Avant Garde » Type: Improvisational
STEBMO: STEBMO
The debut album from multi-instrumentalist, Steve Moore, is a statement of purpose from an artist long at work behind the scenes with Earth, Laura Veirs and Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet.
CD price: $12.97
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
ECKHARD GERDES & SHELF LIFE: Scuff Mud
Spoken word with music: experimental fiction performed with improvisational electronic avant-garde music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ALBERT AYLER, DON CHERRY,: New York Eye and Ear Control
This CD is the soundtrack to the 1964 Michael Snow film “Walking Woman." This is real “Fire Music” painting a unique picture complimenting the film content.
CD price: $14.99
TODD BRUNEL & ARA SARKISSIAN: Invocation And Dance
Clarinet & piano duets, two classical works and a few of our own collaborative compositions.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MIGRAINE: 142 - Ivan ii - Static
Migraine performs improvised music while adhering to a strict set of rules mixing free form jazz and avant-garde modern jams. Each recording is one uninterrupted improvisation. Recorded live in Pensacola, Florida.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
WEASEL WALTER: Firestorm
almost 80 minutes of smoldering, burning, raging free jazz featuring a cast of legendary east coast musicians including Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
STEUART LIEBIG/MINIM: Quicksilver
Avant Garde third stream music incorporating written and freely improvised material
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
RUSTY BURGE: Contrast
Contrast features the dynamic marimba and vibraphone playing of Rusty Burge in a wide variety of musical environments.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
DAN CLUCAS: EXILE
Compositional modern jazz with an urgency. At times loud and punky/noisy, at others abstract and soft like a pillow.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE PRIMATE FIASCO: Geek Dreams
Psychedelic dixieland. New Orleans style street music with a modern funk, disco, reggae twist. Sometimes twistless and traditional jazz. Banjo, tuba, trumpet, clarinet, trombone, drums, harmonica and three part harmony.
CD price: $12.97
JOEL FUTTERMAN/ALVIN FIELDER/IKE LEVIN TRIO: Traveling Through Now
Gripping soundscapes, instantly created melodies, and near telepathic interplay performed by three internationally acclaimed veteran innovators who once again show that free jazz can and should always swing.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FULMINATE TRIO: Fulminate Trio
Free flowing jazz involving drums, guitar, bass and electronics
CD price: $14.97
JESSICA CONSTABLE & PHILIPPE GELDA: The Vine & Vein Collection
Beautifully voiced experimental stream-of-consciousness music: somewhat jazzy, somewhat poppy, and wondrously free.
Recommended if you like Björk, Antony and the Johnsons.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
BARRY ROMBERG'S RANDOM ACCESS LARGE ENSEMBLE: Existential Detective
Modern improv based large ensemble jazz
Recommended if you like Weather Report, John Hollenbeck.CD price: $12.97
SEAN TAYLOR: Angels
Lo-fi ambient blues with a hard edge.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, John Martyn.CD price: $12.97
JACOB LINDSAY/AVA MENDOZA/DAMON SMITH/WEASEL WALTER: Jus
Focused, detailed improvisations that are spacious and forward-moving at the same time performed on the entire range of the clarinet family, electric guitar and 7-string stand-up bass (both with preparations) and percussion.
CD price: $13.99
MATT BAUMANN: Drifter
Simple open melodies and impressions of echoes, waves, desert, sky, and desolation performed on solo saxophone. Completely unique solo saxophone music.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
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: $10.00
LEX SAMU AND MADISON RAST: Alpaca Dance
Free jazz featuring the flugelhorn and double bass. Recorded NYC 2007.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $9.97
THE BOTTESINI PROJECT: Bottesini
Free improvisation that displays an uncanny ability to create the impression of composed, rehearsed music, featuring Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers), DJ Olive (Sonic Youth, MMW), and Ron Miles (Bill Frisell).
CD price: $14.99
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH: Saraswati Steps Up To Bat
Saraswati steps up to bat features solo improvisations on acoustic violin and viola.
