bandcamp is amazing

Need a general thread for Bandcamp finds

@Lit @insertcoolnamehere love the individual threads you got but I don't want to blow those up

Would one of you be up for making a general Bandcamp thread?

Might just use this one too

Why don't you make it

I told myself I wouldn't make more than two threads ever so I need someone else to do it

hisstology.bandcamp.com/album/les-grandes-vacances

The Submarine Chronicles, and Trans-Mara Express—are written, arranged, and played entirely by the Lebanese composer. For the 30th album as Cosmic A***og Ensemble, Megarbane proves that he can’t turn the songwriting off, despite the fact that album title Les Grandes Vacances is French term for “summer break.” Even a holiday in France seemed to inspire another massive collection of eccentric and cinematic library music.

Inspired by 1970s composers and songwriters like David Axelrod, Ennio Morricone, and even Serge Gainsbourg’s collaborations with Jean-Claude Vannier, Les Grandes Vacances is nestled in the warm, jazzy, sometimes whimsical, marriage of orchestral and funk music. Unlike those touchtones, Megarbane does not have orchestras at his disposal. Everything from the harpsichord, Wurlitzers, Farfisas, and Moogs; vibraphone, flute, guitars, drums, melodica, and even theremin are played by Megarbane. And while the album’s 21 cinematic compositions could be heard as the score for a seasonal respite, Les Grandes Vacances is equally ominous. Even the title of the album opener, “Interruption Introduction,” suggests imminent trouble. Throughout Les Grandes Vacances Megarbane wages a battle of contrasts, blurring the lines between carefree bliss and a dark undercurrent of danger.

Where the last Cosmic A***og Ensemble record, Expo Botanica, relied on the fuzztone guitars of exploitation films to narrate the life of plants, Megarbane here seems more inspired by the emotional lives of humans. “La Ligne Claire” could score a bike riding montage, and “The Coordinates of the Soul” is built for the scene where two lovers arrive at a romantic destination and reveal intimate secrets. Perhaps “Les Murènes” came to him after a day at the aquarium, sitting by the moray eel tank. He balances the music’s observational qualities with field recordings on “Maritime Jazz,” where the creak of a boat in Marseille is woven into the sonic textures. Elsewhere, Megarbane’s breath can be heard blowing through a hollow tube.

To be fair: in French “vacances” means both holiday and vacancy, so Megarbane’s duality is not entirely incidental. If there’s a season of White Lotus set in France, Megarbane would be the perfect person to infuse the local flavors with subtle cues of tension and looming quiet. On the tracks that bookend the record—“Passé Composé” and “Passé Decomposé”—he’s exploring both the simple, quaint past in the corroded, ugly history. There is a sense that the album is not entirely a love letter, making Mergarbane more than just a chameleonic composer with a busy passport. He’s metabolized the sounds with enough comprehension to recalibrate them into cutting a***ysis.

Two anti thread making MFs

Imma rock with this thread for now but I'll think on it

daily.bandcamp.com/features/samuel-herring-future-islands-hemlock-ernst-interview

mitoycomadre.bandcamp.com/album/guajirando

ZZK Records presents Mito y Comadre’s Guajirando, a journey into the reinvention of traditional Venezuelan music

For years the ancestral riches of the folklore, culture and traditions of the indigenous peoples of Latin America have withstood the passing of time and the different impositions and trends of an increasingly globalized world that seems intent on pushing them into oblivion. Their fight to stay true to their roots and preserve their legacy means there is more and more interest in sharing these treasures with the world.

Guajirando comes from this interest in finding recognition in our roots. This is the debut record from Mito y Comadre, the Venezuelan synth-pop and electronic roots group who with these nine previously unreleased songs take us on a journey through the sights and sounds of their country.

The fusion of electronic sounds pays homage to a rarely explored music, one that is profoundly rooted in the territory, creating a dialogue between native percussions and rhythms such as the quitiplás, the malembe and the quichimba of Barlovento, the macizón and perra of the Caribbean coast, the calypso of the heartland, the flauta guajira and the gaita oriental, among other instruments.

Backed by machines, electronic elements and the production of Grammy winner Christian Castagno (Bomba Estéreo, Systema Solar, Iggy Pop, Arcade Fire), they seek to bring visibility to these traditional rhythms with contemporary tendencies, creating a visionary fusion that places them on the scene as one of the most promising proponents of experimental Venezuelan music today.

