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
Hawthonn: kind of what would happen if Dead Can Dance were more interested in folk horror and magic. And, y'know, better.
https://xetb.bandcamp.com/album/red-goddess-of-this-men-shall-know-nothing
5 track album
Next up: an older record, but it's still on Bandcamp so they will receive more of your cash anyway! Low's SECRET NAME, which I haven't heard for years, and remains a lot more spare (and a lot stranger) than I recalled. Still brilliant.
RIP Mimi.
12 track album
When I wrote this it was a work day, so I'm enjoying the mostly summery and occasionally creepy third volume of the New Weird Australia series. I mainlined these on release but haven't listened to them for a while, and I'm still finding projects to check out.
https://newweirdaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/new-weird-australia-volume-three-nwa003
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimentalmusic #newweirdaustralia
16 track album
Requiring a bit more energy now so I've decided to reenter the world of vampiric buddhist black metal from India.
https://siddhatthagotama.bandcamp.com/album/-
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #blackmetal #siddhatthagotama #गौतमबुद्ध
4 track album
Back to concentration, so here's Dean Hurley's album of ambiences from the third season of *Twin Peaks*. Very much recommended.
https://deanhurley.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-resource-vol-i
18 track album
Some just-intonation lap steel used to create drones heavy with the image of woods in winter.
4 track album
Continuing the drone towards sound bath extremes: this Phill Niblock album MUST be played at mind-breaking volume. Somehow, it's never brittle – kind of like a non-angry Glenn Branca. Superb stuff.
2 track album
An album of Japanese metal music as in "music made using metal" rather than "haha guitars go brr".
6 track album
In case you were wondering how low things can go, here's an album of contrabassoon works. Gritty.
https://didierguigue.bandcamp.com/album/compositures
#noxp #bandcamp #music #didierguigue #contrabassoon #contemporary #classical
4 track album
Imagine if Lightning Bolt was more metal, and also a one-piece band in which a bearded man plays bass drum and amped cello in his underwear. That's Mr Marcaille, and he rules.
https://mrmarcaille.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-freak-cello
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #french #mrmarcaille #cello #underpants
13 track album
Late night work? Time for some preacher intonations and radio noise laid over mournful Canadian music. This is an amazing album, just incredibly grim.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #asilvermtzion #grim #experimental #postrock #GYBEadjacent
8 track album
Lawrence English, head of the exceptional Room40 label, provides some heavy-as-fuck ambient drone spurred into life by a T.S. Eliot poem. All his stuff is good, but this is particularly fine.
https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/album/wilderness-of-mirrors
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #ambient #lawrenceenglish #room40
8 track album
And in "same name, different vibe" stakes, the newest Black Angels album might be doing the same thing that they've always done, but bloody hell they're good at it. Grim, fuzzy times ahoy.
https://blackangels.bandcamp.com/album/wilderness-of-mirrors
15 track album
This Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin album is the best Necks album I've heard this year (2022).
https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #orenambarchi #johanberthling #andreaswerliin
4 track album
This is a krautrock beat jam. So very, very good.
https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/sagittarian-domain-10-year-anniversary-edition
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #orenambarchi #krautrock #motorik
1 track album
Still on the Oren tip: check out this sampler for his label, Black Truffle. If you like slightly odd or challenging stuff, there'll be something on here for you to latch on to.
27 track album
"Pop noise" is how a band member describes this. Psych noise? Loose experimental? Machines wired up and making odd sounds? Whatever, it's pretty great, still.
https://yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/bring-the-neon-war-home
#noxp #bandcamp #music #noise #experimental #ecstatic #yellowswans
5 track album
I love me some Birchville Cat Motel, but even in their catalogue this two-disc monster – particularly the album-length title track - is an enfolding drone wonder. Supremely joyous, which is a rarity in this neck of the noise.
https://campbellkneale.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-speck-triumph
#noxp #bandcamp #music #birchvillecatmotel #rock #experimental #noise #drone
6 track album
With large v/a albums things can be a bit dicey, but this one seems to get the (dark) vibe of Lynch's world right. Electronic and strange.
https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-the-black-lodge-a-tribute-to-twin-peaks
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #ambient #electronic #compilation #twinpeaks
25 track album
And here, a second volume while we're at it.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #ambient #electronic #compilation #twinpeaks
42 track album
One-person drone doom done right. Fat, slow riffs, occasional phaser, big gong on the cover. Play it LOUD.
