Avant Garde: Modern Composition
(See a text list of all Avant Garde: Modern Composition albums.)
style / mood
- Christian
- Featuring Bass
- Featuring Guitar
- Featuring Piano
- Featuring Saxophone
- Instrumental
- Mood: Angry
- Mood: Brooding
- Mood: Christmas
- Mood: Dreamy
- Mood: Intellectual
- Mood: Patriotic
- Mood: Quirky
- Mood: Sex Music
- Mood: Upbeat
- Mood: Virtuoso
- Mood: Weird
- Solo Female Artist
- Solo Instrumental
- Solo Male Artist
- Type: Acoustic
- Type: Experimental
- Type: Improvisational
- Type: Instrumental
- Type: Live Recordings
- Type: Lyrical
- Type: Political
- Type: Soundtrack
- Type: Vocal
- Avant Garde: Computer Music
- Avant Garde: Electro-Acoustic
- Avant Garde: Experimental
- Avant Garde: Free Improvisation
- Avant Garde: Microsound
- Avant Garde: Microtonal
- Avant Garde: Sound Art
- Avant Garde: Structured Improvisation
- Blues: Acoustic Blues
- Blues: Urban Blues
- Classical: Art songs
- Classical: Bach
- Classical: Chamber Music
- Classical: Choral Music
- Classical: Contemporary
- Classical: Film Music
- Classical: Keyboard Music
- Classical: Minimalism
- Classical: New Music Ensemble
- Classical: Opera
- Classical: Orchestral
- Classical: Percussion Ensemble
- Classical: Piano solo
- Classical: String Quartet
- Classical: Twentieth Century
- Classical: Vocal Music
- Country: Alt-Country
- Easy Listening: American Popular Song
- Easy Listening: Lounge
- Easy Listening: Mood Music
- Electronic: Ambient
- Electronic: Experimental
- Electronic: Funk
- Electronic: Industrial
- Electronic: Nujazz
- Electronic: Soundscapes
- Electronic: Virtual Orchestra
- Folk: Alternative Folk
- Folk: Fingerstyle
- Hip-Hop/Rap: Alternative Hip Hop
- Hip-Hop/Rap: Hip Hop
- Jazz: Avant-Garde Jazz
- Jazz: Bossa Nova
- Jazz: Chamber Jazz
- Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
- Jazz: Crossover Jazz
- Jazz: Free Jazz
- Jazz: Jazz Vocals
- Jazz: Jazz-Pop
- Jazz: Jazz-Rock
- Jazz: Modern Creative Jazz
- Jazz: Modern Free Jazz
- Jazz: Piano Jazz
- Jazz: Third Stream
- Kids/Family: Educational
- Latin: Tango
- Metal/Punk: Alternative Metal
- New Age: Adult Alternative
- New Age: Ambient
- New Age: Contemporary Instrumental
- New Age: Ethnic Fusion
- New Age: Neo-Classical
- New Age: Shamanic
- New Age: Space
- New Age: Spiritual
- Pop: Chamber Pop
- Pop: Pop/Rock
- Rock: Acoustic
- Rock: Album Rock
- Rock: Avant-Prog
- Rock: Classic Rock
- Rock: Experimental Rock
- Rock: Freakbeat
- Rock: Funk Rock
- Rock: Heartland Rock
- Rock: Instrumental Rock
- Rock: Japanese Rock
- Rock: Noise
- Rock: Post-Rock/Experimental
- Rock: Progressive Rock
- Rock: Psychedelic
- Rock: Rock & Roll
- Spiritual: Contemporary Christian
- Spoken Word: With Music
- World: Scandinavian
- World: Western European
- World: World Beat
- World: World Fusion
Editor's Picks (see more)
TERRY RILEY: Banana Humberto 2000
Classical structures cosmic trance eastern flavored modal melody rhythmically propelling
CD price: $13.99
DAVID GREENBERGER AND 3 LEG TORSO: Whispers, Grins, Bloodloss and Handshakes
Recorded at WGBH in Boston, this record is the second collaboration between spoken word artist and National Public Radio commentator David Greenberger, whose work centers on the stories of the elderly, and 3 Leg Torso.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $7.92
STEBMO: STEBMO
The debut album from multi-instrumentalist, Steve Moore, is a statement of purpose from an artist long at work behind the scenes with Earth, Laura Veirs and Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet.
CD price: $12.97
BRIAN LOCK: Reve
Electronica, ambient and experimental based music set in classical forms , with contemporary structures and textures and infused with filmic melodies.
