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Best-selling -improv albums of 2024 on Bandcamp

Check this year top highlights.

SML - Small Medium Large

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Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution

crossover-jazz

Matthew Halsall - Bright Sparkling Light

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Cassie Kinoshi's seed. - gratitude

#			Released	Sales	Earnings	Tags
1	Pharoah	Pharoah Sanders →	15 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz avant-garde avant-garde free-improvisation free-jazz jazz spiritual spiritual-jazz
2	Everyday Things: Bach's Second Cello Suite BWV 1008	Derek Gripper →	19 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	african solo-instrumental world acoustic bach baroque classical guitar-improvisation guitar-solo instrumental cape-town
3	Loose Connections	Paul Lytton / Georg Wissel →	02 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	experimental paul-lytton alto-saxophone drone field-recordings free-improvisation free-jazz live-electronics percussion tenor-saxophone london
4	Singles and Early Recordings: 1994-1995 LP	The Crownhate Ruin →	20 December 2022	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	avant-rock crownhate-ruin dc-post-hardcore dischord experimental free-improvisation free-jazz hoover karate noise-rock punk-rock yellow-springs
5	In The Beginning: 1963-1964	Pharoah Sanders →	01 January 2012	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz avant-garde free-improvisation free-jazz spiritual spiritual-jazz
6	Endless Spring	Orthopédie →	16 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	alternative trip-hop-electro jazz-and-improvised-music florence
7	Anchors	Jason Stein →	13 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	chicago gerald-cleaver bass-clarinet jason-stein jazz-and-improvised-music joshua-abrams natural-information-society new-york
8	Parallel Streams	John Butcher / Luigi Marino / Mark Wastell →	06 August 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	berlin experimental mark-wastell drone field-recordings free-improvisation free-jazz john-butcher live-electronics percussion saxophone london
9	MESTIZX	Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly →	03 May 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	andean electronic improvisational-music jazz latinx soul art-punk bomba free-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music no-wave plena psychedelic chicago
10	Recordings from the Åland Islands	Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer →	11 March 2022	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul ambient contemporary-classical field-recordings jazz-and-improvised-music minimalism modular-synth post-modern-music psychedelic chicago
11	1991, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire	Leila Bordreuil →	11 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic experimental field-recordings free-improvisation noise synthesizer oberlin
12	Domestic Jungle	Derek Bailey →	09 June 2022	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	derek-bailey experimental hackney rush-fm domestic-jungle free-improvisation jungle pirate-radio glasgow

#			Released	Sales	Earnings	Tags
1	HAN 81 celebration @ De Roode Bioscoop Amsterdam May 9 2023	ICP Orchestra & Friends →	17 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	european-jazz jazz free-improv free-improvisation amsterdam
2	Anchors	Jason Stein →	13 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	chicago gerald-cleaver bass-clarinet jason-stein jazz-and-improvised-music joshua-abrams natural-information-society new-york
3	1991, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire	Leila Bordreuil →	11 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic experimental field-recordings free-improvisation noise synthesizer oberlin
4	a dozen words for seven	Quartetto Loco →	12 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	contemporary contemporary-folk electronic jazz world jazz-and-improvised-music new-traditional new-music rotterdam
5	Ghosts on the Water	Erika Oba →	21 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz experimental-music folk-music free-jazz free-jazz-improvisation improv improvisation berkeley
6	A Willed and Conscious Balance	Tomin →	in 2021, found T	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul jazz-and-improvised-music psychedelic chicago
7	Endless Spring	Orthopédie →	16 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	alternative trip-hop-electro jazz-and-improvised-music florence
8	The 1968 Tapes	Jazz Sabbath →	until recently,	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz jazz-fusion black-sabbath jazz jazz-and-improvised-music jazz-crossover jazz-metal jazz-rock jazzy united-kingdom
9	Selected Worlds	Daniel Inzani →	an avant-garde c	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	alternative classical-music avant-garde chamber-music contemporary-classical instrumental jazz-and-improvised-music piano piano-trio string-quartet bristol
10	Trio Plays Standards	Pablo Held →	06 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz jonas-burgwinkel pablo-held robert-landfermann jazz jazz-and-improvised-music piano piano-trio standards cologne
11	COLLECTED JAM 1	Mike Polizze →	13 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	philadelphia punk rock experiemental free-improv indie-rock jam lo-fi psych psychedelic-rock philadelphia
12	Small Medium Large	SML →	28 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz kosmische-musik los-angeles soul jazz-and-improvised-music krautrock post-dub post-punk proto-trance psychedelic trance chicago
13	Mighty Vertebrate	Anna Butterss →	04 October 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	australia electronic improvisational-music jazz los-angeles soul bass-music jazz-and-improvised-music new-jazz psychedelic chicago
14	Constitution	Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs →	30 August 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul south-african-jazz avant-jazz free-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music poetry psychedelic chicago
15	MESTIZX	Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly →	03 May 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	andean electronic improvisational-music jazz latinx soul art-punk bomba free-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music no-wave plena psychedelic chicago
16	In Electric Time	Jeremiah Chiu →	29 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul analog jazz-and-improvised-music minimalist motorik psychedelic synth chicago
17	Run the Gauntlet	The Kris Davis Trio →	27 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz free-improv free-improvisation modern-jazz postmodernism new-york
18	ICP Orchestra performs Herbie Nichols: Extension Red White and Blue (ICP025, 1984)	ICP Orchestra →	19 August 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	european-jazz jazz free-improv free-improvisation amsterdam
19	Seaward on the Waves	Xisco Rojo →	20 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	folk arabic chamber-folk fingerstyle-guitar free-improvisation guitar-soli healing-music meditation primitivism psychedelic-folk raga madrid
20	Open The Gates	Irreversible Entanglements →	12 November 2021	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz punk soul avant-garde fire-music free-jazz improvised-music jazz-and-improvised-music poetry psychedelic chicago

