Pushing The Envelope: Recent Episodes
Joel Krutt
Greetings!
Let's see... a couple of new items from our friends at 577 Records, some carnivalesque music in Phase One, classic stuff from the ready to re-boot label Table of the Elements and a smathering of other goodies!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
6-14-25 PTE Playlist
- Pudding is niet te vergelijken! (Pudding Is Beyond Compare!) - Dubbelvia (Double Cream) - Double Wall Large Mouth - self-release (2025)
- https://monadnode.bandcamp.com/album/double-wall-large-mouth
- Vogel - Eva Navoa - Novoa / Gress / Gray Trio, Vol. 2 - 577 Records (2025)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-gress-gray-trio-vol-2
- Birds: 1 - 39 - Friendly Rich (Rich Marsella) - The Birds of Marsville - We Are Busy Bodys (August 2025, pre-release)
- https://friendlyrich.bandcamp.com/album/the-birds-of-marsville
- Life - Sly & The Family Stone - Life - Epic (1968)
- Happy Family - King Crimson - Lizard - DGM (1970)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/lizard
- Carry On Up The Vicarage (A Musical Tribute To Agatha Christie) - Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch! - Charisma (1978)
- https://www.hackettsongs.com/
- Monkey & Bunny - The Residents and Renaldo & The Loaf - Not Available & selections from Title In Limbo - East Side Digital (1988)
- https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=titleinlimbo
- Olympus Mons - Alan Niblock, John Butcher & Mark Sanders - Tectonic Plates - 577 Records (2025)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/tectonic-plates
- 100 Guitars - Rhys Chatham - A Field Guide to Table of the Elements, Southeast Edition - Table of the Elements (2006)
- https://tableoftheelements.bandcamp.com/album/a-field-guide-to-table-of-the-elements-southeast-edition
- Encore - Tony Conrad w/ Faust - A Field Guide to Table of the Elements, Southeast Edition - Table of the Elements (2006)
- https://tableoftheelements.bandcamp.com/album/a-field-guide-to-table-of-the-elements-southeast-edition
- drag - Andrea Parkins / Eliad Wagner - Drag Drop Spin & Crawl - Superpang (2025)
- https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/drag-drop-spin-crawl
- wakeups - The Beverage Station - Little Grey Cells - Gold Bolus (2025)
- https://thebeveragestation.bandcamp.com/album/little-grey-cells
- String Thing - Felicity Mangan - String Figures - Elevator Bath (August 2025, pre-release)
- https://felicitymangan.bandcamp.com/album/string-figures
Greetings!
Just back from Providence, Rhode Island where I experienced the I Heart Noise Fest 2025 in all it's noisy ambient, drone, experimental, rocked out, spacey glory. Today's program will serve to present the featured artists in the order they played that evening. Kudos to Ilya S. who put the whole thing together!
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
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6-7-25 PTE Playlist: I Heart Noise Festival 2025
- In The Black / The Unknown Rabbit - Petridisch - A Fixed Point (Remastered) - self-release (2021)
- https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/a-fixed-point-remastered
- Extrait - Petridisch - Extrait - Mahorka / Fish Prints (2023)
- https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/extrait
- Killer B - Skyjelly - Spirit Guide - I Heart Noise (2024)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/skyjelly-spirit-guide-deluxe-edition
- Acosta - Skyjelly - Blank Panthers - self-release (2016)
- https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/blank-panthers
- L'Chaim Part 1 - Shalom Aleichem / L'Chaim Part 2 - Yismechu - Solilians - Shin - digital release (2016)
- https://solilians.bandcamp.com/album/shin
- Noshville / Shema - Solilians - Klezmische Deluxe - Bring Them Home Now - I Heart Noise (2024)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/klezmische-deluxe-bring-them-home-now
- Gravity Drains - Samara Lubelski - Bill Nace Duo - 43/80 - Three Lobed Recordings (2024)
- https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/43-80
- Godzilla of Snow - Windy & Carl - Godzilla Of Snow / Witch & A Cauldron - self-release (2016)
- https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/godzilla-of-snow-witch-a-cauldron
- Crossing Over - Windy & Carl - Allegiance and Conviction - Kranky (2020)
- https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/allegiance-and-conviction
- Consciousness / The Sun - Windy & Carl - Consciousness - Kranky (2001)
- https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/consciousness
Greetings!
Today's program is a bit of a world tour, starting in Shropshire, UK, then moving along to distant climes including Princeton, New Jersey, Hamburg, Germany, Norway & Quebec, Canada. Good luck with your passports!
Listen & Enjoy! https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2hs7g-18adbc6
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
5-24-25 PTE Playlist
- Ronsack - Swansither - Ronsack - Subexotic Records (2025)
- https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/ronsack
- Just More Idle Chatter - Paul Lansky - Inner Voices: Music from the Winham Laboratory at Princeton University - Centaur (1990)
- https://centaurrecords.com/
- Wasting - Brad Garton, Paul Lansky, Andrew Milburn / Text-Reading: Richard Kostelanetz - Inner Voices: Music from the Winham Laboratory at Princeton University - Centaur (1990)
- https://centaurrecords.com/
- C'ant See The Rebel - R. Schappert - C'ant see the Rebel - r-ecords (2025)
- https://rolandschappert.bandcamp.com/album/c-ant-see-the-rebel
- Moth Molecules - Kristine Tjøgersen, Cikada Ensemble - Night Lives - Aurora Records (2025)
- https://www.aurorarecords.no/en/nightlives
- 1.4 MS Stubnitz ⁞ Hamburg ⁞ 25.04.2024 - David Wallraf - Amnesia - self-release (2025)
- https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/album/amnesia
- Amrita Flux - Sacred System - Asana 2: moving meditation - Meta Records (2000)
- https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/asana-2
- Quickening & Enlivening - composers: Matthew Evan Taylor; Rajna Swaminathan; Ganavya Doraiswamy; Utsav Lal; RAJAS; Metropolis Ensemble / ensemble: Rajna Swaminathan; Utsav Lal; Matthew Evan Taylor; Ganavya; RAJAS; Metropolis Ensemble | Andrew Cyr, conductor / Life Returns - Navona Records (2025)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6735
- Life Returns! - composers: Matthew Evan Taylor; Rajna Swaminathan; Ganavya Doraiswamy; Dave Adewumi; Mark Dover / ensemble: Matthew Evan Taylor; Rajna Swaminathan; Ganavya; RAJAS, Metropolis Ensemble | Andrew Cyr, conductor; RAJAS / Life Returns - Navona Records (2025)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6735
- Elle qui est-elle - Joane Hétu - Elle a sont mot à dire - AMBIANCES MAGNÉTIQUES (2025)
- https://ambiancesmagnetiques.com/
- Edge of Town - Held By Trees - Hinterland - Tweed Jacket Music (2025)
- https://heldbytrees.bandcamp.com/album/hinterland
- McLaughlin - EZRA - Froggy's Demise - Adhyâropa Records (2025)
- https://ezraquartet.bandcamp.com/album/froggys-demise
- Sister Andrea - Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity: Mahavishnu Orchestra Live - Columbia (1973)
Greetings!
Today's program starts with tracks from my latest Bandcamp Friday haul, wanders around a bit and towards the end celebrates the 50th birthday of the Tangerine Dream classic, "Phaedra".
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
5-10-25 PTE Playlist
- Fading Light on Wonderview — In Memoriam David Lynch - Robert Scott Thompson - We Live Within A Dream : Tributes to David Lynch (compilation) - Aural Films (2025)
- https://auralfilms1.bandcamp.com/album/we-live-within-a-dream-tributes-to-david-lynch
- The Petridisch Tapes (Unbroken) - Petridisch - The Petridisch Tapes - self-release (2021)
- https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/the-petridisch-tapes
- Luminiferous Aether 6 - Jeff Carey - Luminiferous Aether - digital release (2025)
- https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/album/luminiferous-aether
- Close To You - John Hollenbeck - Songs We Like A Lot - Flexatonic Records (2020)
- https://johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com/album/songs-we-like-a-lot
- No-One In The World - W.F.O. - Excursions In Ambience: the second orbit - Astralwerks (1993)
- Adfala (excerpt) - The Owl - Welcome to Owlripper - Owlripper Recordings (2021)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-owlripper
- The Retreat - Owen Underhill & Quatuor Bozzini - Songs & Quartets - Collection QB (2025)
- https://quatuorbozzini.ca/
- Lament - Jeannine Wagar - Into The Night - Neuma Records (2025)
- https://jeanninewagar.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-night
- II / I - Eduardo Elia - Desvíos - 577 Records (June 2025 pre-release)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/desv-os
- Phaedra - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra - Virgin (1974)
- https://www.tangerinedreammusic.com/
- All That is the Case - Natural Artefacts - Signs & Symbols - LJ Records (2024)
- www.lj-records.se
Greetings!
This week's program is best described as a veritable potpourri! Music that's brand new, fairly new (within the past year or so), new to my library following a recent visit to the Princeton Record Exchange (heaven on earth) and a couple of older things from the archive.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
5-3-25 PTE Playlist
- handsinmyhead (an intoxication in three parts) - GREETINGS - A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland: Electro-Acoustic Music From The Island of Ireland - Heresy Records (2018)
- https://heresyrecords.com/a-map-of-the-kingdom-of-ireland-artists/#greetings
- Phoenix - vocal ensemble: The Electric Phoenix / composer: Gerald Shapiro - Neuma: Electro Acoustic Music II - Neuma Records (1991)
- https://neumarecords.org/home/ols/products/electro-acoustic-music-ii
- Harmonic Rain - Morgan Szymanski / Tommy Perman - Harmonic Rain - Blackford Hill digital single (July 2025 pre-release)
- https://tommyperman.bandcamp.com/music
- Fragile Fantasy #4 (Thunder_Cookies_Remix) - Ran Slavin - Thunder Cookies (Fragile Revisions) - Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings (2025)
- https://ranslavin.bandcamp.com/album/thunder-cookies-fragile-revisions
- busy ready what, corroborators - Rashad Becker - The Incident - Clunk (2025)
- https://rashadbecker.bandcamp.com/album/the-incident
- Hope For Enlightenment - Lama Gyurme & Jean-Philippe Rykiel - The Lama's Chant: Songs of Awakening - Sony Classical (1994)
- Vocalise on "In A Silent Way" - The Bowed Piano Ensemble - Ice & Fire - Navona Records (2013)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv5937/
- Les Premières Bandes 6 - Ilya P. (aka Ludovic Medery) - Tensoplast - Falt (2020)
- https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/tensoplast
- Don't Glitsh On My Cascade - Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace - Superpang (2021)
- https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/album/embrace
- Angel of Sunlight - Carlos Santana / Reconstruction & Mix Translation: Bill Laswell - Divine Light: Music from Illuminations & Love Devotion Surrender - Columbia/Legacy (2001)
- Cycles - Duo AYA: Rachel Woolf - flute / Makana Jimbu - marimba / composer: Evan Williams - Cycles - Neuma Records (2025)
- https://duoaya.bandcamp.com/album/cycles
- Dystopian Devil - Thebot - Ne Plus Ultra Soundtrack - Moolakii Club Audio Interface (2024)
- https://moolakiiclubaudiointerface.bandcamp.com/album/ne-plus-ultra-soundtrack
- We're Cosmic - Oceanographer - 14 Years / 100 Releases Compilation - Ingrown Records (2025)
- https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/14-years-100-releases-compilation
- Treasure of Stars - Dirk Serries - Treasure Of Stars (Streams Of Consciousness) - Projekt Records (2025)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-of-stars-streams-of-consciousness
Greetings!
To sum things up, "So Much Music, So Little Time!"
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
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4-26-25 PTE Playlist
- Empty A / Earth To T / On My Rock / In Their Rockpool - Tara Cunningham - Two, Three - Falt (2025)
- https://taracunningham.bandcamp.com/album/two-three
- Sitting on a Stone Wall With Typewriter - Ryan Hooper - Studies Made On A Typewriter - self-release (2025)
- https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/studies-made-on-a-typewriter
- Warp & Weft - Edward Givens - Idyll - digital release (2024)
- https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/idyll
- Dorsal Streaming - David Lee Myers - Ether Music - Starkland (2017)
- https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/david-lee-myers-ether-music
- Humbucker Music No. 1 - Nick Storring, ferromagnetic instruments and objects - Humbucker Music - Falt (2025)
- https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/humbucker-music
- Whiles Cubes In A Drop Or Pellets Of Shape Fit - Sentimental Maneuvers - Delightfully Deceitful - circum-disc (2025)
- https://www.circum-disc.com/pr-manoeuvres-sentimentales-delightfully-deceitful/?ppwp=1
- Train To Nowhere - John Oliver - Guitar Paint - John Oliver Music (2025)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-paint
- Louise - Fletina - Louise - Fletina Music (2025)
- https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/louise
- Wepan - Jasper String Quartet & Natalie Zhu, piano / composer: Tina Davidson - Barefoot - New Focus Recordings (2024)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/barefoot
- A Dirge For Zuhal - The Black Cube - Skinbag - digital release (2025)
- https://theblackcube.bandcamp.com/album/skinbag
Greetings!
This week's program included primarily new music with a smattering of newly accquired music.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
4-19-25 PTE Playlist
- They Went Away / Un Message - Tremosphere - saturated solace - Slugg Records (May 2025 pre-release)
- https://tremosphere.bandcamp.com/album/saturated-solace
- A Freedom Worth Dying For - Spite Cathedral - Unforgiven Thoughts - Sound+Matter (2025)
- https://spitecathedral.bandcamp.com/album/unforgiven-thoughts
- Over These Dark Ages - Trem 77 - Blacklight Sunset - Grape Mod Records (May 2025 digital pre-release)
- https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/blacklight-sunset
- Shimo (Avec Duty Free) - Tommy Crane's Dance Music for All Occasions - Reality Curated: Live at Ursa - Elastic Recordings (2025)
- https://tommycrane.bandcamp.com/album/reality-curated-live-at-ursa-elastic-recordings
- Three Wars - stef.in - Icterus II - Barnyard Records (2025)
- https://stefin.bandcamp.com/album/icterus-ii
- Cities - How Much - Washing the Clothes Go Round (compilation) - Fish Prints (2025)
- https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/washing-the-clothes-go-round
- transᅲ - Andreas Lutz - Aura Trans - Kasuga (2025)
- https://andreaslutz.bandcamp.com/album/aura-trans
- Send A Message From The Heart - Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory - InsideOut Music (2008)
- https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/whos-the-boss-in-the-factory
- SPQR - John Teves - The Vast Ocean of Being - self-release (2025)
- https://johnteves.bandcamp.com/album/the-vast-ocean-of-being
- Age of Lies (Digital Life Suite, pt. 5)/ AI Masters (Fall of Man) (Digital Life Suite, pt. 6) - Digital Life Project - self-release (2025)
- https://digitallifeproject.com/
- caves - pathetique - Turbulence - digital release (2025)
- https://pathetique.bandcamp.com/album/turbulence
- After Beethoven - Christopher DeLaurenti - Favorite Intermissions - GD Stereo (2006)
- https://gdstereo.com/recordings/gd019-favorite-intermissions-christopher-delaurenti
Greetings!
By the time I post this, I will have returned from Cruise To The Edge 2025. Some of my favorite performances included Karmakanic, Thank You, Scientist, The Aristocrats, Steve Hackett (playing a few of his own tunes, a chunk of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway & other Genesis favorites), Riverside, Big Big Train & Robert Fripp/David Singleton in conversation. Great Fun!!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
3-29-25 PTE Playlist - Cruise To The Edge 2025
- Soul Diver - Thank You, Scientist - Plague Accommodations - Flying Jangus Records (2021)
- https://thankyouscientist.bandcamp.com/album/plague-accommodations
- Paintbox - Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture - Toff Records (1996)
- https://www.pendragon.mu/discography/the-masquerade-overture/
- Daddy Long Legs - Trifecta - The New Normal - Kscope (2024)
- https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-normal
- Hey, Where's My Drink Package? - The Aristocrats - Duck - BOING! Music (2024)
- https://the-aristocrats-band.bandcamp.com/album/duck
- Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett - Live Archive Nearfest - Camino Records (2003)
- https://www.hackettsongs.com
- Dream The Dead - Caligula's Horse - Caligula's Horse on Audiotree Live - Audiotree (2024)
- https://audiotree.bandcamp.com/album/caligulas-horse-on-audiotree-live
- Catherine Howard - Rick Wakeman - Yes & Friends (compilation) - Snapper Music (2003)
- https://www.rwcc.com/
- Burning Match - Marbin - Breaking The Cycle - Moonjune Records (2011)
- https://marbinmusic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-the-cycle
- Miramare - Big Big Train - The Likes of Us - InsideOut Music (2024)
- https://bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/album/the-likes-of-us-24-bit-hd-audio
- Duchess Desire - Kyros - Fear & Love (EP) - digital release (2024)
- https://kyrosmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fear-love
- Mothallah - TEMIC - Terror Management Theory - Season of Mist (2023)
- https://temic.bandcamp.com/album/terror-management-theory
- Guiding Light - IQ - The Seventh House - Giant Electric Pea (2000)
- https://iq-gep.bandcamp.com/album/the-seventh-house
- Molok Rising - Gazpacho - Molok - Kscope (2015)
- https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/molok
- Valles Marinares - Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet - Madfish (2020)
- https://www.rwcc.com/
Greetings!
