Avant Garde: Sound Collage

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

Editor's Picks (see more)

  • MYSTERIAM: Unmistakable

    MYSTERIAM: Unmistakable

    Beautiful song hybrids of lyrical delicacy and experimental structures.

    CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00

  • UTON & VALERIO COSI: Käärmeenkääntopiiri

    UTON & VALERIO COSI: Käärmeenkääntopiiri

    A mélange of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, sounds here collide and join together as naturally as the coming of the tides.

    CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

  • JUSTIN BOSS: Munin

    JUSTIN BOSS: Munin

    The result of the 2008 RPM Challenge, the CD Munin is a testament to Justin Boss' roots in earlier alternative music. Simple, driven, and reminiscent of '90s post-punk.

    CD price: $12.97

  • CITY PARANOID: A Means to No End

    CITY PARANOID: A Means to No End

    A sonic portrait depicting the dark side of London life. Field recordings, electronics, electro-acoustics, vocals.

    CD price: $12.97

  • JOE FRAWLEY: A book of dreams

    JOE FRAWLEY: A book of dreams

    A sound collage novel, in the form of a dream diary, for piano and electronics: Think "Revolution No.9" meets Erik Satie.

    CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $5.99

  • DENISE DILL: In Me

    DENISE DILL: In Me

    Sewing the landscapes and people of Maine and Indiana together in a homemade quilt full of exuberance and luscious imagery that will keep you warm this winter and gear you up for the growing season.

    CD price: $12.97

  • 2NU: The Best Of 2NU

    2NU: The Best Of 2NU

    Theater of the mind. A music experience unique from any other you have ever had.

    CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

  • ILLUSION OF SAFETY: Fifteen/Finite Material Context

    ILLUSION OF SAFETY: Fifteen/Finite Material Context

    The natural ambiance of what sounds like a train station at rush hour, to static drones, to schizophrenic and random edits of noise bursts, steadfast beats, general chaos, and carefully chosen movie samples (the first minute is brilliant.).

    CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $9.99

  • JOHN NEVILLE & MEL COULSON: Beginners Guide to B.C. Bird Song

    JOHN NEVILLE & MEL COULSON: Beginners Guide to B.C. Bird Song

    2CD set presents the bird songs of 84 species from British Columbia in eight easy lessons with quizzes.

    CD price: $19.99 / MP3 price: $19.99

  • THE PET GHOST PROJECT: The Great Satisfactory

    THE PET GHOST PROJECT: The Great Satisfactory

    Colorful soundscapes mixed with raw, melodic rock.

    CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

New Arrivals (see more)

  • ZEN LEPER: Winter Avenue

    ZEN LEPER: Winter Avenue

    Post pop punk, deliciously imperfect cheese tinged with pessimism, dashed with optimism, and drenched in whimsy, Eno meets the Velvet Underground.

    MP3 price: $1.99

  • METAPHYSICIANS: Debutant - EP

    METAPHYSICIANS: Debutant - EP

    Art-rock from the Wild West

    CD price: $8.00

  • JUSTIN BOSS: Munin

    JUSTIN BOSS: Munin

    The result of the 2008 RPM Challenge, the CD Munin is a testament to Justin Boss' roots in earlier alternative music. Simple, driven, and reminiscent of '90s post-punk.

    CD price: $12.97

  • KATO: Lose The Day

    KATO: Lose The Day

    Melodic metal

    CD price: $12.97

  • BOB HOFFNAR: New Music for Pedalsteel Guitar

    BOB HOFFNAR: New Music for Pedalsteel Guitar

    This is a series of recordings made of my own musical ideas using the pedal steel guitar as the main voice. I play steel guitar for a living in NYC and felt the need to put out some of my own music outside of standard song form.

    CD price: $12.97

  • ANCIENT PISTOL: Madame Curie's Cabinet

    ANCIENT PISTOL: Madame Curie's Cabinet

    Ancient Pistol is an avant garde entity using elements of musique concrete/noise collage using guitar, synthesizers, drum machine, loopers, and household tools to make a cacophony, more commonly known as a rythmnic racket.

