Avant Garde: Structured Improvisation

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

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Editor's Picks (see more)

MIRCAN: Sala
Dreamy and ethereal music from Anatolia. Romantic, original and deeply felt work full of fascinating juxtapositions.
CD price: $14.67
LOW PRESSURE SOUND SYSTEM: Life Like Liquid Soundtrack
Lead by Sol Carroll & Oj Newcomb, this album features world-renowned free surfer, Dave Rastovich, and a collective of talented surfing musicians.
CD price: $30.00 / MP3 price: $25.00
DOVEMAN: With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead
A collection of nine romantic piano-led songs and seven dreamy mini-symphonies of ambient sound. Like listening to ghosts on the shortwave radio. An ebbing then swelling, oceanic thing, it comes than goes; tickles your ears then pokes you in the ribs.
CD price: $13.00
MARR: Winter Ditches
Avant garde metal
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
STEUART LIEBIG/MINIM: Quicksilver
Avant Garde third stream music incorporating written and freely improvised material
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
DON PRESTON: Works
A unique collection of the former Mothers Of Invention keyboardist's more classical pieces, spanning from 1965 to the present.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GUSTAVO AGUILAR: Unsettled On An Old Sense Of Place
Percussion is the primary focus but this creative ensemble also combines composed and improvised music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $11.00
CORNBUGS: Donkey Town
More musical madness from Bill "Choptop" Moseley & guitar god Buckethead. We'll sock you, rock you and tuck you in tight.
CD price: $16.97
LARRY OCHS / ROVA SPECIAL SEXTET: The Mirror World (for Stan Brakhage)
Two dynamic landscapes for inspired improvisers: 1 for sextet (rocking.) and 1 for creative music orchestra (elegiac), both inspired by the hand-painted films of legendary Stan Brakhage.
CD price: $25.00
STEPHANE WREMBEL: Terre Des Hommes
Acoustic, instrumental, impressionist, world, a soundtrack for your imagination. Inspired by Django Reinhardt and Claude Debussy, in a new york-21st century world.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99

New Arrivals (see more)

CORNBUGS: Donkey Town
More musical madness from Bill "Choptop" Moseley & guitar god Buckethead. We'll sock you, rock you and tuck you in tight.
CD price: $16.97
KRIKTOR: Bjärta Färger
A trio with one bassist and two drummers, playing free music with strict boundaries. Together with their electronic echoes, they create sonic textures ranging from careful and humble to the outright obscene.
CD price: $16.00
LARRY OCHS / ROVA SPECIAL SEXTET: The Mirror World (for Stan Brakhage)
Two dynamic landscapes for inspired improvisers: 1 for sextet (rocking.) and 1 for creative music orchestra (elegiac), both inspired by the hand-painted films of legendary Stan Brakhage.
CD price: $25.00
SATOKO FUJII & PAUL BLEY: Something About Water
“Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii's Something About Water, her duo piano recording with Bley, proves she's taken her teacher's free-flowing, unrestrained aesthetic to heart.” — Larry Blumenfeld, Jazziz
CD price: $18.00
STEPHANE WREMBEL: Terre Des Hommes
Acoustic, instrumental, impressionist, world, a soundtrack for your imagination. Inspired by Django Reinhardt and Claude Debussy, in a new york-21st century world.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
ELLIOT RACINE: Jamming With The Sun
Various instruments recorded onto tape, tape warped in the sun, warped tape recorded onto other recording equipment.
CD price: $5.00
A THOUSAND TINY FINGERS: Psychedelic Steppenwolves
Spoken word set to music, ala the beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
CD price: $12.97
STEVE RUST TRIO: Bottom Feeder
high energy improvisational fusion of jazz, classical, and rock
CD price: $12.97
RP COLLIER: Deconstruction Of Twilight
Pensive and searching guitar improvisation with delicate ambient space and eruptions of romanticism: an origami mandala of chill.
CD price: $7.50 / MP3 price: $6.50
BRAM STADHOUDERS & ONNO GOVAERT: Enderra
Synth clouds and sparkling rhythms, haunting guitar melodies and spacey nature sounds; ambient jazz improvised by two young talents.
MP3 price: $12.00

Top Sellers (see more)

THE FLATLANDS COLLECTIVE: Gnomade
Carefully structured free-jazz with an electronic flavor
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
BRIAN TAIRAKU RITCHIE: Taimu
Zen jazz improvisation; free Japanese modern music blending gongs, bamboo shakuhachi flute and more. Combines jazz, punk, blues and classical.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CHRISTIE FORESTER: Heartsong Vol. 2
Piano instrumentals that meld lush original compositions with soothing familiar melodies for a relaxing listening experience.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
GIL SELINGER: Deconstructing Haydn
Haydn's C Major Concerto for Cello and Orchestra as written then deconstructed through improvisation.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE: Tepeu
Tepeu is the follow-up to San Francisco composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante's 1997 solo piano release Itz'at. Reflexive, very tonal, romantic at times, gently drawing the listener in. "suitable for framing." Jim Santella, All About Jazz
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
RACHEL BARTON, VIOLIN: God Defend New Zealand
An Introduction, Theme, and Variations in the style of the great virtuoso violin composers of the 19th Century (Paganini's Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sento, Ernst's Last Rose of Summer), with virtually every pyrotechnical feat.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
ADAM FISHER: Forplay
Solo cello improvisations that "evoke an Egon Schiele portrait of Raquel Welch"--Markus Schneider
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ZEPH DANIEL: Enoch Yah
Alternative Christian Rock with a Metal Edge -- we ignored the Christian music industry to create something unique and totally intense. The blow against Satanica is noted.
CD price: $12.97
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TRANS-PERSONAL ORCHESTRA: Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra
This nine-piece ensemble, with strings, woodwinds, guitar, accordion, and tuba, performs the structured improv compositions of Aaron Bennett, an active composer/saxophonist of the vital San Francisco Bay Area experimental music scene.
CD price: $16.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
RECEPTOR SIGHT: Undogmamind
Atmospheric soundtrack instrumentals designed to take the listener on a journey...
CD price: $10.00