Welcome to the submission thread for the June edition of #FairtradeMusicFriday.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Why not make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 💙
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@ftmf

I absolutely adore @babumenos's Out for a Walk - it's just impossible not to bop my head all the way through when I put it on.

Check it out at https://mirlo.space/babumenos/release/out-for-a-walk

or its video at https://makertube.net/w/sY6Q1JHurjus78Q2zoN5JG

#FairTradeMusicFriday #FediMusic

Out for a Walk (Babu Menos Instrumentals Pt 1)

An album by Babu Menos

Out for a Walk (Babu Menos Instrumentals Pt 1)

@ftmf

If you still haven't watched @RobertaFidora's superb music video to her fab new single Here Come the Lucky Ones then I can only urge you to rectify this omission right away here:

https://videos.nham.co.uk/roberta-fidora-here-come-the-lucky-ones/

Then go and grab the single here:

https://mirlo.space/robertafidora/release/here-come-the-lucky-ones

You're welcome!

#FairTradeMusicFriday #FediMusic

Roberta Fidora - Here Come the Lucky Ones (Animated Music Video)

NHAM Music Videos Collection

I released a special track for a special friend’s special birthday on June 1st.

Such a secret deal it’s ‘hidden’ on our #Faircamp page but you can access it via this direct link: https://secretde.al/my-heart-tin/

It’s called ‘My Heart Tin’.

🩵💙💜🩷❤️🧡💛💚

@ftmf

#FairtradeMusicFriday #FediMusic

My Heart Tin

Happy birthday, Martin! In the words of Frame by Frame, 'this is a song for you'! Written and performed by Sam for a special birthday of a special friend.

Secret Deal

@ftmf My suggestion for #FairtradeMusicFriday is from Alison Wilder's #Faircamp site. https://alisonwilder.net/music/

I've been listening to, and enjoying, Misalignment by Doctor Body https://alisonwilder.com/music/misalignment/
Good stuff!

Alison is @alisynthesis on the fedi

Alison Wilder /// Music

If you're looking for radio-friendly, you probably won't find it here. If you're more adventurous but you don't like the first thing you listen to, try again. Variety is the spice of life and whatnot.

Alison Wilder /// Music
@theargentgrub @ftmf hey, thanks so much! <333
@alisynthesis @ftmf It's a pleasure. And it's interesting!

@ftmf on June 26 @muz4now will release the 9 song album "How To Rise and Keep Rising".

You can hear an excellent rendition of the traditional "Wayfaring Stranger":

https://mirlo.space/stan-stewart-muz4now/release/how-to-rise-and-keep-rising

#traditional #americana #folk #acoustic @mirlo

How To Rise and Keep Rising

An album by Stan Stewart (muz4now)

How To Rise and Keep Rising

@ftmf today we will release the compilation / mixtape "Down On The Farm With..."
It's a joined effort of us and:

* Smal Water
* Phillbilly Omb
* Angry Zeta

to rejoice that we're playing on the first IRL #RootsInTheJar festival (BE).
It's has 12 tracks and a running time close to 43min.

https://artistlink.xyz/@down-on-the-farm-with

#FairTradeMusicFriday #roots #compilation #split #americana #MusicCassette #mixtape

Down on the farm with

Mixtape/split for the first Roots In the Jar festival.Tracklist:Side AHeel On the Shovel -Moonshine BrigadeBlack Dog -The PhillbillyNever Felt Like This -Angry ZetaHeb Je Zin -Smal WaterNo Country For Old Men -Moonshine BrigadeMy Drinking Days Are Over -The PhillbillySide BWake Up Sinners -Angry ZetaÉén, Twee Leugens -Smal WaterInsomnia -Moonshine BrigadeThe Bastards Learnt How To Swim -The PhillbillyI Saw the Light -Angry ZetaWaarom Ben Ik Zo -Smal Water

@ftmf I'm loving The Mechanics of Mysticism by @etherdiver
Favourite track is A Journey With The Plant Spirits, and the whole album is wonderfully psychedelic. Perfect through my headphones when bimbling into town to create an otherworldly version of Swansea!

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-mechanics-of-mysticism

The Mechanics of Mysticism, by Ether Diver

12 track album

Ether Diver
@ftmf I just started a Mirlo account, so https://mirlo.space/traiken/release/jamuary-2025 is my entry for #FairtradeMusicFriday
It's 31 tracks, each done entirely in a day, and many of them are among the best stuff I've done to date
Jamuary 2025

An album by Traiken

Jamuary 2025

@ftmf There's a fresh release over on @mirlo called "Ritual & Mayhem"
#Mirlo

It's a 3-track suite of instrumentals that takes you through a story.
#story

And yes, the outline of the story is also there.
#NewMusic

https://mirlo.space/stan-stewart-muz4now/release/ritual-and-mayhem

Ritual & Mayhem

An album by Stan Stewart (muz4now)

Ritual & Mayhem

@ftmf hello! I am an indie musician who is genre-fluid.

