It’s #FairtradeMusic Friday! But instead of posting about individual albums I’d like to recommend a platform where to find them.
I haven’t really written about this new collectively owned and managed music publishing platform. Or as they describe it:
Mirlo is a community of musicians, listeners, and coders who are daring to do just that: taking lessons learned in working in the solidarity economy and applying them to our process and product.
https://mirlo.space
I’ve been talking about other, similar music platforms in the past (like jam.coop), but I think Mirlo needs a special mention, because from all the Bandcamp alternatives and music publishing coops I have seen in recent years, this one seems to be the most promising for a series of reasons.
Things I like about Mirlo:
- It’s following a coop approach, does not get any VC money and is really a platform by musicians for musicians.
- While it’s all relatively new and hence a lot of features still need to be added, the features that are there are well thought out and implemented.
- Besides the basic album publishing functionality, there’s also the more social one: artists and labels can post updates and you can follow them to be updated about their activity.
- You can both buy individual albums or subscribe to an artist or label paying a monthly fee and get everything they make when it’s released. Plus probably some more. It’s of course to up to them to enable this or not.
- Last but not least, it looks pretty good and works well!
You can read more about what they do and how on their FAQ page.
I know I said this would be about the platform and not about albums, but let me post two anyway, since the embedding feature also works nicely:
Now go check it out at mirlo.space and Happy FairtradeMusic Friday everyone!!!