Avant Garde » Featuring Piano
TERRY RILEY: Banana Humberto 2000
Classical structures cosmic trance eastern flavored modal melody rhythmically propelling
CD price: $13.99
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
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
JOSHUA PIERCE, WITH JOHNNY REINHARD & MIKE ELLIS: play John Cage, Charles Ives, Ivan Wyshnegradsky Live at the DOM / Alternativa Festival
Brilliant performance of music by John Cage, Charles Ives, Ivan Wyshnegradsky.
CD price: $12.97
SUZANNE CIANI: Silver Ship
New Age, modern classical, romantic, contemporary, mood, virtual orchestra,world,light jazz
Recommended if you like Enya, George Winston.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
DI TERRA TRIO: Di Terra
An innovative piano/bass/drums trio, well organized born from several meetings, with an intense interplay and a beautiful and interesting atmosphere
CD price: $12.97
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
PHILIP MEAD & ROB GODMAN: Piano and Electronics
Piano and electronics when in the hands of these two exceptional artists can weave an astonishingly magical spell. Exceptionally beautiful is the track entitled “Lux Perpetua”; a serene and gentle landscape sculpted in subtle sounds.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SATOKO FUJII: Indication
Top 10 CDs (Reissue) of 2005 — Michael Rosenstein “Indication affords the listener ample opportunity to hear Fujii's minimalist style, her use of space and silence. Fujii's intros are stately and her approach frequently meditative.
CD price: $18.00
J.C. COMBS: Charmed Elixirs
A set of 12 contemporary classical works composed for piano. These works are designed to spark your imagination and accompany you on your listening fare.
Recommended if you like John Zorn, Steve Reich.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
JIRI LEVICEK TRIO: Returns
A new jazz piano trio whose unique compositions set the stage for moments of beautiful communication.
Recommended if you like J.CD price: $12.97
TIM PECK TRIO: Ms. Matched
An organic melding of jazz and electronica, exploring new directions in improvised music.
Recommended if you like Boards of Canada, Brad Mehldau.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE KATIA LABEQUE BAND: Unspoken
The internationally highly acclaimed classical pianist Katia Labèque teams up with drummer Marque Gilmore and composer/electronics performer Dave Maric for this highly original, enthralling and enigmatic exploration of lyricism, texture and style.
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
SHENANDOAH DAVIS: We; Camera
Classical-infused old-timey baroque-klezmeric folk.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
A*M~P: COMPASS
An 8 track four-hand prepared piano exploration, with electronics, choirs, solo singers, guitar, flute, poets and many more sounds designed as a headphone experience with all 50 minutes preferably listened to in one go from start to finish.
Recommended if you like John Cage.CD price: $4.01 / MP3 price: $1.00
PAUL IMMANUEL OWENS: River of Peace
Original piano music, soothing, tender, thought provoking, peaceful.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, David Lanz.CD price: $12.97
CHARLIE MILLER: Vocation
Eclectic, experimental, jazz-influenced compositions that push the boundaries of conventional sonic organization.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $8.50
CHARLIE BOMMARITO: Percolations
Experimental World Jazz Ensemble of twelve musicians utilizing a varied array of world percussion, unique orchestrations,and based on a wide variety of new and classic jazz compositions. Showcases several original instruments.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
KGMR: instant confidante
Post-modern wine-drunk ice skating music featuring rhodes piano, acoustic piano, bass, drums, electric guitar, and trumpet.
Recommended if you like Bill Evans, Tortoise.CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
ALEXEI LUBIMOV: Dedication
Modern classical piano music
Recommended if you like Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov.CD price: $12.97
RICHARD TRYTHALL: Out of Bounds
Avant-garde classical composer-pianist comes back home to romantic melodies, assymetrical rhythms and his first love - the piano.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MATTHEW SHIPP & GUILLERMO E. BROWN: telephone popcorn
A battle between acoustic piano and cold electronics crushing with digital drumset.
CD price: $12.97
KEN PALMER: In A Quiet Place
My writing and playing has a improvised feel to it as I use a modern classical approach in a very relaxed way.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
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
GREGORY L. GARRETT: A Songwriter's Diary II
A rich tapestry of soulful, lushly harmonic and melodic "mini-masterpieces" in their raw form. Avoiding the slick production trappings that capture most artists today. A real treasure.
Recommended if you like Dan Fogelberg, Genesis.MP3 price: $12.97
FRANCOIS QUILLET: Les Pensetes II / Little Pianistic Prophecies
Piano solo, visualization and prophecies "this music seems to pop up directly from a 16º century parchment"
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
FRANCOIS QUILLET: Les Pensetes I / Little Pianistic Prophecies
Piano solo, visualization and prophecies "This music seems to pop up from a 16º century parchment"
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
CHRIS LUDWIG: Expressivity
A fresh, new collection of contemporary piano solos by Canadian, Chris Ludwig, this CD presents a variety of moods, forms and styles.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
THOMAS YAZVAC: Spatial Dreams
A contemporary mix of classical fusion to relax your inner spirit.