New Petridisch, new Tremosphere, new Robert Scott Thompson, other new things, slightly older stuff, then a tangent focused on the work of Ricky Ian Gordan and Adam Guettel. (Oh, did I ever tell you I once co-hosted a show themed around musical theater & related goodies?)
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
3-22-25 PTE Playlist
- They Went Away - Tremosphere - saturated solace - Slugg Records (May 2025 pre-release)
- https://tremosphere.bandcamp.com/album/saturated-solace
- This Earthly Round (REDUX) - Stephen Page, saxophone / Alexandre Maynegre-Torra, piano / Australian composer: Miriama Young - Earthly Round - Navona Records (2025)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6707/
- Our Again S - Petridisch - Apéritifs - fourth world (2025)
- https://fourthworld.bandcamp.com/album/ap-ritifs
- The Universe Spins on a Vector of Silence - Robert Scott Thompson - In Slow Ascent - Aucourant Records (2025)
- https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/in-slow-ascent
- Jaunpuri - Sophia Subbayya Vastek: just intonation piano / Nitin Mitta: tabla / Michael Harrison tanpura & composer - Histories - Innova (2017)
- https://innova.mu/album/histories/
- Janet Underneath The Roses - Ricky Ian Gordon - A Horse With Wings - Blue Griffin Records (2010)
- https://rickyiangordon.com/
- Once I Was - voice: Theresa McCarthy / piano - composer: Ricky Ian Gordon - Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon - Nonesuch (2001)
- https://rickyiangordon.com/
- Contemporary - voice: Adam Guettel / poem: W.S. Merwin - music: Ricky Ian Gordon - Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon - Nonesuch (2001)
- https://rickyiangordon.com/
- Saturn Returns - vocal/composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Nonesuch (2001)
- https://www.adamguettel.com/
- Pegasus - vocals: Billy Porter / Lynette DuPre / Audra McDonald / composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Nonesuch (2002)
- https://www.adamguettel.com/
- Come To Jesus - guitar: Garrett Gleason / composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Big Round Records (2023)
- https://www.bigroundrecords.com/catalog/BR8984/
- Prisms for Gene Davis - ensemble: Nata Swara / composer: Brian Baumbusch - Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet - New World Records (2023)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/brian-baumbusch-chemistry-for-gamelan-and-string-quartet
- Duck Blind - Paul Dresher Ensemble w/ Rinde Eckert - Slow Fire - Minmax Music (1992)
- https://minmax.bandcamp.com/album/slow-fire
- Weeping Monolith - Gelbart - Liquids & Flesh - Egglike Records (April 2025)
- https://gelbart.bandcamp.com/album/liquids-flesh
- Hidden No More - Kekal - Quantum Resolution - digital release (2020)
- https://kekal.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-resolution
- March - feinstruktur - 2025 - digital release (2025)
- https://feinstruktur.bandcamp.com/album/2025
Greetings!
Many new things, then, a digression in Phase 2 focused on the influence of gamelan in Western music.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
3-15-25 PTE Playlist
- G's Sabbath - Double Bass: Roberto Cassani / Guitar: Graeme Stephen - Pictish Spaghetti - 577 Records (2025)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/pictish-spaghetti
- Lands End - composer: Luciano Chessa / piano: Claudio Sanna - Lands End - Col Legno (2025)
- https://col-legno.com/de/shop/15030-lands-end
- Pillows - electronics: Simon Grab / drums: David Meier - Porœs - OUS (2025)
- https://simongrab.bandcamp.com/album/por-s
- Strawberry Festival In Louisiana - Stereo Minus One - Dead Petals At The Other - Machine Records (2025)
- https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/dead-petals-at-the-other
- After The Flood - Jeff Greinke - Late Rain - Projekt Records (2025)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-rain
- Testing Area - Thomas Poken - digital single (2025)
- https://thomaspoken.bandcamp.com/album/testing-area
- Universe Emerging (10 minute) - Gallanitte - Universe Emerging - digital release (2025)
- https://gallanitte.bandcamp.com/album/universe-emerging
- Intro / Farfisa for Polly Peachum / Sure As Me - Petridisch - Horse Sense: Live at DUALITYFEST - self-release (2023)
- https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/horse-sense-live-at-dualityfest
- Parlando I/II/III - percussion: Christopher Clarino / composer: Igor Santos - Parlando - Neuma Records (2025)
- https://christopherclarino.bandcamp.com/album/parlando
- Estampes 1: Pagode - piano: Aldo Ciccolini / composer: Claude Debussy - L'Œuvre Pour Piano, Vol. I - EMI (1992)
- https://symposium.music.org/52/item/22-claude-debussys-gamelan.html
- "The Joy of the Blood of the Stars" from Turangalila Symphony - Orchestre De L'Opéra Bastille, cond. Myung-Whun Chung / composer: Olivier Messiaen - Mystic (The Musical Visions Of Olivier Messiaen) - Deutsche Grammaphon (1996)
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olivier-Messiaen#ref54011
- Sleeping Braid - Gamelan Son of Lion / composer: Barbara Benary - The Complete Gamelan in the New World - Locust Music (2004)
- https://www.soundohm.com/product/the-complete-gamelan-in-t
- Lamentation & Fantasia Gamelantronique - Discus - 1st - Mellow (1999)
- https://mellowlabelproductions.bandcamp.com/album/1st
- Poem for Bali - Wendy Carlos - Beauty In The Beast - Audion (1986)
- https://www.wendycarlos.com/+bitb.html
Greetings!
Among the business to attend to during this week's program, we honor the memory and music of steel guitarist extraordinaire and Baltimore denizen, Susan Alcorn who passed on January 31. I was lucky enough to have seen her perform live at Baltimore's Red Room in 2023.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky : https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
3-1-25 PTE Playlist
- Loop II & Solo - Robert Fripp - Houston Hall Philadelphia United States: 2-20-1981 - DGM digital (1981)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/tour-dates/1693
R.I.P. Susan Alcorn
- Brack Water Waltz (ft. Susan Alcorn) - Astroturf Noise (Sam Day Harmet: Mandolin/fx, Sana Nagano: Violin/fx, Zachary Swanson: Bass) - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-freezing
- Thollem / Susan Alcorn 2 - keyboards: Thollem McDonas / pedal steel guitar: Susan Alcorn - Thollem / Susan Alcorn - Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions - digital release (2021)
- https://susanalcorn1.bandcamp.com/album/thollem-susan-alcorn-thollems-astral-traveling-sessions
- Dream Crossed Twilight - Sirius Quartet / composer: Mark Edwards Wilson - Playing On The Edge 3 - Navona Records (2022)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6520
- New November - Simon Jermyn - Obsany - Elastic Recordings (2025)
- https://simonjermyn.bandcamp.com/album/obsany-elastic-recordings
- Time Dilation - Andre LaFosse - Entry Level: An Introduction to Andre LaFosse - 7d Media (2025)
- https://andrelafosse7d.bandcamp.com/album/entry-level-an-introduction-to-andre-lafosse
- Master of Inertia 3 - Peter Wullen - Master of Inertia - digital release (2025)
- https://peterwullen.bandcamp.com/album/master-of-inertia
- mysterious - P.U.M.A. - ITINERE - The Church of Noisy Goat (2025)
- https://thechurchofnoisygoat.bandcamp.com/album/itinere
- Official Facsimile - Neverending Audit - High Notes - Ingrown Records (2024)
- https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/high-notes
- FIREFLIES for third-bridge acoustic guitar and electronics - Mike Frengel - Music For Guitar & Electronics - Ravona Records (2020)
- https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8035/
- First Chirality - Kevin Kastning / Carl Clements / Soheil Peyghambari - Triple Helix - greydisc (2025)
- https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/triple-helix
- Josephine's Fresh Cuts - Jack O' The Clock - Portraits - digital release (2025)
- https://jackotheclock.bandcamp.com/album/portraits
- Playing The Game - Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory - Capitol Records (1974)
- https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/The_Power_and_the_Glory
- Curious Corn - Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn - Snapper Music (1997)
- https://ozrics.com/discography/curious-corn/
Greetings!
What's New? Most of today's program, that's what. In addition, we remember King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir who recently passed and there's a bit of Sunn 0))) thrown in for good measure.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
2-22-25 PTE Playlist
- Alien Fig Yogurt Incident / origins #5 [pelso mix] - Geiger von Müller - Alien Fig Yogurt Incident (single, A & B sides) - digital release (2024)
- https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/alien-fig-yogurt-incident
- Roxa (Purple) I / Terra da Garoa (Land of Drizzle) - Nick Storring - Mirante (Lookout) - We Are Busy Bodies - (March 2025)
- https://nickstorring.bandcamp.com/album/mirante
- The Talking Drum / Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part II (Steven Wilson 2023 Stereo Mixes) - Larks Tongues in Aspic - Larks’ Tongues In Aspic - The Complete Recording Sessions - DGM (2023)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/news/a-tribute-to-jamie-from-bill-bruford
- Impression du dehors - Torche! - 8 NOTIONS OF RELAXATION - Circum-Disc (2025)
- https://circum-disc.bandcamp.com/album/8-notions-de-d-tente
- J'espère être absoute (I hope to be absolved) / Affalée sur le sol (Slumped on the ground) - composer: Nour Symon /words: Roxane Desjardins - je suis calme et enragé•e (I am calm and enraged) - Ambiances Magnétiques (March 2025)
- https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com/album/je-suis-calme-et-enrag-e
- White Out - John Oliver - John Oliver Live at Red Gate - John Oliver Music (2025)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/john-oliver-live-at-red-gate
- Date Night - Jeff Myers - Goodnight - Neuma Records (2025)
- https://jeffmyers.bandcamp.com/album/goodnight-2
- Alice - Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions - Southern Lord (2009)
- https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/monoliths-dimensions
- 4AM - David Walraff - Insomnia - cassette/digital self-release (2025)
- https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/album/insomnia
- VII - IS-CAT - DRONE//AMBIENT - digital release (2024)
- https://is-cat.bandcamp.com/album/drone-ambient
Greetings!
I treated this episode of PTE as if I were filling in required words needed to complete a Mad Libs, a word game that might be categorized as a phrasal template game. In order to create today's playlist, the compositions required the inclusion of an acoustic instrument & a non-instrument such as electronics, tape, digital delay, computer, etc.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
2-8-25 PTE Playlist: - Mad Libs: acoustic instrument & non-instrument
- Kagemusha: for pipa and electronics - Ningxin Zhang - Musicworks #148 - Musicworks (2024)
- https://www.musicworks.ca/winners-2023-musicworks-electronic-music-composition
- Dialogue I for voice and live electronics (2021) - improvisation by Kate Soper & Sam Pluta - The Understanding of All Things - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-understanding-of-all-things
- Toccata for percussion and tape - percussion: Beverley Johnston / composer: Gary Kulesha - Alternate Currents - Centredisques (1992)
- https://beverleyjohnston.com/
- Talkback IV for piano and computer - piano: Kathleen Suppove / composer-electronics: Guy Barash - Eye To Ivory - Starkland (2019)
- https://starkland.org/catalog/st233/
- Coeur d'Orr for clarinet and two-channel tape, sculptor
Eric Orr - clarinet: Daniel Goode / tape - composer: Harold Budd - Frog Peak Music (2002) - https://frogpeak.org/fpartists/fpgoode.html
- Lonesome Dove - a true story, micro-opera for tenor saxophonist, watcher & portable darkness - tenor saxophone: Geoff Landman / watcher: Umber Qureshi / composer: Richard Cameron-Wolfe - Passionate Geometries - New Focus Recordings (2024)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/passionate-geometries
- Another Shore for celesta and digital delay - celesta and digital delay: Philip Schroeder - Cold Blue Two (an original anthology) - Cold Blue Music (2012)
- https://coldbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/cold-blue-two-an-original-anthology
- Heroin arranged by David Lang for cello, voice & electronics - cello: Maya Beiser / composer: Lou Reed - tranceclassical - Innova (2016)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/maya-beiser/tranceclassical
- Violin Phase (1967) for violin and pre-recorded tape - violin: Shem Guibbory / composer: Steve Reich - From The Kitchen Archives No. 2: Steve Reich & Musicians, Live 1977 - Orange Mountain Music (2005)
- https://stevereich.com/composition/violin-phase/
- Music for Player Piano (and computer) - James Tenney - Selected Works 1961-1969 - New World Records (2003)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/james-tenney/products/james-tenney-selected-works-1961-1969
- Lowland Side (excerpt) - M.C. Schmidt - Batu Malablab Suite for Prepared Piano, Flute and Electronics - digital release (2014)
- https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/batu-malablab-suite-for-prepared-piano-flute-and-electronics
Greetings!
This week is a real hodgepodge of new releases, new acquisitions for me and some older things i dragged out of mothballs both on the shelf and from the hard drive.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social
2-1-25 PTE Playlist
- Insomnio - Jon Nelson & Metalofonico / composer: Jon Nelson - Metalofonico: New Music For Brass & Percussion - New Focus Recordings (2024)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/metalofonico
- There Is No Division - Simon Heartfield - The State of Social Movement - Machine Records (2025 April pre-release)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-state-of-social-movement-2
- Naturall Occuring Brushstrokes - missing scenes - dream or memory? - digital release (2025)
- https://missingscenes.bandcamp.com/album/dream-or-memory
- Lullaby for Piano and Electronics - David Handler - Life Like Violence - Cantaloupe Music (2025 May pre-release)
- https://davidhandler.bandcamp.com/album/life-like-violence
- Track 6 (Your Eyes Are Like A Cup Of Tea (Reprise With Flute)) - The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka - Brian Jones presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka - Point Music / Phillips (1971/1995)
- https://www.joujouka.org/brian-jones-in-morocco-ugly-things-feature-on-the-rolling-stones-guitarists-recordings-in-joujouka/
- Alchemy II: Dreamland - Loop 2.4.3 (Thomas Kozumplik / Lorne Watson) - American Dreamland - Music Starts From Silence (2012)
- https://musicstartsfromsilence.bandcamp.com/album/american-dreamland
- Trance - Bill Frisell / Victor Bruce Godsey / Brian Ales - American Blood - Safety In Numbers - Intuition (1995)
- Soliloquy & Rondo - flute: Lyndsey Goodman / piano: Clare Longendyke / composer: Richard E. Brown - In The Company of Music - Navona Records (2024)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6656
- Variations For Flute And Electronic Sound - Wendy Carlos - Electronic Sound (compilation) - Turnabout (1965)
- https://www.wendycarlos.com/
- Variations sur une Flûte mexicaine [Variations on a Mexican flute] (1949) - Pierre Schaeffer - Œuvres 1948-1952 - NA grm (2023)
- https://pierreschaeffer.bandcamp.com/album/uvres-1948-1952
- Boiled Cadillac - Emily Hay, flute / Wayne Peet, piano / Brad Dutz, percussion - Like Minds - PfMentum (2005)
- https://emilyhay.com/
- Amores Montuños (Mountain Loves) - Duo Zuber: Patricia Zuber, flute / Greg Zuber, marimba / William Susman, composer - Blackbird Redux - belarca records (2018)
- https://belarca.com/releases/blackbird-redux.php
- Lila for flute, bass flute and contrabass flute - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Dai Fujikura - Density 2036: part iii (2015) - Corbett vs. Dempsey (2020)
- https://clairechase.bandcamp.com/album/density-2036-part-iii-2015
- Flute Drone (excerpt) - Mean Flow - Flute Drone - digital release (2016)
- https://meanflow.bandcamp.com/album/flute-drone-2
Greetings!