#			Released	Sales	Earnings	Tags
1	Constitution	Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs →	30 August 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul south-african-jazz avant-jazz free-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music poetry psychedelic chicago
2	Small Medium Large	SML →	28 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz kosmische-musik los-angeles soul jazz-and-improvised-music krautrock post-dub post-punk proto-trance psychedelic trance chicago
3	HAN 81 celebration @ De Roode Bioscoop Amsterdam May 9 2023	ICP Orchestra & Friends →	17 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	european-jazz jazz free-improv free-improvisation amsterdam
4	Brad Terry plays Ellington with Jarek Smietana	Brad Terry and Jarek Smietana, jazz duet - quartet - nonet →	28 August 2022	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	duke-ellington-tribute jazz collective-improvisation conversational-jazz jazz-clarinet jazz-compilation jazz-improvisation live-improvisation bath
5	The 1968 Tapes	Jazz Sabbath →	until recently,	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz jazz-fusion black-sabbath jazz jazz-and-improvised-music jazz-crossover jazz-metal jazz-rock jazzy united-kingdom
6	Run the Gauntlet (Hi-Res 24bit/ 96k)	The Kris Davis Trio →	27 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz free-improv free-improvisation modern-jazz postmodernism new-york
7	Run the Gauntlet	The Kris Davis Trio →	27 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz free-improv free-improvisation modern-jazz postmodernism new-york
8	Bakunawa	Barker / Parker / Irabagon →	30 August 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	chicago nyc avant-garde-jazz avant-garde free-improvisation free-jazz jazz modern-jazz spiritual-jazz richmond
9	1991, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire	Leila Bordreuil →	11 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic experimental field-recordings free-improvisation noise synthesizer oberlin
10	Live at the Adler Planetarium	Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra →	27 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul abstractivist avant-garde jazz-and-improvised-music planetarium psychedelic chicago
11	a dozen words for seven	Quartetto Loco →	12 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	contemporary contemporary-folk electronic jazz world jazz-and-improvised-music new-traditional new-music rotterdam
12	The Frequency of Magic	Anthony Joseph →	03 July 2023	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz jazz-and-improvised-music poetry-and-music poetry-reading spoken-word-poetry london
13	Mighty Vertebrate	Anna Butterss →	04 October 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	australia electronic improvisational-music jazz los-angeles soul bass-music jazz-and-improvised-music new-jazz psychedelic chicago
14	Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Corsano Baiza Watt Trio →	06 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	-improvisation -improvised-music experimental chriscorsano joebaiza mikewatt minutemen saccharinetrust california
15	When It Rains It Pours	Farida Amadou →	06 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	experimental experimental-rock free-improvisation free-improvised-music free-jazz noise noise-rock punk brussels
16	a dream of form	Scott Murphy →	20 April 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz jazz-fusion bass-guitar electronic-music fusion improvisation improvised-music jazz jazz-and-improvised-music jazz-rock jazzy saxophone hong-kong
17	Melt All the Guns II	feat. Ralph Alessi & Myslaure Augustin →	Relative Resonan	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	berlin jazz avant-garde avant-garde jazz jazz-and-improvised-music new-york-city brooklyn
18	Anchors	Jason Stein →	13 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	chicago gerald-cleaver bass-clarinet jason-stein jazz-and-improvised-music joshua-abrams natural-information-society new-york
19	WEBO	Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker →	21 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz free-improvisation free-jazz jazz queens
20	sweet factory sessions Volume 1	BARK! [Rex Casswell, Phillip Marks, Paul Obermayer] →	25 August 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	bark%21 experimental louth paul-obermayer phillip-marks rex-casswell the-sweet-factory electroacoustic-improvisation electronic-improvisation free-improvisation improvised-music glasgow

