Srangest ,most out there sounding music

Rabih Abou Khalil's "Al-Jadida" is a sort of Arabic jazz CD, played by Western and Eastern musicians. A friend and I heard this playing in Tower Records many years ago, and both of us bought it on the spot. I didn't even own a CD player!

For a true original try Harry Partch. An American composer who developed his own microtonal musical scale in the 30s and wrote for it until his death in the early 70s. His compositions often combined theater along with his striking and unusual instruments (which he invented to play his 40+ note scale). His 3 LP release "Delusion and the Fury" had one record showcasing his instruments along with a great booklet containing many pictures of them.

http://www.harrypartch.com

"music from The Body" - featuring music by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin.

Charles Carpenter in his "Frog a La Peche" CD used an unusual tuning (Bohlen-Pierce scale) and made the music sound both in and out-of-tune at the same time. Made me a little queasy at first hearing and drove a friend's dog to the closet every time she played it! Yaaah!

John Cage's 4'33". The pianist walks up to the piano, sits down, opens the keyboard cover, waits 4minutes and 33 seconds, closes the keyboard ccover, and gets up and walks away. Silence is one a part of the musical material a composer uses. John just took this to the extreme.