This year I spent a ton more time with Bandcamp, diving into it’s community to learn more about independent releases. There were a handful of stalwart artists I was waiting for, but this year, for me was particularly exciting for diving back into shoegaze and noise/experimental-oriented genres of music while searching for more contemporary and modern jazz artists to expand my palette.
Failure – Wild Type Droid Comatose – A Way Back Maraudeur – Puissance 4 St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home Deafhaven – Infinite Granite Vijay Iyer – Uneasy Esperanza Spalding – Songwrights Apothecary Lab Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions Illudium – Ash of the Womb King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 John McLaughlin – Liberation Time Makaya McCraven – Deciphering the Message Mehenet – Ng’ambu Patrick Shiroishi – Hidemi PUPIL SLICER – Mirrors A Ritual Sea – S/T Roscoe Mitchell and Mike Reed –
The Ritual and the DanceSkepticism – Companion TV Dust – Beep Yautja – The Lurch You, Nothing – Lonely//Lovely