Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

i mean why leave money in the hat of a street performer? you could use that money to pay your comcast bill. im sure they will appreciate it just as much.

BC has lossless album downloads (my preferred listening). I buy an album and support an artist I like rather than giving money to marketers.

I wish Bandcamp would offer Chromecast support. They claimed it was in the offing a couple of years ago but still nothing.

Shameless self-promo here: buy our album for free. Wherein our hero finally accepts that he only always wanted to be Glenn Mercer anyway. https://salthorse.bandcamp.com

The Roves debut LP is now name-your-price:

https://theroves.bandcamp.com/album/the-roves-lp

Zacht Automaat - Introductory Compilation
https://zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/zacht-automaat-introductory-compilation

Review from Other Music NYC weekly mailer:

It is all too rare to hear a band like this, literally bursting at the seams with ideas. Zacht Automaat, the Canadian duo of Carl Didur and Michael McLean, have released an astonishingly diverse and kaleidoscopic array of music across eleven (!) albums in the past three (!!!) years, of which this gorgeously presented set distills the best two LPs worth of sounds. But even that abbreviated amount of music is almost impossible to encapsulate, filled as this record is with tape loops, cosmic workouts, lo-fi dirges, loping exotica-ish patterns, tuneful synth bliss, and modal psychedelia. They've clearly taken a page from Krautrock pioneers Faust, particularly the masterpiece that is Tapes, and let their imaginations and musicality run rampant. This is the best kind of totally listenable experimentation we can always get behind here, and the sounds they conjure hark back to so many long-time Other Music favorites it practically has us giddy, from Can, Cluster, Black Dice, Stereolab, Soft Machine, the Finnish psych underground, the Ghost Box roster, Bruce Haack, and Raymond Scott to a myriad of other brilliant artists we've championed over the years, while still managing to retain a distinct vision and voice.

i'm perpetually a sucker for bands that sound like hardcore kids who just discovered 70s rock so

https://man-eaters.bandcamp.com/album/gentle-ballads-for-the-simple-soul

May have been covered up thread but ... have we discussed the "correct" price to pay for a "name your price" album?

― djh, Sunday, July 30, 2017 10:33 AM (four years ago)

I feel $4 and have no idea why

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, July 30, 2017 2:25 PM (four years ago)

why do i feel this way, too?

anyway ... this thread should never go inactive for a year.

goddammit

May have been covered up thread but ... have we discussed the "correct" price to pay for a "name your price" album?

― djh, Sunday, July 30, 2017 10:33 AM (four years ago)

I feel $4 and have no idea why

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, July 30, 2017 2:25 PM (four years ago)

why do i feel this way, too?

anyway ... this thread should never go inactive for a year.

new waldorf and statler experience out a day early! soulful true school chicago hiphop with a sense of humor by two guys who just love making music.

(full disclosure: i'm friends with treblefree and have collaborated with him in the past. doesn't change the fact that he's an excellent producer and dvs is one of the most charismatic rappers i've ever heard.)

Some folks chaff, some folks wheat... But my music is all free/name-your-price on Bandcamp. If anyone pays anything, it gets donated on.

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/

Farewell compilation from my longtime electronic music label just came out for free/nyp:
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/astraltopia

Happy birthday to the Late, Great Montana Elliot of Sharpless. She would have been 31 today. New Sharpless for u:

https://music.sharpless.life/track/people-in-love

georgie gould, aka bulldog eyes, is one of the best songwriters alive.

to tell you the truth, i can't get into her new stuff. it's too impenetrable, both in terms of structure and production. a lot of people seem to like it though.

her old stuff, though - there's almost nothing that isn't gold before late 2016. i've still never heard anything like it. she takes these disparate sounds and textures - jazzy nylon-string, raspy electric guitar, clipped-to-death drum samples, feedback, midi keyboards and soft, buried-in-the-mix vocals - and fashions them into something totally unique, catchy, cohesive and very beautiful.

she's been having financial trouble for a long time, so i'm sure buying her stuff would help her out - everthing's name-your-price.

i'm just gonna post every album i love (apart from the ones she's deleted) here:
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/shame
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-fun
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/landes
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/seeya
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/thanks
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/asleep
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/yukon-bulldog-eyes-split
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/gross
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/b-sides

This is pretty great- a gig Ben Goldberg did at The Stone in 2014. I can't improve on his description so here it is:

In February/March 2014 I had a one week residency at The Stone in New York -- 12 sets in 6 days. For the last set of the last night I assembled some of my favorite musicians -- Liberty Ellman, Steve Cardenas, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, and Rob Sudduth -- and we performed one of my favorite songs, "Let's Cool One" by Thelonious Monk. Fatigue had set in but the mind was open, and we played at the slowest tempo I could imagine, right around quarter note = 13 seconds. I had a feeling that something would take over sooner or later, and I think I was right. The song lasted 44 minutes. Luckily it was recorded. Now I give it to you and hope you get something from it. Love to all.

https://ben-goldberg--bag-production-records.bandcamp.com/album/ben-goldberg-at-the-stone-february-march-2014-lets-cool-one