This week's program has no particular theme, rhyme or reason outside of including some brand new things which reminded me tonally of not so new things which allowed me to fill up Phases One & Two.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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1-25-25 PTE Playlist
- Perihelion - Forrest Fang - Perihelion - Projekt Records (2025)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/perihelion
- Reborn 02 - Marikhi (Sandro Mishelashvili) - Reborn - digital release (2024)
- https://marikhi.bandcamp.com/album/reborn
- Crawl Inside a Bell - Joseph White - (The Game is) Hypnosis - Gold Bolus Recordings (2025)
- https://joewhitenoise.bandcamp.com/album/the-game-is-hypnosis
- ⦁ limbo - Heavy Cloud
⦁ Collins Avenue - Joel Krutt
⦁ Der heilige Kotstein [The holy poop stone] (feat. der vegane Profistuhler / the vegan professional chair maker) - RötKöt
⦁ Geese flapping in the kitchen - CIRM
⦁ Die geheimen Tennisplätze der Reichen (the secret tennis courts of the rich) - Monad Node - 42 Seconds Vol. 7 - Owlripper Records (2024)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/42-seconds-7
- Tank - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Rhino (1970)
- https://www.emersonlakepalmer.com/
- Through A Lens - Imaginary Kings - Dreams from an Empty House - digital release (2024)
- https://imaginarykings.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-from-an-empty-house
- Medenas Suite: I Felt The Shosh / Wind Games / Im falschen Orus (In the wrong Orus) / Verloren (Lost) / Sis Siddis - Avant Orchid Zone - Medena Dysrembara - digital release (2024)
- https://avantorchidzone.bandcamp.com/album/medena-dysrembara
- Chichen Itza - Dennis Egberth - The Dennis Egberth Dynasty - 577 Records (2025)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-dennis-egberth-dynasty
- Lessons of the Sky - soprano sax: Kyle Jones / piano: Timothy Jones / composer: Rodney Rogers - Dualities - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://kylejonessax.bandcamp.com/album/dualities
- Oumagatoki (Oumaga Time) - Yoshiko Sai - Mangkeyou - WeWantSounds (1975/2024)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/yoshiko-sai-mangekyou-cd-edition
- Just Imaginings - Wendy Carlos - Beauty In The Beast - Audion (1986)
- https://www.wendycarlos.com/+bitb.html
- touch the sky - David Beardsley - klang and the silver cord - digital release (2023)
- https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/klang-and-the-silver-cord
- Exploring Psychic Powers Live - Bicycle Deck - Telepathic Table Games - digital release (2025)
- https://bicycledeck.bandcamp.com/album/telepathic-table-games
- The Zen of Space - Zakir Hussain - The Elements: Space - Music Today (1995)
- https://zakirhussain.com/
Greetings!
On this week's program, we pay tribute to the pre-eminent tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain, who passed away on December 15th of last year. He was appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon and one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians.
Enjoy!
Joel
1-18-25 PTE Playlist: R.I.P. Zakir Hussain (https://zakirhussain.com/)
- Ek Taal - Ustad Allah Rakha & Zakir Hussain - A Gift to Ustad Allah Rakha: 75th Birthday - Super Cassettes Industries/T Series (1994)
- Zindagi Jaam Se - vocal: Hariharan / tabla: Ustad Zakir Hussain - Hazir - Magnasound (1992)
- Balinese Fantasy - Zakir Hussain - Trance Planet (compilation) - Worldly Music/Triloka (1994)
- Mad Tea Time, Parts 1 & 2 - Steve Smith & Zakir Hussain - Drum Nation, Vol. 1 - Magna Carta Records (2004)
- httphttps://magnacartarecords.bandcamp.com/album/modern-drummer-presents-drum-nation-volume-one
- J Bhai - Dave Holland, Zakir Hussein & Chris Potter (Crosscurrents Trio) - Good Hope - Edition Records (2019)
- https://crosscurrentstrio.bandcamp.com/album/good-hope
- Forgiveness - Pat Martino - Firedance - Mythos Records (1997)
- Joy - Shakti w/ John McLaughlin - Shakti w/ John McLaughlin - Columbia Legacy (1976)
- https://www.shakti50.com/band/discography/
Greetings!
A bout of upper respiratory ailment and I am forced to turn to my standby gambit of playing long pieces so my on-air mic time is kept to a minimum. Voila!
Enjoy!
Joel
1-11-25 PTE Playlist
- Rewild - Ghost Ensemble / composer & ensemble member: Ben Richter - Rewild - New World Records (2024)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/ben-richter-rewild
- A Glitch has Appeared in the Business District - deepspace - Neon Blue Utopia - Projekt Records (2025)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/neon-blue-utopia
- Infinity Avenue (2015) for laptop and improvising ensemble- Robert Carl - Infinity Avenue - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://robert-carl.bandcamp.com/album/infinity-avenue
- Shallow Brown - Paul Pinto - Water Music - Gold Bolus Recordings (2024)
- https://paulpinto.bandcamp.com/album/water-music
- deux (excerpt) - pä (Paulo da Fonseca) - dialogue sur le sommeil (sleep dialogue) - digital release (2024)
- https://lesondouble.bandcamp.com/album/dialogue-sur-le-sommeil
Greetings!
For your listening pleasure, the 1/4 edition of Pushing The Envelope, bringing you the second of two programs presenting tracks from the releases I found most interesting in 2024!
Listen & Enjoy! https://envelope.podbean.com/e/1-4-25-pushing-the-envelope-music-decidedly-left-of-center-the-most-interesting-releases-of-2024-part-2/?token=f5ee23292984e78feea5b98cf29c2cef
Joel
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1-4-25 PTE Playlist - The Most Interesting Releases of 2024, Part 2
- You Made Me Miss - Benjamin Croft - We Are Here To Help - Galactic Receiver (2024)
- https://www.benjamincroftmusic.com/
- DVXNS: Mvmts. 1-3 (Directo & Reverso) - Dan Roman and Cuarteto Latinoamericano - DVXNS - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://danroman.bandcamp.com/album/dvxns
- 13_16 / 11_16 - Valley Lines - 13_16 - Machine Records (2024)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/13-16
- All I Know - Steve Roach - One Day of Forever - Projekt (2024)
- https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-of-forever
- The Pat & Jerry Show - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jonathan Sheffer composer & conductor / Daniel Barrett, baritone; Adam Maxey, bass baritone / Text adapted from a broadcast of The 700 Club - Four Ten-Minute Operas - Navona (2024)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6610/
- Strange Ukelele / Conscience / Objets - Martin Tétreault - Vraiment plus de Snipettes !!! - AMBIANCES MAGNÉTIQUES (2024)
- https://actuellecd.com/en/album/6706-vraiment-plus-de-snipettes
- Miramere / Love Is The Light - Big, Big Train - The Likes of Us - InsideOut Music (2024)
- https://bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/album/the-likes-of-us-24-bit-hd-audio
- Dance of the Fungi - Sam Wilson - Wintertides - self-release (2024)
- https://samwilsonmusiq.bandcamp.com/album/wintertides
- No. 7 (Nilan) - Dun-Dun Band - Pita Parka Pt. 1 : Xam Egdub - Ansible Editions (2024)
- https://kunudusuvuntu.bandcamp.com/album/pita-parka-pt-i-xam-egdub
- Markus Reuter & Stefano Castagna - Sea of Hopeless Angels - Flatiron Records (2024)
- https://markusreuterflatiron.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-hopeless-angels
- Echad Mi Yodea - Teiku - Teiku - 577 Records (2024)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/teiku
Greetings!
The winter solstice, or hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere. For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, and when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.
With the winter solstice having occurred on December 21st and the advent of winter, it seemed appropriate to play music addressing these topics.
Enjoy!
Joel
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12-28-24 PTE Playlist: Winter Solstice
- Solstice - Tom Bickley - Jepson Prairie - Other Minds Records (2023)
- https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jepson-prairie
- Solstice, Mvt. 1-4 - Garth Newel Piano Quartet / composer: David Bidenbender - all we are given we cannot hold - Blue Griffin Recording (2023)
- https://www.bluegriffin.com/cd-catalog/p/biedenbender-all-we-are-given-we-cannot-hold
- The Sun Stands Still - Pulselovers - Solstice 24 - Subexotic Records (2024)
- https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solstice-24
- The Coming of Winter - David Borden - Cayuga Night Music - Cuneiform Records (1993/2021)
- https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cayuga-night-music
- A Sure Winter - Soundician - Wise Trees - digital release (2015)
- https://soundician.bandcamp.com/album/wise-trees
- Symphony No. 1: Winter - Douglas Schmidt, bandoneon / John Oliver, sampling and granulation synthesizers - Symphony No. 1: Winter - John Oliver Music (2022)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-no-1-winter
- Wintertides - Sam Wilson - Wintertides - self-release (2024)
- https://samwilsonmusiq.bandcamp.com/album/wintertides
- Winter Metal + Sounds Occurring (excerpt) - Martin Back - Cthonic Hymal - momodisti netlabel (2015)
- https://modistilabel.bandcamp.com/album/cthonic-hymal
- Winter - Petrozavodsk - Winter War - School of the Arts (2020)
- https://petrozavodsk.bandcamp.com/album/winter-war
Greetings!
I've never been a huge fan of end of year "best of" lists, but more appropriately for Pushing The Envelope, this is the first batch of 2024 releases that made my cochlea's hair cells tingle!
Enjoy!
Joel
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12-21-24 PTE Playlist: The Most Interesting Releases of 2024, Part 1
- Rocket Man - Eva Novoa - Novoa / Drew Gress / Devin Gray Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-gress-gray-trio-vol-1
- Political Technology - Devin Gray feat. Ralph Alessi (trumpet) & Myslaure ( “Meez-Lor”) Augustin (piano) - Melt All The Guns II - Rataplan Records (2024)
- https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/melt-all-the-guns-ii
- Second Meditation - Joseph Benzola - Stained Glass Meditation - Amanita Music (2024)
- https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/stained-glass-meditation
- O Ignee Spiritus - Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records - Puremagnetik (2024)
- https://larum.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-hildegard-von-bingen-live-at-public-records
- The Sea of Chairs - Denman Maroney Quintet - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://denmanfmaroney.bandcamp.com/album/the-air-conditioned-nightmare-2
- Tweks (Part 4) (Demo) - Petridisch - Tweks (Remastered) - Fish Prints (2024)
- https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/tweks-remastered
- Zu sagen was ist (To say what is.) - David Wallraf/Monad Node - Un culte sans rêve et sans merci (A cult without dreams and without mercy) - digital release (2024)
- https://monadnode.bandcamp.com/album/un-culte-sans-r-ve-et-sans-merci
- Away - David Zucchi - Mandi - People | Places | Records (2024)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mandi
- Act II (feat. Philippe Melanson on e-drums) - bass: Dan Fortin - Cannon - Elastic Recordings (2024)
- https://danfortin.bandcamp.com/album/cannon-elastic-recordings
- A Solitude of Space / A Solitude of Sea / A Solitude of Death / An Everywhere of Silver - Heavy Cloud - shore)lines - digital release (2024)
- https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/shore-lines
- The Basin - Parade - Lullabies After Storms and Floods - Elastic Recordings (2024)
- https://paradetoronto.bandcamp.com/album/lullabies-after-storms-and-floods
- Polytempo Music: Opening / Clockwise - composer: Brian Baumbusch / emsemble: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Polytempo Music - Other Minds Records (2024)
- https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/polytempo-music
- Trophallaxis (pt. 1) - Fletina & Peter Wullen - Trophallaxis - digital release (2024)
- https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/trophallaxis
- Enormous Wings - tttc - Foretold - Fruit Exports (2024)
- https://fruitexports.bandcamp.com/album/foretold
Greetings!
One of the joys of hosting PTE over the past 35 years is the opportunity to present multiple genres over a two hour period and make the flow, or non-flow, of the program interesting. This week we have creative improv, brushing on both jazz and classical realms. Then we move one to contemporary composition, electroacoustics & experimental ambient. And that's only in Phase One...
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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12-14-24 PTE Playlist
- Third Meditation / Fifth Meditation - Joseph Benzola - Stained Glass Meditation - Amanita Music (2024)
- https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/stained-glass-meditation
- Partita No. 1 for Alto Saxophone and Contra-Alto Guitar/ Carl Clements - Partitas, Book 1 - Greydisc Records (2024)
- https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/partitas-book-1
- the wind said especially now... - Kevin Kastning / Phil Grenadier - In Visible Ascent - Greydisc Records (2024)
- https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/in-visible-ascent
- Brace Yourselves! (An Impact for Clarinet and Piano) - composer: Nathan Hudson / story: Ben Loory - Music for Falling & Flying - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://nathanhudson.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-falling-and-flying
- Red Blood Cells - Peter Gena - Beethoven in Soho and Other Works - New World Records (2024)
- https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/peter-gena-beethoven-in-soho-and-other-works
- Black Pill Accelerationist - The Problem Belief - Learning Curves - digital album (2024)
- https://theproblembelief.bandcamp.com/album/learning-curves
- The Subtle Art of the Schizophrenic Mind - zisurru - One - digital release (2020)
- https://zisurru.bandcamp.com/album/one
- Sky's Acetylene - composer: David Fulmer / New York Philharmonic, conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky - Sky's Acetylene - New Focus Recordings (2021)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/skys-acetylene
- Old Schmeckled Hen - Solilians - Klezmische Deluxe Bring Them Home Now - I Heart Noise (2024)
- https://solilians.bandcamp.com/album/klezmische-deluxe-bring-them-home-now
- Red Haired Laser Boy - EZRA - Earth to EZRA - Cantaloupe Music (2024)
- https://ezraquartet.bandcamp.com/album/earth-to-ezra
- Super Shiny Floors - Xqui & Dogs Versus Shadows - Dwell Time - Subexotic Records (2024)
- https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dwell-time
- Shopping Centre - Carlisle City Council - The Lanes Re-Development - Subexotic Records (2024)
- https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/the-lanes-re-development
- Salford Shopping City - David A. Jaycock - Music For Space-Age Shopping - Subexotic Records (2024)
- https://davidajaycock.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-space-age-shopping
- Battery Park, diagonally... (excerpt) - Makhun - digital release (2024)
- https://makhun.bandcamp.com/album/battery-park-diagonally
Greetings!
As usual, I'm offering up a veritible cornucopia of interesting music, from brand new items to older classics and not so classic. I had no planned thematic agenda, but assembled the sets so that they made sense to me. I hope they do the same for you.
Enjoy!
Joel
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12-7-24 PTE Playlist
- Salting Black Ice / Cold Ovens / Snow and a Dovecote - Delta Saxophone Quartet / mezzo soprano: Frances Gregory / piano, composer: Paul Honey / poetry: Gregory Warren Wilson - Songs of Ice and Snow - FMR Records (2024)
- https://deltasaxophonequartet1.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-ice-and-snow
- Arndale (Part 1) / Arndale (Part 2) / Arndale (Part 3) GM Bus 184 - david a jaycock - Music for Space Age Shopping - Subexotic Records (2024)
- https://davidajaycock.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-space-age-shopping
- Adhesion (excerpt) - Freight Cell (Fletina) - Adhesion - fletinamusic (2024)
- https://freightcell.bandcamp.com/album/adhesion
- Mvmt.1 /Mvmt.2/Mvmt.3 - DVXNS - Cuarteto Latinoamericano / composer: Dan Roman - DVXNS - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://danroman.bandcamp.com/album/dvxns
- In paradisium (Black lipstick) - piano and sound collage: Joe Frawley - Speak of This To No One - Clinical Archives (2010)
- https://archive.org/details/ca405_jf
- Avanti La Tre - Piero Milesi - Within Himself (Music for Films, Installations, Water & Fireworks) - Cuneiform Records (2000)
- https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/within-himself-music-for-films-installations-water-and-fireworks-1987-1999
- 3 - ~2 / rp7 - chebi - RO PAX (2024)
- https://ro-pax.bandcamp.com/album/cheby-2-rp7
- Photogrammes - ORCHESTRE DE L'AGORA / conductor: Nicolas Ellis / composer: Alexandre David - Photogrammes - COLLECTION QB (2024)
- https://collectionqb.bandcamp.com/album/alexandre-david-photogrammes
- Line 752 - Chronochromie - Epoch - digital release (2023)
- https://chronochromie.bandcamp.com/album/epoch
- Uses Probe Form, w/ Shawn Persinger is Prester John - Doctor Nerve - LOUD - Punos Music (2019)
- https://www.punosmusic.com/doctornerve/loud/
- "Halloween Baptizm" Suite -Shawn Persinger is Prester John - Halloween Baptizm - Quixotic Music (2017)
- https://presterjohnmusic.com/halloween/
- Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part II (2023 Elemental Mix) - King Crimson - Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (The Complete Recording Sessions) - Discipline Global Mobile (2023)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/
- Rowl kreditz - CIRM (ts-erm) - 1/40MVoaT - digital release (2024)
- https://cirm.bandcamp.com/album/1-40mvoat
- Confessions - Zbigniew Seiffert - Solo Violin - Zbigniew Seiffert Foundation (1978)
Greetings!
