Avant Garde: Experimental

(See a text list of all Avant Garde: Experimental albums.)

style / mood


Editor's Picks (see more)

  • HAL HIXSON: The Whistling Ones

    HAL HIXSON: The Whistling Ones

    New Weird Americana

    CD price: $10.00

  • A JOHN HENRY MEMORIAL: The Battle of the Black Cloud

    A JOHN HENRY MEMORIAL: The Battle of the Black Cloud

    Moody songs of love and loss

    MP3 price: $12.97

  • HUNAB KU: The Gaze Inward

    HUNAB KU: The Gaze Inward

    Avant garde, technical metal from Seattle in the form of Fantomas, Meshuggah, John Zorn etc.

    CD price: $10.00

  • LIPS AND RIBS: Battle in Nagoya

    LIPS AND RIBS: Battle in Nagoya

    Adventure-y stimulus music, with hints of spazz-melody, moog-o-centricness, alpha males in harmony, and fist pumping.

    CD price: $10.00

  • ACRE: Harvest

    ACRE: Harvest

    A one man 'band' from the Pacific Northwest, who uses mixer feedback, a sampler and various effects to create deep vibrant thick drones, the kind that feel otherworldly, that transport the listener to some other place.

    MP3 price: $2.00

  • FAB TRANZER: Riviera

    FAB TRANZER: Riviera

    Americana inspired music, old guitars, old amps, dobros and experimental textures.

    CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99

  • JUKE BARITONE: Juke Baritone

    JUKE BARITONE: Juke Baritone

    Gypsy Punk Cabaret and Pirate Blues Mayhem.Think about Tom Waits with a hangover at a Screamin' Jay Hawkins gig in New Orleans, playing music by Muddy Waters, Danny Elfman and Mike Patton.then you're getting close to a hint of Juke Baritone & The Swamp Do

    CD price: $15.97

  • DANNY!: Danny Is Dead [Japan Bonus Tracks]

    DANNY!: Danny Is Dead [Japan Bonus Tracks]

    The fourth studio release -- and last as an independent artist -- from South Carolina's most prolific producer/MC.

    MP3 price: $9.99

  • ECKHARD GERDES & SHELF LIFE: Scuff Mud

    ECKHARD GERDES & SHELF LIFE: Scuff Mud

    Spoken word with music: experimental fiction performed with improvisational electronic avant-garde music

    CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

  • CORNELIUS: Sensuous

    CORNELIUS: Sensuous

    Experimental Japanese artist Keigo Oyamada reinvents the wheel on his third album in 10 years. No one makes music like this guy.

    CD price: $12.97

New Arrivals (see more)

  • SNAIL BOB: TV's Broke

    SNAIL BOB: TV's Broke

    Hard Avant-Garde shell shards. Psychedelic, semi-metallic, rather odd. Mollusk Rock, really.

    CD price: $10.00

  • LILY WHITE: My Heart Is Slowly Beginning To Work

    LILY WHITE: My Heart Is Slowly Beginning To Work

    With influences like Radiohead, Athlete, and Muse, LilyWhite works to create mature and alluring elements that set their music apart.

    CD price: $10.00

  • CAMPING: Politics of Love

    CAMPING: Politics of Love

    Dense and hypnotic, poundingly percussive, intense and repetitive avant guard guard post rock half way between rage and passion.

    CD price: $15.00

  • POST MORTEM: Festival of Fun

    POST MORTEM: Festival of Fun

    Heavy Sludge Disco with a touch of Punk and stupidity.

    CD price: $12.97

  • CLARA ENGEL: Tender

    CLARA ENGEL: Tender

    Latest album by apocalyptic folk artist Clara Engel. This is her most cinematic effort thus far. This music is stark, howling, philosophical, mournful, dirty. Hymns for the 21st century.

    CD price: $15.00

  • OGOGO: OGOGO/Linden

    OGOGO: OGOGO/Linden

    Surreal Electronic Avant-Garde

    CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97

  • USKARU: Emergence

    USKARU: Emergence

    Uskaru quickly found itself in the roles of translator for the darkest, richest atmospheric music created yet using various instruments from suonas to synthesizers; the music is recorded and mixed by the artists themselves to preserve the authenticity.

