Avant Garde » Mood: Dreamy
MIRCAN: Sala
Dreamy and ethereal music from Anatolia. Romantic, original and deeply felt work full of fascinating juxtapositions.
CD price: $14.67
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
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
EOS: Musica Mecanica
Intoverted, nostalgic, and evoking your vision.
Recommended if you like The Cinematic Orchestra.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
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.
Recommended if you like Leonard Cohen, Will Oldham.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARC MANNING: Air In The Trees
Dark forest psych folk
Recommended if you like Daniel Johnston, Low.CD price: $8.50 / MP3 price: $5.00
BRIAN TAIRAKU RITCHIE: Ryoanji
Zen Jazz Improvisation Shakuhachi Bamboo Flute Acoustic Meditation Gongs Japanese World Music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVID FRANKLIN: Shadowlands
While David is primarily a singer-songwriter, this is a collection of avant garde pieces which often flow from this composer; there are many "found sounds" (vacuum cleaners, baby's cries, computer printers) and rhythms in this experimental collection.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LAURENT ROCHELLE: Sous La Surface Des Mots
This album presents a lot of melodic tunes using bass clarinet, piano, saxophones, electronics, mixing different influences like repetitive jazz, experimental and classical music.
CD price: $12.97
DISTANT LIGHTS: Simulacrum
Hailing from Austin, TX, Distant Lights is a five piece progressive art rock band featuring electric cello, powerful vocals, thick harmonies, and wild displays of virtuosity.
CD price: $10.00
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
BRAM STADHOUDERS: Tonelist
Electronic ambient jazz free improvisations. Ethereal, spacy, poetical, wide soundscapes, using semi-acoustic guitar through laptop, synths, sounds, coloring keys and light drums. Improvised by three very young players.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.00
5+2 BRASS ENSEMBLE: Invisible Cities and Other Works
Moody, third stream jazz for brass ensemble with bass and drums
Recommended if you like Miles Davis, Gil Evans.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
REALPOETIK WITH DENIM ON DENIM: Why Poems Can Be More Like Paintings
Voiceover recordings of up-and-coming New York City poets layered atop the expansive sound of marching landscapes designed by Denim on Denim.
MP3 price: $6.00
THE DEEP END: Modern Tinmen
A Futuristic look at the world through Rock and Roll. Political meets magical in this dance with The Deep End
CD price: $10.00
LAURENT ROCHELLE: Conversations à Voix Basse
Strange and melodic music made with overdubs of bass clarinet, piano, melodica, saxophones and samples.
CD price: $12.97
VONN NEW: Listening in Tongues
Vonn New plays a blend of acoustic percussion, strings & winds, electro-acoustic textures, environmental found sounds and spoken word to create a deeply intimate and spiritual soundscape.
CD price: $12.97
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
BENEATH THE UNDERDOG: Lullabies For Your Innerchild
Btu sound is worldly, eclectic, unique, poetic and indie.
CD price: $14.97
ORCHESTRAMAXFIELDPARRISH: The Silent Breath Of Emptiness
Improvisational guitar soundscape
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
HERRINGBONE ORCHESTRA: Sea Witch
Here come drunken Russian ballerinas dancing underwater with elephants while swans sail by to the sunset.
CD price: $12.97
SA SEVOL: The Sea Of Showers
An eleven-piece study of apprehension in black & white by Sa Sevol.
Recommended if you like Brian Eno.MP3 price: $12.97
THE MELLOW PALACE: Cat Purr Soundscape Trance
Atmospheric chill-out music centered around the looped and manipulated recording of a cat we recorded. Bells, synth, water and random improvised noises were recorded spontaneously to tape.
Recommended if you like Steve Roach, Coil.CD price: $11.00
PATRICK HAZELL: In The Prairie Land
Blues and folk-tinged, electric, acoustic, and synthesized (no loops or midi )orchestrated original compositions based upon a theme which portrays a love and awestruck respect for the great plains of the United States.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $8.99
TONE DIALING: Rigop me
Improvised electronic minimalism, with respect to beats and melody
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
LARS: Click Stone
Ambient, other worldly musical landscapes that are moody, jazz/blues, guitar-synth textures intended to shift one's state of mind and find a parcel of retreat from the demands of daily life.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
ILLUSION OF SAFETY: Time Remaining
Digital noise, articulated structure, fractured beat, blurry landscapes luring you into a false sense of security, then when you have ground to stand on, your head gets kicked in.
