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SIMON FISK: Vague Hotels
Acoustic Jazz Trio with electronic undertones. Featuring Jerry Granelli, Chris Gestrin.
CD price: $12.97

STEVE UCCELLO: Symmetrize
A diverse bass extravaganza. Pizzed and Bowed Upright Bass, Electric Bass, Dobro slide bass, and Guitarron are featured as melodic instruments in lush, experimental settings.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

NORTHERN LIBERTIES: Ghost Mind Electricity
Weirdo post punk made using bass, drum set, vocals and percussion.
Recommended if you like Joy Division, Lightning Bolt.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

PETER ASKIM: Moving, Still
Blending the rhythmic drive and power of rock and minimalism with the expressive lyricism of Neo-Romantic music and the textures of modernism, Askim's music cuts a new, emotionally-charged and personal path through the contemporary music landscape.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

STEUART LIEBIG/THE MENTONES: Locustland
John Lee Hooker on a bad trip - - avant Americana groove thang
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50

PABLO ASLAN: Buenos Aires Tango Standards
Argentinian Tango Jazz - reinterpreting classic Tangos in a stunning, virtuosic instrumental jazz quintet setting
Recommended if you like Astor Piazzolla, Gotan Project.CD price: $18.98 / MP3 price: $18.98

STEVENS, SIEGEL & FERGUSON: Triologue
The fourth release (2000) from this creative NYC piano trio featuring a varied and colorful palate of compositions and sounds.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

GAYLORD: Resplendent Locution
Prog-Funk,indie-punk OR, "P-Funk meets Slayer" as they've been described.
Recommended if you like Primus, Mr. Bungle.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

KARL E. H. SEIGFRIED: Criminal Mastermind
Critically-acclaimed solo album from the Chicago bassist.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

MATT SMALL: The Crushing Spiral Ensemble, "Pictures of an Inhibition"
A witty and irreverant experimental jazz record, featuring a wide spectrum of compositions, for electric bass, drums, violin, clarinet, and trombone.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99

GARY SMEJKAL: Like A Moth To The Flame
Described as "Ethereal, jazzy and sexy", this bassist's debut CD contrasts driving rock and latin rhythms with unexpected interludes and fusionist stylings. Metronome Magazine called it "Fluid, expansive and filled with flurries of bass notes".
Recommended if you like Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten.CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99

STEVE BRUCE: Songs Of Moon & Fey
12 original & fresh psychedelic moon/fairy instrumental vignettes brought over from the other side.
CD price: $5.00

ALEXIS CUADRADO: Puzzles
Modern contemporary jazz. Original compositions.
Recommended if you like Christian McBride, Dave Holland.CD price: $14.99

LUKE VAJSAR: Rough Times? Good Times?
Unique solo bass performance that will relax and overload the mind.
CD price: $12.97

DANIEL DIAZ: Low Volume 1
Music for acoustic and electric basses. Solo bass performances and multi-track recordings featuring seven different acoustic and electric basses.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99

CALAMATEUR VS. STEVE LAWSON: Calamateur vs. Steve Lawson
The fruit of a long friendship, a collaboration between two very different musical talents and a collection of beautiful, eerie songs. Painfully confessional, the overwhelming sense is of beauty in a stark place; a desolate Antarctic wilderness.
MP3 price: $10.00

MATT SMALL: The Crushing Spiral Ensemble, the Count of San Francisco
A modern jazz record (bass,drums, 2 saxophones, tromobone)that moves seemlessly between groove-based improvization and a vast array of compositional perspectives.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99

JAIR-ROHM PARKER WELLS: Exquisite Noise
Dark ambient, spacey and ominous
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

JASON ROEBKE: Rapid Croche
Roebke's bassist-as-leader approach and eclectic compositions, which can feature anything from textural free improvisation to ballad forms to underlying grooves, allow the group to take the familiar saxophone trio instrumentation to new and exciting place
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

KLAUS JANEK: Caspar
Klaus Janek is a master of contemporary classical and free jazz expression. His solo 5-string doublebass album Caspar is a milestone recording in recent European artistry.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

NITA ADAMS: For His Glory my Offering
Energetic. Powerful. & Real. Hearts are touched, & Spirits lifted from the excitement of this energetic, melodious voice. Get inspired by her JOY in the LORD. A different style on every song. Emotions will soar - you will feel like dancing.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

PAUL "SEQUENCE" FERGUSON: Survivor
Progressive/Experimental Jazz with unparalleled visual experience that testifies to Paul's astute capacity for musical aesthetics.
Recommended if you like George Benson.CD price: $16.50 / MP3 price: $10.99

WOLFGANG HARRER: Kontrabass
Classical Double Bass
Recommended if you like Niccolò Paganini, Streicher.CD price: $12.00

KENNY WEYDENER: Project One
Ambient instrumental rock with classical influenced melodies,jazz/funk influenced grooves,featuring virtuoso electric basses,backed by drums and percussion.
Recommended if you like Victor Wooten, Jaco.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