Almost all new releases this week, save some classic Soft Machine & Vanilla Fudge. (Vanilla Fudge?!!)
Enjoy!
Joel
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11/30/24 PTE Playlist
- Monsignor - David Zucchi - Mandi - People Places Records (2024)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mandi
- Spin 2 (1992/2018) - piano: Ju-Ping Song / composer: Lois V Vierk - Monad - Starkland (2024)
- https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/ju-ping-song-monad
- ekkorääg - taroplane - ekkorääg - digital track (2024)
- https://tarotplane.bandcamp.com/track/ekkor-g
- Days Eye / Bone Fire / Tarabos / D.I.S. - Soft Machine - 7 - Columbia (1973)
- https://softmachine.org/
- wurdz - Megadead (Benjamin Shaw) - Authentic Country Music - digital release (2021)
- https://megadud.bandcamp.com/album/authentic-country-music
- Chapter 1 — A Council of Apparitions: I. Zaloasymphnesis II. Castle Keep III. Two Worlds - piano: Miranda Wong / composer: Alfredo Santa Ana - Before the World Sleeps - Redshift Records (2024)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-world-sleeps
- Stratoshmear / Avinu Malkenu (Our Father, Our King) - Solilians - Klezmische Deluxe - Bring Them Home Now - I Heart Noise (2024)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/klezmische-deluxe-bring-them-home-now
- Eleanor Rigby (2024 stereo mix) - Vanilla Fudge - Where Is My Mind - The Atco Recordings 1967-1969 - Esoteric Recordings (2024)
- https://www.cherryred.co.uk/vanilla-fudge-where-is-my-mind-the-atco-recordings-1967-1969-9cd-box-set
- Remembering Beauty 9 - John Oliver - Remebering Beauty - John Oliver Music (2024)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/remembering-beauty
- untitled 3 (the scattered disk) - How Much (Cosmo Fenn & Thor Maillet) - 083024.vacantdreams - Fish Prints (2024)
- https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/083024-vacantdreams
- Ennerscape #4 - Somnambule - M.A.D. IV compilation - Music Analysis Discussions Records (2023)
- https://musicanalysisdiscussionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-a-d-iv
Greetings!
Much new music with a few classic items (Steve Reich, Tangerine Dream) for your listening pleasure.
Enjoy!
Joel
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11-23-24 PTE Playlist
- Wild Things - Edward Givens - Terra - digital album (2024)
- https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/terra
- Strangle Rocket Fair - The Vegetarians - Space Age Pagliacci - self-release (2024)
- https://thevegetarians.bandcamp.com/album/space-age-pagliacci
- Coming of Age - Mile Marker Zero - Coming of Age - self-release (2024)
- https://mmzofficial.bandcamp.com/album/coming-of-age
- Four Organs - ensemble avantgarde / composer: Steve Reich - phase patterns/pendulum music/piano phase/four organs - Wergo (1999)
- https://stevereich.com/composition/four-organs/
- Water and Fish - Michael Sarian, Matthew Putman, Federico Ughi, and Ledian Mola - The Sea, The Space, and Egypt, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (January 2025 pre-release)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-sea-the-space-and-egypt-vol-1
- Chromosphere - Echo Vocation (Adrian Johnson) - digital single (2024)
- https://echovocation.bandcamp.com/track/chromosphere
- Mercury Queen - tttc - Sum / mer / cury - Ingrown Records (2024)
- https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/sum-mer-cury
- The shore is safer, but I love to fight the waves - Heavy Cloud - shore)lines - digital release (2024)
- https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/shore-lines
- Logos Part II - Tangerine Dream - Logos (Live 1982)/Tangerine Dream: The Virgin Years 1977-1983 - Virgin (2012)
- https://www.tangerinedreammusic.com/en/music/detail.asp?id=22&tit=Logos
- La Vie Commence aujourd'hui - Brûlez les meubles (Burn the furniture) - Folio 5 - Circum-Disc (December 2024 pre-release)
- https://www.circum-disc.com/
- In Twilight's Shadow - Steve Roach - One Day of Forever - Projekt Records (2024)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-of-forever
Greetings!
So, during my recent jaunt to Europe, I found a killer used CD/vinyl store in Budapest and was tempted to dispose of my clothes and just fill my suitcase up with CDs. The track from George Harrison's "Electronic Sound" is a sampling from the stack I did procure, with other items likely to show up in the coming weeks.
I'm also happy to highlight electric guitarist Garrett Gleason's "Myths & Hymns", incredibly imaginative take on Adam Guettel's beautiful song cyle.
Enjoy!
Joel
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11-16-24 PTE Playlist
- Question Song (feat. Madeleine Ertel/trumpet) / Aplomb (feat. Chris Donnelly/piano) - Dan Fortin - Cannon - Elastic Recordings (2024)
- https://danfortin.bandcamp.com/album/cannon-elastic-recordings
- Saturn Returns/Icarus - Adam Guettel - Hymns & Myths - Nonesuch (1999)
- https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/myths-and-hymns
- Saturn Returns/Icarus - Garrett Gleason - Myths & Hymns - Big Round Records (2023)
- https://www.bigroundrecords.com/catalog/br8984
- Ohm Shanti - Bill Laswell (bass, percussion, keyboards, sounds) - Asana 4: Ohm Shanti - Meta Records (2006)
- https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/asana-4-ohm-shanti
- Dawn Chorus (in memory of Terry Boblet) - Dubious Candy - Women Take Back The Drone (compilation) - digital release (2022)
- https://womentakebackthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/various-women-take-back-the-drone
- Сенке Праскозорја (Shadows of the Breaking Dawn) - Depression Embrace - Comp25: Sampler1 - Owlripper Records (2023)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp25-sampler1-on001-050
- Soundpieces from Scratch (for solo clarinet, 12 pre-recorded clarinets, synthesizer) - Gary Dranch, clarinet; Frank McCarty, pre-recorded clarinet; Gary Mitro, live sound engineer / composer: Frank McCarty - The Dawn of the Bicameral Clarinetist (An Anthology of American Solo Clarinet Works from 1968-1979) - Navona Records (2024)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6693/
- Under The Mersey Wall - George Harrison - Electronic Sound - Zapple (1969)
- https://www.georgeharrison.com/releases/electric-sound/
- Adancime ("depth") - Thy Veils - Live at Garana Jazz Festival - digital release (2024)
- https://thyveils.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-garana-jazz-festival
Greetings!
Well, I'm off on vacation and between work and packing, not a lot of time to assemble the varied type of program you've grown to know and love. That being said, in lieu of playing another re-run, I've chosen a pair of fascinating long-form works from Markus Reuter & Kate Soper.
Enjoy!
Joel
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11-2-24 PTE Playlist
- String Quartet No. 1 'Heartland' - Matangi Quartet / composer: Markus Reuter - Solaire Records (2019)
- https://iapetus.bandcamp.com/album/string-quartet-no-1-heartland
- Twelfth Dance / Fifth Dance - Edward Givens - Memento Mori, Memento Vivere: 16 Dances - digital release (2024)
- https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/memento-mori-memento-vivere-16-dances
- The Hunt: opera in one act (2023) - book & music: Kate Soper / voice & violin: Hirona Amamiya / voice & ukelele: Christiana Cole / voice & ukelele: Brett Umlauf - The Hunt - New Focus Recordings (2024)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-hunt
- Eyelid Movie - Trem77 - Eyelid Movie EP - Grape Mod Records (2024)
- https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/eyelid-movie-ep
Greetings!
This is the first in a pair of programs that will feature extended pieces, primarily because I am preparing, then will be travelling to Europe and felt this would be a good opportunity to present some longer compositions together a smattering of other interesting items.
Enjoy!
Joel
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10-26-24 PTE Playlist
- The Forest of Old-Timey Plagues - Takamaa - Brothers, Sisters... It was just the Wind... - digital release (2024)
- https://takamaa.bandcamp.com/album/brothers-sisters-it-was-just-the-wind
- Ghost Geography (for solo piano & e-bow drone) - piano: Wesley Shen / composer: Emilie Cecilia LeBel - landscapes of memory - Redshift Music (2024)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/landscapes-of-memory
- Monochromatic Bloodstains - Morbid Beauty's remix of "The Grey Area" by Envelope Muse - Mis-Conception-S (ReWorked 2008-2023) - Owlripper Records (2024)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/on076-envelope-muse-remixed
- untitled 2 (perturbance) - How Much - 083024.vacantdreams - Fish Prints (2024)
- https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-2-perturbance
- K.A. (Kohntarkosz Anteria) - Magma - K.A. - Seventh Records (2004)
- https://seventhrecordsmagma.bandcamp.com/album/k-a-k-hntark-sz-anteria
- Forty Reasons - Chad Wackerman - Forty Reasons - CMP (1991)
- https://www.silvascreenusa.com/forty-reasons-the-view-chad-wackerman
Greetings!
Welcome to the UCONN sports truncated edition of PTE! It's quite amazing how much great music you can squeeze into 59 minutes and 30 seconds!
Enjoy!
Joel
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10-19-24 PTE Playlist
- Triton - John Oliver, electronics / Douglas Schmidt, Bandoneon - Doug and John Live at Eternal Equinox - John Oliver Music (2024) (a subscriber exclusive release)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/
- Music for Three Vibraphones - Patrick O'Hearn - Slow Time - self-release (2005)
- https://www.patrickohearn.com/
- false chime - tttc - milky smell armpits - Fruit Exports (2024)
- https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/milky-smell-armpits
- Gumboot Time - Stefan Smulovitz — Bow & Brush: 12 Scores of Nadina Tandy - Redshift Records (November 2024 pre-release)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/
- Crossroads - The Noonan Trio - Inherit a Memory - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://brewedbynoon.bandcamp.com/album/inherit-a-memory
- Survival - Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release - Sundazed Music / Modern Harmonic (1979/2021)
- https://annettepeacock.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfect-release
- Peking O - Can - Tago Mago - Mute/Spoon (1971)
- https://www.spoonrecords.com/
Greetings!
Some new things from the folks at Neuma Records & Projekt Records morphs into a bunch of used goodies I found in a store in Ellicott City, MD. Someone was getting rid of their collection of prog and prog-metal, so I scarfed up a handful of Spock's Beard releases along with most of what comprises Phase Two.
Enjoy!
Joel
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10-12-24 PTE Playlist
- Fantasía Flamenca - Elisabet Curbelo - Resonance Unbound - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://elisabetcurbelo.bandcamp.com/album/resonance-unbound
- Little Otto's Laboratory - David Merrill - Golden Oranges of Mars - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://davidmerrill.bandcamp.com/album/golden-oranges-of-mars
- One Day - Steve Roach - One Day of Forever - Projekt Records (2024)
- https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-of-forever
- The Passage - black tape for a blue girl - As one aflame laid bare by desire (2024 remaster) - Projekt (1999/2024)
- https://blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/album/as-one-aflame-laid-bare-by-desire-2024-remaster
- Miin Triuwa (I Am True) - Under The Surface - Miin Triuwa - Jazz In Motion Records (2022)
- https://triounderthesurface.com/
- Argento's Glove - Pope John Paul Van Damme (AKA Cardiff's Tom Wallace) - DisInfamy - Machine Records (2024)
- https://popejohnpaulvandamme.bandcamp.com/album/disinfamy
- Wherever You Stand - Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard - InsideOut Music (2006)
- https://www.spocksbeard.com/discography/spocksbeard/
- Joint Ventures - Anders Johansson (drums) / Jens Johansson (keyboards / Allan Holdsworth (guitar) - Heavy Machinery - Shrapnel Records (1997)
- Empire - The Winery Dogs - Hot Streak - Loud & Proud Records (2015)
- http://www.thewinerydogs.com/
- My New World - Transatlantic - Live In America - Inside Out Music (2001)
- https://www.transatlanticweb.com/discography.php?p=talivecd
- Even Less - Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream - KScope (1999)
- https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/stupid-dream-remastered
- Estonia - Marillion - This Strange Engine - Eaglerock Entertainment (1997)
- https://www.marillion.com/
- A Threefold Curse - David Wallraf - نه (no) - Brachliegen Tapes ☽ (2024 pre-release)
- https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com/album/no
Greetings!
Progressive rock, music recorded in reverberent spaces and other assorted bric a brac... a brief summary of this week's program.
Enjoy!
Joel
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10-5-24 PTE Playlist
- The Equilibrium of Time - Leon Alvarado - The Changing Tide - Melodic Revolution Records (2024)
- https://leonalvarado.bandcamp.com/album/the-changing-tide
- Counties & Countries - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True - Frontiers Music Srl (2024)
- https://www.frontiers.it/artist/2200
- Bowie / Meta Indefinita - Focus - Focus 12 - Spirit Of Unicorn Music (2024)
- https://focustheband.co.uk/
- Destined To Fly - Marcus Nand - The Traveler - Cleopatra Records (2024)
- https://marcusnand.bandcamp.com/album/the-traveler
- Coda - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Coda - WeWantSounds (1983/2024)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ryuichi-sakamoto-coda-lp-black-2p-insert-and-obi-strip
- Expansions - Curved Air - The Rarities Series - Spirit of Unicorn Music (2024)
- https://www.curvedair.com/discography/albums/curved-space-digital-and-digital-infinity/
- Melanie - The Hayley Griffiths Band - Melanie - Posh & Rock (2023)
- https://www.hayleygriffiths.com/
- For Alvira, Part I - voice: Paul J. Bothelho / trumpet: Jeff Kaiser - Dome - Technophony (2024)
- https://jeffkaiser.com/music/projects/dome-jeff-kaiser-and-paul-j-botelho/
- A Tension Span - Switch Ensemble / composer: J.P.A. Falzone - A Curving Abacus - New World Records (2024)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/recent-release-3/products/j-p-a-falzone-a-curving-abacus
- running song - Đăng Khoa -an atom's den (plus) - Fruit Exports (2024)
- https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/an-atoms-den-plus
- For The Birds (From The Birds) - Jim Cole & Spectral Voices (Alan Dow & Sharen Baker) - Sky - Spectral Spiral Music (2000)
- https://spectralvoices.com/jim-cole-spectral-voices/
Greetings!
PTE closes out the month of September by celebrating National Piano Month with a taste of numerous musical genres featuring the instrument that Andrés Segovia described as, " a monster that screams when you touch its teeth" or as author Maria Cristina noted, “The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.”
That being said, I'm particularly fond of Thelonius Monk's observation, “The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.”
Enjoy!