MP3 price: $4.00
LAIRDANDER: Lairdander - EP
Water. Ice. Sine. Seq. Cloud.
Recommended if you like Labradford, Oren Ambarchi.MP3 price: $4.95
ELECTRIC BIRD NOISE: Fragile Hearts.....fragile Minds
Cinematic instrumental guitar music.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
EXPO 70: Animism
Avant garde, experimental, ambient, instrumental sound scapes.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DERMAPTERA: Beltaine
An electronic kaleidoscope of sonic explorations.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DENISE BARBARITA: Chaos and Congeniality
Some say, Avante-Rock, We say Avante-Pop. Denise's music is a combination of Pop-angst, Rock and Folk, a huge voice and great songwriting makes this a must have album in your collection.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
DIAZ-INFANTE/ST.CHAOS/BOHOL: The Long Await Between Collasped Lungs
San Francisco artist Ernesto Diaz-Infante meets Texas-based noisicians Pablo St. Chaos (p.d. wilder) and Bohol for an otherworldly set of guitar trios. "Together they create a mood of experimental psychedelia" Francois Couture, All Music Guide
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
NICOLAS BERNIER + JACQUES POULIN-DENIS: étude no.3 pour cordes et poulies
Electronic music that has the precision, inner life and depth of field while showing a real organic aspect by use of concrete sounds recording and processing.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOHN R CARLSON: in november EP
Moving from almost classical clarity to minimal density, John's debut release documents journeys into the sub-consciousness of the player and his search for truth and authenticity in the moment of creation.
Recommended if you like George Winston, Keith Jarrett.CD price: $10.00
ACCARDI/GOLD: Wizzards
An astral sound journey into other dimensions, other galaxies; filled with vibrant electronic, rhythmic, psychedelic melodies.
MP3 price: $16.97
THE UNIVERSAL ARTIST: Treasures And Adventures
Ambient with classical elements and subtle sound design.
CD price: $15.00
NIK0: Mute Mouth
My music is electronic before all a mixture of Jungle and Ambient.
Recommended if you like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher.CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
AUDIO BUDDHA: Alchemystical
Electro-acoustic trance: an eclectic mix of melodic violin leads, pulsing electronica and ambient vocal atmospheres.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
MUTE TREASURES: The Reproduction Of Sound
A Godzilla movie, if Godzilla was a Moog and King Kong was a Theremin.
Recommended if you like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse.CD price: $9.99
SUCURIJU: Dream Water Insect
Ambient dream music featuring insect synthesizers, guitar treatments, sample manipulations, environments and water rhythms.
CD price: $12.97
CHRIS WELCOME: Quartet
Modern compositions and improvisations in a spare and haunting style.
CD price: $9.97
ELECTRIC RIDER: Creations on the Edge of Tomorrow
Meditative ambient electronica designed for zen soundscapes.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.00
E.J. GOLD: Blue Smoke
Percussion – electronic and acoustic – lends the shamanic beat, interspersed with drifting melodies of sound; trancelike at times, atonal at others – a composition of shifting moods, like shifting blue smoke.
MP3 price: $16.97
E.J. GOLD: School Days
Eddies and streams of rhythmic patterns weave the thread of an older and more fundamental time flow into electric shamanic tapestries of sound.
MP3 price: $16.97
E.J. GOLD: Venus Rising
Dance to the symphony of dissonant harmony which is continually broadcast throughout the void as this sculpturally hypnotic,shamanic music guides you along the way.
MP3 price: $16.97
MIXILE: Nullarbor
Truly unique Field Recording based Ambient Electronic Music that results from and is inspired by journeys across Australia
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FRED MITCHIM: The Mechanix Of Time
Ambient hypnotic sound sculptures inspired by the sound of the giant engines that run time. Hand made meditative industrial dream soundtrack
CD price: $12.97
BEAUT: Ribbon of Dreams
Aquatic, psychedelic nocturnes and lovely, too-late laments by NYC guitar-vocal combo.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
COMET III: Astral Voyager
New kosmiche sounds from these Italian masters of electronic space music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DOUG ROWED: The Garden of Ether
Earthy ambient electro instrumental
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $7.99
ILLUSION OF SAFETY: Probe
This could even be described as ambient. Minimal... right from the annoyingly minimal amount of information on the box, through to the shifting tonal gradations of sound.
