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RYAN MACEVOY MCCULLOUGH: Ryan MacEvoy McCullough in Concert, solo piano. Yarlung Records
Ryan plays the piano like a great conductor would. He unleashes the forces of a full orchestra from the piano, both the architecture of large musical scores and the finesses and subtleties of color.
CD price: $16.99

LIVIU MARINESCU: Chamber Music
A fascinating new album of chamber music by the Romanian composer Liviu Marinescu
CD price: $12.97

WILLIAM C HARRINGTON: Noise Noise
Noise, electronics, chaos, disorder - yet somehow beautiful.
CD price: $9.98 / MP3 price: $9.49

GNOTES: Rhymes and Beats
Rooted in live instrumentation and progressive lyricism, Rhymes and Beats is a 21st century outernational hip-hop record with a tinge of nostalgia for 90s grunge and golden era rap.
Recommended if you like Beck, Brother Ali.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97

MID-AIR: Mid-Air
Too fast, too slow, too noisy, too melodic, too old skool, and way too ahead of his time.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97

STEUART LIEBIG/MINIM: Quicksilver
Avant Garde third stream music incorporating written and freely improvised material
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50

DON PRESTON: Works
A unique collection of the former Mothers Of Invention keyboardist's more classical pieces, spanning from 1965 to the present.
Recommended if you like Frank Zappa, The Grandmothers.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

KILLSONIC: Killsonic
An experimental music collective, mixing jazz, hardcore, folk, and contemporary classical music.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99

MIKE GARSON (PIANO) AND JIM WALKER (FLUTE): Jim Walker Plays the Music of Mike Garson
Defining Jim Walker is no easy task. There are few musicians today who cross stylistic borders with the ease and beauty that is this man's legacy. From Beethoven to Bowie, Nine Inch Nails to No Doubt, Mike Garson is known around the world.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.CD price: $14.95

JANAKI STRING TRIO: Janaki String Trio, Debut. Yarlung Records
A hot young trio that just won both Coleman and Concert Artists competitions. They play the classics and avante garde new music with equal panache. This album highlights Penderecki's string trio.
CD price: $16.99 / MP3 price: $16.99

CLARINETIST MICHELE ZUKOVSKY: Brahms - Mozart Clarinet Quintets
Principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Michele Zukovsky performing favorite clarinet works of Brahms and Mozart with the world renowned St. Petersburg String Quartet.
CD price: $15.97 / MP3 price: $9.99

JOHN WILLIAMS - MICHELE ZUKOVSKY: Clarinet Concerto - John Williams Conducting
John Williams concerto was written for Michele Zukovsky in 1991. This live recording is with John Williams conducting with Michele Zukovsky as Clarinet Soloist. Also includes the Corigliano Clarinet Concerto and the Bartok Contrasts.
Recommended if you like John Williams, Data CD.MP3 price: $9.99

MARKUS BURGER & JAN VON KLEWITZ "SPIRITUAL STANDARDS": Inside.Outside
Markus Burger and Jan von Klewitz combine the power of ancient choral melodies with their captivating improvisation, a Top 20 Duo from Germany ready to take on America .
MP3 price: $14.97

DAN CLUCAS: EXILE
Compositional modern jazz with an urgency. At times loud and punky/noisy, at others abstract and soft like a pillow.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $8.99

HEAVY WATER EXPERIMENTS: Heavy Water Experiments
Eclectic heavy/mellow art rock with an progressive/psychedelic vibe ala Pink Sabbath, Dorphine, or Radio Queens of the Stone Head.
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd.CD price: $12.97

JOANNE PEARCE MARTIN: Joanne Pearce Martin: Barefoot, solo piano. Yarlung Records
From the classically powerful to the transcendently modern, Joanne can do it all. She commands the piano keyboard as deftly as she pilots her airplane.
Recommended if you like Yefim Bronfman, Hélène Grimaud.CD price: $16.99

MID-AIR: Tape Loop EP
Hundreds of cassette tapes get a cut and paste make-over, and are then squeezed into a 24 minute EP.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99

