Improvisation artists on Bandcamp
21 independent artists in this guide.
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From the spontaneous and searching: APPARËT's Tristesse Apotropaïque conjures slow, pastoral post-rock chamber orchestra magic—rediscovered childhood joy played with grown-up toys, where one day sadness ends and love remains. Stan Stewart's Piano Freedom captures honestly human, yearning live piano improvisation performed before 80 witnesses celebrating and striving to retain their freedoms. Céleste Gatier's Ermitage de la Fumée Violette weaves disharmonies and ruptures into a shimmering refuge, its slow purple undulations pure magic. SIDI's Unreached loops modular synthesis and concrete sound through perpetual motion and friction—dark ambient tension evoking the sensation of moving forward without ever arriving.
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Max Kutner
Max Kutner is a guitarist/composer currently based in Brookyln, NY. Max has previously performed and/or recorded with the Magic Band (Captain Beef...
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de trop
De Trop come from Glasgow, Scotland, and release music sporadically. The music can be noisy, slow, improvised, messy, quiet, embarrassing, pretty, ...
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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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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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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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O. Modouleia
Experimental, avantgarde jazz, drone, free jazz, grindcore, improvistaion, noise, post rock.
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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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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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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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Neap
the conscious nature of listening
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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