Joel
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9-28-24 PTE Playlist: Celebrating National Piano Month
- Battle for Britain / Loneliest Guy / Disco King - Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations for Piano - Reference Recordings (2011)
- https://referencerecordings.com/recording/the-bowie-variations-garson/
- Book Four: Twelfth Station / Thirteenth Station / Fourteenth Station - composer: Ian Wilson / piano: Matthew Schellhorn - Stations - Diatribe Recordings (2017)
- https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/stations
- Sewing In Thin Air - composer: Yi-Ting Lu / piano: Lam Wong - An Unopened Seashell - New Focus Recordings (2024)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/an-unopened-seashell
- Concierto De Aranjuez/Spain - Chick Corea / Hiromi - Duet - Stretch Records (2008)
- https://chickcorea.com/discography/duet-2/
- That Day (2020) - In Memory of George Floyd - piano: Clipper Erickson / composer: Laurie Altman - From Somewhere - Navona Records (2024)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6635/
- Etudes No. 1 & 3 - Petridisch - Piano Etudes - digital release (2022)
- https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/piano-etudes
- Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind (2013) - piano: Kathleen Supové / composer - electronics: Annie Gosfield - The Debussy Effect - New Focus Recordings (2016)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-debussy-effect
- N + R (Love Is Friends) - Cecil Taylor - Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! - MPS (1981)
- Wichita Sutra Vortex - piano/composer: Philip Glass - Solo Piano - CBS Records (1989)
- https://philipglass.com/
- Portraits of the Dead: Billy Strayhorn - Joseph Benzola - Portraits of the Dead Complete: 1995-2022 - Amanita Music (2022)
- https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/portraits-of-the-dead-complete-1995-2022
- What Next? - Joel Krutt - What Next? - self-release (2003)
- https://soundcloud.com/joelkru/sets/what-next
- Incantatie IV: Sections 78-120 - The Piano Ensemble (Irene Russo, Fred Oldenberg, Sandra & Jeroen van Veen) / composer: Simeon Ten Holt - Complete Multiple Piano Works - Brilliant Classics (2005)
- https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/t/ten-holt-complete-multiple-piano-works/
Greetings!
Quite a bit of international representation on today's program; from Japan (Norio Maeda) to Viet Nam (Keith Beber & Mai Giang Trần), from Brooklyn (Devin Gray) to a plethora of Canadian artists (India Gailey, Eldritch Priest & Kamra).
Enjoy!
Joel
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9-21-24 PTE Playlist
- Mountainweeps: I. glacial light fluttering in the wind / II. naked of an ancient watery sheath / III. leaking fauna and stones - India Gailey: composer/solo cello - Butterfly Lightning Shakes the Earth - Redshift Music (October 2024 pre-release)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-lightning-shakes-the-earth
- Tsugaru Jongara Bushi - Norio Maeda & All Stars - Rock Communication Yagibushi - Wewantsounds (1970/2024)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/norio-maeda-rock-communication-yagibushi-cd-edition-with-8p-booklet
- Uncle Meat / King Kong (Medley) - Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Beat The Boots I: 2. The Ark - FOO-EEE Records (1968/1991)
- https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/beat-boots-i-2-ark/#/
- Official Fascimile - Neverending Audit - High Notes - Ingrown Records (2024)
- https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/high-notes
- Lugosi - Monster of East Felton - Gasp - Monster of East Felton Records (2024)
- https://monsterofeastfelton.bandcamp.com/album/gasp
- Iris - guitar: Eldritch Priest / composer: Wayne Shorter - Dormitive Virtue - Halocline Trance (October 2024 pre-release)
- https://eldritchpriest.bandcamp.com/album/dormitive-virtue
- Trosper - Bill Frisell - Trosper - Fantagraphics Books (2001)
- Raveen - Keith Beber & Mai Giang Trần - Kara EP - Fruit Exports (2024)
- https://keithbeber.bandcamp.com/album/kara-ep
- Fuego - Eva Navoa (Fender Rhodes) w/ Daniel Carter (wind instruments) & Francisco Mela (drums) - Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-carter-mela-trio-vol-1
- Melt All The Guns II - Devin Gray feat. Ralph Alessi (trumpet) & Myslaure Augustin (piano) - Melt All The Guns II - Rataplan Records (2024)
- https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/melt-all-the-guns-ii
- An Enormous Aunt - Craig Chin / Barbara Gogan / Max Kutner / Tamara Yadao - An Enormous Aunt - Mother Brain Records (2024)
- https://motherbrainrecordskc.bandcamp.com/album/an-enormous-aunt
- Sun Burns - Kamra - Shift Circuit - People Places Records (2024)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shift-circuit
- Breakable - Graham Fitkin - Veneer - self-release (2016)
- https://fitkin.com/product/veneer/
- Drip Drumming - John Oliver - Rubble Drum - John Oliver Music (2024)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/rubble-drum
Greetings!
Much new listening for us all this week! I'm particularly thrilled to open this week's program with new music from composer/reed player, Ken Field's latest Neuma Records release, "The Canopy". Ken is an old friend of Pushing The Envelope and it's alway a sonic pleasure when he puts out a new release.
In addition, lots of music from other folks who've you've heard on PTE previously, featuring new releases from Ken Wallraf, Trem77 & Fletina (in tandem w/ fellow sound artist, Peter Wullen).
Lastly, I broke out my copy of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" to close things out.
Enjoy!
Joel
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9-14-24 PTE Playlist
- Darkness Into Light - Ken Field - The Canopy - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://kenfield.bandcamp.com/album/the-canopy
- London 1997 - David Wallraf - Nostalgia - self-release (2024)
- https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia
- Quest - Usonic - Evolution - self-release (2010)
- https://usonic.bandcamp.com/album/evolution
- Improv 1 / Kinesin / Hexal - EZRA feat. Mark Stewart & Xak Bjerken - Earth to EZRA - Cantaloupe Music (2024)
- https://ezraquartet.bandcamp.com/album/earth-to-ezra
- Goosebump: Disaster / Plants / Farmers / Twinkle - The Residents feat. Snakefinger - Diskomo 2000 - East Side Digital (2000)
- https://meettheresidents.fandom.com/wiki/Diskomo_2000
- thoroughbred marionettes - Euan Dalgamo - Halves - Frosti (2024)
- https://frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/halves
- Whirl to Whorl - Trem77 - Eyelid Movie EP - Grape Mod Records (2024 pre-release)
- https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/eyelid-movie-ep
- From An (Almost) Well-Lit Street - Makhun - The Air Is Unable - digital release (2024)
- https://makhun.bandcamp.com/album/the-air-is-unable
- Trophallaxis (pt. 2) - Fletina & Peter Wullen - Trophallaxis - digital release (2024)
- https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/trophallaxis
- Death of an Analogue - Klaus Schulze - The Essential: 1972-1993 - Caroline (1994)
- https://www.klaus-schulze.com/
- Metal Machine Music, part 1 - Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music: An Electronic Instrumental Composition *The Amine β Ring (dextrorotory components synthesis of sympathomimetic musics)- RCA (1975)
- https://loureed.com/metalmachinemusic/
Greetings!
As usual, multi-genre fits the bill!
Enjoy!
Joel
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9-7-24 PTE Playlist
- nuevo merengue - Benjamín Vergara & Amanda Irarrázabal - último sosiego (last peace) - 577 Records (2024)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/ltimo-sosiego
- Concerto pour Orchestre (1994) - San Francisco New Music Ensemble, NICOLE PAIEMENT, conductor / composer: Michèle Reverdy - Autour de Messiaen: Music By Messiaen's Pupils - MSR Classics (2005)
- https://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1151
- An Opening - Kiu Siu - Le-Hors Champ - Fruit Exports (2023)
- https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/le-hors-champ
- The Three Fates: Clotho / Lachesis / Atropos / Tank - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Rhino (1970)
- https://www.emersonlakepalmer.com/
- You - Circuline - C.O.R.E. - Inner Nova Music (2024 pre-release)
- https://innernovamusic.com/
- This one is broken in pieces: Symphony #11 - (2019 - 2024) for 8 electric guitars (with effects pedals) w/ 4, 8 & 12 sopranos (overdubbed) - Tim Brady/Instruments of Happiness - Imagine Many Guitars - Redshift Records (2024)
- https://redshiftrecords.org/
- saturation temp! - Piano & melodica: Eunmi Ko / composer: Emily Koh - 12 Views on Life - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://eunmiko.bandcamp.com/album/12-views-on-life
- Polytempo Music: Opening / Clockwise / Murmuration of Twelve / Trifluence / Hex Tree - composer: Brian Baumbusch / emsemble: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Polytempo Music - Other Minds Records (2024)
- https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/polytempo-music
- Butterfly - 7DD9 - Computer Program Reality - digital release (2023)
- https://7dd9.bandcamp.com/album/computer-program-reality-lp
Greetings!
Welcome to Pushing The Envelope's annual celebration of International Strange Music Day, the brainchild of New York City musician/composer Patrick Grant & creator of the public music ensemble, Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars. The purpose of International Strange Music Day is to expand people's musical horizons by introducing them to genres, artists, and sounds that they may not normally listen to. I hope my selections for today's program serve that intent.
Enjoy!
Joel
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8-24-24 PTE Playlist: International Strange Music Day
- Floral Coral (Petal Plucker v2) - Orvang Halmer - World Carousel - Ingrown Records (2021)
- https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/world-carousel
- Imaginary Horror Film, Part 1: The Accident / Hospital / Nine Months Later / Daily Living (Gnoissienne No. 3.5) / Baiting The Trap / Going For A Drive - Patrick Grant - Fields Amaze and other sTRANGE music - Peppergreen Media (2003/2018)
- https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/album/fields-amaze-and-other-strange-music
- Seven Years At Sea - Patrick Grant - A Sequence of Waves (twelve stories and a dream) - Peppergreen Media (2017)
- https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/album/a-sequence-of-waves-twelve-stories-and-a-dream
- John Cage - Christian Marclay - More Encores - ReR (1989)
- https://www.rermegacorp.com
- Vicario Brothers - tttc - Foretold - digital release (2024)
- https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/foretold
- Maria Callas - Christian Marclay - More Encores - ReR (1989)
- https://www.rermegacorp.com
- Spiderunes - The Paxton Group w/ Paula Claire - Cablegram-the Dundee Telegrams and Other Communications 1984-1986 - CD Tech (1989)
- https://paxto.bandcamp.com/album/cablegram-the-dundee-telegrams-and-other-communications-1984-1986
- Louder Warmer Denser - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Pamela Z - Density 2036: Part VI (2019) - New Focus Recordings (2023)
- https://clairechase.bandcamp.com/album/density-2036-part-vi-2019
- Killer B - Skyjelly - Spirit Guide مرشد حقيقة - digital release (2023)
- https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-guide
- Tommy The Cat - Primus feat. Tom Waits - Sailing The Seas of Cheese - Interscope (1991) Tommy The Cat - Primus feat. Tom Waits - Sailing The Seas of Cheese - Interscope (1991)
- https://primusville.com/
- Ursonate (Sonate In Urlauten) - Rondo Allegro - Voice: Christopher Butterfield / sound poetry: Kurt Schwitters - Music For Klein And Beuys / Ursonate / Pillar Of Snails - Artifact Music (1993)
- Omaggio A Jerry Lee Lewis (for tape) - Richard Trythall - CMCD (Six Classic Concrete, Electroacoustic And Electronic Works: 1970-1990) - ReR (1991)
- https://www.rermegacorp.com
- A suicide note on a sunny day - Xenia At - Ribbon Blue - Fruit Exports (2023)
- https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/ribbon-blue
- The Dance of Wendy - Dave Fuglewicz - Selected Works, 1990-1997 - No Part Of It (2023)
- https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/selected-works-1990-1997
- Crackers Ottawa 5 - Christof Migone - Crackers - Squint Press (2001)
- https://christofmigone.bandcamp.com/track/crackers-ottawa-5
Greetings!
Many new items this week (both recent releases and items that are new to me) along with things I found rummaging through the ill-managed piles of CDs that surround me in my basement lair.
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
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8-10-24 PTE Playlist
- Kotekan, from Glimpses - Who Cares? (Laura Reid: violin, voice / Jiajia Li: flute & dizi, keyboard, voice) / composer: Vivian Fung - Simple Lines of Enquiry - self-released EP (2024)
- https://whocaresmusic.bandcamp.com/album/simple-lines-of-enquiry
- Simple Lines of Enquiry - Who Cares? (Laura Reid: violin, voice / Jiajia Li: flute & dizi, keyboard, voice) / composer: Ann Southam - Simple Lines of Enquiry - self-released EP (2024)
- https://whocaresmusic.bandcamp.com/album/simple-lines-of-enquiry
- The Faerie Ribbon (I-IV) - Quatuor Bozzini & junctQín keyboard collective / composer: Rebecca Bruton - a root or mirror, blossom, madder, cracks; together - Collection QB (2024 pre-release)
- https://quatuorbozzini.ca/en
- Message To Eagle - Bendu - Light Leak EP - self-release (2016)
- https://bendu.bandcamp.com/album/light-leak-ep
- Ghost In Another Night - Jiang Yühui - China: The Sonic Avant-Garde - Post Concrete (2003) OOP
- https://archive.org/details/vvaa-china-the-sonic-avantgarde--china-the-sonic-avantgarde
- Introduction - The Chord of the Abyss (Remaster 2024) - deepspace - Vertical Landscapes — Retrospective - Projekt Records (2024)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vertical-landscapes-retrospective
- (Un)_tit_(led) - Jaki Herzlich - Untitled - moon musiq (2024)
- https://moonmusiq.bandcamp.com/album/untitled
- Lo mismo en distinto (The same in different) - Nichunimu - Calados - 577 Records (September 2024 pre-release)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/calados
- Asphyxia (for soprano saxophone) - soprano sax: Ryan Muncy / composer: Aaron Cassidy - HOT - New Focus Recordings (2013)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hot
- Axolotl - violin: Linda Bahn / composer: Morton Subotnick - Axolotl - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://linabahn.bandcamp.com/album/axolotl
- Statistical Truth - K. Leimer - Statistical Truth - Palace of Lights (2004)
- https://kleimer1.bandcamp.com/album/statistical-truth
Greetings!
Happy Post-Birthday to Terry Riley! (June 24th)
Enjoy an early composition from 1965 followed by a new composition honoring Terry Riley's, "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band", the "B-side" of his classic release, "A Rainbow In Curved Air". "
Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" is a saxophone-based drone piece featuring tape loops and edits, drawing on Riley's all-night improvisatory performances in the 1960s.
The balance of the program features the usual musical shenanigans you've come to know and love from Pushing The Envelope.
Have fun,
Joel
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8-3-24 PTE Playlist
- Tread on the Trail - Delta Saxophone Quartet / composer: Terry Riley - Minimal Tendencies - Clarinet Classics (1998)
- https://deltasax.com/
- Terry Riley: Poppy 88 - ContaQt, Evan Ziporyn and Friends - Terry Riley: Poppy 88 - People Places Records (2024)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/poppy-88
- Algorhythmica - Devin Gray's Algorhythmica feat. Maria Grand - tenor saxophone / Carmen Rothwell - bass / Mara Rosenbloom - piano / Devin Gray - drums/composition - Algorhythmica - Rataplan Records (2024)
- https://rataplanrecordsnyc.bandcamp.com/album/algorhythmica
- Cat Food - King Crimson - In The Wake of Poseidon (2010 Mix) - Inner Knot (1970/2010)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/in-the-wake-of-poseidon-40th
- the Green box - Black Tape for a Blue Girl - As one aflame laid bare by desire (2024 remaster) - Projekt Records (1999/2024)
- https://blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/album/as-one-aflame-laid-bare-by-desire-2024-remaster
- Adhocism - Tijs Klaassen Quintet - Adhocism - Elastic Recordings (2024)
- https://tijsklaassenquintet.bandcamp.com/album/adhocism
- Shing Kee (1986) - Carl Stone - Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties - Unseen Worlds (2016)
- https://carlstone.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-music-from-the-seventies-and-eighties
- Phasing Poppies - Eden Grey - Tactile Dimension - Triplicate Records (2024)
- https://edengrey.bandcamp.com/album/tactile-dimension
- Euroene - John Barnes - Euroene (EP) - Machine Records (2023)
- https://john-barnes.bandcamp.com/album/euroene
- Paraselene - Edward Givens - Abstractions - digital release (2021)
- https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/abstractions
- Late Shift - Fletina - Serrof - Unfathomless (2024)
- https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/serrof
Greetings!
This week's program offers up a veritable cornucopia of new music (2024), sort of new music (2023/2021) & older music (1971/1972).
Enjoy!