CORNBUGS: Donkey Town
More musical madness from Bill "Choptop" Moseley & guitar god Buckethead. We'll sock you, rock you and tuck you in tight.
CD price: $16.97

DADALA: summertime with Billy Shaw
Avant-garde free jazz meets experimental electronica and digital manipulation in this unique and mind-bending kaleidoscopic sax-centered collection of unconventional instrumentals that pay no mind to the boundaries of genre.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $8.91

MLUM: muZAC for ExperiMENTAL musik
Weltradau (world noise) in which ethnoise, bodily functions, sound mauls and stylistic cliches are reconfigured,
Recommended if you like The Residents, Brian Eno.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97

FREDERICK MOORE: Lives of the Saints
Harmonically adventurous sound scapes with an experimental, electronic edge support existential/beat meditations and semi-linear narrative.
Recommended if you like Joe Frank.CD price: $9.99

VINCENT GILLIOZ: The Appearance Of Things
This 49 minute soundtrack was a best score semi-finalist at the 2007 Moondance International Film Festival. This orchestral score also features touching solo cello performances by Paul Wiancko, and mezzo-soprano Mashal Arman.
Recommended if you like Henry Purcell, George Duvivier.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.50

RE:AGENT: Zulu
Tim Young, Branden Harper, and Jon Ossman join forces in this free-form trio setting called: re:agent
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $3.00

KATHLEEN CRAMER & O-LAN JONES: The Woman Who Forgot Her Sweater
Modern Western European avant garde.
CD price: $20.00

DADALA: sampler
Eclectic & eccentric hybridizations from surreal to sublime; unique & adventurous collage of electronic & acoustic sources, improvisation, remixing, jazz, abstract, alternative, avant-garde & the kitchen sink.
CD price: $12.97

ANNA HOMLER STEUART LIEBIG DUO: Kelpland Serenades
Strange folk songs from different planets. Or perhaps, sonic postcards from the edge.
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50

STEUART LIEBIG/STIGTETTE: Delta
Third-stream chamber jazz with juxtapositions of notated and improvised sections
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50

DADALA: candy fish barrel
Digital alchemy and acoustic adventures; abstract and instrumental: rearranged improvisations, cyber jazz, post-rock electronica, glitch soundscape, geese, bees, throat singing, bossa nova.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.92

STEUART LIEBIG/MINIM: Sulphur
Sorta avant garde third stream music incorporating written and freely improvised material
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50

STEUART LIEBIG/THE MENTONES: Locustland
John Lee Hooker on a bad trip - - avant Americana groove thang
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50

STEUART LIEBIG/THE MENTONES: Nowhere Calling
Little Walter meets Ornette Coleman plus a little country and something else thrown in
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50

SCOTT FRASER BRUCE FRIEDMAN: Landscape With Figure
Improvised music for electric guitar and trumpet. Guitar creates sonic textures while trumpet plays in a relaxed melodic style.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

HALLS OF THE MACHINE: Atmospheres for Lovers and Sleepers
An instrumental exploration of silence and the music it could produce.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

CEIRI TORJUSSEN: Soul's Midnight
Music for the Motion Picture
Recommended if you like John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99

UEM: Code
Improvisations with acoustic (voice, percussion) and electronic (synth, laptop, circuit bent toys) instruments.
Recommended if you like King Crimson, John Zorn.CD price: $7.98 / MP3 price: $7.49

WILLIAM C HARRINGTON: UEM Live
Experimental sample based electronic art music with beats and and acoustic improvs performed live.
CD price: $7.98 / MP3 price: $7.49

GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES: The Best of Times
Our premiere appearance at the legendary Disney Hall. This album highlights music from our 2003-2004 season and includes a diverse selection of songs in the style of opera, Broadway, Judy Garland and more.

BAKU LLAMA: Devour my Evil Dream
Dark and dreamy, piano and guitar drum driven progressive jazz/rock in a Badelamenti vein. Soaring, edgy, and sometimes beautiful.
MP3 price: $9.99

LEWIS MACADAMS AND THE DARK BOB: Dear Oxygen
It’s words and music, sound stories, voice essays, poems, letters and songs - matters of life and death.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
