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Friday the Thirteenth! What better date to release a new piece of music, right?

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‘Going new places, changing directions, arriving at a crossroads, entering the unknown — for many, those are moments of strong and ambivalent feelings. Curiosity, captivation, and anticipation, intertwined with hesitation, caution, sometimes even anxiety or fear; lots of conflicting, contradictory emotions flood the mind. But there’s really only one thing we can do: go ahead.

‘With its interchanging 4/4 and 7/8 time signature, “Travelling to Terra Incognita” evokes a stumbling, fumbling sensation. Rarely heard instruments like the udu (an earthen vase-shaped hand drum with a small mouth at the top and a larger circular opening at the side), the Indian harmonium, and the mbira (or ikembe, or most commonly, kalimba) lend a sense of consolation and warmth, as do the voices of travelling whales in French Polynesian waters and of a nightingale and other birds in western Finland.’

https://mirlo.space/babumenos/release/travelling-to-terra-incognita-babu-menos-instrumentals-pt-3

‘You heard it first on @mirlo⁠’

"Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services – but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al?"

Try #Mirlo: https://mirlo.space/signup

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/03/ai-bot-farms-and-innocent-indie-victims-how-music-streaming-became-a-hotbed-of-and-fakery

Any labels out there interested in testing out some new functionality with us? You can either reply here or drop us a line below:

https://mirlo.space/team/posts/285/

Today's pick for #MirloMondays is by Rrrrrose Azerty, from Marseille, blending melancholic, lo-fi synth textures, post-punk vocals and even folk stylings to create this gem from 2019.

https://mirlo.space/rrrrrose-azerty/release/fin-de-la-communication

We recognise the importance of community and autonomy within music and we've been working away behind the scenes to allow folks to eventually self-install, without the need for DevOps experience.

If you'd like to know more or get involved : https://mirlo.space/team/posts/285/

A couple of weeks ago we rolled out the ability to sell individual tracks. Folks were excited, but the first feedback we got was to let people set the price in bulk for all tracks on an album.

You can now do that!

Take a look: http://mirlo.space

It's not Bandcamp Friday, so the perfect day to check out my Mirlo treasure trove.
For example, my most recent release, "Ritual & Mayhem", is here!
#Mirlo #NowPlaying
https://mirlo.space/stan-stewart-muz4now/releases

Hi All - I have a new release today called Horus.

"When he opens his eyes he fills the universe with light and when he shuts them darkness appears".

Recorded live, no overdubs. Light mastering.

It is available on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Mirlo and Bandwagon as well as major streaming services.

Links: https://samantha-j-smith.kit.com/landing

Please do drop by and take a listen, give it a like or follow me. If you can drop a few planetary credits, if not to me, then to another independent musician it would go a long way to supporting new music.

Hugs, Sammi x

#mirlo
#bandwagon
#experimentalMusic
#electronicmusic
#AmbientMusic
@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic

Oh I am useless I keep forgetting it's #fairtrademusicfriday @ftmf

Happy #FairTradeMusicFriday to all who celebrate!

To nominate a release (by yourself or someone else) on a #FairTradeMusic platform¹, reply to @ftmf pinned post linked below and it'll magically appear on the website!

https://botgts.evilgeniusrobot.uk/@ftmf/statuses/01JX11QDF3C5ZTB8SN8FQYS1B7

Head over to https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day throughout the day and check out some fabulous indie music links as they get submitted.

¹ eg #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted etc.

Welcome to the submission thread for the June edition of #FairtradeMusicFriday.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Why not make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff

If you're looking for something to listen to on your commute and you're interesting in changing the current music landscape, here's us talking on the It Could Happen Here #podcast.

https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/2e9f0c40-2d95-0137-f265-1d245fc5f9cf/0591c725-508a-45c9-8c87-edc8bb4f69db

Dipping my toes into #Mirlo finally

https://mirlo.space/dff-sound-system/releases

There will always be something new to add and to build upon with #Mirlo, but it's useful to actually sketch out what it is we're building, to keep track of how far we are, and be able to tell ourselves "this works".

https://mirlo.space/team/posts/257/

Want to favorite a specific track on an album?

Done!

https://mirlo.space/signup

Vor 5 Jahren hatte ich mir mit #Buymeacoffee eine Supportie-Base aufgebaut. Nach 1 Haufen Arbeit (personalisierte Willkommens-Bossas mit lustigen Videos, Vorveröffentlichungen von Songs, exklusive Blogposts...) die auch einigen Erfolg hatte (5 monatliche Supporties a 5€ nach 1/2 Jahr ist m.E. ne gute Basis) hat der Dienst seine Konditionen geändert. Über Nacht war meine Arbeit weg, die Supporties auch. Merci für nothing!

Mit @mirlo gibt es jetzt eine genossenschaftliche Open Source Plattfom, die sowohl Mikro-Mäzenatentum für MusikerÏnnen (a lá Patreon) als auch Newsletter als auch Bandcamp miteinander vereint.

Ich übersetze die Webseite gerade Eng->Deu - Jemensch Lust, mitzumachen?

https://mirlo.space/

Thanks to @nemobis for displaying some of our posters! If you'd like to display one (or a few) in your space, you can download them at:

https://public.3.basecamp.com/p/Zq2A9AGtJL2bsiG8tyT1bdxu/vault

Recommended tea/coffee break viewing (and did we mention that #Mirlo is a worker #coop?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjumzWRTR7U

Hey fam, so I got finished adding my music to Mirlo, so everything is now on both Bandcamp and Mirlo. I much prefer Mirlo’s upload model that let me dump whole albums into the uploader at once instead of track at a time or pay to batch upload like Bandcamp has. Obviously I have a following on Bandcamp and absolutely zero on Mirlo, but I’ll continue to upload to both and you can choose where you go to stream/buy. Thanks for your support and patience!

https://mirlo.space/phonoinput/releases
https://mirlo.space/synaptyx/releases
https://mirlo.space/n3urochrome/releases
️ https://mirlo.space/blacknoize/releases

#mirlo @mirlo
#Ambient #AmbientMusic #ElectronicMusic #Electronica #MusicProduction #ElectronicMusicProduction #Music #Bandcamp

https://synaptyx.bandcamp.com/