Alan Licht has announced the Bandcamp release of a selection of previously unheard collaborations. “In the past several weeks I’ve been going through my archives and listening to old live recordings that have never been released,” he says. “I came up with a few gems, contacted my collaborators and am making them available now as exclusive downloads”.

Uploaded to Bandcamp – just in time for tomorrow's fee waiver effort – are recordings of Nels Cline, Licht & William Hooker at Issue Project Room in 2011 (“Essentially a Text Of Light gig, with Nels subbing for Lee”); a previously lost daytime session between Licht & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe in 2007; Licht & Aki Onda live at Cornell University 2007, self-described as “an unbroken 50+ minute improv, very different from our Everydays album”; and a recording of Licht & Tetuzi Akiyama's first meeting, performing live at subTonic 2003.

Licht promises to add more in the coming weeks, and he's also contemplating the posting of some out of print works.

In its continued support of artists during the Covid-19 crisis, Bandcamp will be waiving its revenue share on all purchases on the first Friday of every month, midnight–midnight PDT, until 3 July.