Editor's Picks - Sound Art

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Bart Hopkin: 21 Ways of Looking at Things

Twenty-one soundscapes created with invented instruments -- oddly musical, richly textural, never opaque, always evocative.

Recommended if you like Blue Man Group, Harry Partch, Stomp.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $14.00
 
City Paranoid: A Means to No End

A sonic portrait depicting the dark side of London life. Field recordings, electronics, electro-acoustics, vocals.

Recommended if you like Coil, Janek Schaefer, Jim O'Rourke.
  • Buy CD - $12.97
 
Mariolina Zitta: Concert for Bats, voices and natural sounds

Natural soundscapes and music

Recommended if you like Douglas Quin.
  • Buy CD - $12.00
 
reverberations from spring past: Diaz-Infante/Fernandes/Montoya/Romus

2006 release recorded live & in studio during the Spring Reverb 04 Festival in San Diego, California. brings together four West Coast veterans who combine their distinctive voices. "Reverberations" is wild, raw, energetic and headstrong." --tokafi

Recommended if you like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey, John Zorn.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $14.90
 
Zen Baseballbat: For Refund Insert Baby

Second album from the Gleavey Twins fronted Art Ska band from the gritty streets of North West England.

Recommended if you like B52's, Devo, The Toasters.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $10.99
  • Buy CD - $16.00
 
Acre: Harvest

A one man 'band' from the Pacific Northwest, who uses mixer feedback, a sampler and various effects to create deep vibrant thick drones, the kind that feel otherworldly, that transport the listener to some other place.

  • Download Album (MP3) - $2.00
 
QNG - Quartet New Generation: In vain - von der Vergänglichkeit

In their 2nd album the four members of QNG turned to the beauty of morbidity and recorded an entire CD devoted to the baroque vanity theme: everything in life is vanishing.

Recommended if you like Björk, Kronos Quartet.
  • Buy CD - $22.95
 
Royal Family: Kick In Kick Out

"Kick In Kick out" has a pulse that grabs you. Infusing a good 70's rock with todays modern textures and stylings. High Energy Rock and Roll that takes you on a ride with catchy melodies, and thoughtful lyrics.

Recommended if you like Kings of Leon.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $12.97
 
En Plein Air: L'alba Irradia L'inutile Parola

Post-rock with strings

Recommended if you like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Sigur Rós.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $3.99
  • Buy CD - $11.50
 
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