Over the past two and a half years, I’ve assembled a lot of lists for Bandcamp Friday. I like sharing music that’s unfamiliar to people, and the occasion of a Bandcamp Friday—a 24-hour period when the platform passes along its usual cut of sales revenue to the artists and labels who made it a success—seems to encourage fans to take chances on albums or artists that are new to them.
Bandcamp Friday is also a good excuse to share Reader stories about music available on Bandcamp. The following list of releases links to stories we’ve published since our previous roundup—just click on each title. If you want more Bandcamp-adjacent Reader music coverage, you can start with August’s roundup and follow the trail of links backward. Several of the following albums and songs are by acts at the World Music Festival, which runs through Sunday, October 9. The Reader has put together a comprehensive guide to this year’s fest, which you should definitely spend some time with too.
The Ableist, Staircase Wit
Paolo Angeli, Rade
Angry Blackmen, Reality!
The Arab Blues, The Arab Blues
Beats y Bateria, “Carolina”
Dorothy Carlos, Circuit Spectre
Cha Wa, My People
La Chica, La Loba
Justin Demus, Rapture
Discussing the Sun, Feel It All
Ana Everling & David Onderdonk, The Music of Guinga
The Final Solution, Brotherman soundtrack
Fire-Toolz, I Will Not Use the Body’s Eyes Today.
Annie Fish, Weird Like Me
Floatie, Voyage Out
Fran, “So Long”
Gabacho, “Sal de Mar”
Ganser, Nothing You Do Matters
Héctor Guerra, Perreo Cósmico
Holy Western Parallels, Holy Western Parallels
Kaleta & Super Yamba Band, Mèdaho
Sofia Kourtesis featuring Manu Chao, “Estación Esperanza”
Magma, Kãrtëhl
Kali Malone, The Sacrificial Code
Medicine Singers, Medicine Singers
Midwestlust, split with Sarin
Nicole Mitchell & Fabio Paolizzo, Medusae
Nora Marks, The Buzzing of Flies
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, Odo Sanbra
Juan Pastor Chinchano, El Regreso
Petbrick, Liminal
Praise, All in a Dream
Qwanqwa, Qwanqwa Volume 3
Rosaries, Anomie
Seffarine, De Fez a Jerez
Soft and Dumb, Soft and Dumb
Son Rompe Pera, Batuco
Sonnenzimmer & Coupler, Cat Pose
Soso, The Downs
Sudan Archives, Natural Brown Prom Queen
Tar, Tar Box
Urine Hell, Weakling
David Virelles, Nuna
Warforged, The Grove/Sundial
Yola, Stand for Myself