp.com/album/escargot-to-go
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/escargot-to-go/1439225215
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Wb0kGP6xLDEnXYqOZIiAk?si=fBg4QtxgRb6CFD3khAoG_g

October 2018

Recorded in collaboration with David CW Briggs. With Albert Baker (drums)



Caught In The Trap


Evening Sun
Raising Up An Army
General Seen It All Before
Holding Out For The Weekend
Finding Out
I Know How To Cook
Wild Wild Woodlands
How Much More
A Hundred Days
Begone The Ghosts
Run The Wilds
Being Blind
Paint On Paint
Before You Know What's Going On
And Another Thing

Download 
Rotations ROT039
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Co0WiIY8QZXtkhvkwDKU8?si=pjKIgozYRayHp7ljdfhD4Q
https://music.apple.com/us/album/caught-in-the-trap/1439185771
October 2018

Compilation of songs from Tiger Smile and White Stone Trail put together for release on digital platforms.



Songs For My Wife


Plod Song
This Night
Pretty Sure
Lights Up
Skip The Show
Children Of The Quorn
Song For My Wife
It Only Goes To Show
Brighter Way
One How You Go
A Thousand Ways

CD & Download
Folk Archive FA036 / Big Pink Records
https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-my-wife
https://davidcwbriggs.bandcamp.com/



Sunshine Recorder


Singing Today 
Reach To The Top Of The Tree 
Free The Pigs 
You Can't Go Anywhere Nowadays 
We Had It Made 
Ain't No Fun 
Stars And Suns 
Clusters Intro
The Inevitable
Easy Being Here
The Song That Told Me How I Feel 
Clusters 
The Drawn Circle 

Recorded with David CW Briggs and Albert Baker who played drums



All Good Things


A Primitive Country Blues
Just Like Bonnie And Clyde
Autumn Day
Don't Do Things When You're Drunk
Into The Wild
I Didn't Think It Was Over
Don't Talk About Work
Dead Man's Shirt
Know What You Been Doing 
This album started life as the third Höglin Baker album but became a solo record by Gavin John Baker after Höglin Baker dissolved. Stefan Höglin: drums, a little bass and Caroline Nesbø Baker sings backing vocal on a couple of songs.



Planet Hopper


Planet Hopper
Alien Flower Pollen
Moon Runner
Alpha Colony
the Ruins Of mars
Into The Swirl 
Recorded between 2014 and 2021 by Gavin John Baker and Christian Børke.



Last Light


Remember The Good Times
A Walk In The Woods
Haunted House
Climbed A Mountain
Buried Where We Sleep
Red Mornings
Everglades
The Ship Was Alive



Picture Window


Many Moons Ago 
Picture Window 
Be Kind To Pigeons 
Choices 
Go Feral 
I'm Going To Go Where The Underground Goes 
Next Time 
So It Goes 
Just Like Julian Cope Said 
Room To Let 

November 2022 

Recorded with David CW Briggs and Albert Baker who played drums.



It Looked Like A Nice Day So We Decided To Walk


Faust
High Glider
The Run Out
Miserible Weather
Dark Mage
Righ Wrong Reasons
Last Approach
At Goodbye

February 2023

Sending Baker Børke band album recorded over a period of ten years at the Big Pink rehearsal room, Kongsberg, Norway.Baker plays strings and Børke plays skins.




SINGLES:


Ratz



Grown Upsad
Barzim

Download & Stream
Rotations ROT035
http://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/ratz
https://open.spotify.com/album/7HaJaZP0cqiA7waOcV7rDW?si=IbK9ZX4YSduMQSaJhVW4VQ
April 2018

Albert Baker & Kenneth Bjæver Bjerke play drums. These are alternate mixes of songs which subsequently appeared on the Silent Spring album.



Singing Today


Singing Today (edit)

Download & stream
Folk Archive Records
https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/singing-today

Single from third album by Gavin John Baker and David CW Briggs with Albert Baker on drums.



Remember The Good Times


Remember The Good Times
A Walk In The Woods

Download & Stream
Rotations ROT048
https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/remember-the-good-times
https://open.spotify.com/album/3zwcDTrGJQslKh8n94yuxW?si=fe2I6DOZR_mH_f9txN1ALw
April 2022

With Caroline Nesbø Baker singing and Albert Baker on drums. Taken from the album Last Light.



Many Moons Ago



Many Moons Ago (edit)

Download & Stream
Folk Archive Records
https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/many-moons-ago
https://open.spotify.com/album/6mvTvm71Pxxlya3hDZjerI
October 2022

Single from fourth album by Gavin John Baker and David CW Briggs with Albert Baker on drums.



The Run Out


The Run Out

Download & Stream
Rotations  ROT051
https://gavinjohnbaker.bandcamp.com/album/the-run-out
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-run-out-single/1666592132
https://open.spotify.com/album/2T5kvz3py83gCSTaYbfOCG?si=9Ay1PdIERViOZaIpTsSz7A
January 2023

Single lifted from the second album by Gavin John Baker and Christian Børke: It Looked Like A Nice Day So We Decided To Walk.



COMPILATION APPEARANCES:


Undefined


With A Nod

CD
Unlabel un117
http://www.unlabel.net/index
http://www.unlabel.net/un117.htm

May 2016

with Joeyfat, Unhome, Rebus, Ye Wiles, Jason And The Astronauts, Moth, Charlottefield, Songs Of My Lap, Headquarters, Deadboy Racer, Klaus Says Buy The Record, Hills Have Riffs, Tom Williams And The Boat, Cove, Everyone To The Anderson, House Reverends, Hymmel, Sutcliffe Jugend, Box, Twenty One Crows, Hunter’s Loaf, North Atlantic Maritime, Joeythin.

Taken from the album: It Took A Thousand Years To Make And A Fucking Short Time To Break. This compilation was released to celebrate 20 years of Unlabel.