CD price: $19.98 / MP3 price: $19.98
GHOST TO FALCO: Like This Forever
Strangely catchy and freedom affirming. Carefully crafted lyrics atop huge, lush avant arrangements. Urban isolation and desert-style expansion.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $9.00
LOWNOTE: No Place For Romance
Piano, violin, bass, and drums let loose in a dark and dramatic fashion, uniquely blending classical aesthetics with the contemporary stylings of underground rock, punk and jazz.
CD price: $12.97
ELINOR FREY & DAVID FUNG: Dialoghi (Dialogues for cello and piano) Elinor Frey and David Fung. Yarlung Records
Elinor is a cello virtuoso, equally at home in the Baroque and New Music arenas. Her partnership with David Fung on piano is magic. What a pair.
CD price: $16.99
AL KRYSZAK: Music From Broken Blossoms
Melodic/avant-garde film score excerpts featuring virtuoso performances: guitar, violin, piano, cello, hammered dulcimer & string orchestra.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AMERICAN MODERN ENSEMBLE: Powerhouse Pianists
Formed in 2005, the American Modern Ensemble celebrates the finest contemporary music by American composers. Powerhouse Pianists, AME's first recording on the AMR label, highlights two of its members, pianists Blair McMillen and Stephen Gosling.
CD price: $15.98 / MP3 price: $9.99
BRIGGAN KRAUSS: 300
"300" is the critically acclaimed second recording by this New York based saxophonist, featuring Wayne Horvitz on keyboards and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
CD price: $12.00
New Arrivals (see more)
MIX MOSH POSH: 7 Year Detour
This is a mixture of styles blues, country, pop, alternative, etc.
CD price: $12.97
DAMON CHOICE: Choice Friends
Jazz; Four Vibraphonists, Drummer, and Bassist Avant Garde; Varition of Creative Musicians
CD price: $12.97
BAD TOUCH: Like a Magic Kiss
Bad Touch – alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, guitarist Nate Radley, organist Gary Versace and drummer Ted Poor – is a new music collective based in New York city. The group plays original compositions that evolve through melodic deconstruction.
TWOSTARSYMPHONY: Love and Other Demons
Cinematic and visual. Music for feeling happy or sad. Our goal is to do film score. Haunting and elegant.
CD price: $12.97
CHRIS WUEHRMANN: Mackerel Sky
Experience the passion of that mysterious, shape-shifting wonder, the Grand Canyon, with Chris' musical interpretation of its magnificence through his piano.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
JOHN LANE: Days Have Spoken
Serious classical chamber music composed since 2003 connecting strongly with live audiences through a dynamic emotive continuum from self-assured, feisty and insistent to warm and jovial, beholden and contemplative.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BR AND TIMEBOMB: Fuegissimo
A dynamic, live hip-hop band that combines drums, bass, guitar, trumpet and violin with prolific lyrics and melodic hooks.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
BLUE NOUVEAUX: Temple
Art disguised as music or is it music disguised as art? Emo Gothic Hard Rock. Huh.
MP3 price: $9.99
STEVE CHAPIN: It's Our Lighthouse & Endless Thing
A CD single to inspire, support, and promote the restoration, preservation, and protection of the world's endangered lighthouses. Join in our efforts to safeguard these historic landmarks for America's citizens.
CD price: $5.00
Top Sellers (see more)
BRIAN TAIRAKU RITCHIE: Ryoanji
Zen Jazz Improvisation Shakuhachi Bamboo Flute Acoustic Meditation Gongs Japanese World Music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
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
GEORGIAN CONTEMPORARY UNIT: The View You Never Get
Centered around Hungarian master 16-string guitarist Sandor Szabo, the Georgian Contemporary Unit is group concentration and joyful abandon...a deep blend of contemporary classical, Hungarian folk, free jazz, and meditative trance.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY: Transient Glory II
An explosion of musical colors from 11 of today’s most inventive and eminent composers.
CD price: $16.95 / MP3 price: $16.95
ERIK HINDS: Khonsay
The music of H'arpeggionist Erik Hinds performed by GA Guitar and SS Puft Quartets; from tranquil acoustic peregrinations to absolute full-on electricity, this album is a must for fans of either ensemble.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THIN PILLOW: Thin Pillow
Dense, multi-layered, instrumental "art rock" with an acoustic, chamber music feel. Very energetic and harmonically adventurous, with odd but organic rhythms.
KLAUS JANEK: Caspar
Klaus Janek is a master of contemporary classical and free jazz expression. His solo 5-string doublebass album Caspar is a milestone recording in recent European artistry.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ERIK HINDS: Cerebus
A glimpse into the creative process through the chamber folk of Erik Hinds.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SETH OSBURN: Seven
Soul-shattering, spirit-raising, transcendental music based on the tradition of mysticism and alchemy.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