(Part of me likes this because it feels like the sort of thing I could maybe do. Hmm.)
5 track album
Does precisely what it says on the tin. To be played loud as balls.
https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/for-organ-and-brass
#noxp #bandcamp #music #classical #contemporary #modernclassical #ellenarkbro #drone #durational
3 track album
Folk, spirituals, and black metal in a sort of darker-than-Wovenhand mixture that just WORKS. Incredibly strong.
https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/album/stranger-fruit
#noxp #bandcamp #music #folk #rock #blackmetal #zealandardor
16 track album
In which Keiji Haino and SUMAC combine to destroy the world with sound and songs about being a love junkie.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #keijihaino #sumac #rock #metal #onslaught
5 track album
Kosmische/acid folk noodlings with a distinctly universally-stoned feeling. Big "released in an edition of three by a private press in 1973" vibes.
https://pranacrafterbbib.bandcamp.com/album/bodhi-cheetahs-choice
#noxp #bandcamp #music #pranacrafter #experimental #krautrock #kosmische
7 track album
With vocals by RAT KICKER, it's time to get into the coffin and grind the afternoon away.
https://depraver-us.bandcamp.com/album/suffering-in-the-coffin-a-crippling-crush
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #depraver #blackmetal #thrashmetal
9 track album
Continuing the coffin thread, have some sepulchral doom.
https://coffin-breath.bandcamp.com/album/the-tenebrous-mist
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #coffinbreath #blackmetal #deathmetal
2 track album
Oh man. This is ridiculous. It’s the black metal soundtrack to a story or book (I’m not entirely sure which) about a haunted house, and features horrific, driving music with a slight (slight!) carnival vibe, recorded in a sock drawer, performed by people called THE IMPALER and THE HAUNTED STRIGOI. Vocals are even more batshit terrifying/silly than you’d expect from the description of the work. I can’t stop listening to it, so I assume I’m now cursed and will have to tread the earth as THE BOG BEASTMAN or some such shit. You’ve been warned.
https://ordovampyrorientis.bandcamp.com/album/the-haunting
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #carnivalmusic #blackmetal #cinematic #whatthefuck #ordovampyrorientis
5 track album
Probably linked this already. Don't care. It's Alter Ego and Philip Jeck's version of Bryars' THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC. GB plays on the recording, too. It's about loss of life and loss of information as the ship moves downward. Remarkable.
https://philipjeck.bandcamp.com/album/the-sinking-of-the-titanic-1969
#noxp #bandcamp #music #gavinbryars #philipjeck #experimental #drone
1 track album
How about a massive album that pays tribute to The Caretaker, Leyland Kirby's hauntologically-bummed project? More than 90 artists, lots of slowed-down 78s.
https://caretakertribute.bandcamp.com/album/memories-overlooked-a-tribute-to-the-caretaker
#noxp #bandcamp #music #thecaretaker #compilation #experimental
102 track album
A recent-ish Nadja album that ropes in outside vocalists (ALAN DUBIN!) and gloomily rips your throat out? Yeah, it's that.
4 track album
Been a while. So here's something that's kind of like a spaghetti western soundtrack, except it's been left out in the sun. A lot to like on this label, particularly if you're into Neil Young circa Dead Man.
https://eaglestone.bandcamp.com/album/selected-its-all-wrong-all-wrong
#noxp #bandcamp #music #rock #eaglestone #theivonnevancleeforquesta #spaghettiwestern #soundtrack
10 track album
Luke: grue fodder