Mittwoch Mixes - Still I won’t apologize - I took nobody with me / not a soul

Getting back into the swing of things and posting some new Mittwoch mixes... The world might be on fire but I can distract myself by putting together these little mixes and perhaps they'll find a few other listeners too...

First, a mix inspired by track 13 from Symphony #1 for Dot Matrix Printers. I found myself bobbing my head along to the groove of this track and was inspired to put together a mix of other songs on the avant garde/experimental end of my collection that are still hopefully somewhat accessible to less esoteric listeners.

#	Artist	Track
1	Manorexia	Edison Medicine
2	Manorexia	Ataxia
3	Volcano the Bear	splendid goose
4	[the user]	Print
5	anbb	electricity is fiction
6	Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void	Pop
7	FaUSt, feat.  灰野敬二 Keiji Haino	大海 La Mer
8	LA Vampires & Zola Jesus	In The Desert
9	Cosey Fanni Tutti	Drone
10	Nurse With Wound	Ernest Needs A Kidney (Live Studio Jam)
11	Jochen Arbeit and Mark Spybey	Port Gramsci
12	Edward Ka-Spel	Sticks & Stones
13	White Boy Scream	Fade Away

The second mix was inspired by a re-listen of Chris Connelly's SHELTA and "Fly Away Blues," which got me thinking of other songs with 'blues' in the song name, so I assembled a mix of them. While none of the thirteen are really 'blues' songs, they're all in conversation with the genre and the more traditional song structures made this mix feel like a good contrast to Still I won't apologize.

#	Artist	Track
1	Grails	Reincarnation Blues
2	The High Sheriffs	B4 Resistance Blues
3	Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan	Shotgun Blues
4	Scott Walker	Blanket Roll Blues
5	Chris Connelly	Fly Away Blues
6	Alexander Hacke	Blues Eternal
7	The The	There’s No Room In My Heart (For The Blues)
8	Little Annie And Paul Wallfisch	Price of the Blues
9	The Post-Timey String Band	Blues for Mr. Charlie
10	Across Tundras	Powder Keg Blues
11	King Woman	Celestial Blues
12	SPECIAL INTEREST	LA Blues
13	Goatsnake	A Killing Blues

Bandcamp Friday Recommendations (12/4/2020)

I am setting this to auto-post in the wee hours of the morning December 4th, 2020, which is the last Bandcamp Friday of 2020... but if you happen upon it afterwards, it will still be a great list of the many, many albums on Bandcamp that I recommend wholeheartedly... 

Firstly, you can find my twitter thread of Bandcamp recommendations from May through November below:

In order to support musicians, Bandcamp is waiving their revenue share for the first Friday of May, June and July 2020 (5/1, 6/5 and 7/3), making the first Friday a great day to buy music and support artists struggling with canceled gigs and tours.

— Mr. Zack (@thatwordyguy) May 1, 2020

And, I've already put together a list of 25 great charitable albums, Albums to be Thankful For... plus three posts of Xmas music (Albums, Tunes, Discoveries), most of which can be found on Bandcamp.   Over on my gaming blog, Antagonist Relations, you can find my series of 'Music to Game To' which features many albums that are on bandcamp that make good tabletop RPG soundtracks & inspiration.

As always, you can see my whole Bandcamp collection at bandcamp.com/schwarzz 

Xmas Sounds Part One... Albums

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You might not imagine that I enjoy Christmas music, but I do, though several winter seasons working retail/food service has given me a hearty allergy to the lowest denominator pop-Christmas schlock.

What I do love though, is unexpected and eclectic Christmas music that both subverts and celebrates the season. Here are some albums that will spice up your Yule season...