Simon Greenwood

• Isan - Winter Chimes - https://isan.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chimes: Everyone’s favourite remotely collaborative analogue duo make a Christmas EP, a gentle mix of very analogue glockenspiel, bells and chimes, an ideal accompaniment to a glass of nog, egg or otherwise.
• Hladowski/Hampton/Strachan - They All Were Looking for a King - https://maryhampton1.bandcamp.com/track/they-all-were-looking-for-a-king: A Scottish carol written by George Macdonald and performed by a small acoustic ensemble including organ, cornet and recorder, and some beautiful harmonies.
• Meljoann - Bye - @meljoann https://boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/track/bye: Shiny modern ultrapop that my daughter would probably like. I think it’s pretty groovy too, and so should you.
• Meljoann - Squick - https://faircamp.meljoann.com/squick/: From the last to the first, and it still sounds like the future. I am considering giving all my money to Mustics.

• Dace Merryweather - Magnapinna/Phantom Jelly - https://dace.bandcamp.com/album/magnapinna Epic (11 minute!) prog paen to a squid, it says here. It goes many places and does many things. The b-side sounds like a soundtrack for jellyfish swimming in a tank.
• D-Fried - “Images Sur la Mer” - https://www.phonocake.org/islm: Via @clongclongmoo: Long form sea-themed ambient piece that drifts in remarkably descriptive movements. Restful and beautiful.
• Salisman Communal Orchestration - Of The Desert EP - https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-desert-ep: most recent release and name from Chicago via Newcastle psych/shoegaze experimentalists. 60s harmonies and sun-bleaches tremelo guitar. A band who should have much more recognition than they do.
• Salisman Communal Orchestration - A Queen Among Clods - https://salisman.bandcamp.com/album/a-queen-among-clod: 40 minutes of similar bleached out, blissed out psychedelics, like that time you took what you thought was a Nelson’s travel remedy tablet to get the coach to the coast, only it wasn’t.

• Tomoroh Hidari - 12 Months of Mornings - https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/12-months-of-mornings Final release from Hidari, whose death was announced yesterday. A two year long project in which he took pictures of the morning sky, posted them to social media, selected the ones that got most engagement and used the images as the basis for tracks using assorted methods. The result is noisy but not without structure and some interesting parts.
• Tomoroh Hidari - Live in Tokyo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWZnx6lO0-g: A live set from September that explores more melodic and rhythmic areas than the LP above, rises and breaks down like a techno set.
• Ian Boddy - Options - https://ianboddy.bandcamp.com/album/options: Reissue of his third cassette LP from 1981. Very much of its time, but as its time was that of Jarre, Schulz and Tangerine Dream at their best, it stands up remarkably well against them. The live set on the b-side is equally accomplished, with excellent sounds produced from minimal kit.

• Cathode Ray Tube - Overworld - https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/album/overworld : Extended dub industrial techno workouts that evoke images of people in leather jackets with those sunglasses with wind guards on hanging around factories, or possibly Camden’s Underworld in 1992. We knew how to party back then. I think I might need to explore some more.
• PDP8 - logging - https://pdp8.bandcamp.com/album/logging: HT to @RadioPhobicShirkPop Lo-fi techno, presumably not made with a PDP-8, but you can never tell these days. Had me bouncing in my chair.
• Loula Yorke - A Man On A Galloping Horse Wouldn’t See it - https://cissublibrary.bandcamp.com/album/a-man-on-a-galloping-horse-wouldnt-see-it New from the Castles in Space Subscription Library, 35 minutes of Yorke’s minimal but expansive modular explorations, rhythmic and hypnotic.

• Ordos Mk.0 - Sunset Shore - https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/track/sunset-shore: An evening walk along a stretch of water, lost in thoughts.
• Ordos Mk.0 - In My Watery World - https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-watery-world: a thematic EP from a composing jam that evokes a video game set underwater. Gentle and dare one say, immersive?
• Black Tempel Pyrämid - The Hierophant - https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/the-hierophant: Squally, looping experimental lo-fi kraut/psych jams from a prolific Colorado, US band. I saw that Cruel Nature had released one of their LPs and found I didn’t have it, but I have this one from SubCastCo. Not what I expected from the description but pretty good all the same.
• david a. jaycock - Music for Space Age Shopping - https://davidajaycock.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-space-age-shopping: New from Subexotic, part of their Shopping Centre Trilogy, all released last Friday. Like Carlisle City Council’s The Lanes Re-Development, it plays with electronic soundtracks and library music, in this case evoking the concrete shopping centres of the 60s and 70s that have often since been redeveloped or demolished. Some tracks have a dynamic hopefulness that would accompany a promotional film and others evoke the windswept bleakness of Sunday afternoons in them, or complete abandonment.

