🎵Bandcamp album tooting🎵
Over on Twitter I've had a thread running about albums from Bandcamp that I've liked. It's a way to keep track of things I've discovered (and things I like) and hopefully you might like some of them too.
I'm going to recreate that here, now, so please excuse the raft of posting to come today, and check 'em out. #noxp #bandcamp #music
Halfway through this combo from DIY doom titans Thou and mysterious crusher Mizmor and... holy fuck.
8 track album
Symphonic doom metal that ends with a song about a Japanese plane crash? A bit overlong, but does the trick.
https://etmoriemurdoom.bandcamp.com/album/tamashii-no-yama-atmospheric-doom-black-metal
7 track album
This (and every other) Diploid album is like being hit by a truck laden with crises.
https://diploid.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-yours-and-i-am-here-again-2
#noxp #bandcamp #music #hardcore #blackmetal #screamo #diploid
18 track album
The insane krautrock/wail jam that occurs on track five of this release is AMAZING.
(Though with Haino, Ambarchi and O'Rourke you already knew this.)
#noxp #bandcamp #music #orenambarchi #jimorourke #keijihaino #experimentalmusic #improvisation
5 track album
Overtone Ensemble is like Harry Bertoia but from down here. Feels a bit like someone drilling into your brain, but nice?
https://candlesnuffer.bandcamp.com/album/overtone-ensemble
#noxp #bandcamp #music #drone #overtoneensemble #candlesnuffer
4 track album
This was one of the first albums I bought on Bandcamp, before I even knew the site was for digital stuff rather than merch. Epic drone, with a chunk of "guitar plays itself" moments. I keep coming back to it.
https://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-young-die-fast-and-leave-an-exquisite-corpse
#noxp #bandcamp #music #drone #improvisation #thevultureclub
7 track album
The sort of thing you'd hear played in a dive bar, ideally near you, full of whisky and regret. Excellently arch.
10 track album
I played under Julia in Rhys Chatham's 'A Crimson Grail' a couple of years ago. Julia's albums are great, and this one, with its microtonal tweaking of expectation, is no exception!
https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/world-in-world
#noxp #bandcamp #music #juliareidy #extendedguitar #experimentalmusic
9 track album
A collection of petite electronic portraits of Japanese supernatural beings, including tunes meant to be housed on floppy disk.
10 track album
An album of Sunn worship, but crunchier and with occasional kosmische overtones? Sign me up.
8 track album
This is a lot to take in but transcendental fingerpicking based on global stories, performed by a guy who looks like a hippie programmer is THE BEST. Something for everyone.
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/song-of-the-avatars-the-lost-master-tapes
#noxp #bandcamp #music #robbiebasho #americanprimitive #guitar #fingerpicking
Been revisiting one of the great free entries in the Oz experimental scene music with the first …
https://newweirdaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/new-weird-australia-volume-one-nwa001
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimentalmusic #newweirdaustralia
13 track album
… and second NWA album. Plenty of fractured pop and drifting angst for all. (And many more volumes to come!)
https://newweirdaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/new-weird-australia-volume-two-nwa002
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimentalmusic #newweirdaustralia
16 track album
Ok so turns out what I was listening to the first time I read Iain Sinclair is just as good the subsequent times. Not as drone-locked as later releases this is still high weirdness.
https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-insana
#noxp #bandcamp #music #nursewithwound #drone #experimentalmusic
3 track album
Next up? The big drone dog. Prefigures Coil’s Time Machines and still rips.
https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/soliloquy-for-lilith
#noxp #bandcamp #music #nursewithwound #drone #experimentalmusic
8 track album
Hard to believe this is more than ten years old. Troum were one of the first dark/drone projects I got into, and this one - a themed album about a deluge in 1392 - is one of their best. Solid and doom-inspiring.
1 track album
This is a strange little ambient/electronic EP that sounds a bit like what'd happen if you summoned the Cenobites in Japan. Halfway between percolating ooze and train station jingles.
https://gerpfastkolektif.bandcamp.com/album/winter-garden-flowers-ep
3 track album
Another Campbell Kneale-adjacent thing, this Lugosi album sounds a bit like tuning a radio beneath powerlines, but with more mystery.
https://campbellkneale.bandcamp.com/album/monarch
4 track album
One person in the middle of nowhere (West Wyalong represent!) armed with a bunch of pedals and a guitar, makes chrome-plated doomed-spaceship rock.
https://deathcomet.bandcamp.com/album/1976
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimentalmusic #guitar #noise #noiserock #FLANGER #deathcomet
8 track album
Buddhist doom, naturally.
3 track album
Some heavy jazz jams that are straight FIRE. Seriously great.
https://thesurefiresoulensemble.bandcamp.com/album/step-down
10 track album
An embarrassment of primitive guitar riches. Some seriously good fingerpicking and propulsive playing.