CD price: $12.97
NEIL WELCH: Narmada
An aggressive record that blends late 60's avant garde with loops, subtle sound-scapes and Indian ragas.
CD price: $13.99
TRIO CAVEAT: Compliments Of The Season
Saxophone player Jonathan Moritz (tenor and soprano saxophones) is joined in Trio Caveat by James Ilgenfritz (bass) and John McLellan (drums), and their sound is a delightful minimalism that will surely challenge even the most serious listener.
CD price: $12.97
WILLIAM HOOKER + SABIR MATEEN: Dharma
Recorded in performance in February 2004, this recording documents a rare duo appearance by two of New York's most powerful improvisers, William Hooker (drums), and Sabir Mateen (reeds, flute).
CD price: $12.97
EKEM: Ekem3
Proposing an improvised, alternative and experimental music, inspired by jazz, electronic, rock and contemporaneous forms. Our music can be descriptive, abstract, lyric, rythmic, intense or minimalist, depending on the world we feel like sharing.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
GIANFRANCO TEDESCHI: Il Fuoco Di Ned
Sophisticated free improvisation played by 17 free musicians
CD price: $10.00
LEONARDO MILANI: Il Giardino Di Ned
Avant garde extemporary music coming out of Rome.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MAURO ORSELLI: Sulle Tracce Di Ned
A really vocal and instrumental free improvisation played by 12 young musicians.
Recommended if you like John Cage, Fred Frith.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LELAND BURR: Hover
Surreal hypno-ambient world grooves of myriad sources. Moody, atmospheric, and just dripping with primal energy - overtone singing, percussion, kalimba, synth, steel cello, tamboura, flutes, water pan mayhem and much more.
Recommended if you like Peter Gabriel, Mo Boma.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
GREEN ROOM (CHICK LYALL~DAVID GARRETT): Undertow
"Mood music with edge. A soundtrack for a movie yet to be filmed" ~ Jazz Times. ". . . where sounds are allowed to happen, structures are vehicles for getting around."
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
ALBEY BALGOCHIAN'S RHYTHMISM: All My Relations
Avant-garde funk bass style that takes you on a journey through many genres of music without sounding eclectic. All compositions are free improvisations based on Albey's musical narratives.
MP3 price: $12.97
GREEN ROOM (CHICK LYALL~DAVID GARRETT): Tin Man
"IMPOSSIBLE TO CLASSIFY~FORMIDABLE MUSIC~COMPELLING ART FOR ART'S SAKE"~ All Music Guide ~ "Green Room" is where sounds are allowed to happen, structures are vehicles for getting around."
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
3OLOGY: 3ology
An angular and fresh approach to improvisation and groove. This trio featuring saxophone, bass, and drums gives a full-sounding, surprising, and entertaining listen.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
INTUITIVE MUSIC ORCHESTRA: Light Of Sirius
World fusion instrumental.Music for inner harmonization, massage and meditation.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $5.00
LIZ MEREDITH: Cycles/Songs
textural noise / scattered strings: translucent and shimmering electro-acoustic works.
Recommended if you like Fred Frith, Kronos Quartet.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
BRUNO CHEVILLON: Hors Champ
In less than ten years, Bruno Chevillon imposed himself as the best doublebass player of his generation.
CD price: $19.97 / MP3 price: $19.97
PER BOYSEN: Oooh...
"Storytelling" instrumental music brimming with emotion, as classic beauty drips with a dada twist. Here's experimental going catchy. True live looping real-time wizardry from an accomplished performer on flute, sax and fretless guitar.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RANDOM TOUCH: A True Conductor Wears a Man
Beauty, tension and darkness, delivered via the subconscious.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PANDELIS KARAYORGIS / MAT MANERI: In Time
Avant garde jazz with atonal and highly-charged improvisation.
CD price: $12.97
THE SUPPLICANTS: 1st Encounter
As an art form, musical improvisation is often the most inspiring, exasperating, overwhelmingly emotional interchange between performer and spectator. It takes generous talent, and serious guts for a musician to take the stage without a script.
