Improvisation artists on Bandcamp

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Where sadness becomes shelter: APPARËT's TRISTESSE APOTROPAÏQUE conjures post-rock chamber orchestra magic—slow, pastoral, and touched with childhood wonder—while Céleste Gatier's ERMITAGE DE LA FUMÉE VIOLETTE offers a refuge for the soul, its walls woven from disharmonies and ruptures that somehow find accord. Djembe Funk's Free Palestine cuts through the noise with blunt clarity—stop shooting people, stop being dumb. SIDI's Unreached loops modular synthesis and concrete sound through perpetual motion and friction, evoking movement without arrival.

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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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    Djembe Funk

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

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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...