Improvisation artists on Bandcamp

25 independent artists in this guide.

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From silence and shadow into sound: APPARËT's TRISTESSE APOTROPAÏQUE conjures a post-rock chamber orchestra feeling — slow, pastoral, and touched with childhood wonder — where one day sadness ends and love remains. Céleste Gatier's ERMITAGE DE LA FUMÉE VIOLETTE offers a shelter for souls, weaving disharmonies and ruptures into a shimmering, violet-smoke refuge. Aidan Siegele's TRÄUMEN branches from indie rock roots into psychedelic and ambient terrain, charting growth through memory, hope, and uncertainty.

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    Tiger A

    The main style is improvisation. I try to play with a theme as much as possible. I want to create a work that can be listened to as an album, ...

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    The Pianos

    lindsay vickery | bass clarinet matt jones | theorbo | programming

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    Draisine

    A vehicular tool for exploring of the more brooding corners of guitar-driven, loop-based improvisation.

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    O. Modouleia

    Experimental, avantgarde jazz, drone, free jazz, grindcore, improvistaion, noise, post rock.

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    Lurch Purse

    Kevin Shea is an American jazz drummer in improvisation and experimental music. He attended Berklee College of Music. Shea has played in the ...

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    August Pope, Öz Kesik and Shaun Ferraloro

    August Pope a noizmaker and sound artist based in Boorloo. Its practice is rooted in ritualised No-Input Mixing and Industrial Despair in the ...

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    Gregory Scheckler

    * Artist * Composer * Drummer * Synthesist * Teacher * Multidisciplinary artist Gregory Scheckler lives in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Hi...

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    Greg Miles Lewis

    Greg Miles Lewis is a drummer and composer based in Los Angeles, California.

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    SIDI

    Sidi is the solo project of Italian electronic musician and sound artist Christian Campobasso. His work explores the intersection of modular s...

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    RDKPL

    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Noise * But Were Afraid to Download. Sound recordings by Czech noisemaker since 1994.

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    Apostolis Tziogkidis

    Apostolis Tziogkidis is a contrabassist and electric bassist working in the margins of avant-garde, free improvisation and noise-jazz. His wo...

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    Neap

    the conscious nature of listening

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    Céleste Gatier

    Céleste Gatier is a french experimental artist from Paris. Her music focuses on the fragility of the sound object and the live realisation of ...

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    Ode to Disintegration

    Nightmarish experimental pieces of music and improvisations with prepared electric guitar. No bound to genres or anyone's preferences, just p...

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    APPARËT

    APPÄRET is the manifestation of three instruments that came together by chance one December afternoon : Jeanne Gorisse's double bass, Julien G...

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    Stuart Orchard

    Once described as a ‘wild card’, multi-disciplinary artist Stuart Orchard is as at home behind a microphone singing his quasi folk songs, as h...

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    Telford!

    Telford! Now available in all its red lined, four-track glory! Do you crave droning mid-range? Jarring feedback? Erratic flows? Nonsensical ra...

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    Aidan Siegele

    Aidan Siegele is a Canadian artist, composer, and producer creating music that pushes against the edges of genre. His work moves fluidly betwe...

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    Stan Stewart

    Stan Stewart is a pianist, songwriter, composer, and poet who is always looking for the next inspiration. Besides a growing set of recorded re...

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    Vitamin Manifest

    Vitamin Manifest is an experimental music duo formed in 2011. Our work combines field recordings, improvisation, electronics, and found or rep...

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    Djembe Funk

    Kelly Kintner’s one man band. There is exploring, jamming, protest. Also, Djembe.