    CD price: $15.95 / MP3 price: $13.95

  • ANDREA PLAMONDON: I Still Remember ( A Collection Of Songs From San Francisco's Underground 1989-2006)

    ANDREA PLAMONDON: I Still Remember ( A Collection Of Songs From San Francisco's Underground 1989-2006)

    An eclectic avalanche of dreams and desires with the powerful yet haunting vocals of a true siren.

    CD price: $15.00

  • GARY SMEJKAL: Like A Moth To The Flame

    GARY SMEJKAL: Like A Moth To The Flame

    Described as "Ethereal, jazzy and sexy", this bassist's debut CD contrasts driving rock and latin rhythms with unexpected interludes and fusionist stylings. Metronome Magazine called it "Fluid, expansive and filled with flurries of bass notes".

    CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99

  • PABELLON SIN BARANDA: Atrinca

    PABELLON SIN BARANDA: Atrinca

    In Spanish Baranda means fence, sin translates as without, and Pabellón accepts many different concepts to translate, in this case though, it refers to the Venezuelan dish prepared with black beans, rice and shredded beef meat.

    CD price: $12.97

Top Sellers (see more)

  • JUKE BARITONE: Juke Baritone

    JUKE BARITONE: Juke Baritone

    Gypsy Punk Cabaret and Pirate Blues Mayhem.Think about Tom Waits with a hangover at a Screamin' Jay Hawkins gig in New Orleans, playing music by Muddy Waters, Danny Elfman and Mike Patton.then you're getting close to a hint of Juke Baritone & The Swamp Do

    CD price: $15.97

  • GARLO: Vent De Guitares

    GARLO: Vent De Guitares

    54 guitars placed on the summit of the highest sand dune in Europe. The magical song of hundreds of strings vibrating only under the wind's touch. Experimental, ambient, geo-acoustic creation; premiere mondiale.

    CD price: $12.00

  • KRISTI MARTEL: The Mule

    KRISTI MARTEL: The Mule

    Ten years of raw, soulful, poetic and experimental piano and voice songwriting centering around the theme of being a carrying animal and attempting to lay the burdens down.

    CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

  • FAB TRANZER: Riviera

    FAB TRANZER: Riviera

    Americana inspired music, old guitars, old amps, dobros and experimental textures.

    CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99

  • LEE FELDMAN: I've Forgotten Everything

    LEE FELDMAN: I've Forgotten Everything

    "I've Forgotten Everything is unlike anything in contemporary pop. If you have a passion for good songwriting, you need this album." STEREOPHILE

    CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97

  • ASSEMBLY: January EP

    ASSEMBLY: January EP

    Experimental Irish and American folk music played in the spirit of trance and indie-rock.

    MP3 price: $10.00

  • EMERALD SUSPENSION: Playing the Market

    EMERALD SUSPENSION: Playing the Market

    What is the sound of a market crash??? Playing the Market features experimental music based on patterns found in the stock market and other economic data. The structural compositions range from minimalist algorithmic music to raw industrial arrangements.

    CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97

  • AGAH BAHARI: The Second Sight of a Mind

    AGAH BAHARI: The Second Sight of a Mind

    One of a kind adventurous instrumental progressive metal collaboration between Agah Bahari, Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati and Ric Fierabracci

    CD price: $16.99 / MP3 price: $16.99

  • KENNY WEYDENER: Project One

    KENNY WEYDENER: Project One

    Ambient instrumental rock with classical influenced melodies,jazz/funk influenced grooves,featuring virtuoso electric basses,backed by drums and percussion.

    CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

  • ORANGE NICHOLE: Orange Nichole

    ORANGE NICHOLE: Orange Nichole

    The juicy debut from former Penguin front-girl Nichole Clarke with smart, tasty tunes ranging from Miss Mary retro to Cardigans Avant-lounge to Kristin Hersh experimental pop.@

    CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00