Incidental Music

Incidental Music was founded by a pair of DJs from San Francisco's KUSF. The duo witnessed Rovo's success on the Bay Area airwaves, but it was not available domestically. They decided to release Imago in the United States and Europe, and with such a promising start Incidental is sure to be a label to keep your eye on.

Richard Buckner
He's from San Francisco, but Richard Buckner is a high plains poet whose stark dusty folk-rock sets your insides aching with its eloquence and brutal honesty.

Nothing Left to Lose: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson - 2002


Califone
Since rising from the ashes of the avant-blues band Red Red Meat, Califone has successfully merged the Meat's damaged genre experiments with ambient electronic textures to produce a sound that is at once classicist and very, very now.

Nothing Left to Lose: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson - 2002


Elders Of Zion
This secret cabal based in San Francisco and Seattle creates a wild and incantatory sort of music that fuses far-left politics, esoteric field recordings, madman live instrumentation, dub effects, and cut-and-paste recording techniques. It's a most compelling style of dark ambient music.

Dawn Refuses To Rise - 2002


Rovo
Forget what you thought instruments were supposed to sound like. Forget what you thought music was supposed to sound like. Coming straight out of the Tokyo underground, Rovo will blow you away with their amazing fusion of breakbeats, experimental improvisation, gonzo electronics, tribal percussion workouts, and spacey psych.

Imago - 2001


Deanna Varagona
A frequent guest musician and longtime member of Lambchop, Deanna Varagona also records sparse, aching modern folk music influenced by the Appalachian songwriting tradition.

Nothing Left to Lose: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson - 2002


Zmrzlina
What is the musical equivalent of Alice's Wonderland? It might very well be Zmrzlina, San Francisco's psych-folk-drone-pop heroes.

Katastrophe Vol. 3 - 2001