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LUNCH WITH BEARDO: Surrealistic Picnic
Psychedelic noise freakout space ambient experimental drones
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
CROW TONGUE: The Red Hand Mark
A tribal acoustic-based music which has been dubbed "Appalachian Doom" - rooted in heavy rhythms and primitive earthen grooves.
CD price: $11.00
BLACK LODGE ENSEMBLE: Black Lodge Ensemble
An electro-acoustic ensemble with influences lurching between musique concrete, Spike Jones and Post/Rock. BLE bristles with complex structures, unsetteling constructs of found sound, failed soloing and a relentless push-pull of ideas.
Recommended if you like Faust, Nurse With Wound.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
FONTAINE COOLEY: Cheyney Sessions
Original acoustic instrumental music fusing jazz, funk, blues, country, bluegrass and an occasional latin groove. Backwoods pyrotechnics.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
NORTHERN LIBERTIES: Ghost Mind Electricity
Weirdo post punk made using bass, drum set, vocals and percussion.
Recommended if you like Joy Division, Lightning Bolt.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DEEP SOUND CHANNEL: 01
Experimental electronic, noise, glitch-jazz, edgy ambient. Pointillist laptop composition + live instrument improvisations. New, fresh music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Don't Abandon Your Baby
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50
BLACK LODGE ENSEMBLE: Jim-bum
Features a ten-piece unit with its 'studio as instrument' approach to a large ensemble work, jim-bum is the black lodge ensemble’s most ambitious work to date
CD price: $14.00
KIP ROSSER AND HOWARD MOSCOVITZ: Exploration of the Black Exterior - Improvisations for Keyboards and Theremin
Meditative, exuberant or raw, the musicians explore forms ranging from classical in feel to pure electro-sound by using the piano or synth's cluster of textures and harmonies, coupled with the theremin's ability to sound convincingly vocal.
Recommended if you like Brian Eno.CD price: $12.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Honeymoon Music Compilation
A sweep of styles, all genuine and psychically charged. Lovers of underground folk, improv, drone broken jazz and noise will appreciate this acknowledgment off of the grid in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
CD price: $10.00
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Sound Textures
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
CRAIG MORRISON: Parkview
Fluid, avant garde modern guitar melodies
Recommended if you like Jimmy Bruno, Larry Carlton.CD price: $11.97
JOE SCHMITT: All-American Content Provider
60% Progressive Electronic Chamber Rock with angular melodies, frequent counterpoint and/or cartoonish percussion, 30% intimate, blissed-out totally free keyboard improvs, 10% psyche-lounge-metal-Sfx-other, and all of it 98% instrumental.
CD price: $7.50
RICH KELLY: Nearly Full
Innovative blend of rock-jazz guitar, keyboards, and rhythms crafted across diverse instrumental compositions and vocal tracks.
Recommended if you like John Abercrombie, Allan Holdsworth.CD price: $9.97
HEATH WATTS AND DAN PELL: Breathe If You Can
Grass Hair Duo performs high energy, improvised music that paints elements of jazz, punk, rock, metal, noise, experimental, world music, and blues onto an exciting, bold, and riveting sound canvas.
CD price: $15.00
STEVEN EDWARD LITTLE: Jazzed Edge
Playful, edgy, intense, light - a blend of free-flowing nu jazz. Music in the jazz idiom composed and performed entirely on the KAOSSILATOR.
CD price: $12.97
CROW TONGUE: Prophecies and Secrets: The Red Hand Mark in Dub
Reinterpreted, remixed, and otherwise re-imagined recordings using the techniques and experimental spirit of dub (though not a traditional dub album).
CD price: $9.25
BRENTWOOD ESTATES: Brentwood Estates
If you are not smiling and laughing half way through the first track then you're either really old, really dead or on heavy medication.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE SLANT: Old North
What does it sound like? "Walking through the woods with a banjo" could work. In an increasingly difficult to define genre, Old North explores an experimental, sonic, psychedelic, and oftentimes powerful folk-rock sound with hits of the blues.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
COSMIC CURTAIN: Silver Spheres
A 100% Kaossilator album. Ambient yet rhythmic, powerful yet playful, soulful yet serious -- a series of sonic vignettes of eclectic electronica.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
CROW TONGUE: Ghost Eye Seeker
Shamanic chant and drone raga experiments ranging from free-folk to free-noise and back again.
Recommended if you like Stone Breath, acid mothers temple.CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
NEW WILDERNESS: The Wilderness Beyond
Original instrumental soundscape compositions inspired by the beauty and mystery of the universe, performed with electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, fretless electric bass, vibraphone, electronically processed vibraphone and flute.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $6.95
ZEN FOR PRIMATES: Mary Ann's Dead Husband Was My Stella Novagratz
The latest creation from award winning masters of cabaret rock
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
JACK OHLY: Now Down
A worn-in voice over layered upright basses, guitar, trumpet and scrap metal percussion, moving from underground tunnel to circus tent to sunlit bedroom with strange coherence.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
WIGGLY OF TRAP DOOR: Inorganic Muhmbience
Ambient-industrial-rock-pop-acid-jazz created for the sole purpose to invoke levels of consciousness to the listener.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Uber Brass
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
KIK: ECLEKTRICO
eclektrico = eclectic + electronic a dark-sexy-groovy-journey from dance rock to latin fusion
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
STEPHEN P. ANDERSON: Blackbirds Over Lancaster
Solo recording project from the founding member of ZONIC SHOCKUM. Gloomy minimalist post-punk folk rock from Pennsylvania.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
KEITH COHEN: Bisexual Anthems
Not since Charles Manson has the counter-culture had such a folk talent.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
LOIS SVARD: Ear-Walking Woman DVD
Experience Annea Lockwood's prepared piano from the inside - with a close-up view during performance of the detuned strings, the superball mallets, the Buddhist prayer gong, the water glass, the cedar balls, and all of the other implements.
Recommended if you like John Cage, George Crumb.CD price: $16.49
SONIC LIBERATION FRONT: Water and Stone
A unique mix of post-Ayler free improvisation and the Afro Cuban roots music of Santeria with added elements form the world of ambient chill and trip hop.
CD price: $13.98
WILL DIEHL: Impermanent Blue
Instrumentals and recordings of original songs. Some tunes, including "Katrina" are included in the soundtrack to OXFAM America's film "Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises" narrated by Actor Danny Glover.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
THE ANTIMUSIC BAND: Step Up
improvisational antimusic.totally unique sounds and vocals.rockin new age ecopolitics, love, spirit, fun.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Pink Floyd.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DHARMA SON COLLECTIVE: Antipodes Of Fallout
Imagine the sounds of Pink Floyd,Sun Ra,Ash Ra Tempel & Amon Duul coming together for an all out acid laced experimentalist netherworld of sound designed to derail the senses of the listener.and yer part way there.
CD price: $6.99
METAFIX: Electric Audio Acid Test
synthesized brainwave music used in psychological testing
CD price: $13.00
THE ELEVATOR PARADE: Chimes-Bells-and-Whistles
retro/modern/drone rock/pop/space/ brit/folk/psych/lo fi/no fi/free/avant garde/normal/song/jam/orchestra/ solo/change/constant/noise/music/wall ofsound/new/old/experimental/ harmony/melody/rythm/wide open/confined/analog/digital/ fuzz/fuzz/fuzz/loud/soft
CD price: $9.99