Recommended if you like Pharoah Sanders, Elvin Jones.MP3 price: $12.97
STEUART LIEBIG/STIGTETTE: Delta
Third-stream chamber jazz with juxtapositions of notated and improvised sections
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
CAROL EMANUEL: Tops of Trees
A new look at what the harp can sound like in new settings by a classically-trained, risk-taking, improvising musician.
CD price: $12.97
STEUART LIEBIG/MINIM: Sulphur
Sorta avant garde third stream music incorporating written and freely improvised material
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
MARK TEMPLETON: Frail as Breath
This record merges processed sounds of guitar, mandolin, and banjo with electronics, samples, and field recordings.
EARTH PEOPLE: BANG! from New York City
A high voltage 2004 live recording of Earth People with collective free interplay that never lets up. Recommended.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
STEUART LIEBIG/THE MENTONES: Nowhere Calling
Little Walter meets Ornette Coleman plus a little country and something else thrown in
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
ANDY AND MICHAEL FUTREAL: Bukka's Bad Trip
Odd but true post-blues instrumental improvisations for acoustic guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, steel gourdtar, electric oilcan, banjo, and harmonica.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JIMMY BENNINGTON/JULIAN PRIESTER: Portraits and Silhouettes
A rare duet setting that features drummer Jimmy Bennington and legendary trombonist Julian Priester in a rare series of improvisations that include Duke Ellington's 'Mood Indigo', original compostions, and explorations in pure sound.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MASHARI TRIO: Mashari Trio
A musical conversation of open expression and free will. A dialogue speaking slowly along harmonic lines before the melodies and poetry evolve into a improvisational engagement and onto a life of their own.
Recommended if you like Ghazal, Coleman Barks.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JACOB SACKS : EIVIND OPSVIK : MAT MANERI : PAUL MOTIAN: Two Miles A Day
Explorations in improvising with pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Eivind Opsvik, drummer Paul Motian, and violist Mat Maneri - the quartet improvises upon music that runs the gamut from swinging jazz to abstract sound pieces to folk type melodies.
CD price: $15.00
DENNIS DEZO WILLIAMS: BAGELS (dedicated to J Dilla's "DONUTS")
True Hip-Hop Beats And Rhymes With A Mad-Scientist Approach.
MP3 price: $13.99
LUCIA MICARELLI: Interlude
Contemporary violin music, influenced by classical and jazz, with a focus on lyricism and emotional honesty.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
HAROLD RUBIN: One Voice
Modern experimental improvised music solo clarinet
Recommended if you like Evan Parker, Derek Bailey.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE: Invisible Wisdom
Positive Knowledge is the Oakland, CA based free jazz and spoke word ensemble.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MYRA MELFORD AND TANYA KALMANOVITCH: Heart Mountain
"The most impressive quality of the set is the sheer selflessness with which two strong players merge into a common spirit." - Steve Smith, Time Out New York
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JIMMY BENNINGTON: Jazz Kaleidoscope
A jazz kaleidoscope of colours and sounds. Evocative solo drums live in Seattle with drummer/composer Jimmy Bennington.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
DANIEL CARTER & MATT LAVELLE: Tubman Atnimara Presents: Live at Tower Records 08/12/06
Daniel Carter & Matt Lavelle: the jazz legend of today meets the jazz legend of tomorrow. Beautiful, meditative music. This "conversation" between two friends is exactly what jazz duo playing is all about. A must have.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BRIAN ALLEN WITH TONY MALABY AND TOM RAINEY: Synapse
Spontaneous three dimensional mutant funk backbeats surging out of nowhere, spars of skittering melody, rising rushing tenor waves stopped short by cymbal scrapes and plaintive gulps.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MIKA POHJOLA & YUSUKE YAMAMOTO: Sound of Village - The Complete Recordings in Helsinki and New York
The complete recordings by the successful freely improvising duo, offered for the first time. "Certainly one of the year's finest offerings. Highly recommended" -All About Jazz - 50 tracks for only $ 9.99. The CD is at: www.cdbaby.com/cd/pohjola5
MP3 price: $9.99
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH AND TIMOTHY SUMMERS: Electric and Acoustic Improvisations Vol. 1
Stephen Nachmanovitch and Timothy Summers explore the art of collaborative improvisation, mutual listening and instant composition - on violin, viola, mezzo violin and electric violin.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett.CD price: $14.00
BIZZART: Ear Drung
Live free-jazz breakouts and lo-fi bass heavy glitch combine with Bizzart's complex/abstract lyrical patterns. Ear Drung contains over 40 minutes of experimental hip-hop for fans of Bjork, PiL, Squarepusher and King Crimson.
