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Some Avante Garde Music Worth Your Time

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I like that Avante Garde stuff, and I don't have many people to share this interest with. In case anyone here wants to dip their toes into the more out-there side of music, here are some options that have real substance.

Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis/Belladonna - Jazz re-imagined as the sound of misfiring 50s scifi outer-space effects. So cool. Belladonna is my favorite of the two, but they're meant to be a pair.

Eliane Radigue - Trilogie De La Mort - Almost certainly the slowest developing music that I have heard. Listen to this when you're ready for an extremely meditative experience. Don't be fooled: what seems at first to be an almost unchanging drone does go somewhere and do something, and it's quite powerful if you hang with it.

Bill Orcutt - Road Stories (Kali) - John Fahey-type fingersyle meets dissonance-loving Maximalism. Orcutt has a ton of albums, but this is a favorite of mine.

Raphael Roginski - Plays John Coltrane - Not necessarily that Avante Garde, this is probably the most soothing listen on the list, but I had to mention it.
 
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