Elliott Sharp & DJ Soul Slinger

A major figure in New York City's avant-garde community since the '70s, Elliott Sharp is a composer and instrumentalist whose work runs the gamut from experimental and contemporary classical pieces to blues, noise rock, and electronic music. The bulk (over 100 albums among his various projects) and diversity of his recorded catalog defy concise description, but as a composer and instrumentalist, Sharp is unconcerned with conventional melody and instead values dynamics and atmospheres. He uses sounds both ambient and dissonant, organic and electronic, to create tonal landscapes...