Avant Garde

RICH BITTING: Twelve Acousmatic Miniatures
Part ambient soundscape, part electronic texture seasoned with instrumental color.
Recommended if you like Karlheinz Stockhausen, 武満徹, George Crumb.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
RUSTY BURGE: Contrast
Contrast features the dynamic marimba and vibraphone playing of Rusty Burge in a wide variety of musical environments.
Recommended if you like Gary Burton, Milt Jackson, Dave Samuels.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
BARNETT / BAUMANN: Beauty Bent, Not Broken
Ambient and lyrical soundscapes with a touch of Americana.
Recommended if you like Jan Garbarek, This Will Destroy You, ECM.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
SCOTT PARIS: Inti-matter
An album three years in the making, "inti-matter," is the most honest and weird this artist has ever been.
Recommended if you like Radiohead.
MP3 price: $3.99
MATT BAUMANN: Drifter
Simple open melodies and impressions of echoes, waves, desert, sky, and desolation performed on solo saxophone. Completely unique solo saxophone music.
Recommended if you like John Fahey, Jan Garbarek, Bill Dixon.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
POLKA FLOYD: The Polka Floyd Show
The music of Pink Floyd like you've never heard it before - polka style with a revved up rock sound.
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett.
CD price: $10.00
MATT BAUMANN: Deserter
Simple open melodies, improvisations, and impressions of rain, wind, sky, and desolation. Unique solo saxophone music.
Recommended if you like John Fahey, Jan Garbarek, Bill Dixon.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
RICH BITTING: The Resonance of Place
John Cage meets Aphex Twin.
Recommended if you like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luc Ferrari.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
SLEEPYBIRD: No Flood
Sleepybird looks like your average folk band, but it's really an avant-garde exploration of noise and sound.
Recommended if you like Modest Mouse, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel.
MP3 price: $10.00
NIOM: Streams of Consciousness
Explores the darker, more intense realms of experimental, ambient and synthesizer-based music.
Recommended if you like Vangelis, Steve Roach, Brian Eno.
CD price: $10.00
NSDWHOA: Day of Dog Year of Gnar
With a band as eccentric and unique as NSDWHOA., your hope in original music still being created should definitely be restored.
Recommended if you like An Albatross, These Arms Are Snakes.
CD price: $7.99
ZARR MANCO II: Strange day's
Happy music with peace, love, happiness, and tranquility.
Recommended if you like Frank Zappa, Donovan, Richie Havens.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SAVERIO: Sweet Dreamy Space
"Sweet Dreamy Space" is a haven of ambient, sci-fi-like, space music that reminds us of Louis and Bebe Barron, Darshan Ambient, Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach and Brian Eno.
Recommended if you like Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Louis and Bebe Barron.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PROJECT RUORI: Start With Breakfast
Electro-acoustic spoken sonatas converge with post-apocalyptic electro-pop against a modular backdrop of melodic viola.
Recommended if you like Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner.
CD price: $12.97
LLOYD PAGE: Ring Tone Nation
RingToneNation is 98 distinctive ringtones. Ranging from chimes, bells, and musical interludes to jangly, raucous, spatial, froggy, and just a bit "out there". The CD includes PC compatible mp3 extras and videos.
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd, Donovan, Salvador Dali.
CD price: $19.95 / MP3 price: $19.95
RICH BITTING: Conifers
A soundtrack for a soniferous forest. If an imaginary tree falls in an imaginary forest, does it make an imaginary sound? A lush ambient stroll through your own inner forest.
Recommended if you like Dead Can Dance, Sigur Rós, Brian Eno, Sigur Ro.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
JON SONNENBERG AND ISRAEL SLICK: The Prometheus Project
Written in the verse of classic sci-fi horror.
Recommended if you like Travelogue, The Red Orchestra.
DECKARD CROIX: Smiling Feline Descendant
Sound montage based on an original poem consisting of dozens of collaborators.
Recommended if you like Throbbing Gristle, Steve Reich, Wendy Carlos.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SAVERIO: Music On The Moon
This is the second and strongest release of this computer-assisted ambient space music, features lush, expressive synths and powerful compositions waiting to burst out.
Recommended if you like Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach, Brian Eno.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LLOYD PAGE: Elemental Asylum
Instrumental, eclectic, bohemian, space rock, avant experimental
Recommended if you like Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Clinton.
ITEM price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROCCO DI PIETRO: The Third Position
Post-Modern Avant-garde,Classical-Electro-acoustic
Recommended if you like John Zorn, John Chowning, Luigi Nono.
CD price: $12.97
BANGALEE: Tales Told
Exotcic electronic music infused with organic world instruments and traces of futuristic nu-metal
Recommended if you like The Chemical Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Air.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
DENNY CARLETON: Think Tank
Home Taping Experimental Pop and Avante Garde
Recommended if you like Beck, The Beatles, Ray Davies.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
71 NORTH: 71 X-press
The creators of the "Boodie Bounce" and the "Cleveland Shuffle" is back with there new line dance called the 71 X-Press if you love the Cha Cha Slide and the Electric Boogie you'll love this one...
Recommended if you like Ying Yang Twins.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
DENNY CARLETON: Color with Crayons
Experimental. Avante Garde Lo Fi sound collage.
Recommended if you like Beck.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
LIZ ZORN: The Truth About Me
Liz Zorn's storytelling style of acoustic based music spans the genre' pool from folk, rock and americana to contemporary alternative, she has been described as irreverent and engaging; To coin a phrase: this ain't your grandaddys folk music.
Recommended if you like Jonatha Brooke, Patty Griffin, Lucinda Williams.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99