CD price: $10.99
BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER CONDUCTED BY BUTCH MORRIS: The Rites
Experimental classical and electronic muses meet with a touch of weird, avant garde jazz.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
DAVID ROTHENBERG JOHN WIECZOREK ROBERT JÜRJENDAL: Soo-Roo
the new trio CD blending clarinets, Indian percussion, Estonian guitar, electronic rhythms, and bird song. Driving tabla and udu rhythms mix with atmospheric guitar and swirling clarinet through subtle digital effects. The sounds of birds flit in and out
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
MANRING KASSIN DARTER: Scatter
Music that tears down stylistic walls and refuses to be compartmentalized with echoes of classical, jazz, rock, folk, avant-garde, and world music in the net result is something completely new.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
EDWARD PEREZ: Opus 1-6 Ad Libitum, Music For L.w. Smith
Classical contemporary compositions that take the listener on an introspective journey that examines the confines of one's innermost feelings.
PETER SALTZMAN AND THE REVOLUTION ENSEMBLE: Kaballah Blues/Quantum Funk
A mix of jazz, classical, and pop, avant garde and even a bit of country. All tied together with a haunting Hebrew prayer and some crazy Kaballah. Both vocals and instrumentals. Very progressive AND very accessible.
Recommended if you like John Coltrane.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SONIDO BATIDO: Journey of The Refugee
The Miami-based trio cooks an original jazz feast swirling in the juicy rhythms of cumbia, bossa nova, mozambique, and guaranco.
Recommended if you like Marc Ribot, Medeski Martin and Wood.CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BAD TOUCH: Like a Magic Kiss
Bad Touch – alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, guitarist Nate Radley, organist Gary Versace and drummer Ted Poor – is a new music collective based in New York city. The group plays original compositions that evolve through melodic deconstruction.
Recommended if you like Béla Fleck, John Scofield.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
TEKKE: Tekke
Progressive acoustic jazz feauturing Drew Gress, David Kane, Michael Smith and Glenn Cashman.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BOB HOFFNAR: New Music for Pedalsteel Guitar
This is a series of recordings made of my own musical ideas using the pedal steel guitar as the main voice. I play steel guitar for a living in NYC and felt the need to put out some of my own music outside of standard song form.
CD price: $12.97
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Don't Abandon Your Baby
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50
GEORDIE HALEY TRIO: Polar Bears
A mix of avant garde jazz and classical styles, featuring and driven by guitar.
Recommended if you like Bill Frisell, Derek Bailey.CD price: $12.97
DOPPLER SHIFT: Resistor
A Chicago explosion juxtaposing horns that go to 11 & live uptempo jungle metal grooves.
CD price: $9.99
NEW HAVEN IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE: Interference
Avant progressive chamber punk jazz. Electric guitars, acoustic bass, saxophones, bass clarinet, viola, percussion and voice all in service of the music. Draws from multiple styles to offer a unified vision with an edge. Rack your brains, move your hips.
CD price: $12.97
HUEMONXU: Speaking
An eclectic blend of experimental, improvisational, jazz-funk-rock-fusion.
