Avant Garde: Avant-Americana
(See a text list of all Avant Garde: Avant-Americana albums.)
style / mood
- Featuring Bass
- Featuring Guitar
- Featuring Piano
- Instrumental
- Mood: Brooding
- Mood: Dreamy
- Mood: Fun
- Mood: Funny
- Mood: Intellectual
- Mood: Party Music
- Mood: Patriotic
- Mood: Quirky
- Mood: Sex Music
- Mood: Upbeat
- Mood: Virtuoso
- Mood: Weird
- Solo Female Artist
- Solo Instrumental
- Solo Male Artist
- Spiritual
- Type: Acoustic
- Type: Background Music
- Type: Compilations
- Type: Experimental
- Type: Improvisational
- Type: Instrumental
- Type: Live Recordings
- Type: Lo-Fi
- Type: Lyrical
- Type: Political
- Type: Soundtrack
- Type: Tributes
- Type: Vocal
- Avant Garde: Atonal
- Avant Garde: Electro-Acoustic
- Avant Garde: Experimental
- Avant Garde: Free Improvisation
- Avant Garde: Noise
- Avant Garde: Psychedelia
- Avant Garde: Structured Improvisation
- Blues: Acoustic Blues
- Blues: Electric Blues
- Blues: Harmonica Blues
- Blues: Jazzy Blues
- Blues: Mellow Blues
- Blues: Prewar Blues
- Blues: Swamp Blues
- Blues: Urban Blues
- Classical: Art songs
- Classical: Rock Opera
- Country: Alt-Country
- Country: Americana
- Country: Country Folk
- Country: Countrypolitan
- Country: Cowboy
- Country: Modern Country
- Easy Listening: Adult contemporary
- Electronic: Experimental
- Electronic: Folktronic
- Electronic: Trip Hop
- Folk: Acid Folk
- Folk: Alternative Folk
- Folk: Anti-Folk
- Folk: Appalachian Folk
- Folk: Field Recordings
- Folk: Fingerstyle
- Folk: Folk Pop
- Folk: Folk-Rock
- Folk: Free-folk
- Folk: Jazzy folk
- Folk: Modern Folk
- Folk: Musette
- Folk: Political
- Folk: Progressive Folk
- Folk: Psych-folk
- Folk: Skiffle
- Folk: Traditional Folk
- Folk: Urban Folk
- Hip-Hop/Rap: Hip Hop
- Hip-Hop/Rap: Jazz-Rap
- Jazz: Avant-Garde Jazz
- Jazz: Chamber Jazz
- Jazz: Jazz-Pop
- Jazz: Jazz-Rock
- Jazz: Modern Creative Jazz
- Jazz: Soul-Jazz
- Jazz: Weird Jazz
- Latin: Tango
- Metal/Punk: Dark Ambient/Noise
- Metal/Punk: Doom/Stoner Metal
- Metal/Punk: Post-Punk
- Pop: Baroque Pop
- Pop: Dream Pop
- Pop: Noise Pop
- Pop: Piano
- Pop: Pop Underground
- Pop: Pop/Rock
- Pop: with Electronic Production
- Rock: Acoustic
- Rock: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
- Rock: American Underground
- Rock: Americana
- Rock: Country-Rock
- Rock: Experimental Rock
- Rock: Folk Rock
- Rock: Instrumental Rock
- Rock: Lo-Fi
- Rock: No Wave
- Rock: Post-Rock/Experimental
- Rock: Psychedelic
- Rock: Psychobilly
- Rock: Punk
- Rock: Punk-Pop
- Rock: Rockabilly
- Rock: Roots Rock
- Rock: Sadcore
- Rock: Shoegaze
- Rock: Soft Rock
- Spiritual: Gospel Choir
- Spiritual: Spirituals
- Spoken Word: Instructional
- Spoken Word: With Music
- Urban/R&B: Chicago Soul
- Urban/R&B: R&B Pop Crossover
- Urban/R&B: Soul
- World: Hawaiian
- World: World Fusion
Editor's Picks (see more)
AXA HOUR OF DORA BLEU: Clones of Eros
To attempt a more concrete analysis: The music can be considered “of folk” while not referencing traditional folk forms, anchored in very particularized voice and guitar with accompaniment that is alternatively unified song form.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TAARKA: The Martian Picture Soundtrack
Brilliant Fiddle and Mandolinists Dave and Enion Tiller create a beautiful ride with snappy poppy songs taking instrumental to a new level with Martian Picture Soundtrack.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NOE VENABLE: The Summer Storm Journals
Now, after nearly four years (and five changes of residence), Venable is releasing an album, "The Summer Storm Journals," and coming back to San Francisco for a CD-release show at Cafe Du Nord.
