Avant-Garde CDs

Extra Life is the primary musical vehicle for Charlie Looker, singer, guitarist and composer, who has become one of the most intense and respected voices in the New York experimental underground. For years Looker was a core member of legendary brutal chamber ensemble Zs and has also worked with dive...

Legendary alternative festival (& record label!) All Tomorrow’s Parties present ATP2.0, a compilation CD featuring bands & artists who performed at the 2002 UK All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival curated by indie rock legends Shellac. As is the tradition, the featured artists - in...

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) was the most significant figure in Italian keyboard music before Domenico Scarlatti. Born in the northern city of Ferrara, he had the patronage of the ruling Este family, who had established the city as a major artistic and cultural centre, actively encouraging the a...

Invenium Viam is the debut recording of virtuosic cello soloist, Inbal Megiddo, in collaboration with composers and electronic musicians Jorge Sosa and Dave Lisik. The album moves effortlessly from moments of beauty and grace to sonic roller-coaster rides full of intensity and uncompromisingly mu...

T.R.A.M. is comprised of such renowned musically proficient artists as Adrian Terrazas (The Mars Volta) on saxophone, flute, bass clarinet and percussion, Javier Reyes (Animals As Leaders) on guitars, Tosin Abasi (Animals As Leaders) on guitars and Eric Moore (Suicidal Tendencies) on drums. This is ...

These days Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is mainly associated with his later works. Born in 1935 he wrote 'avant-garde' works at first. In the nineteen seventies he increasingly found his inspiration in medieval religious music, both western and eastern European. This first transpired in his ...