Recommended if you like Medeski Martin and Wood.CD price: $7.99
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE: Stories Before Within
Soulful, spiritual, cross-cultural jazz with narrative improvisations within dynamic and lyrical compositions
CD price: $15.00
SPOONFACE & WAH SYNDICATE: Whole heap ah WAH
Its straight up jazzy broken beats meets reggae experimentalism with a dollop of soul for good measure.
CHARLIE BOMMARITO: Late Night Brew
Improvisational jazz based world music.
Recommended if you like Charles Mingus, Jack DeJohnette.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JENKS MILLER: Approaching The Invisible Mountain
Ghostly blues-guitar improvisations for the doom generation.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS: Trauma
Blistering, furious hardcore free jazz from the saxophone/contrabass/drums lineup of this seminal punk jazz/no wave unit.
Recommended if you like Albert Ayler, Peter Brötzmann.CD price: $13.99
THANOS CHRYSAKIS, DARIO BERNAL VILLEGAS, OLI MAYNE: Palimpsesto
free-improvisation, real-time composition.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
SPOON 3: Seductive Sabotage
Adventurous trio music. Text, live sampling, samples and acoustic sounds in a big melting-pot of improvised music at its best.
CD price: $15.00
DAVID ROTHENBERG: Whale Music
Jazz that reaches out to the sounds of the natural world. Lyrical, pure and tinged with a little bit of bird, whale, and bug
CD price: $14.97
COLTER FRAZIER/ROB WALLACE DUO: Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace Duo
A fresh and creative freely improvising sax/drum duo.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
JORMA TAPIO & TERJE ISUNGSET: AIHKI
This is intense, raw, powerful and mystical music, born by the inspiration of Nordic Nature & spirits, creating unique worlds to jump into. Music is improvised totally.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
INSTEAD OF: Live on Sonarchy
A primarily contingent and spontaneous field of sounds – hopefully music – bringing together players from very diverse backgrounds and experiences, with an aspiration to dwell on sound itself as it unfolds in a fragile balance
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
CLINT LISTING/MAOR APPELBAUM: Mourning Duet
46 min drone/drift track with swells of dark industrial sounds.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
GNOMUS: Diagnosis
improvised electric avant garde
Recommended if you like Tangerine Dream, King Crimson.CD price: $16.00
KLANGKAMERATANE: Klangkameratane
Free improvised music which ends up sounding like grunge
CD price: $13.97
TEL AVIV 2006: Tel Aviv White Night Festival
Creative improvising music; a 12 hour marathon in Tel Aviv
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CERBERUS: Side Show Tim
New Music/Jazz; high-energy, sometimes humorous, always quirky music that sizzles the airwaves.
Recommended if you like Ives.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BARBARA TOOTHPICK & ALAN HORSERADISH: More Maine Songs From A Different Head
Songs and stories about escaping from society's expectations and creating a different life.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVID HARRIS AND NU QUARTET: Slide Of Hand
High powered, electric trombone, playing cutting-edge original jazz, merging avant-garde with funk ,rock and free improvisation.
Recommended if you like Henry Threadgill, Robin Eubanks.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JON ENGLISH, JIM KERWIN, GEORGE MARSH, JON RASKIN: Edges
Improvisations that sound like compositions & compositions that sound like improvisations that swings it's own special way.