Guajirando will be released on digital and vinyl on November 17th on ZZK Records.

zzkrecords.bandcamp.com

ZZK Records is a homegrown record label and artist collective born out of the Zizek Club nights in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

@Antidote you know anything about these Zizek Club nights

as a mp3 collector in 2024 I still love bandcamp

infantisland.bandcamp.com/album/obsidian-wreath

If ever there was an album made to reflect the doomsday-like horror and sheer hopelessness that currently engulfs us, it’s Obsidian Wreath from Virginia-based screamo juggernauts Infant Island, on which the five-piece led by vocalist and lyricist Daniel Kost offer a searing musical statement.

Since their 2018 debut, the staunchly DIY outfit have been honing their sound, juggling blackened screamo, hardcore, shoegaze, noise, black metal, and ambient music, oftentimes within the same song. The commingling of styles was all over 2020’s full-length Beneath and Sepulcher EP, a double gut-punch that positioned them not only as potential heirs to Virginia screamo legends like City of Caterpillar and Pg. 99, but as forward-thinking disruptors in their own right; Deafheaven comparisons, in other words, were inevitable.

Obsidian Wreath reaffirms Infant Island’s ascendant path. Throughout the record’s 10 tracks, Kost, guitarists Alexander Rudenshiold and Winston Givler, bassist Kyle Guerra, and drummer Austin O’Rourke prove technically proficient mad scientists, expertly dealing in a controlled-type chaos that seems like it’s always teetering on the edge, threatening to derail at any moment. Somehow, it never does.

There’s also a hair-raising level of unpredictability in Infant Island’s brand of screamo. Take the blistering opening track “Another Cycle.” It kicks off with what sounds like a small army of immaculately strummed guitars before shifting into indecipherable shrieks and catchy, hard-charging riffs. The idyllic finger-picking midway through “Another Cycle” offers some semblance of peace, a momentary breather before leaping back into the pit.

That element of surprise runs amok throughout Obsidian Wreath. After the 90-second hyperspeed hardcore sludge-feast “Fulfilled,” the vibe gets downright trippy on “Found Hand,” a heady assault that conjures ’90s Japanese noise music. The shimmering, orchestral arrangements by O’Rourke—who plays piano, cello, accordion, and mandolin in addition to percussion—similarly break from screamo tradition, melding the brutal and beautiful to magnificent results. From the gently-picked acoustic guitars that commence “Amaranthine” and “With Shadow” to the icy blackgaze dreamscapes of “Kindling” (featuring guests Harper Boyhtari and Logan Gaval of Greet Death), Infant Island leaves you pondering: Where is this berserk time signature change or tremolo-picked salvo or this sludgy noise blast going to lead into next? What we’re left with is a sonically heavy maelstrom and a thrilling guessing game wrapped into one.

@sentient_sherm_bag haven't listened to the above yet but description and cover got me very intrigued

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Bandcamp is pretty cool

They just added a playlist feature too now

Apple Music recc’d this to me a couple weeks ago, its excellent reminds me of a lot of Cruelty

Info on Cruelty please

spent the past few months moving my library towards local mp3 files, been meaning to for a while but never found the time before

but I still rely on yt music & bandcamp for seeking out newer releases

92raiden.bandcamp.com

Random s*** I've made since like 2013

i've only used it for downloads

been asking for bandcamp embeds on here for ages

ysmr.bandcamp.com
ygorsunny.bandcamp.com

I'm plugging in my bandcamps too ngl. I've got one with a quite a few instrumentals.

Bandcamp is my s***

I've started a thing where at the end of each month I'm making an "Albums without threads" thread.

ktt2.com/albums-without-threads-january-2024-32566006

App has actually improved

It still has a few things needed but it’s much accessible that before

Yeah I remember seeing your first one or first iteration of this idea a while back and really liking it

The only thing I'd suggest is having one central thread and updating it for every month because ideas like this lose a lot of steam when they get broken up into their smaller bits vs snowballing on the back of months and months of things to go back on and talk about

The bars thread for example only took off when Sherm made a central thread vs the individual Freestyle Friday threads we used to have