    CD price: $12.97

  • BLUE NOUVEAUX: 10 Years After

    BLUE NOUVEAUX: 10 Years After

    The rose amongst the thorns from a label known mostly for Scumrock. The Blue Nouveaux you remember from "Darkness In Me" might be present on the opening track "When You Lie" but a whole new American band to compliment the singer.

    MP3 price: $9.99

  • ANCIENT PISTOL: Bear Hill Phenomenon

    ANCIENT PISTOL: Bear Hill Phenomenon

    An avant garde entity using elements of musique concrete/noise collage using guitar, synthesizers, drum machine, loopers, and household tools to make a cacophony, more commonly known as a rythmnic racket.

    CD price: $12.97

  • ANCIENT PISTOL: It's All Energy to Me

    ANCIENT PISTOL: It's All Energy to Me

    An avant garde entity using elements of musique concrete/noise collage using guitar, synthesizers, drum machine, loopers, and household tools to make a cacophony, more commonly known as a rythmnic racket.

    CD price: $12.97

  • THE UNIVERSAL ARTIST: Treasures And Adventures

    THE UNIVERSAL ARTIST: Treasures And Adventures

    Ambient with classical elements and subtle sound design.

    CD price: $15.00

Top Sellers (see more)

  • 2NU: The Best Of 2NU

    2NU: The Best Of 2NU

    Theater of the mind. A music experience unique from any other you have ever had.

    CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

  • DAVID ROTHENBERG: Whale Music

    DAVID ROTHENBERG: Whale Music

    Jazz that reaches out to the sounds of the natural world. Lyrical, pure and tinged with a little bit of bird, whale, and bug

    CD price: $14.97

  • DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS: Days Between Stations

    DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS: Days Between Stations

    Experimental, progressive or art rock their sound reflects their varied influences, as well as a shared disregard for stylistic boundaries.

    CD price: $15.00

  • THE FLYIN' RYAN BROTHERS: The Chaos Sampler

    THE FLYIN' RYAN BROTHERS: The Chaos Sampler

    An experimental aural journey into the deep,dark recesses of fractal relativism, utilizing "found sound" collages---disorienting, disturbing and delightfully different.

    CD price: $9.95 / MP3 price: $9.95

  • KELLEY DOLAN: Bedtime Story

    KELLEY DOLAN: Bedtime Story

    An inventive synthesis of traditional & experimental music, incorporating modern songwriting, vocals, live improvised chamber music, and electric & electronic sounds.

    CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99

  • RECEPTOR SIGHT: Undogmamind

    RECEPTOR SIGHT: Undogmamind

    Atmospheric soundtrack instrumentals designed to take the listener on a journey...

    CD price: $10.00

  • THE PAINFUL LEG INJURIES: Interpreting Codes Into Robust Details: The 2005 Podcasts

    THE PAINFUL LEG INJURIES: Interpreting Codes Into Robust Details: The 2005 Podcasts

    A digital orchestra of junkyard sculptors trudging through every avant garde style of the past and coming century.


  • ANAPHYLAXIS: noise for lovers

    ANAPHYLAXIS: noise for lovers

    Anaphylaxis is the sound of universal tension... soothing atmospheric textures, obscure industrial noises, avant-garde trip-hop progressions and haunting shoegazer-like drones...

    CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $5.99

  • MARYASQUE: THE MAYPOOL

    MARYASQUE: THE MAYPOOL

    Ethereal vocal creations.

    CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

  • JOE FRAWLEY: Wilhelmina's Dream

    JOE FRAWLEY: Wilhelmina's Dream

    "Beautiful, evocative and mysterious sound collages. Seems like being charmed by an old memories record player. A delicate journey of field recordings and ghostly voices." --picomedia.org

    CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00