MP3 price: $12.97
CHRIS CHALFANT: Book of Unstandards
A cross-section of music written over the past thirty years: avant-jazz, classical, Hungarian, chldren's songs, and Indian
CD price: $24.99 / MP3 price: $24.99
COOKE QUINTET: An Indefinite Suspension Of The Possible
Acoustic post-modern jazz which uses sound mass, circle music, non-western scales - but aside from the parts that most clearly reflect composition and improvisation, the music here hopes to stand outside (and then sometimes inside) traditional boundaries.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
GIL SELINGER, WALTER THOMPSON: SoundPainting Haydn
Classical Improvisation/Composition
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GEORGE CREMASCHI, BILL HORVITZ, GARTH POWELL, JON RASKIN: Shards From a Future Utopia
Quartet improvisations that are unexpected, zany, telepathic, noisy, beautiful, exhilarating, electric; each piece is a gem, wildly exploring sonic space and texture, held together with the masters’ touch by four excellent musician/composers.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
STOLEN SHACK: Stolen Shack
Mellow traditional folk/bluegrass with a Baroque and jazz twist. Featured on National Public Radio (NPR) All Songs Considered. "A mind-bending journey of improbable range and vision, Stolen Shack imagines the sound of a brave new world..." Leo Sacks, Sony
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $9.95
NATHAN DAVIS: Memory Spaces
Music for percussion and electronics which unveils and magnifies the subtle complexities of sound.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
FRED FRITH, JOELLE LEANDRE & JONATHAN SEGEL: Tempted to Smile
Free improvisation.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
BOB FRYE: Everything You Always Were
Improvised Jazz Piano and Trio compositions that range from traditional acoustic to experimental performances with electronics
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Sound Textures
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET: Totally Spinning
The only constant in their music is the avoidance of cliché. — Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
TOBIAS DELIUS, WILBERT DE JOODE & DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF: The Flying Deer
Free improvisation
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
JON RASKIN & MYLES BOISEN: Music + One
22 Improvised solos that from Bay Area artists that from koto to trombone, harp to electronics. They make great listening and you are encouraged to improvised along with them. Put in on random and test your skills.
Recommended if you like David Slusser, Gino Robair.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JIMMY BENNINGTON: Our Dialogue, Live at the Tugboat, Vol. V
Thoughtful, modern jazz and improvisation, captured in an intimate nightclub setting with drummer Jimmy Bennington and various special guest artists.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
LEE FELDMAN: I've Forgotten Everything
"I've Forgotten Everything is unlike anything in contemporary pop. If you have a passion for good songwriting, you need this album." STEREOPHILE
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
PETITE ART ORCHESTRA: Exit-Sortie
EXIT-SORTIE is a free improvisational CD.Not just free ramblings it has a cohearent melodic and rythmic influence.
Recommended if you like Steve Swallow.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE: First Ones
Recently named one of the top CDs of 2005 by Downtown Music Gallery, NYC. Positive Knowlege integrates the poetic spoken word and improvised vocals with free jazz and polyrhythyms. The result is a tapestry of music that draws from a deep reservoir of m
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GIL SELINGER: 4/4 Tet
Original neo-romantic compositions for cello quartet
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
EUGENIO COLOMBO: Racconto Flautato
A series of small frescos for flutes. Pure sound poetry
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
GIANNI LENOCI: Agenda
Soffused and dilated recompositions for piano of music by Steve Lacy
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
DANIEL PANASENKO / MARK WYMAN: Daniel Panasenko / Mark Wyman
Soundscapes created with classical guitar and accordion.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
NAIL: Galvanized
Extraordinary Ambient Jazz Fusion from established Masters of the NY experimental Jazz Scene. Featuring drummer Dean Sharp, bassist Dave Hofstra and keyboard wizard Neil Alexander from "The Machine".
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
ROBERT SPALDING NEWCOMB: On Time
Electronic studio improvisation based compositions, spiritually relaxing and at the same time, intellectually challenging.
Recommended if you like John McLaughlin.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
CKW TRIO: The Is
Acoustic post-modern Jazz which uses sound mass, circle music, non-western scales - but aside from the parts that most clearly reflect composition and improvisation, the music here hopes to stand outside (and then sometimes inside) traditional boundaries.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
WILLIAM TRIMBLE AND DANIEL WYMAN: EXPLORATIONS-Works for Saxophone and Digital Media
Latest in a series of recordings for original sound textures and Saxophone improvisations.