Joel
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7-20-24 PTE Playlist
- Intermountainous - Julian Bertino, 10-string guitar / Amy Brandon, composer - electronics - Lysis - New Focus Recordings (from her forthcoming release - 2024)
- https://www.amybrandon.ca/ https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/
- Sonata, Op. 108, for solo double-bass (1971) - double bass: Edwin Barker / composer: Mieczysław Vainberg - Basso Profundo - Navona Records (2024)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6609/
- Incer - Alira Mun - O Lume-n Paradis - digital release (2024)
- https://aliramun.bandcamp.com/album/o-lume-n-paradis
- An Atrophied Preface - Pope Jean Paul Van Damme - Echoes Of An Abandoned Future - Machine Records (2024)
- https://popejohnpaulvandamme.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-an-abandoned-future
- The Basin - Parade - Lullabies After Storms and Floods - Elastic Recordings (2024)
- https://paradetoronto.bandcamp.com/album/lullabies-after-storms-and-floods
- XDM - Toshiyuli Hiroka - Waterphone II - Edgetone Records (2021)
- https://toshiyukihiraoka.bandcamp.com/album/waterphone-ii
- Improvisations for Thai Guitar & Time Lag Accumulator - tarotplane - Improvisations for Echo Guitar - digital release (2023)
- https://tarotplane.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations-for-echo-guitar
- Tempus Horribilus - Circuline - C.O.R.E. - self-release (2024)
- https://innernovamusic.com/pages/preorder-core
- Brace For Impact - IZZ - Collapse The Wave - self-release (2024)
- https://izzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/collapse-the-wave
- Ack - Mike Keneally - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat - Exowax Recordings (2023)
- https://www.keneally.com/music/discography-mike-keneally/the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat/
- Eat That Question - Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo - Zappa Records (1972)
- https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/grand-wazoo/#/
- The Black Page #2 (The Confetti Version) - Sheik Yerbouti - Confetti Music - Goodlife Records (2001)
- https://www.united-mutations.com/s/sheik_yerbouti_conf.htm
- Organs form - Findings - Parallel mirrors - Eustress Tapes (2024)
- https://eustresstapes.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-mirrors
Greetings!
This week's program features music from three very different artists, none of whom I would have ever run into were it not for the fine folks at the "Get Music" web-site (https://www.getmusic.fm/). "Get Music" is an artist promotion site that, from the music addict's point of view, facilitates discovery of primarily, though not exclusively, DIY artists in varied genres. Included in this week's program are three releases that particularly caught my attention from We Are Echo People, tttc & Newforyu. Check 'em out! For more info, check out the playlist.
Enjoy!
Joel
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7-13-24 PTE Playlist
- Zeitgebers - Field recording: Marc Namblard / ensemble 0: Stéphane & Julien Garin, percussion / composer: Sarah Hennies - Motor Tapes - New World Records (2024)
- https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sarah-hennies-motor-tapes
- mephisto - we are echo people - we are echo people - digital release (2024)
- https://weareechopeople.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-echo-people
- Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees / Words With The Shaman - Caroline (1985)
- https://www.davidsylvian.com/discography/albums/david_sylvian_brilliant_trees.html
- Was I The Same When I Got Up This Morning - Percussia (Ingrid Gordon: Orff xylophone, small percussion/Susan Jolles: Celtic harp) / composer: Angelica Negrón / Plucked & Struck - Neuma (2024)
- https://percussia.bandcamp.com/album/plucked-struck
- In The Beginning / Panicwaves - Susumu Yokota - The Frankfurt-Tokyo Connection - Planet Earth Recordings (1994)
- https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/15-classic-japanese-techno-albums/
- Dream - Newforyu - EP - digital release (2024)
- https://newforyu.bandcamp.com/album/ep
- RøtKøt - RötKöt - Comp30 - Mr Bundle - Owlripper Records (2024)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp30-mr-bundle
- enormous wings - tttc - Foretold - digital release (2024)
- https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/music
- Heterodyne - Ayako Shinozaki - Music Now For Harp - Wewantsounds (1974/2023)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ayako-shinozaki-music-now-for-harp-feat-takehisa-kosugi-cd-edition-with-8pp-booklet
- WakeUp - Neil Rolnick / composers: Neil Rolnick and Felice & Boudleaux Bryant - Ex Machina - Innova (2015)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/neil-rolnick/ex-machina
- Magnificent Sevens - Diga Rhythm Band - Diga - Rykodisc (1988)
- https://mickeyhart.net/album/diga/
Greetings!
New, New, New, New, Conlon Nancarrow (2008), Emily Hay (2005), New, New, New, New, New & New!!
Enjoy!
Joel
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7-6-24 PTE Playlist
- Ode to Vahan - piano: Sahan Arzruni / composer: Alicia Terzian - BY WOMEN: Piano Works by Armenian Women Composers - AGBU/Positively Armenian
- https://www.sahanarzruni.com/music
- Sonata No. 2m - i. On The Playground / ii. Backroom of the Firehouse / iii. Communion - piano: Kristín Jónína Taylor / composer: Mike McFerron - Midwest Piano Sonatas - Navona Records (2024)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6653/
- Light Still & Moving - Kevin Kastning: 36-string Double Contraguitar, 16-string Subcontraguitar, 24-string Double Subcontraguitar, 28-string Double Contraguitar / double bass: Bruno Råberg - Silent Dimensions - Greydisc Records (2024)
- https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/silent-dimensions
- where the zeitgeist converges with the metaphysical tapestry of existence - Von Helfenstein - Metaphysics Workouts volumes 1-3 - Burnt Seed Records (2024)
- https://vonhelfenstein.bandcamp.com/album/metaphysics-workouts-volumes-1-3
- Study No. 21 - Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - Other Minds Recordings (2008)
- https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/studies-for-player-piano
- Wha' 'Bout - Emily Hay: flute, alto flute, voice / Steuart Leibig: bass / Rich West: drums, background recordings - Like Minds - pfMENTUM (2005)
- https://emilyhay.com/
- The Bell Mimic - Max Kutner - Partial Custody - digital release (2024)
- https://maxkutner.bandcamp.com/album/partial-custody
- Unbundle The Bundle - Devin Gray’s To The Point feat. Robin Verheyen - saxes (BE), Bram De Looze - piano (BE), Nicolas Thys - bass (BE) & Devin Gray - drums/composition - To The Point - Rataplan Records (2024)
- https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-point
- Dragonstar - Joëlle Léandre & Lauren Newton - Great Star Theater, San Francisco - Other Minds Records (2024)
- https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/great-star-theater-san-francisco
- Hideko - Parade - Lullabies After Storms and Floods - Elastic Recordings (2024)
- https://paradetoronto.bandcamp.com/album/lullabies-after-storms-and-floods
- Ascension - The Nausea - Requiem - co-released by Absurd Exposition and Buried In Slag And Debris (2024)
- https://thenausea.bandcamp.com/album/requiem
- Open Day - Conducive - Open Day - digital single (2024)
- https://conducivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/open-day
Greetings!
I definitely employed a very "stream of consciousness" vibe as I programmed this week's show, starting with a cello track I couldn't fit into my earlier cello-themed show, getting to a couple of Petridisch tracks, 80's vintage Robert Wyatt's take on a Chic tune, new music from my compadre Joe Benzola and a bunch of other new things. Whew!
Enjoy!
Joel
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6-29-24 PTE Playlist
- Cello Chili - cello/voice: Bryan Hayslett / composer: Brent Michael Davids - Cello Unlocked - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/bryan-hayslett-cello-unlocked
- "Je suis venue te dire que je m'en vais" (I Came To Tell You I'm Going) - Petridisch with Leah Callahan / composer: Serge Gainsbourg - Fish Prints digital single (2024)
- https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/je-suis-venue-te-dire-que-je-men-vais
- At Last I Am Free - Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us (compilation) - Rough Trade (1982)
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/jan/10/old-music-robert-wyatt-at-last-free
- In The Red - Petridisch - A Fixed Point - I Heart Noise (2017)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/petridisch-a-fixed-point
- The Basement Jam - Ayumi Ishito - Wondercult Club - 577 Records (July 2024 pre-release)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/wondercult-club
- Death of a Solipsist (The Way In) - Veins Full Of Static - A House Wrapped In Sleep - Machine Music (2024)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-house-wrapped-in-sleep
- carried by all the hands forgotten in the wind - Heavy Cloud - carried by all the hands forgotten in the wind / mirror sky - digital release (2024)
- https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/carried-by-all-the-hands-forgotten-in-the-wind-mirror-sky
- Actant Theory - CZiGO - Actant Theory - Machine Records (2024)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/actant-theory
- The White Thing - Tu-Ner - Tu-Ner For Lovers - 7d Media (2024)
- https://tu-ner7d.bandcamp.com/album/t-2-tu-ner-for-lovers
- The Process - Gerald Cleaver - The Process - 577 Records/Positive Elevation (2024)
- https://positiveelevation.bandcamp.com/album/the-process
- Mysterium Meditation-St. Thérèse of Lisieux - Joseph Benzola - Mysterium Meditation-St. Thérèse of Lisieux - digital single (2024)
- https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/mysterium-meditation-st-th-r-se-of-lisieux
- VPF - Thomas Buckner (voice); Roscoe Mitchell (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, percussion, flute) - 8 O'Clock: Two Improvisations - Mutable Music (2004)
- https://mutablemusic.bandcamp.com/album/8-oclock-two-improvisations
Greetings!
This week's program presents a potpourri of musical stylings ranging from William Bolcom's piano rags arranged for string quartet to the new release from New York prog rockers, Izz, to Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da Vida". Eclectic programming? Sure. What else is new?
Enjoy!
Joel
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6-22-24 PTE Playlist
- Three Rags: I. Poltergeist / II. Graceful Ghost / III. Incineratorag - Altius Quartet / composer: William Bolcom - Dress Code - Navona Records (2017)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6078/
- Rhythms for Computer and Percussion: Rhythms / Songs Without Words / Birdbath / Au Revoir - Joel Chabade - Emergence - Intelligent Arts (2024)
- https://joelchadabe.bandcamp.com/album/emergence
- Pulsations - Denman Maroney Quartet - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Neuma (2024)
- https://denmanfmaroney.bandcamp.com/album/the-air-conditioned-nightmare-2
- Cer și Pământ - Somngreu - Pământ - digital release (2021)
- https://somngreu.bandcamp.com/album/p-m-nt
- cloud forty-nine - karen vogt - diary#5 - Sonic Dialogue (2024)
- https://sonic-dialogue.bandcamp.com/album/diary-5
- Hypersleep - Postmodern Machine - Hypersleep - digital release (2021)
- https://postmodernmachine.bandcamp.com/album/hypersleep
- Shinseki Soundboi - Cathode Ray Tube - Imperfect Vessel - Condition Human (2024)
- https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/album/imperfect-vessel
- Afterlife Theme Park - Cymbalic Encounters - Eclipsis - digital release (2024)
- https://cymbalicencounters.bandcamp.com/album/eclipsis
- Collapse The Wave - IZZ - Collapse The Wave - Izzmusic (2024)
- https://izzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/collapse-the-wave
- Improv 2/ Drum Solo/ In-A-Gadda-Davinci- Scott McGill: guitar / Michael Manring: bass / Vic Stevens: drums - What We Do Too - Free Electric Sound (2006)
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Rhino (1968/1995)
- https://www.loudersound.com/features/in-a-gadda-da-vida-the-improbable-story-of-a-17-minute-one-hit-wonder#:~:text=As%20indulgent%20as%20Iron%20Butterfly's,told%20Psychedelic%20Baby%20in%202020.
Greetings!
By the time you hear this, I'll have already returned from my 2 week jaunt to the wilds of Alaska, but I couldn't resist the episode's title focused on compositions for cello and derived, NOT from the 2012 film I've never seen, OR Phil Collins' second solo album from 1982, BUT the 1930 classic Marx Brothers film, "Animal Crackers"!
That being said, I digress. Enjoy a panoply of cello stylings from the finest cellists and composers of our times.
Joel
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6-1-24 PTE Playlist: "Cello, I Must Be Going!"
- Orange and yellow II - cellos: Dan Barrett / Stanislav Orlavsky / composer: Dominique Lemaître - De l’espace trouver la fin et le milieu (of space finding the end and the middle): Dan Barrett plays Dominique Lemaître - New Focus Recordings (2020)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/de-lespace-trouver-la-fin-et-le-milieu-dan-barrett-plays-dominique-lemaitre/
- Cello and Orchestra - cello: Robert Cohen / New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas / composer: Morton Feldman - Coptic Light - Argo (1998)
- Miles Per Hour / Bones - Lung - Let It Be Gone - Romanus Records (2022)
- https://lunglunglung.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-be-gone
- Nomos Alpha - cello: Pierre Strauch / composer: Iannis Xenakis - Various Works - Erato (1992)
- https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/686273/686433
- Night Music - cello: Eric Kutz / composer: Robert Gibson - Flux and Fire - Innova (2018)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/robert-gibson/flux-and-fire
- Descent Into Shame - Cellista - Élégie - Soundtrack to the Stage Poem (for static trapeze, silent film, and cello) - digital album (2024)
- https://cellista.bandcamp.com/track/descent-into-shame
- Hellhound - cello: Maya Beiser / composer: David T. Little - tranceclassical - Innova (2016)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/maya-beiser/tranceclassical
- Batzal - Erik Friedlander - Grains of Paradise - Tzadik (2001)
- https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7154
- BABEL(maya)—f(f(1)): I. PortRait_8,NYC10
BABEL(maya)—f(f(1)): V. PortRaitS_10&11,NYC2012 - Pat Muchmore - BABEL: fragments - Innova (2016) - https://www.innova.mu/albums/pat-muchmore/babel-fragments
- Not Alone - cello & electronics: Seth Parker Woods / composer: George Lewis - The Recombinant Trilogy - New Focus Recordings (2021)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-recombinant-trilogy
Greetings!
New music, kid's stories and lot's of drums!! That's only Phase One!!
Enjoy!
Joel
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5-25-24 PTE Playlist
- Dust and the Middle - Catharine Cary - AIR CAKE and other summery occupations - Orchard of Pomegranates (2024)
- https://catharinecary.wordpress.com/air-cake-and-other-summery-occupations/
- Moonlight - Kojiro Umezaki & Hub New Music / composer: SunYoung Park - a distance, intertwined - in a circle records (2024)
- https://hubnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-distance-intertwined
- Impulse Control Concerto for Drum Set & Wind Ensemble, Parts I & II / Lee Hinkle, drum set soloist; Penn State University Wind Ensemble | Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin, conductor / composer: Evan Ziporyn - MODERN AMERICAN PERCUSSION CONCERTI - Ravello Records (2024)
- https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8101/
- 2077 / Crypto Punks - Devin Gray - Most Definitely - Rataplan Records (2024)
- https://rataplanrecordsnyc.bandcamp.com/album/most-definitely
- Four Twenty Six - Dave Schoepke- Drums On Low - self-release (2019)
- https://daveschoepke.bandcamp.com/album/drums-on-low
- Cloudcutter - Dave Schoepke - Sun Will Follow - djummi records (2024)
- https://daveschoepke.bandcamp.com/album/sun-will-follow
- Beelzebub - Bruford - Feels Good To Me - Polydor (1977)
- https://billbruford.com/
- Simulacrum - Ken Wohlrob - Simulacrum (digital single) - Obsidian Sky Records (2024)
- https://obsidianskyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/simulacrum
- In Brightness - Thy Veils - Neoradiance - digital release (2019)
- https://thyveils.bandcamp.com/album/neoradiant
- It's You 2 - Edge of Decipher - Each Other's Breath - Machina ad Noctem (2024)
- https://machinaadnoctem.bandcamp.com/album/each-other-s-breath
- Old Naval Base - Fletina - The Rendering - digital release (2024)
- https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/the-rendering
- Spacer w angielskim ogrodzie (a walk in an English garden) - woo: Christine Wodrascka: piano / Paulina Owczarek: alto saxophone / Peter Orins: drums - hoo-hah - Circum-Disc (2024)
- https://www.circum-disc.com/
- Toy Room - Q&A - Circle - Paris Concert - ECM (1971)
- https://ecmrecords.com/product/paris-concert-circle/
Greetings!
So much music, so little time!
Enjoy!
