Avant Garde » Type: Vocal
ARS NOVA SINGERS: blue true dream
Contemporary a cappella choral works, recorded in surround-sound.
Recommended if you like Dale Warland Singers.CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
JAY LYON: Voyelles: Music of Jay Lyon
Drawing on influences from hip hop to classical chamber music, from 50s swing to avant garde percussion, this music playfully marries strong beats to formal control in the classical vein.
Recommended if you like Leonard Bernstein.CD price: $12.97
SEATTLE PRO MUSICA: Alnight by the Rose
Seattle Pro Musica presents a cappella singing at its best. Pure, rich, harmonies and precise musicality.
CD price: $15.00
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
JARRAD POWELL: Stonehouse Songs
Vocal music from another planet. Gamelan instruments, and powerful lush textures.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ANNA HOMLER STEUART LIEBIG DUO: Kelpland Serenades
Strange folk songs from different planets. Or perhaps, sonic postcards from the edge.
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
LINDA TEASLEY, CARLOS RODRIGUEZ: Canciones Argentinas
A colorful mix of cultures, styles and rhythms. Canciones Argentinas contains 27 rarely performed songs interpreted by soprano Linda Teasley and pianist Carols Rodriguez.
CD price: $15.00
YOON SUN CHOI AND JACOB SACKS: Imagination
This avant garde duo pays homage to Joe Raposo, the influential yet under-appreciated artist, using his compositions as starting points for a series of experiments in texture, form and improvisation.
Recommended if you like Ran Blake, Jeanne Lee.CD price: $15.00
RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ SANTANA: Babilonia D.F.
A city made of jazz, Venezuelan folk, salsa, rock, intimate author songs. Se trata de una ciudad hecha con canciones en ritmo de jazz, folclore venezolano, salsa, rock y canción de autor.
CD price: $12.97
THE STORY OF MODERN FARMING: Someone New
The story of modern farming derive sounds from these kitchen stories. Sounds that typify children, drunk people, confidential conversations, they use to paint their musical pictures.
Recommended if you like Joni Mitchell.CD price: $19.97 / MP3 price: $19.97
JACK MACDONALD: Showdown Explosion
Like a Subway profit mixed up with Dr. Seuss, Leonard Cohen, and Canadian Pine Cones.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MIKEL ROUSE: Failing Kansas
"Failing Kansas is the best major work I've seen by someone of the new generation." -Kyle Gann, VILLAGE VOICE
CD price: $12.97
KENT GUSTAVSON: Song Between the Teeth
Gorgeous, dulcet melodies float to the ceilings of the hall. And a ponderous, rich and dirty string bass anchors the hall down with its lumbering and whistling grace.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
DOUBLE VISION: Premier
Double cd album one cd French, one cd English. Double Vision is a French/English bilingual duo. Made up of two best friends, their objective is to perform and distribute primarily overseas & francophone countries.
CD price: $15.00
SPOT OF BLUE: Livin' Life This Way
Texas' Best Kept Secret gaining fans from around the world.Not mainstream a flavor of mixed ingredients. A touch of country a dash of blues mix in some jazz & pop and you get a perfect "Spot of Blue"
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
CHRISTOPHEREN NOMURA: Never Broken
Recognized as one of classical music's "rising stars" by the Wall Street Journal and "faces to watch" by the Boston Globe, baritone Chris Nomura performs new compositions dedicated to all those who have suffered and have never let their spirit be broken.
CD price: $11.97
THOTH: The Herma: The Life and Land of Nular-in, Act 2
In this impossible to describe and utterly unique, solo work called a solopera, Thoth uses a more than four octave vocal range, violin, foot drums, and percussion to tell the epic story about a heroic hermaphrodite in a mythical land called Festad.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THOTH: The Herma: The Life and Land of Nular-in, Act 3
In this impossible to describe and utterly unique, solo work called a solopera, Thoth uses a more than four octave vocal range, violin, foot drums, and percussion to tell the epic story about a heroic hermaphrodite in a mythical land called Festad.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ANDREI VOLKONSKY: Mirror Suite
The compositions by Andrei Volkonsky recorded on this CD belong to some of the best compositions of New Music of Russia, the epoch of the beginning of the Second wave of Avant-garde.