CD price: $13.97
THE CHRISTOPHER ADLER TRIO: Transcontinental
Live free improvised performance blending late-Coltrane-inspired high energy free jazz with serene minimalist levitations. Each track is journey of musical and spiritual fusion, and totally free and in the moment.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
ABSTRAKT COLLISION: In The Meantime Of tomorrow...
Experimental-jazz-fusion-rock-funk-whatever tickles ur fancy.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DON PRESTON: Io Landscapes
Experimental electronic musings meet contemporary, avant garde classical styles to create imaginative soundscapes, reminiscent of John Cage, Subotnic and Stockhausen.
Recommended if you like John Cage.MP3 price: $15.00
DAVE REMPIS QUARTET: Out of Season
A sound-oriented approach to creating longform free improvisations.
Recommended if you like Art Ensemble.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MIKE GARSON: Homage to My Heroes
These 16 original compositions - all written in Mike's signature improvisational style - pay tribute to the musical masters who have influenced him over the years. Their intent is to complete the cycle and provide healing, enjoyment and inspiration.
Recommended if you like Frédéric Chopin, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Александр Николаевич Скрябин.CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $12.95
GIL SELINGER: Deconstructing Haydn
Haydn's C Major Concerto for Cello and Orchestra as written then deconstructed through improvisation.
Recommended if you like Ludwig van Beethoven, John Zorn, Yo-Yo Ma, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Matt Haimovitz.CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
BIK BENT BRAAM: Extremen
Improvising avant garde bigband from the Netherlands. Compelling themes alternate with wild, screaming improvistions.
CD price: $12.97
RON THOMAS: Elysium
The influence of Stockhausen and Cage is unmistakable. This is modern improvisation in the hands of masters.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALEX COKE: It's Possible
creative, free, world, chamber, improvised, jazz
Recommended if you like Enya.CD price: $13.00
SCOTT EZELL: The Death of the World Undone
A 33-minute tribal-industrial composition that combines guitar feedback, beercan percussion, bamboo flute, djembe, and cricket songs--recorded on a single reel of 1-inch analog tape.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
LORIE WOLF: Taibele and Her Demon
Musical interpretation of a story written by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer with the creative influences of klezmer, world and jazz
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
SAMURAI BOW: Skin in the Game
This is mad and faithful testimony to our mutilated and pernicious existence, with scraps of freedom we can still salvage and perhaps share.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MATT HOLDAWAY'S ARMY: Imminent
This is Story Rock, stories told to music.
Recommended if you like Pixies, Dead Kennedys.CD price: $10.00
PAUL KWO: Rebirth
Freestyle solo piano improv music with heavy classical, pop and world influences. Fusion music of eclectic styles. Live performance, reactionary improvisatory work to virtual sculptures.
Recommended if you like George Winston.CD price: $18.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DAMON CHOICE: Choice Friends
Jazz; Four Vibraphonists, Drummer, and Bassist Avant Garde; Varition of Creative Musicians
CD price: $12.97
TOM CARTER AND CHRISTIAN KIEFER: From the Great American Songbook
This second collaborative work from the pair is an expansive and ambitious recasting of American music now in the public domain.
CD price: $12.97
MIKE KHOURY AND PIOTR MICHALOWSKI: Reason Sound/Sound Reason
Free improvisation duets involving violin and soprano saxophone/bass clarinet.
Recommended if you like Evan Parker, Leroy Jenkins.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.00
IMPRESSION: Le Bénéfice du Doute
Contemporary jazz, influenced by rock, free music and improvisation.
CD price: $15.00
THE DROPA STONE: The Dropa Stone E.P.
A trio collaboration stationed in Orlando FL featuring an Avant-Garde Alternative Rock sound.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
JOE SCHMITT: All-American Content Provider
65% Progressive/Electronic/Chamber ROCK with memorable, angular melodies, frequent counterpoint and/or(infrequently cartoonish) percussion, 36% intimate, sublime, recklessly free keyboard improvs, 17% psyche-metal-pop-avant-Sfx-other, and 98% instrumental
CD price: $5.50
DEBORAH THURLOW & TURN ON THE MUSIC: The Darwin Effect
The french horn collides with a collage of captivating musical colors and textures evolving around a universe energized by Deborah Thurlow, Arthur Hernandez, Kali Z. Fasteau, Kevin Kim, Bruce McKinney and Clive Smith.