Joel
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5-18-24 PTE Playlist
- Elevation - Trem77 - Topography EP - digital release (2024)
- https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/topography-ep
- Churchill Downs Chamber Concerto - composer: Irwin Bazelon - Music of Irwin Bazelon - CRI American Masters/New World Records (1992)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/music-of-irwin-bazelon
- Monument for Graettinger - Clazz Ensemble / composer: Louis Andriessen - Den Bosch Clazz ensemble playing live at the Dutch Classical Music Meeting - Amsterdam - October 17th 2011 -
- http://louisandriessen.blogspot.com/2011/12/family-revisited-review-and-concert.html
- Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom - Virgin (1974)
- https://musicaficionado.blog/2019/07/26/rock-bottom-by-robert-wyatt/
- Kerouac, Gysin, & Burroughs - Joseph Benzola - Portraits of the Dead Complete: 1995-2022 - Amanita Music (2024)
- https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/portraits-of-the-dead-complete-1995-2022
- Throwing Salt - Forrest Fang - The Lost Seasons of Amorphia - Projekt Records (2022)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-seasons-of-amorphia
- On A Boat - Denman Maroney Quintet - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://denmanfmaroney.bandcamp.com/album/the-air-conditioned-nightmare-2
- Mundial Imaginalis - Colin Fisher - Suns of the Heart - We Are Busy Bodies (2024)
- https://colinalexanderfisher.bandcamp.com/album/suns-of-the-heart
- Blue Moon Frequency #5 (extended version) - slide guitar: Geiger Von Mueller - digital single (2024)
- https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/blue-moon-frequency-5
- The Hall - Manuel Carbone - The Mosgrove Facility - Falt (2024)
- https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/the-mosgrove-facility
- Hissed and Gone - Cat Temper - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2024-sampler
- Amoureux Solitaires - Petridisch with Leah Callahan - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2024-sampler
- Sonar - Renee Zon - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2024-sampler
Greetings!
I thought I'd mention that when you look at each week's program playlist, in addition to the track release info, there's almost always a link that will take you to where you can obtain more info on the artist/release and where you might choose to support the livelihoods of said artists by procuring their music for your very own collection.
Enjoy!
Joel
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5-4-24 PTE Playlist
- SD FAHCBARUL! - Brakat - Codici Morti - digital release (2023)
- https://brakatmusik.bandcamp.com/album/codici-morti
- Black Earth - Ukranian born pianist: Inna Faliks /composer: Fazil Say - Manuscripts Don't Burn - Sono Luminus (2024)
- https://www.sonoluminus.com/store/manuscripts-dont-burn
- quatre.b - de type inconnu ("of unknown type") (Sylvain Pohu: electric guitar + electronics / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: bass guitar + electronics) - onze.correspondances - Elli Records (2024)
- https://ellirecords.bandcamp.com/album/onze-correspondances
- Drum Buffer Rope - Ternoy / Cruz / Orins - The Theory of Constraints - Circum-Disc (2024 pre-release)
- https://circum-disc.bandcamp.com/
- 8_16 - Valley Lines - 13_16 - Machine Records (2024)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/13-16
- Failure Cascade - Lamniformes - The Lonely Atom - people | places | records (2024)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lonely-atom
- Gardiens de l’hassium (Guardians of Hassium) 270 - En Fer - GROS ROCK - self-release (2023)
- https://ironapproved.bandcamp.com/album/gros-rock
- Peking O - Can - Tago Mago - Mute/Spoon (1971)
- https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/tago-mago
- Mirror(s) - flute/composer: Gina Izzo ( l a d y y b i r d d) - Tomorrow's Yesterday - Innova (2023)
- https://ginaizzo.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-yesterday
- String Quartet ('musica celestis') (1990) - The Lark Quartet / composer: Aaron Jay Kernis - Argo (1992)
- https://aaronjaykernis.com/work/string-quartet-musica-celestis/
- O Choruscans Lux Stellarum - Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records - Puremagnetik (2024)
- https://larum.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-hildegard-von-bingen-live-at-public-records
- Waltz - John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser - Farahser - Elastic Recordings (May 2024 pre-release)
- https://elasticrecordings.bandcamp.com/
- Forever In Blue - Chris Russell - Noir - Projekt Records (2024)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/noir
Greetings!
Using Teiku's new self-titled 577 Record release as a springboard (in which the ensemble interprets Ukrainian Passover melodies in the jazz tradition of Creative Music), I wondered if I could cobble a Passover oriented set with music I had in my own collection. The fruits of such an endeavor inhabits Phase One.
In Phase Two, I wanted to focus on the incredible musicianship of guitarist/pianist Kevin Kastning and his improvisational pairings with diverse musicians from around the globe.
Enjoy!
Joel
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4-27-24 PTE Playlist - TWOFER
A side: Chag Pesach Sameach! (Happy Passover!) / B side: The Music of Kevin Kastning
- Eyliyohu Hanovi (Elijah the Prophet) - The Klezmatics - Brother Moses Smote The Water: Live in Berlin - Piranha Musik (2004)
- https://piranha-records.bandcamp.com/album/brother-moses-smote-the-water
- Elijah Rock - The Klezmatics w/ Joshua Nelson - Brother Moses Smote The Water: Live in Berlin - Piranha Musik (2004)
- https://piranha-records.bandcamp.com/album/brother-moses-smote-the-water
- The Magic Winecup: A Syrian Passover Tale - storyteller: Vered Hankin / musical score: Bruce Ditmas - The Day The Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic - Kessem Productions (2000)
- Adir Hu - Jewlia Eisenbert / vocal ensemble: Charming Hostess - Trilectic - Tzadik (2001)
- https://www.tzadik.com/
- Adir Hu Intro / Adir Hu - Teiku - Teiku - 577 Records (2024)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/teiku
- Manishtana (What Has Changed?) - Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Soul - Tzadik (1999)
- https://www.tzadik.com/
- Passover: Movement III - ensemble: thingNY / composer: Rick Burkhardt - Passover - Innova (2022)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/thingny/passover
- Passover - Carolee Carmello / composer: William Finn - Elegies: A Song Cycle - Fynsworth Alley (2003) Passover - Carolee Carmello / composer: William Finn - Elegies: A Song Cycle - Fynsworth Alley (2003)
- https://playbill.com/article/elegies-praised-william-finn-song-cycle-closes-off-broadway-march-30-com-112326
- Dam Tzefardea - Rabbi Chaim B. Alevsky - PESACH’S GREATEST HITS - Tools for Torah (2006)
- https://toolsfortorah.com/CDs.htm
- Paisach in Portugal - Don Byron - Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz - Nonesuch (1993)
- https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/plays-music-mickey-katz
Greetings!
This week's program certainly emphasizes "multi-genre", a concept that has always been the keystone to the programming of "Pushing The Envelope" over the past 35 years (this fall, to be technical). A quick glance at this week's playlist will make that quite apparent. Cybotron to String Noise playing Alvin Lucier to The Allman Brothers (R.I.P. Dickey Betts) in the same program... makes sense to me!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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4-20-24 PTE Playlist
- Fragment 17 Phase One (Proximian Mythos Cycle) - Cybotron (Richard Davis) - Cyber Ghetto - Fantasy (1995)
- Hpirep (Meson Peripheral Mix) - Phase4our - Language Barrier - Machine Records (2024)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/language-barrier
- Halo (for one or more violiings) (2019) - String Noise: Conrad Harris / Pauline Kim Harris - composer: Alvin Lucier - STRING NOISE - Black Truffle Records (2020)
- https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/string-noise
- Links No. 8 (Confessions -- Witness to 48 Things) - vibraphone: Berndt Thurner / flute: Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer, composer: Stuart Saunders Smith - The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays - New World Records (2009)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/stuart-saunders-smith-the-links-series-of-vibraphone-essays
- Les Brers in A Minor - The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach - Capricorn (1972)
- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Brothers Band - The Fillmore Concerts - Polydor (1971/1992)
- https://allmanbrothersband.com/forrest-richard-dickey-betts-december-12-1943-april-17-2024/
- Walking The Wheel - Hawkstrel - Chaos Rocks - Purple Pyramid Records (2024)
- https://hawkestrel.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-rocks
- Death of Trumpet - Kleinemaschinen - Nice[ish] Stereo - Borenail Records (2024)
- https://kleinemaschinen.bandcamp.com/album/nice-ish-stereo
- Dayenu - Teiku - Teiku - 577 Records (2024)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/teiku
- The Infinite Cosmos Are Calling You You You (excerpt) - Federico Ughi (drums) feat. Leo Genovese (keyboards) and Brandon Lopez (bass) - Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024)
- https://federicoughi.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-cosmos-calling-you-you-you-vol-1-feat-leo-genovese-and-brandon-lopez
Greetings!
This week's potpourri of music highlights new releases from the good folks at 7d Media (Michael Shrieve, Tu-Ner), my Bandcamp Friday purchase for April (David First's, "Sitar Music of North Brooklyn (Same Animal, Different Cages, Vol. 4") and a bunch of other new & classic items that should pique your interest.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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4-13-24 PTE Playlist
- No. 20 (Once Raw: The Aging G) - Dun-Dun Band - Pita Parka Pt. 1 : Xam Egdub -Ansible Editions (2024)
- https://kunudusuvuntu.bandcamp.com/album/pita-parka-pt-i-xam-egdub
- Sitar & Bongos Duo 1 - David First (overtone sitar) w/ Danny Tunick (bongos) - Sitar Music of North Brooklyn (Same Animal, Different Cages, Vol. 4) - Fabrica (2020)
- https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/sitar-music-of-north-brooklyn-same-animal-different-cages-vol-4
- Nereid - Douglas Schmidt (bandoneon) & John Oliver (synthesizers, editing, mixing & mastering) - Celestial Wanderer - John Oliver Music (May 2024 pre-release)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-wanderer
- Carol's Dream - Roby Glod (alto & soprano sax)/Christian Ramond (double bass)/Klaus Kugel (drums & percussion) - No ToXiC - Nemu Records (2024)
- https://www.glod.ramond.kugel-trio.com/
- Camera Obscura - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jonathan Sheffer composer & conductor / Milly Forrest, soprano; Alexandria Moon, mezzo soprano; Glen Cunningham, tenor; James Quilligan Lyric, baritone / Text based upon a play by Robert Patrick - Four Ten-Minute Operas - Navona (2024)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6610/
- Earth Intruders - Björk - Volta - Atlantic (2007)
- https://www.bjork.com/
- absorbed by light - hojascirculares (Ara Cristina Hernandez) - void of course - digital release (2020)
- https://hojascirculares.bandcamp.com/album/void-of-course
- Endless Dream / Changes (LIVE CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK 19/06/94) - Yes - TALK - 30TH ANNIVERSARY, 4CD EXPANDED EDITION - Spirit of Unicorn Music (1994/2024)
- https://www.cherryred.co.uk/yes-talk-30th-anniversary-4cd-expanded-edition
- The Call of Michael Olatunji - Michael Shrieve - Drums of Compassion - 7D Media (May 2024 pre-release)
- https://7dmedia.com/micheal-shrieve-drums-of-compassion
- Attack of the Puppet People - Tu-Ner - For Lovers - 7D Media (May 2024 pre-release)
- https://7dmedia.com/tu-ner-t2-tu-ner-for-lovers
- Intent On Tuning In - Niacinamide - Comp24: Different Angles - Owlripper Records (2023)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp24-different-angles
- 2020.JPG - book on VHS - 2020 Jazz Punk Greats - digital release (2021)
- https://bookonvhs.bandcamp.com/album/2020-jazz-punk-greats
Greetings!
As you might have noticed, glancing through this week's playlist, Leon Alvarado's track planted the seed of music related to elephants, both real & fictional. In addition, the usual mix of new, old and in-between.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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4-6-24 PTE Playlist
- Carbon Monoxide - Glenn Branca Ensemble - Ensemble: Live at Primavera Sound Music Festival 2011 in Barcelona, Spain - Free Music Archive (2011)
- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glenn_Branca/Live_at_Primevera_Sound_2011-_Glenn_Branca
- Where Songs Go At Night (for flute, oboe, clarinet, tenor saxophone, horn, and bassoon) - ensemble: Bandwidth / composer: Anna Weesner - Where Songs Go At Night - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/bandwidth-where-songs-go-at-night
- Sprawl Twilight - Temporal Waves - Temporal Waves - people | places | records (2024)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/temporal-waves
- Dance of the Pink Elephants - Leon Alvarado - Brain Damage - Melodic Revolution Records EP (2024)
- https://leonalvarado.bandcamp.com/album/brain-damage
- Medley Five (Technicolor Pachyderms): Pink Elephants on Parade/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Sun Ra And His Arkestra & Harry Nilsson - Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - A&M Records (1988)
- https://haltribute.com/discography/
- Elephant Talk - King Crimson - CIRKUS: The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson LIVE, Vol. One - Neon Heat Disease (1984-1986) - Virgin/DGM (1999)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/
- Music by Humans About Elephants > Big Elephant Saddle - mahout (elephant caretaker) musicians - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)
- https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra
- Elephants With Humans > Somneuk & Four Elephants - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)
- https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra
- Natural Elephant Sounds > Elephant Field Recordings - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)
- https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra
- dance of the fungi - Sam Wilson — guitar/ compositions; Jen Yakamovich — drums; Geordie Hart — upright bass - Wintertides - self-release (2024)
- https://samwilsonmusiq.bandcamp.com/album/wintertides
- Paradoxon - Gerald Gradwohl - ...Or What? - self-release (May 2024 pre-release)
- https://www.gradwohl.at/
- Sea of Hopeless Angels - Markus Reuter & Stefano Castagna - Sea of Hopeless Angels - Flatiron Recordings (2024)
- https://markusreuterflatiron.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-hopeless-angels
- Seaward Galaxy - Vaster Than Empires / Erica Dicker, violin - baritone violin, Allen Otte - percussion, amplified sound boards, shortwave radio, Paul Schuette - synthesizers, guitar - Three Days - New Focus Recordings (2021)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/three-days
- Wer aber vom Kapitalismus nicht reden will, der sollte auch vom Faschismus schweigen (But if you don't want to talk about capitalism, you should also keep quiet about fascism) - David Wallraf and monad node - Un culte sans rêve et sans merci (A cult without dreams and without mercy) - self-release (2024)
- https://monadnode.bandcamp.com/album/un-culte-sans-r-ve-et-sans-merci
- The Machines - Caught In Joy - Astral Arcadia - digital release (2024)
- https://caughtinjoy.bandcamp.com/album/astral-arcadia
Greetings!
Welcome to another edition of Pushing The Envelope! Numerous current releases and some classic tracks delving into multiple musical genres, as we are wont to do here on PTE, are being presented for your listening pleasure.
Enjoy!
Joel
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3-30-24 PTE Playlist
- Mia Slavenska - Ayumi Ishito feat. Kevin Shea and George Draguns - Roboquarians, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/roboquarians-vol-1-feat-kevin-shea-and-george-draguns
- Yummy World - MC Maguire - Dystophilia - Neuma Records (2024)
- https://mcmaguire.bandcamp.com/album/dystophilia
- Server Room - Conducive - The Mosgrove Facility - Falt (2024)
- https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/the-mosgrove-facility
- Locked In - Bloom's Taxonomy - Foley Age - digital release (2020)
- https://bloomstaxonomy.bandcamp.com/album/foley-age-2
- Metamorphosis Redux - Joseph Benzola w/ Benjamin Smith - Amanita Music digital single (2024)
- https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/metamorphosis-redux
- The Talking Drum / Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part II - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (The Complete Recording Sessions) - DGM (2023)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/
- You Made Me Miss - Benjamin Croft - We Are Here To Help - Galactic Receiver (May 2024 pre-release)
- https://www.benjamincroftmusic.com/
- Dissipate - Jane Getter Premonition - Division World - Esoteric Recordings (2024)
- https://janegetter.com/
- Symbol - Relkneus - First Steps - TonCollage - Aesthetic Mobilization digital release (2021)
- https://relkneus.bandcamp.com/album/first-steps-toncollage
- One and One (unedited master) - Miles Davis - The Complete On The Corner Sessions - Columbia Legacy (1972/2007)
- https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/
Greetings!
I'm back from Cruise To The Edge and the first half of the program features bands that I really enjoyed, including Big Big Train, Marillion, Lonely Robot, Gryphon and more. The second half features new releases and new acquisitions that I hope with make your eardrums tingle with pleasure.
Enjoy!