CD price: $12.97
BISAN TORON: Backstage Reveries, Voice Sketches by Bisan Toron
Based on the voice as a melodic instrument, fusing western and middle eastern styles with a experimental edge.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE RESONANCE PROJECT: Buzzing in the Ears
Experimental sacred chants with fresh vocals and compelling cello arrangements with meditation instructions included.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
A CHRONICLE OF TERRA: Dodeca
Be ready to be grooved by the many soundscapes created; from R&B to funk, jazz to rock, and exploring the in-between, all held together by the not so common thread of Emmellda's exceptional vocal creations.
Recommended if you like Prince, Cassandra Wilson.CD price: $9.90
CHRISTIAN TATONETTI: The Art Of Flying (Sitar Voice Piano)
Meditative and contemplative music / sitar, voice and piano / trance
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
PHANTOM: Cumputer Fun
Pop flavor on deeply underground songs. I think they'd be happy on about three acres a peice.
Recommended if you like Ween.CD price: $8.00
YOAV GAL: Venus in Furs
A videOpera for voice and electronics, loosely based on Sacher Masoch’s classic novel Venus in Furs, transported to contemporary New York. From the creator of such “Indie-operas” as Bit by Bit - Cell by Cell; MOSHEH; & the Dwarf.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROMINA DANIELE: Aisthànomai, Il Dramma della Coscienza (Tragedy of Consciousness)
The voice in its differing and sudden shades dominates a sign universe in which faraway melodies and ancient calls meet contemporaneous technologies of composition, weaving the way to explore the perception territories and its processes.
CD price: $20.60 / MP3 price: $15.00
KHARMA KONWAY: I'm Watching You
A futuristic New-wave journey for the senses.Experimental self produced 80's inspired vocal electro meets hip hop and jungle.
MP3 price: $1.00
DAME DARCY & DENNIS DRISCOLL: Dame Darcy & Dennis Driscoll Ep
Traditional folk songs sung in a very unique way.
Recommended if you like Donovan, Dame Darcy.MP3 price: $10.00
THE CHILDREN: The Children
Raw, visceral, soul music of the future, interpolating haunting ballads, yearning anthems, and aggro rockers, an enveloping sonic tapestry that bleeds into itself, sanctified, transformative.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PAAP: Code And Hinge
Avant garde jazz, quiet sounds, free improvisation and a few strange songs
CD price: $15.00
ALTALA GRIZAÏ: Labyrinthe pour paravent
French touch in between lyrics and pop funky acid jazz
Recommended if you like Zazie.MP3 price: $12.97
MAUREEN KELLY: Yesterday's Child
Powerful vocals dominate this unique collection of Jazz-Rock-Folk fusion commentaries on the human condition.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SCU ENSEMBLE: The Release
"...passion, anguish, and rage borne of a tumultuous love triangle are expressed in song...with its haunting melodies and urgent lyrics, immerse listeners into this raw world of emotions."
Recommended if you like Jake, André Previn.CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
CHERYL LYNNE SKINNER: Sunday Afternoon
EXPERIENCE THE MIRACLE OF CONTEMPORARY M.U.S.E.--- Music Unleashed from Soul Experience.
MP3 price: $8.99
THOTH: The Herma: The Life and Land of Nular-in, Act 1
In this impossible to describe and utterly unique, solo work called a solopera, Thoth uses a more than four octave vocal range, violin, foot drums, and percussion to tell the epic story about a heroic hermaphrodite in a mythical land called Festad.
Recommended if you like Maurice Ravel, Yma Súmac.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
SLEEPY JAMES: L.A. 'til Morning
With an eclectic blend of musical styles. Sleepy James offers a tribute to his adopted hometown, Los Angeles.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
ED ROBINSON POWER SUPPLY: Life-The Rhythm and the Romance
A NEW "Global Pop/Soul " sound with fresh poetic text, melodic, exotic rhythms seasoned with funk. a sprinkle of "70's." Romantic Ballads are Motion Picture-like, soulful, rich in quality with Standard appeal.
Recommended if you like Lionel Richie, Sly Stone.CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