MP3 price: $9.99
MATTHEW SCHOENING: Solo Electric Cello
Solo electric cello - solo electric cello through live looping. Classical, new age, soundtrack, electronic, experimental, instrumental.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MY MEMORIES OF A DEAD GIRL: My Memories of a Dead Girl
Apocalyptic Folk
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
CRAB TO SUN: Crab To Sun
Haunting, impressionistic acoustic/electric sound sculpture/songs.
Recommended if you like Fred Frith, Set Fire to Flames.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $12.97
CHRIS STAINTON: Music For Movies & TV
Chris finally takes time off from playing with Eric Clapton to write some music of his own - this stuff is very varied and is intended to be used on the sound tracks of movies and TV shows.
CD price: $12.97
DERMAPTERA: Blue and Wide
Ethereal sounds escaping into the stratosphere.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
FRED MITCHIM: Texas Brainwave Research
Hypnotic electro-acoustic instrumental space music with a sci-fi edge and an ancient feel
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MARTA G. WILEY: Amnesia
Amnesia written and produced by Marta Wiley is an classical piano pixie voice masterpiece.
MP3 price: $12.97
JEFF NEIBLUM: Bird Watching
A meditation/relaxation CD that winds through forests, climbs soaring mountain peaks, glides through outer space, dives deep under the ocean, floats into the clouds, slides down rainbows and bathes you in washes of peaceful sound color.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CRIS CUDDY: Heartbeat
Dreamy, soulful, thoughtful, melodic folk rock features fats kaplin and george bradfute
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
WEAPONS OF ROMANCE: Consummation
An ambient exploration of sensuality
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $3.96
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THE NORMANS: Stereo Savant [EP]
An orchestral blend of garage noise, pedal steel textures and poppy harmonies.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
BAY MCLAUGHLIN: What Is and Will Be
Neo classical solo piano tunes that will let your mind and heart wander.
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Bruce Hornsby.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
CORDELL KLIER: Espionage
Fascinating, minimalist glitch-pop from a truly special artist.
Recommended if you like Alva Noto.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SUN RUSHING IN: Sound Collage for Live Performance
A hybrid of musique concrête sound design and post-rock acoustic guitar & vocals create an atmospheric melancholy and joy. Progressively textured soundscapes create a haze of quiet low frequency aura projecting the listener into a state of neither/nor Zen
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $6.50
DEATHAT: Eponymy
Experimental torch-noir, mixing traditional folk music, jazz, and the DIY aesthetic of the industrial movement with shimmering, dreamlike lyrics.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARYASQUE: Hell's Hundred Acres
From start to finish, ride the ethereal roller coaster. jump, soar and land.you will not end up where you started. "a voice from another plane"
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FLINT BLADE: Introscope
Jazzy, ethereal music ranging from tranquil to exciting, always uplifting. Rich in texture and emotion.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
DERMAPTERA: Imbolc
alien dream music - sound of the interstellar glide machine...
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JOHN CULLIMORE: Seize the night
A recipe of British acoustic rock mixed with Hornsbyesque country herbs , a hint of nostalgia,served liberally with keyboards,guitars and Beach boy vocals
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
CRIS CUDDY: Come Along Carmelita
A little jazz, a little blues, a little touch of southern zydeco, this chamber folk pop-noir led by accordion and friendly vocals will take you to pergatory and back.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
C. KENNETH LEE: Metamorphosis(original Orchestral Music Live From Northwestern University Of Chicago)
(year2006release)17 year old ASCAP COMPOSER AWARD FINALIST composer and pianist.A FUNDRAISER PROJECT FOR SEVERELY MENTALLY HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS.Classical, Experimental,Avant-Garde, New Age, Film Score.5 thumbs up. SOLD OUT EVERYWHERE. 1 COPY LEFT
Recommended if you like Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.CD price: $200.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
BEAUMONT: Awake Asleep
headphone music delight:grainy, abstract electronic improvisations layered with subtle micro-sampled rhythms and washes of jazz guitar.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AMALGAMATED DIVINITI: Dimensional illuminations of symmetry
A collage of electronic beat driven experimental amalgamations. Abstract yet functional sound modulations.