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/imaginational-anthem-vols-1-3
#noxp #bandcamp #music #fingerpicking #americanprimitive #guitar #imaginationalanthems
38 track album
An excellent intro to an improv harp-with-effects genius.
https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/collected-pieces
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #harp #marylattimore #improvisation
6 track album
This album is an excellent and righteous mixtape.
20 track album
Some dystopian beatwork? Yes please.
https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/super-trigger
#noxp #bandcamp #music #frankbretschneider #electronic #dark
9 track album
As joyfully stupid and foul as the words on the cover suggest.
8 track album
This collection of forgotten postpunk/electronic gems from the '80s (and its sequel) is QUITE THE JAM.
https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-the-minimal-wave-tapes-volume-1
14 track album
14 track album
A beat tape influenced by Silent Hill and Junji Ito? Sign me up for this bummed Boards of Canada type stuff.
https://shitao.bandcamp.com/album/tomie-tape
#noxp #bandcamp #music #creepy #shitao #electronic #ambient #darkambient
10 track album
Time for a Peak Me album: Field Recordings of Fridges does exactly what you'd expect, and is mystifyingly appealing.
https://kiksgfrlabel.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-of-fridges
#noxp #bandcamp #music #fieldrecordings #refrigerators #experimentalmusic
14 track album
Egyptian guitar-and-synth excellence.
https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/omar-khorshid-guitar-el-chark-vol-1
#noxp #bandcamp #music #synth #guitar #egyptian #OmarKhorshid
14 track album
Neubauten/junk Cave-vibed industrial DIY horrors.
8 track album
Where hardcore and black metal combine to have a car smash.
https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/kathodos
11 track album
And now for something EVEN MORE GRIM. Like a slowed-down Electric Wizard on cold medicine.
https://cough.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-abuse-deluxe-edition
6 track album
How 'bout an Italian/French/Portuguese underground electronics/dark ambient tribute to HP Lovecraft from 1997?
https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nyarlathotep-a-tribute-to-howard-phillips-lovecraft
#noxp #bandcamp #music #HPLovecraft #electronicmusic #darkambient #compilation
8 track album
Reconstructions (suppositions?) of ancient Egyptian music. (He has Greek and Roman stuff on his page too.)
https://michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/the-ancient-egyptian-harp
#noxp #bandcamp #music #egyptian #ancienthistory #reconstruction #michaellevy
5 track album
Field recordings and classical instruments in a kind of Feldman-by-the-sea mix. Not as isolated as their later work, but still brilliant.
6 track album
Longform harmonium drone pieces with the sound of sunlight and birds coming through a St-Denys window.
4 track album
Of course if we're doing drone, there's this minor miracle.
https://coilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/time-machines
4 track album
This one is, I think, still doing pay-what-you-want. CHRÇH provide some incredibly focused doom vibes with no song shorter than nine minutes. Sludgy and harrowing!
https://churchdoom.bandcamp.com/album/light-will-consume-us-all
3 track album
This artist makes background music for his hair salon using synths embedded in the wall. It's pretty great, dunno about the haircuts though.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/reboot-a-repetition
6 track album
Another organ-of-darkness windblown epic from the Eaglestone stable.
https://eaglestone.bandcamp.com/album/old-swamp-preacher
#noxp #bandcamp #music #eaglestone #rock #acid #psychedelic #soundtrack
6 track album
A haunting piece of truly chthonic mystery.
https://auroraborealisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-side-of-the-island
#noxp #bandcamp #music #thestargazersassistant #darkambient #creepy #experimental
3 track album
An album of dark ambience marking our INVASION OF THE MOON.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #compilation #experimental #weirdfolk #MOON
6 track album
If you look into the void it plays you a sick riff.
5 track album
A smeared morning portrait.
In an ever-changing world it is reassuring to know that Diamanda Galas will always strip the paint from your soul.
"Composed in 2020 during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first incarnation of the work was played as a sound installation at the Kapellen Leprosarium (Leper's Sanctuary)"
FUCK YEAH IT WAS.
https://diamandagalas.bandcamp.com/album/broken-gargoyles
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #diamandagalas #voice #terrifying #queen
2 track album
Moving spheres, here's some compositions of chance that mix field recordings, bird shit, inked strings, electronics and some proper Icelandic strangeness.
https://hallasteinunn.bandcamp.com/album/strengur
#noxp #bandcamp #music #hallasteinunnstefansdottir #experimental #classical #contemporaryclassical
15 track album
Pulling this one out again: go and give Eugene and co. your money for an album that feels like a fucking rip in the universe. Supremely intense stuff you need to hear.
9 track album
Another gear-switch: this sampler is more joyous and bold than anything in my usually-grim wheelhouse. So good.
20 track album
Luke: grue fodder