• Stuffed Foxes - Standardized - https://stuffedfoxes.bandcamp.com/album/standardized-2: Newest LP from French psych-rock/shoegazers, dynamic epic squalls of guitar that evoke all the bits you like in the recent history of (alt)-rock.
• Keygen Church - Tenebre Rosso Sangue - https://keygenchurch.bandcamp.com/album/tenebre-rosso-sangue: Saw this last night and thought I’d give it a listen. Italian electronic instrumental death metal, which of course must exist according to the Unified Theory of Metal, which posits that all musical genres have a metal state. Rather bracing, like having your head in a threshing machine is bracing.
• Various - Zenapolae: Compilation 24 - https://www.zenapolae.com/zen294 Ambient, drone and downbeat compilation from a veteran German based netlabel. A collection of tracks from recent releases on the label, ranging from neoclassical drone, to layered guitared ambience and straight(ish) instrumental electronica. Worth a listen and all free to download.

• The Heartwood Institute - Forgotten Futures - https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-futures: Cumbria’s Heartwood Institute turn their attention to affairs 250 miles south, to events in the Capital, where something is afoot. Music for washed out prints of lost 70s SF series.
• Navigator - Flame Is Slow (Singles etc. 1996​-​1997) - https://wrongspeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/navigator-flame-is-slow-singles-etc-1996-1997: Navigator were a band I missed when they were around, even to point of not getting to the Garage early enough when they supported Mogwai there, so this was exciting to see. This collection of their singles starts as low key post rock inspired by Slint or Codeine, and drifts towards and past Bark Psychosis ambience and experimentation. I’ve certainly missed something. Hopefully Wrong Speed will put out their LP ‘Nostalgie’ as well.
• Navigator - Nostalgie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNHGgP_uN0: Of course, it’s on YouTube, and it take where they were going with the singles even further, almost to pure silence and noise at times, like an industrial winter landscape.
• Lehto - Northbound - https://lehto.bandcamp.com/album/northbound: Lehto’s tracks have been standouts for me when listening to Radio Free Fedi, and yesterday was the first anniversary of the release of this LP. It’s that downbeat dance like Royskopp or Simian, with with folk, jazz and African influences as well as environmental sounds. It certainly deserves a wider hearing.

Mostly Bandcamp listening for #BandcampFriday, if you posted them, thanks.

• Pye Corner Audio - Deep Lake Drift - https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/track/deep-lake-drift: in which The Head Technician puts out a track for Bandcamp Friday as usual, and this time it’s practically a techno banger, if the dancefloor was haunted
• MiDi BiTCH - Hyperborea - https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/hyperborea-cyd-0121: Modern widescreen Berlin School electronics that wouldn’t be out of place on DiN or other electronic labels.
• Fastachee - third places - https://fastachee.bandcamp.com/album/third-places: For want of pigeonhole I’d call this post-rock, (mostly) instrumental guitar lead with interesting synths and glitchy bits. Well worth some more listening.
• DebonaireToast - Lithopedion EP - https://debonairetoast.bandcamp.com/album/lithopedion-ep: Ruminatory dark ambient with percussive overtones. ‘Litho’ made me think of the lithophone in one of our local museums, a xylophone made of tuned stones, and there are elements of that here.

• Low - Live on ‘Ned’s Musical Dustbin’ on KUCI 88.9 FM, July 1995 - https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/sets/low-live-on-neds-musical-dustbin-on-kuci-889-fm-july-1995: Early radio session from just after the release of their debut LP ‘I Could Live in Hope’. The audio quality makes them sound more fragile than their usual slow quietness really was. Includes their version of ‘Transmission’, the last one you ever need to hear.
• Coldcut x On-U Sound - Outside the Echo Chamber - https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/outside-the-echo-chamber: 2017 collaboration between two legends of cut-up and dub: Covers reggae, bhangra, Indian film music and hip-hop in an epic hour of joy. HT to @inpc, who knows a thing or two.
• Various Artists - Future Sounds of Kraut Vol 3 - Compiled by Fred and Luna - https://compostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/future-sounds-of-kraut-vol-3-compiled-by-fred-und-luna: brilliant modern krautrock/motorik electro compilation and I will be going back for the rest.