CD price: $14.00
GUNSHAE: Traveling Without Memory
Recorded in Vancouver, Tokyo and Atlanta, Traveling Without Memory fuses live instrumentation with loop-based technology to create an ambient album swathed in layers of classical composition, DJ culture and improvised sound disruptions.
Recommended if you like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stars of the Lid.CD price: $10.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Pan Ambient Bento
The Pan Ambient series is all about global atmospheres for new millennia, and this compilation is one bento that feeds your sonic appetite with a little bit of everything, no matter where your tastes lie.
Recommended if you like Spacetime Continuum, Stars of the Lid.CD price: $10.00
CHRIS REBA: To Play To The Papers Acute: Sharp Maps
Non idiomatic structured free improvisation.
Recommended if you like John Zorn, Derek Bailey.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARKO CICILIANI: 81 Matters In Elemental Order
As a performer Ciciliani has specialized in the no-input mixer, a mixing board which does not use any external inputs, but where all sounds are created through internal feedbacks. 81 short pieces played in shuffle mode, composed and improvised.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
GOAT: Special Agent
Goat is a unique trio combining an exceptional sonic palette with an expansive sense of space and composition. Their music is accessible to a large variety of audiences as they combine seemingly disparate genres of music through an abstract filter.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
IGOR SCIAVOLINO: Solitaires à la recherche de la danse
21 short improvised compositions for solo tenor and sopranino sax filtered in real time by electronic devices. Very good balance between melody, rhythm, new sounds, open forms.
Recommended if you like John Surman, Tim Berne.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
YETI RAIN: Nest of Storms
The haunting sounds conjured up by Kopecky’s basses and Ebner’s sax and wind synth are by turns meditative and violent, the perfect soundtrack for a beautifully disturbing dream.
Recommended if you like Philip Glass, Robert Reich.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ROBERT SPALDING NEWCOMB: Anastasia of the Gardens
Electronic computer generated and studio compositions based on improvisational guitar, keyboard and percussion - avant garde, rock, jazz, experimental.
CD price: $20.00 / MP3 price: $20.00
BEYOND ELECTRONIC GARAGE: African American Grooves for the Common Man
A true melange of instrumentation and improvisation, This release of the group's premiere effort combines African influences with street vibes and harmelodic jazz.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
A THOUSAND TINY FINGERS: Psychedelic Steppenwolves
Spoken word set to music, ala the beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
CD price: $12.97
SOLIDAD DECOSTA: My Own Private Revolution
Brecht meets Ornette in this collection of free piano improvisations.
CD price: $12.97
STEVE RUST TRIO: Bottom Feeder
high energy improvisational fusion of jazz, classical, and rock
CD price: $12.97
STEVE PARADISE: Utopia Complex
Avant-garde, or world music for the eclectic ear
CD price: $15.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH: Ludi Fecundus
Ludi Fecundus features solo improvisations on electric violin by Stephen Nachmanovitch.
CD price: $14.00
JONAH RANK: Your Favorite Album
Experinstrumental music from the man who brought "Boring Songs" and other Loud and Dumb sounds to Earth, Your Favorite Album - panned by critics as "a waste of time set to music" - is Jonah Rank's latest ground-breaking, ear-drum-popping sonic travesty.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MIRAGE: Child's Play
Utilizing a colorful palette of guest musicians and a noticeably expanded line-up, the second album by Mirage sees the duo of Geoff Leigh and Cathy Williams further develop the atmospheric West/East folk-fusion.
Recommended if you like Ravi Shankar, Hariprasad Chaurasia.CD price: $12.97
ERRICO DE FABRITIIS: Bus Ned Revolution
A new free improvisation from 18 young artists
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
