Bandcamp fee waiving day! Here's a little thread of recommendations, kicking off with Silvia Tarozzi's new album on @Unseen_Worlds. Genuinely bowled over by the lush song-craft on this, taking Alda Merini's poetry and blossoming it into labyrinth weirdness https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/mi-specchio-e-rifletto

Azerbaijani singer/saz player Aşıq Nargilə has a new album out. It rules. "These intimate home recordings, consisting of both traditional pieces and new compositions, are an expression of continuity in the face of uncertainty, resilience through adversity" https://mountainsoftongues.bandcamp.com/album/q-rib-h-yat

I love Rhodri Davies's work, but I have a particular fondness for his solo albums, which focus intensely on a singular idea and open the possibilities of that idea wide open. This album was all made on a Horsehair harp, and is a beguiling, beautiful thing https://rhodridavies.bandcamp.com/ 

There's so much to recommend on Black Truffle right now (the new Eiko Ishibashi, Alvin Lucier, Bellows etc), but this new work from contemporary Balinese composer Dewa Alit and his Gamelan Salukat gets my vote. https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/genetic 

Up for pre-order only, but I love almost all of Danish weirdo Henning Christiansen's work. "Four works from 1967-1972 including a poem set in a bath, an unknown musical work, the musical backdrop to a horse sacrifice and a soundtrack to a school" https://henningchristiansen.bandcamp.com/album/op-41-badet-kom-frem-for-satan-min-d-de-hest-op-72-bondef-reren-knud-lavard

Also up for pre-order: Glasgae's Still House Plants' new album for @bisonrecs & @BlankForms. Weird rock music that's tender and emo in all the right ways. It's been lovely seeing these kids go from strength to strength over the years. https://bison-records.bandcamp.com/album/fast-edit 

There's so much computer music & electroacoustic music in the world, but there's something about Sam Ridouts' work that feels focussed, nuanced and compacted in a way that so many others aren't. John Wall loves this too - grab it. https://leftovers.bandcamp.com/album/aspect-spur-disjecta

I loved Taku Sugimoto's 'lines 2' for @erstrecs' AMPLIFY 2020, so was glad to hear that lines 1 existed too! Airy concrete by the Tokyo Bagabond Collective (Katsuaki Iida, Tomokazu Hoshi, Taku Sugimoto. and Toshiya Tsunoda), recorded in Seseragi Park https://takusugimoto.bandcamp.com/album/lines?fbclid=IwAR3w1yaC_vUtQnaaAuR0Axv3cYneI-bm_3fdAGHPiFJ9NXc6YF4mJHepYUk

Seymour Wright & Crystabel Riley are two of my favourite cats on the London weirdo scene, and this is outstanding. Extremely fried cyber jazz. Harry Pussy & Milford Graves with Arthur Doyle are easy reference points, but there's nothing like this. https://feedbackmoves.bandcamp.com/album/call-time-hard-out?fbclid=IwAR06LkN7azRpa44rOoM39cKB3r0f3VkegkdBbzR2a2aGlEf6cxY33NDDqJQ

Like Franco Battiato's 1977 self-titled album, this is one spare chord over & over, alongside the sound of a gentle rainfall. It shouldn't work, but there's something that just does. There's a covid-19 allegory in there too, or maybe that's just me. https://lisalerkenfeldt.bandcamp.com/album/a-liquor-of-daisies

Also, a new Richard Dawson album, out today! "a collection of instrumentals and vocal pieces recorded during lockdown, and a couple of bits and pieces that never found a home. " https://richardmichaeldawson.bandcamp.com/ 

Downloading Eiko Ishibashi's new album just now. Her most "out" work yet.. "the album reflects an attention to persistent dangers, myths and evasions in Japanese culture – as well as the lurking uncertainties that might threaten positive change." https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/hyakki-yagy