I have an album of chamber pop/classical/jazz at https://sockpuppet.band/album/transitions

How about dancepop/rock/lounge jazz? https://sockpuppet.band/album/notions

Maybe OSTs for game jam games with lofi and bossa nova and hard rock is your thing? https://sockpuppet.band/album/strawberry-jelly-9

Or you could browse random selections by tag at https://sockpuppet.band/releases/all?sort=shuffle

Transitions

@ftmf

I recently released the “Cities EP” to give a new home to a bunch of related songs that were previously released as singles.

#Faircamp: https://sknob.fr/faircamp/cities-ep/

@mirlo: https://mirlo.space/sknob/release/cities-compilation

#bandwagon.fm: https://bandwagon.fm/6826fd4311d42fa69bc0ce7b

Cities EP

Cities EP

sknob

@ftmf

If you want to be the only cool kid with a USB TAPE CASSETTE from a 8-bit-Robo-Punk band, it's here:
https://hadokowa.bandcamp.com/album/loading-2

@ftmf i just dropped a new half-hour piece for #FairtradeMusicFriday. the digital glitches of a failing ‘90s mp3 cd player were repeatedly re-encoded and layered before ultimately being chopped up and assembled into the pulses and clicks that make up ‘generational glitch’.

https://bethdies.bandcamp.com/album/generational-glitch (will be on bandwagon later tonight)

generational glitch, by beth sines

1 track album

beth dies
Tidal Lock, by Newmaker

5 track album

Newmaker

@ftmf I released this little EP about a month ago. I've settled on #ambientTechno as the best descriptor. Just a buck!

https://paulgriffin.bandcamp.com/album/facets

#fairTradeMusicFriday

Facets, by Paul Griffin

9 track album

Paul Griffin

@ftmf I have a long-running weekly live-streaming ambient guitar improv performance project, and put each of them out on Bandcamp afterward. I'll link this one from a few weeks ago, on a microtonal guitar I put together: https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-260

($0/name-your-price)

music at a distance 260, by snwv

7 track album

snwv

@ftmf

FOR AVANT-GARDE AMIGA BEATS: https://mirlo.space/wibi/release/ingriguing-fascinating

FOR INDUSTRIAL AMBIANCE FROM NOWHERE: https://mirlo.space/prod/release/sell-it-to-young-people-as-a-gift-to-old-people

FOR PEOPLE HITTING A KEYBOARD A LOT AND COMING UP WITH WORDS: https://mirlo.space/wibi/release/211

Intriguing Fascinating

An album by Wibi

Intriguing Fascinating

@ftmf My first release on k7 and VHS, drone/noise album played on analogous synths and various weird decices, one track is recorded with inductive mics and a Holo Electron (French retro technology that was supposed to heal you with electricity). The album is called Objectivity as it criticizes our relations to nature as an object that can be tamed, used and controlled.

https://1-1-1.bandcamp.com/album/objectivity

objectivity, by bezvlastje

5 track album

Ll⅃

@ftmf
Wishing all an early jump on #fridayThe13th hopefully our dreams won't run us through the paper shredder

My first live performance was of this pre-recorded song earlier this month: )

https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/kpl-sounds-by-southwest

Noticed the residual adrenaline on the way home. Has this dream been chasing me all along? )

P.s. on the day before this #fairtradeMusicFriday the 13th, must admit that i am learning to mix&master a ghostly pet of a track at the #kitchenerPublicLibrary tonight

KPL - Sounds By Southwest

An album by MEW3

KPL - Sounds By Southwest

@ftmf

#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i've been able to enjoy: )

#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt

https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri

had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose

FriYay the 13th

An album by MEW3

FriYay the 13th

@ftmf

I've published my first website in 20+ years! Thanks to #faircamp and @freebliss for making this excellent tool with great tutorials! More to come as I will eventually migrate the entire Tall House catalog over to a faircamp site. For now, please visit Snake Church at https://www.65hz.com

One thing I'm quite happy about is that I was able to use a payment processor other than Paypal. #enshittification

#drone #doom #improvisation #ambient #fedimusic #fairtrademusicfriday

Snake Church

Snake Church