Flavor: Film soundtracks for imaginary movies
A filmmaker's dream: music that's already such a great film score, you can't wait to see or make the movie that must go with it. These sounds evoke images, stories, plot, drama.

PELICAN CITY: Rhode Island
dark, moody, instrumental trip hop, with heavy downtempo hip hop beats, lush strings, and guitars.
Recommended if you like DJ Shadow, Portishead & Massive Attack.

THE CINEMATIC UNDERGROUND/NATHAN JOHNSON: Annasthesia
Annasthesia is like a film trapped in a CD - music combined with a stunning graphic novel that will blow you away. This album redifines what a concept album can and should be.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95

HUSH COLLECTOR: Flowby
'a slightly dark brand of acoustic-tinged slowcore' - 'sexily hushed vocals' - 'warm, organic, headily addictive & utterly delicious' -'a truly wonderful debut release'.
CD price: $7.50 / MP3 price: $4.00

BLOW UP HOLLYWOOD: fake
the follow up to their critically acclaimed, self titled, debut release. "fake" is a sonic trip of self discovery in a life of illusion.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

JEFFREY LUCK LUCAS: Hell Then Divine
"... a seamless, elegant, nearly abstract countrified loveliness whose imagery speaks in a darkly romantic southwestern vocabulary of parched landscapes, rusty tin wall crosses and abandoned haciendas..." Shannon Coulter/Playing in Fog
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt.CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99

ROCKETBOB: Rocketbob
Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, Allanis Morrisette. These artists influence this progressive rock, Swedish/American band based in Los Angeles.
MP3 price: $12.97

MICHAEL MAULDIN: Enchanted Land: Five Orchestral Works Inspired by New Mexico
Tonal/modal, richly-orchestrated music, inspired by the sights, smells, shadows & grandeur of the scenic and spiritual landscape of New Mexico.
CD price: $10.95 / MP3 price: $10.95

DERON: The Ministry of You
A sonic merge of Hip-Hop beats, Trip-Hop tempos, Chill-Out soundscapes, and futuristic grooves.
MP3 price: $7.99

SURF CINEMA: Surf Cinema
Not just another traditional surf band but more like beach party, spy movie, car crash, western, sitcom, kitsch,....ah, what the hell, we're not even a f__king surf band...
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97

JON OPSTAD: Still Picture
Lyrical, impressionistic modern jazz building on elements of texture and space, with influences from Jan Garbarek and Kenny Wheeler to Herbie Hancock.
MP3 price: $15.99

GARY PAUL HOLMES: Water
It's like Shakespeare's sibling whispering stories to your ear...
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00

VAGABOND OPERA: Whatyoudo
A unique quartet playing Eastern European, Klezmer, Cabaret, Middle Eastern and Original music with refinement, exuberance, and a gritty vagabond edge.

KEITH MOORE: The Fluorescent Shaded Teddy Bear Murders
An original film score to a story (also on the CD) about giant killer teddy bears that eat supermodels.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99

VALIUMSPEED: this shit hits
alternative independent singer/songwriter folk-pop like sex with buckley and massive attack.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

ARAVOD: Until the Night
An unprecedented mix of Armenian Traditional and Modern selections- Greek, and Arabic music. Perhaps the most vibrant and energetic World Music CD release in years.
Recommended if you like Kef Time Band, Ara Topouzian.CD price: $15.99

JOSEPH CURIALE: Awakening
Contemporary, classical orchestra compositions with strong melody, charm and a magical evocative nature. In an imaginary universe, John Williams meets Aaron Copland at Lenny's party.
Recommended if you like Copland and Bernstein.CD price: $16.99 / MP3 price: $16.99

LOUISE P. CANEPA, COMPOSER: Napa Valley Serenity
A collection of original contemporary compositions with a classical influence. Melodic, majestic, inspiring, contemplative; music for the soul.
CD price: $15.95 / MP3 price: $15.95

ALL CAPONE STRAJH TRIO: Iso 2001
Their witty, postmodern neoclassicism has more references packed into it than a Simpson episode.
CD price: $10.00

APPROACH: Ultra Proteus
A funk influenced musical journey that is a total throw back to the early 90's style of hip hop.

FULL BLOWN KIRK: Zero Day
Fusing of industrial noises with hip-hop and dance beats and female vocals.
Recommended if you like Massive Attack, Portishead.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

PIEKOZ: Narrativestructurez
Dark, filmscore acid jazz and trip hop splashed with introverted idm. Last review claims "If tom waits were to make electronic-based music, this is what it would sound like."
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

RON MCFARLAND: Chamber and Theater Works
An all-star collection of artists, including Members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Operea, the San Francisco Conservatory and the American Conservatory Theater.
CD price: $11.99

ZACHARY J. MECHLEM: The Haight Gang
The soundtrack to a Wild West tale told through music that combines Indian, Arabic, and Spanish influences with Country and Rock.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

BETH CUSTER: In The Broken Fields Where I Lie
Second solo release features music written for Club Foot Orchestra, Joe Goode Performance Group, and an arrangement she did of Ellington's 'Echoes of Harlem.' 'Custer's talent is too restless and wide-ranging to be pinned down'
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00

TRANCENDEN: Peace Love Beats
Jazzy breakbeats and funky trip hop tunes come together in this definitive funky breaks album.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00

JEREMY BOWEN: Nothing To Say
Poetic instrumental compositions centered on acoustic, fingerstyle guitar.
CD price: $9.95 / MP3 price: $9.95

VARIOUS ARTISTS: West End Story
A dynamic collection of varied music that offers a selection of tracks ranging from "big band" to to easy listening, all fully orchestrated with the "big movie" sound.
CD price: $14.99

STAN HARRISON: The Ties That Blind
Film-Noir for sax, string quartet and bass from the sax player who has recorded with Radiohead, Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg and others.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99

STRING QUARTET DIFFERENCE: Take Care Of The Difference
Open your fantasy to new colours. Enter the magic and passion of jazz played by sensual strings.
Recommended if you like Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Balanescu Quartet.CD price: $13.00

BIG SIR: Now That's What I Call Big Sir
Reintrepetations of their songs as well as a some new ones. Remixers include Dan the Automator (Gorillaz), Justin Melden-Johanson (Air, Beck), and Mickey P (Eels, Beck).
Recommended if you like Tori Amos, Portishead & Massive Attack.

LOUIS BABIN: Mananara
A delicate and wordly incarnation of jazz fusion, imagination, dreamy atmospheres and evocatively emotional harmonic colors.
Recommended if you like Cirque du Soleil.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $5.00

VEDVIK/TILLMAN: Cinematic Volunteer
Eclectic ambient music with elements of world, exotic electronica and a classical chamber feel. Featured in films like "Ali" and "Black Hawk Down"
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00

KATE MOODY: The Seeker
Melodic and richly harmonic orchestral music that uplifts the spirit.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00

CHRIS 'WHITEY' ANDERSON: Sepiatone
'Alternative Ragtime' deems one reviewer. 'Gypsy Lounge Jazz' says another. "Anderson borrows elements from traditional jazz and western swing as well as his own pallette of film music styles to create a sound all his own".
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

ROBERT VINSON: Robert Vinson, Symphony #1 and Violin Concerto in C
"A composition by Robert Vinson is like a trip from the past to the future without ever leaving the listener behind or wanting to get off the train."
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

HER LOVE FILLED THE ROOM: Grady Lives on Planet Grady EP
Sean O'Hagan remixes Mingus for Lynch directed Western.