#			Released	Sales	Earnings	Tags
1	Small Medium Large	SML →	28 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz kosmische-musik los-angeles soul jazz-and-improvised-music krautrock post-dub post-punk proto-trance psychedelic trance chicago
2	Spectral Evolution	Rafael Toral →	23 February 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic rafael-toral ambient chord-changes chords drone experimental-electronic guitar hm-changes jazz-and-improvised-music post-free-jazz post-freejazz rhyt portugal
3	Bright Sparkling Light	Matthew Halsall →	01 March 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	crossover-jazz jazz acoustic ambient classical gondwana-records jazz-and-improvised-music matthew-halsall spiritual-jazz manchester
4	gratitude	Cassie Kinoshi's seed. →	22 March 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz philharmonic soul jazz-and-improvised-music orchestral-jazz psychedelic uk-jazz chicago
5	The Closest Thing to Silence	Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer →	just a few month	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul ambient collage fourth-world jazz-and-improvised-music minimal modern-music new-age psychedelic synth chicago
6	WEBO	Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker →	21 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz free-improvisation free-jazz jazz queens
7	MESTIZX	Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly →	03 May 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	andean electronic improvisational-music jazz latinx soul art-punk bomba free-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music no-wave plena psychedelic chicago
8	Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))	jaimie branch →	25 August 2023	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz punk soul creative-music free-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music psychedelic chicago
9	There Is A Garden	Beings →	07 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	experimental avant-garde free-jazz-improvisation new-york-city noise-rock psychedelic new-york
10	Placenta	Carlos Niño & Friends →	24 May 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz los-angeles soul ambient jazz-and-improvised-music new-age psychedelic space-collage spiritual chicago
11	Pharoah	Pharoah Sanders →	15 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz avant-garde avant-garde free-improvisation free-jazz jazz spiritual spiritual-jazz
12	Voices of Bishara Live at "mu"	Tom Skinner →	10 May 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul avant-garde cello free-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music psychedelic uk-jazz chicago
13	MARK	Mark Guiliana →	on vinyl someday	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz rock electronic instrumental jazz-and-improvised-music los-angeles
14	New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz	Matthew Shipp →	05 April 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz avant-garde free-improvisation free-jazz piano-solo new-york
15	Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina	Tomin →	02 August 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul jazz-and-improvised-music psychedelic chicago
16	Sax QT (Lorraine) 2022	Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet →	28 March 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	experimental world contemporary contemporary-classical contemporary-jazz jazz-and-improvised-music bologna
17	In These Times	Makaya McCraven →	23 September 202	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	electronic improvisational-music jazz soul future-folk jazz-and-improvised-music nu-jazz orchestral organic-beat psychedelic chicago
18	Trio Plays Standards	Pablo Held →	06 June 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz jonas-burgwinkel pablo-held robert-landfermann jazz jazz-and-improvised-music piano piano-trio standards cologne
19	STAY	Julieta Eugenio →	29 March 2024	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz greenleaf-music jazz-and-improvised-music modern-jazz new-york saxophone new-york
20	THE COMPLETE IN BERLIN '88 (BOX SET)	CECIL TAYLOR →	30 October 1989	UPGRADE	UPGRADE	jazz berlin box-set cecil-taylor derek-bailey evan-parker fmp jazz-and-improvised-music tony-oxley berlin