Bandcamp Friday recommendations

 Here's some new cool stuff to buy on today's Bandcamp free Friday.

Roy Montgomery - Island Of Lost Souls (Grapefruit)

EPIC psychedelic bubblegum drone by legendary New Zealand musician, with a track dedicated to Florian Fricke, and a sound that wouldn't be out of place in the soundtrack of Blade Runner.

Judith Hamann - Shaking Studies (Blank Forms Editions)

Beautiful cello/electronics drone/classical experimentations, not unlike Morton Feldman.

Lush Worker - Immunosuppression / Preacher / Cygnus / Consort (Cruel Nature Records)

Bong's Mike Vest offers four albums-worth of material sounding like Azathoth the blind idiot god jamming in the center of the universe with Electric Wizard and Hawkwind.

Martina Bertoni - Music For Empty Flats (Karlrecords)

It's Bandcamp cello Friday. Another cellist experimenting with the possibilities of her instrument, this is great ambient based on processed recordings of cello similar to Giulio Aldinucci and Lawrence English.

Sage Alyte - Paume De Pierre (Vlek)

Belgian fee folk/psych anthems in the vein of...well....the well-expected Belgian free folk quality.

Litte Skull - Lower Hope Reach (Horn Of Plenty)

If you read this blog regularly, you know what to expect from Little Skull. Enough said.

Ash Cooke & Phil Jenkins - A Fly Is In My Ear (Liquid Library)

Ash Cooke's (Chow Mwng) usual abrasive prepared acoustic guitar instrument-bending improvisations are here accompanied by drums adding a more free jazz quality.

Little Skull - Collected 7"s

A collection featuring (oh surprise) Little Skull's five 7"s released betweeen 2003 and 2007. There isn't any info in the booklet (just a cryptic note by Dean Brown asking you to give him 10 bucks for another 7" to make up for lost communication) about the order of songs, and the tracks themselves are not separated, so you get one track for each 7", so let's hope that they are at least in chronological order. This is the beginning of Little Skull, so the sound is somewhat cruder, with less acoustic parts and more percussive/accordion driven ritual drone folk at play, but still very evocative and mystical. 2008 cdr on PseudoArcana.

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Little Skull ‎– How We Used to Laugh b/w Haunted and Defiant 7"

 

 This is Little Skull's most recent release. Nothing has changed and everything is its right place: the beautiful acoustic guitar strums, the overarching accordion, the psychedelic overtones. 2020 7" on Horn Of Plenty <O.

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Little Skull - Little Skull LP

 

 Little Skull's first full-length LP contains all those elements that make this project so adorable: the combination of dark drone and sleepy psych folk, the beautiful cut-out sleeves (could be a The Rita cover?), the mysticism of the feeling of an abandoned hilly town on the edge of a train station in the American deserts. Great stuff. 2010 LP on Elica.

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Little Skull - Untitled

Electroacoustic drone/folk experimentations with the usual high quality of Dean Brown's Little Skull. 2009 cdr on Students Of Decay.

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