CD price: $15.00
ANNEN BERG: All Things Must Last
60's style folk, bedroom occult, and Nico-esque acoustic minimalism; "Paul Simon meets Edgar Allen Poe"
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RAD UNICORN: Asleep In The Forest
A guitar and bass duo that sings extremely sad songs about love, trash, dreams and raccoons. A strange wooden creature gnawing its way through the luminous secret despair of modern life.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TEN-SPEED: Ricercar EP (to seek)
Americana free garage, functional nestalgia, song-like vehicles.
MP3 price: $2.00
New Arrivals (see more)
CRAP DETECTORS/JIM JACOBI: It Got Too Deep!! (The 30 year anniversary CD)
With liner notes by Jello Biafra,this is the 30 year anniversary of the 1978 release “Victims of the Media” by Jim Jacobi/Crap Detectors. Jello Biafra, says “Jim continues to hit many a nail on the head in ways I wish I had thought of myself."(excerpt)
CD price: $10.97
BRODA: Spiral Staircase
A deeply expressive singer-songwriter who weaves jazz, folk, blues, country, and even funk into her own, unique, Acoustic-Americana sound.
CD price: $15.00
MICHAEL LAMBRIGHT: Allumwandlung
Solo accordion field recordings, inspired by Eastern European music and Yiddish folk. Drony, melancholy, minimalist, and semi-psychedelic.
MP3 price: $5.00
TOM CARTER AND CHRISTIAN KIEFER: From the Great American Songbook
This second collaborative work from the pair is an expansive and ambitious recasting of American music now in the public domain.
CD price: $12.97
OHIOAN & NATIVE KIN: Being of the Good River
New Orleans funeral procession risng from the murk of endtimes for one last march to the final riverboat send-off.
CD price: $13.00
THE GRIZZLY OWLS: By Night On My Bed
Their debut album that sounds one part like a David Lynch soundtrack, and one part like a spaghetti western soundtrack.
CD price: $12.00
THE CHIP SMITH PROJECT: Piehole Liars
Performing the American-roots style songs of their dear, departed daddy- Chip Smith- this family brings it's delicate balance of melancholy and determination to the music- with hints of americana, country, and jazz.
CD price: $10.00
THE RESURRECTIONISTS: Here Hope Flows Like Blood From the Nose
Twilit, Gothic Americana-Carnival Stomp mixed up in a Dust Bowl Era traveling circus with a side of God and drinkin'.
JOE CROKER: Grace and Trespasses
An eclectic and lyrical tour de force: from rock to alt country, folk and blues to world music.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
MERIDIAN GREEN: In the Heart of This Town
A collection of mostly original songs about a sense of place and time spent, and matters of the heart.
CD price: $15.00
Top Sellers (see more)
2 FOOT YARD: Borrowed Arms
Shatters the boundaries between art song and pop song merged with the intimacy of chamber music.
CD price: $15.00
13 DREAMS: Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus: Redux
Scorching Rock, Melodic Ballads, Part Sci-Fi/Horror. Grammy Award Preliminary. 13 Dreams expansive remake of Spirit's Masterpiece.Steve Fossen formerly of Heart on Nature's Way. 8 page color collectors book.
CD price: $13.95
NOE VENABLE: The Summer Storm Journals
Now, after nearly four years (and five changes of residence), Venable is releasing an album, "The Summer Storm Journals," and coming back to San Francisco for a CD-release show at Cafe Du Nord.
CD price: $15.00
KYLE DAWKINS: Conasauga
An exploration of beauty and mystery in southern Appalachia. Kyle Dawkins' guitar and banjo combines contemporary classical complexity with rich folk roots for a compelling journey into the backwoods.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TONY POWERS: Who Could Imagine
Music from an American original-- provocative, sarcastic, subversive, surreal, ironic, eclectic, cynical, angry, comical, and always surprising and musically ear-catching. Great production, musicians. Belongs in any serious collection.
CD price: $15.00
ANTIC CLAY: Hilarious Death Blues
A slow dark ride across the scorched hide of America. Think Johnny Cash riding a skeletal mule to Hell. Not without moments of beauty and hope, however. An audacious DOUBLE CD.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
REBA HASKO: Seeds from the Twisted Pear
"Hasko's music is a mixed bag- on one track, she's part Gary Numan, part Siouxsie Sioux ; on another she's a further-out-there Tori Amos. It's creative and challenging stuff- highly recommended for those who prefer their pop sans bubblegum."
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
IAN CHARLES: Minutes From Midnight
Listen to this one while driving at night. Soulful, Timeless, Driving, Acoustic, Rhythmic, Sonic, Feedbacking... Ballads, Long Lonesome Blues, and melodic Alt-Folk/Psychedelic/Americana for the 21st Century wanderers, wonderers.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