MP3 price: $7.77
JORRIT DIJKSTRA + JOHN HOLLENBECK: Sequence
electro-acoustic improvisation
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
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
DERMAPTERA: Lammas
Analog space invaders meet the acoustic porch pluckers.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
FUTURE X: Pink Funk
Art rock flavored melodies and rhythms reminiscent of King Crimson blend with Ambient Soundscapes.
Recommended if you like Andy Summers, Fripp & Eno.CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
JONATHAN BADGER: metasonic
Live action ambient guitar. These are solo guitar pieces that sound not too much like guitar.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
AKIAV- A KITE IS A VICTIM: Splinters
singer-songwriter type acoustic-alternative chill vibe music.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
INSTANT CAMERA: Alive on Departure
Avant-noise rock with an atmospheric pitch. Post-punk, power pop.
Recommended if you like Pixies, Joy Division.MP3 price: $9.99
PUBLIC SYMPHONY: PUBLIC SYMPHONY
A hi-fi journey through songs which touch, move and inspire, reminiscent of Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Coldplay, Keane, Sigur Ros.
CD price: $9.99
ALQUIMIA & GLEISBERG: Garden of Dreams
In an enchanted garden, fairies weave their stories of myth and magic - The angelically haunting voice of European vocalist Alquimia blends with Gleisberg's luxuriantly landscapes, taking you on a regal-ethereal journey in the tradition of Enya
THE GLASS HOUR: Amaranthine
Experimental, complex harmonies of irish harp, acoustic and electric guitar brave lush layering of powerful vocal and instrumental progressive soundscapes, an evocation of the dark and light in our memories and dreams.like nothing else.
Recommended if you like Loreena McKennitt, Dead Can Dance.CD price: $12.98 / MP3 price: $12.98
KAMIKAZE GROUND CREW: Covers
This collection of covers by the all star ensemble - Kamikaze Ground Crew - goes from Jimi Hendrix to Karlheinz Stockhausen to Erik Satie,all perforned in their unique "wide screen" style. Members of the ensemble have played with Duke Ellington, Lou Reed
Recommended if you like Carla Bley.CD price: $9.99
BUMPINMUSIC: The Journey
Smooth Jazz and uptempo grooves. The song "Talkin Bout You" and the other tracks will simply captivate you.
CD price: $8.95 / MP3 price: $8.95
WENDY LUCK: The Ancient Journey
Recorded in the temples along the Nile and inside the Great Pyramid in Egypt, Wendy Luck, consummate flutist and vocalist, creates a musical journey that is inspired, alluring, and healing.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
HANK HARRIS: FantasyLand
Soulful, ethereal, socially conscious songs.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
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.
Recommended if you like Harry Chapin.CD price: $5.00
JOSHUA MICHAEL & REALM 1-11: Guardian Of Secret Dreams
Succumb to your darkest dreams. A fusion of dynamic ambient sounds, magical ballads, alternative rock, with a twist of Gothic. Journey down the Nile into ancient Egypt in the bonus music video from "The Hunger" track featuring Joshua Michael.
Recommended if you like Tori Amos, Josh Groban.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SCOTT AFFLECK: The Ecstasy Of St. James
A dreamy, trip-hoppy aural headspinner of a cd, with a killer voice that lulls you into a mesmerizing journey down a dark, strange hole.
CD price: $12.95
WOZNY PROJECT: Go(ats) Tell A Story
Longer songs with keyboards, some strings and woodwinds, and special effects make up this surreal journey of sound and song. Musical story-telling. Magical. Headphones highly recommended.
Recommended if you like Ray Lynch, Gerald Jay Markoe.CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
MOMENTS OF SUSPENSION: Moments of Suspension
A collection of curious instrumentals - a textural festival, a rhythm laden trek girdling the globe.
Recommended if you like King Crimson, Porcupine Tree.CD price: $11.97
THE NOISETTES: Oconee Meadows
sounds to listen to in the horizontal position...
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.50
MIRCAN: Numinosum
An imaginative musical journey in the warm spring rains, intertwined with poetry, philosophy, mysticism and music.
CD price: $17.67
ROBIN MOOKERJEE: Heathen Town
Misty, twisted, dirges and moody pop like nothing you ever heard.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