CD price: $10.00
FRANCOIS QUILLET: M. A. D.
Piano solos
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, Herbie.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
GREGG KINGSOLVER: More Official Spud Music
Piano experiments- more experimental, less accessible
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ARI MEIER: Goddess
This is Soulternative music, at the intersection of psychedelic, punk, experimental, jazz and soul.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $7.99
FRANK HORVAT: I'll Be Good
Aggressive and virtuosic original solo piano compositions with an unpredictable meld of musical styles. The CD has groove-oriented instrumental pieces without words that tell deeply personal stories.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
GUIDO SANTONI: Cinque Atti del Tramonto di Un Giorno
The black and white keys become invisible under his hands while releasing a tapestry or torrents of impressionistic fragments, endless ineffable harmonies the unlimited beauty that Guido Santoni expresses with passion.
MP3 price: $5.00
MARY ANNE DRISCOLL: PASSAGE volume 2
New music piano improvisation recorded live, wild, nothing held back; humor and passion head on
Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Carla Bley.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RICHARD TRYTHALL: Parts Unknown
Avant-garde classical composer-pianist comes back home to romantic melodies, assymetrical rhythms and his first love - the piano.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
BRIAN GILLETT: Sonic Stock
Highly imaginative works for piano, chamber, and orchestra are tonal yet push the envelope of modern classical music.
CD price: $13.67 / MP3 price: $13.67
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE: Solus
free improvisation, abstract, atonal, quick cascading notes, pensive, introspective, and near-meditative."this album casts a new light on Diaz-Infante's previous records" Francois Couture, All Music Guide
Recommended if you like Matthew Shipp, Thelonious Monk, Marilyn Crispell, Conlon Nancarrow, Pierre Boulez, Borah Bergman, Terry Riley, Staffan Björklun, György Ligeti.CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
MOZAIKA: (Self Titled)
Classical Ambient Electro music somewhere between Bjork and virtuosity of Chopin classical piano.
CD price: $12.97
JIM OBERMEYER: Piano Arrangements and Musical Compositions
Solo piano and orchestrated musical compositions
CD price: $10.00
KEITH BURSTEIN: Keith Burstein - Three Preludes for Piano
Classical New Romantic piano music from a contemporary master of tonality
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DAVE ADLER: Free Upright Grand
Jerry Lee Lewis meets Jimi Hendrix.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
KENTO MASUDA: GlobeSounds
Each track on the brand new album "GlobeSounds" by Japanese artist Kento Masuda takes the listener down a new and unchartered path in the world of avant garde and contemporary classical music.
Recommended if you like Danny Elfman, Philip Glass.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
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
FUTURE LISA: Clone
Space age cabaret sung in a jazz-poetry-punk-rock style.
Recommended if you like Tori Amos, The Fiery Furnaces.CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ANTHONY RANIERI: Music for Piano iii -- Paradise
Imagine two walls. One freshly made from cindar blocks -- the other from ancient stones in a ruined Floretine garden. There are no cindar blocks in this album.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CHARLIE BOMMARITO: Moments of Grace
Charlie's offerings are infused with a rigorous keyboard technique that ranges from soft and soulful acoustic to jumpin' and jivin' electric. Bommarito's palette also includes a raw, expressive grounding in the uninhibited rhythms of world percussion.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MICHAEL STARK: In Mind
Spontaneous Solo Piano compositions with contrasting moods, dynamic intensity, and remarkable improvisation, combining elements of the avante-garde, jazz, classical and pop.
CD price: $11.97
JEAN E. SAINT-ELOI: Music of The Haitian Masters, Vol.1
Music of the Haitian Masters Vol 1. is a door way to one of Haiti's hidden treasures, this unique voyage to the realm of Haitian classical music takes us through the enchanting, soothing and inspiring sounds of composers such as Occide Jeanty, Ludovic Lam
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE: Ucross Journal
Feldmanesque, serene, airy, subliminally gorgeous, beautiful, striking, so softly intense. "Among Diaz-Infante's prolific oeuvre, this is one of the "should haves" --Noah Wane, Splendid E-zine.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE: Tepeu
Very tonal, improvisation-like freshness, soft, gentle texture, almost romantic at times, gently drawing the listener in. "suitable for framing." Jim Santella, All About Jazz
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
VERFALLEN: Corrosion Suites
Improvised instrumental pieces, for strings and piano, which move effortlessly between beautiful, aching, emotive sadness to stratospheric optimism.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
YRSAN DARO: Dreams of Wind and Water
New Age Piano Improvisations; passionate and seductive, to reflective and contemplative.
CD price: $12.98 / MP3 price: $9.98