Joel
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3-23-24 PTE Playlist
- Lucky Seven - Big Big Train - The Likes of Us - InsideOut Music (2024)
- https://www.bigbigtrain.com/
- The Invisible Man - Marillion - Racket 60 - Live In Chile - Racket Records (2018)
- https://marillionofficial.bandcamp.com/album/racket-60-live-in-chile
- Humans Being - Lonely Robot - Please Come Home - InsideOut Music (2015)
- https://johnmitchellhq.com/lonely-robot/
- Blind Concert (original film edit) - Goblin - Suspiria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Cinema Hotel Studios (2007)
- https://goblinrockband.bandcamp.com/album/dario-argento-suspiria-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-horror-movie-soundtrack
- N - Lifesigns - Cardington - Lifesigns Music (2022)
- https://lifesigns1.bandcamp.com/album/cardington
- Parting Shot / Get Out Of My Father's Car! - Gryphon - Get Out Of My Father's Car! - self-release (2020)
- https://gryphontrax.bandcamp.com/album/get-out-of-my-fathers-car
- Canto Ostinato: Sections 88-90 - Steinway Model O piano, Rhodes electric piano, and a Hammond M-101 organ: Erik Hall / composer: Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato - Western Vinyl (2023)
- https://erikhall.bandcamp.com/album/canto-ostinato-simeon-ten-holt
- Ficción - Nu Quintet (Kim Lewis, flute/Michael Dwinell, oboe/Kathryn Vetter, clarinet/Tylor Thomas, bassoon/Blair Hamrick, horn) - composer:Gabriel Vicéns - Mural - Stradavarius (2024)
- https://gabrielvicens.bandcamp.com/album/mural
- Now My Clothes Has Your Smell And I Am The One Who Wants To Be Saved - Thorn1 - Theory Of Everything (compilation) - I Heart Noise (2012)
- https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/theory-of-everything
- John of Dust A - Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt - John of Dust - E2-E4 (2023)
- https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/john-of-dust
- Nyanga - Simon Phillips feat. Ernest Tibbs, Otmaro Ruiz, Jacob Scesney & Alex Sill - Protocol V - Phantom Recordings (2022)
- https://www.simon-phillips.com/music/protocol-v
Greetings!
This week's program focuses on bands that will be playing on the 2024 edition of Cruise To The Edge, a progressive rock experience at sea. The eighth CTTE voyage will set sail from Miami, Florida on March 8th with yours truly aboard, making our way to Cozumel, Mexico. Headliners include Marillion, Steve Hacket, Flying Colors & Big Big Train, accompanied by returning acts Adrian Belew, Martin Barre, The Flower Kings, Haken, Protocol, Queensrÿche, Airbag, Baraka, Klone, and Wishbone Ash. There will be a number of newcomers as well including Gryphon, Lonely Robot, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin as well as Symphony X. To say I'm psyched is an understatement, so I've crammed as many artists into today's show as I could.
Enjoy!
Joel
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3-2-24 PTE Playlist - Cruise To The Edge Special
- Thick As A Brick - Martin Barre - Order of Play - Purple Pyramid (2020)
- https://martinbarremusic.bandcamp.com/album/order-of-play
- Atlantic Cable (Live) - Big Big Train - Ingenious Devices - English Electric Recordings (2023)
- https://bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/album/ingenious-devices
- Hope - Protocol - digital single (2023)
- https://protocolband.bandcamp.com/track/hope
- Piano Medley - Jordan Rudess - The Road Home - Magna Carta (2007)
- https://jordanrudess-magnacarta.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-home
- Stardust We Are - Part III (re-recorded 1998 version) - The Flower Kings - Outer Music (1998)
- https://www.roinestolt.com/the-flower-kings
- Pour My Love - Marillion - Racket 60: Live in Chile - Racket Records (2016)
- https://marillionofficial.bandcamp.com/album/racket-60-live-in-chile
- The Rail Song - Adrian Belew - The Acoustic Adrian Belew - Adrian Belew Presents (1993)
- https://adrianbelew.bandcamp.com/album/the-acoustic-adrian-belew
- Claudio Simonetti's Goblin - Suspira - Soundtrack - Prog Rock Version - 45Th Anniversary - Rustblade (2022)
- https://rustblade.bandcamp.com/album/suspira-soundtrack-prog-rock-version-45th-anniversary
- Inversion Layer - Jane Getter Premonition - ON Tour - digital album (2017)
- https://janegetter.bandcamp.com/album/on-tour
- Sailor's Tale - Stick Men feat. Mel Collins - Roppongi - Live in Tokyo 2017, Show 2 - iapetus (2017)
- https://stickmen.bandcamp.com/album/roppongi-live-in-tokyo-2017-show-2
- Midnight Mushrumps, 2nd Movement - Gryphon - Gryphon Live at the Union Chapel, 2015 - Gryphon website
- https://www.thegryphonpages.com/music.html
- A Day at the Beach, part 2 - Airbag - A Day at the Beach - Karisma Records (2020)
- https://airbagsound.bandcamp.com/album/a-day-at-the-beach
- Firth of Fifth - Steve Hackett - Watcher of the Skies - Guardian Records (1996)
- https://www.hackettsongs.com/
- Voice In My Head - Lifesigns - Cardington - self-release (2017)
- https://lifesigns1.bandcamp.com/album/cardington
- Knights In The Dark Mist - Ryo Okomuto -The Ryo Okomuto Project Live In Osaka - digital release (2020)
- https://ryookumoto.bandcamp.com/album/trop-live-in-osaka
Greetings!
Some new stuff (Audio Obscura, Letters from Mouse, Allison Burik, Osmanthus, Avi C. Engel), some old stuff (Finneus Gauge, Tangerine Dream), some new stuff made from old stuff (Joseph Benzola/John Balaban) together with just other stuff, serve to fill up the 1 hour & 59 minutes of this week's PTE.
Enjoy!
Joel
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2-24-24 PTE Playlist
- Cosm - Letters from Mouse (Steven Anderson) - Clota - Subexotic Records (2024)
- https://lettersfrommouse.bandcamp.com/album/clota
- The Last Day of August Felt Like The First Day of August - Audio Obscura - Acid Field Recordings in Dub - Subexotic Records (April 2024 pre-release)
- https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/music
- Solstice I (Dreams & Memories) / Solstice II (Cycles) / Solstice III (The Promise) - Allison Burik - Realm - self-release (2024)
- https://allisonburik.bandcamp.com/album/realm
- Lava underground - Insub Meta Orchestra - archive #1 - INSUB Records (2012)
- https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/archive-1
- Breadcrumb Dance - Avi C. Engel - Too Many Souls - digital self-release / Somnimage (2024)
- https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/too-many-souls
- Diabaram - Ryuichi Sakamoto w/ Youssou N'dour - Beauty - Virgin (1989)
- https://www.sitesakamoto.com/
- Trivium - Darkslider - Abstract - The Next Complete Collection (So Far) - digital release (2024)
- https://darkslider.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-the-next-complete-collection-so-far
- Ca Dao ("cah zao" / folk songs) - Joseph Benzola and John Balaban - Ca Dao - Amanita Music (2024) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/ca-dao
- Case By Case / Data Pollution / Subscription Fatigue - Devin Gray - Most Definitely - Rataplan Records (2023)
- https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/most-definitely
- Variegated Forms, I, II & III - Osmanthus - Between Seasons - digital release (2024)
- https://valiska.bandcamp.com/album/between-seasons
- Indignant Swines - Guild Theory - digital single (2023)
- https://guildtheory.bandcamp.com/track/indignant-swines
- More Wants More - Finneus Gauge - More Wants More - Train Records (1997)
- https://finneusgauge.bandcamp.com/album/more-once-more
- Emergence - Anyone (Riz Story) - In Humanity - TogethermenT Records (2021)
- https://www.anyoneden.net/in-humanity
- DD Danz - Acqua Fragile - Moving Fragments - MaRaCash Records (2023)
- https://maracashrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moving-fragments
- Poisonous Worm / A Fly In The Queen's Soup - Auzel - Old - digital release/Vuzhmusic (2012)
- http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/auzel_old.html
- Drowning In Universes - Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate / Quantum Key - K-Scope (2018)
- https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-gate-quantum-key
Greetings!
As usual, many newer releases in multiple genres together w/ some classic prog and an interesting thrift store find introducing me (and possibly you) to the music of Japanese composer, Shin-Ichiro Ikebe.
Enjoy!
Joel
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2-17-24 PTE Playlist
- Ánimo - Galan Trio / composer: Dylan Findley - Galan Trio: Kinesis, Volume 2 - Neuma Records (2023)
- https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/galan-trio-kinesis-volume-2
- Dimorphism: for organ & orchestra (1974) / Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, cond. Kotaro Sato, organ: Naomi Matsui / composer: Shin-Ichiro Ikebe - Camerata (1995)
- Nunc Aperuit Nobis - Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records - Puremagnetik (2024)
- https://larum.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-hildegard-von-bingen-live-at-public-records
- Semblance - Fletina - The Given Moment - Fort Evil Fruit (2023)
- https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/the-given-moment
- Breathe (For You) - Valiska - Wolf Moon - digital release (2023)
- https://valiska.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-moon
- Love Will Tear Us Apart / Digital / Transmission - Delta Saxophone Quartet - Late Music - FMR Records (2023)
- https://deltasaxophonequartet1.bandcamp.com/album/late-music
- Transparent - Ken Field - Transmitter - Neuma Records (2021)
- https://kenfield.bandcamp.com/album/transmitter
- Adrift In The Miraculous Stream - Robert Scott Thompson - Atmospherica - Aucourant Records (2023)
- https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/atmospherica
- Mars Bringer of War - Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell: “The Complete Collection” - Cherry Red Records (2024)
- https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/emerson-lake-and-powell-the-complete-collection-3cd-box/
- The Age of Magrathea - Benjamin Croft - We Are Here To Help - Galactic Receiver (May 2024 pre-release)
- https://www.benjamincroftmusic.com/
- no4 - pä - Hone nami - digital release (2023)
- https://lesondouble.bandcamp.com/album/hone-nami
Greetings!
For today's festivities, a bunch of newer things, including two which feature drummer Devin Gray and the new release from Baltimore (and my) favorites, Matmos. I'm really pleased to bring these your way, in addition to some older rarities.
Enjoy!
Joel
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2-10-24 PTE Playlist
- Indigo Blue - Eva Novoa (piano, Chinese gongs) w/ Drew Gress (bass, modular synthesizer) & Devin Gray (drums) - Novoa / Gress / Gray Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (March 2024 pre-release, 577 Records)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-gress-gray-trio-vol-1
- Soldier On, Milford - Devin Gray - Most Definitely - Rataplan Records (2023)
- https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/most-definitely
- Return To Archive - Matmos - Return To Archive - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (2023)
- https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-archive
- Pillars - Geoffrey Landman, alto saxophone; Osnat Netzer, piano/composer - Dot : Line : Sigh - New Focus Recordings (2024)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dot-line-sigh
- surf (hedfunk remix) - hex - earthrise.ntone.1: a space bass dub trip - Instinct Records (1995)
- The Light Is Real Before - Thollem (voice and wavestate synthesizer), Terry Riley (voice), and Nels Cline (electric guitars, effects, and megamouth) - The Light Is Real - Other Minds (2024)
- https://thollem.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-is-real
- For As You Are - Musebots & Arne Eigenfeldt - A Walk to Meryton - Redshift Records (March release, 2024)
- https://redshiftrecords.org/
- Raccoons Shutting Down The Power Grid - Nick Joliat - Casio Music 2 - people | places | records (2023)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/casio-music-2
- Sectional Drawing - Andrea Dieci (guitar)/Nicola Jappelli (composer) - Guitar Music of Nicola Jappelli - Brilliant Classics (2013)
- https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/j/jappelli-guitar-music/
- Percussive Piano as a Process of Line-making - Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully - I Hope They Let Us Hunt Like Men In The Next Life - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
- https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-they-let-us-hunt-like-men-in-the-next-life
Greetings!
This week's program is one of those where "real life" intrudes upon the amount of time available to spend on selecting music to air. With this in mind, the tracks you'll hear are fairly long, though with no compromise made in quality. (Like I would do that...)
Enjoy!
Joel
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2-3-23 PTE Playlist
- dreaming of a major third – a composition for the clocktower of MASS MoCA - Christina Kubisch - Editions RZ (1997)
- https://christinakubisch.de/releases/dreaming-of-a-major-third-a-composition-for-the-clocktower-of-mass-moca
- promise2 | no matter how bad it gets - meant - this is how much - self-release (2023)
- https://meant1.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-how-much
- Rïah Sahïltaahk - Magma - 1001° Centigrades aka Magma 2 - Seventh Records (1971)
- https://seventhrecordsmagma.bandcamp.com/album/magma-2
- Superior Seven (Concerto for Flute and Orchestra - for Barbara Held) - flute: Barbara Held / computer programming: Tom Hamilton & Barbara Held / synthesizer voice design: Robert Ashley & Tom Hamilton / composer: Robert Ashley - Superior Seven / Tract - New World Records (1995)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/robert-ashley-superior-seven-tract?_pos=1&_sid=df8d4be51&_ss=r&variant=31927519936591
- Second Covergence Three - Kevin Kastning / Carl Clements / Sandor Szabo - Convergence II - Greydisc Records (2021)
- https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/convergence-ii
Greetings!
This week features a bunch of newer tracks, a couple of classic goodies and a return to Roger Reynolds' latest release on Neuma Records, featuring, "Here and There", his extended composition for "speaking percussionist", Steven Shick.
Enjoy!
Joel
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1-13-24 PTE Playlist
- I / II - Daniel Reyes Llinás - Códices - 7d Media (2023)
- https://llinas.bandcamp.com/album/c-dices
- Awaaz? Awaaz! - Takleef Ensemble - Musicworks #146 - Musicworks (2023) https://www.musicworks.ca/
- Rocket Man - Eva Novoa - Novoa / Drew Gress / Devin Gray Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (February 2024 pre-release)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-gress-gray-trio-vol-1
- Avanti la Tre - Piero Milesi - Within Himself [music for films, installations, water and fireworks : 1987-1999]- Cuneiform Records (2000)
- https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/within-himself-music-for-films-installations-water-and-fireworks-1987-1999
- Awaaz? Awaaz! - Takleef Ensemble - Musicworks #146 - Musicworks (2023)
- https://www.musicworks.ca/
- Gone - Marco Mattei - Out Of Control - 7D Media/Third Star (2021)
- https://marcomattei3star.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-control
- Here and There - speaking percussionist: Steven Shick / composer: Roger Reynolds - For A Reason - Neuma Records (2023)
- https://rogerreynolds.bandcamp.com/album/for-a-reason
- Dance of the Cast-Off Snake Skin - John Oliver - Storm Gate - John Oliver Music (2023)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/storm-gate
- The Pleistocene Epoch - The Owl - #118 - An Owl In The Noisy Sky 6 - Owlripper Records (2023)
- https://theowl.bandcamp.com/album/118-an-owl-in-the-noisy-sky-6
Happy New Year!
I'd like to wish you all a happy, healthy & peaceful new year. I'd also like to thank everyone who has checked out Pushing The Envelope and made music available to share with our listeners!
Best wishes,
Joel
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1-6-24 PTE Playlist
- Leila - Rahmann - Rahmann - Musea (1979/1998)
- Candlewood - saxophone: Jeff Siegfried / piano: Sean Friar / composer: Gala Flagello - SHADES - Ravello Records (2024)
- https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8096/
- Reversion Is The Moment of Tao - LEA III, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at Boston University / composer: Hee Yun Kim - Voyage Within - Ravello Records (2023)
- https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8098/
- Klavierklang - piano: Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa / composer: Hildegard Westerkamp - Klavierklang - Earsay Records (2023)
- https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/klavierklang
- Roots of Interior for flute & heartbeat - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Phyllis Chen - Density 2036: Part VI (2019) - New Focus Recordings (2023)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/claire-chase-density-2036-part-vi-2019/
- A Little Madness In The Spring / How Slow The Whistle Sang / An Ear Can Break A Human Heart - Guy Klucevsek - Hope Dies Last - Starkland (2023)
- https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/guy-klucevsek-hope-dies-last
- Darkness & Newborn Light - Urszula Dudziak & Adam Makowicz - Newborn Light - Columbia (1974)
- Free Agents of Sound [Sardegna, Italy]- Rob Mazurek & The Exploding Star Orchestra - Galactic Parables, Vol. 1 - Cuneiform Records (2015)
- https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/galactic-parables-volume-1
- Temper hold, taper - Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly - Hopeful Monster - No Hay Discos (2023)
- https://eveegoyanmauriciopauly.bandcamp.com/album/hopeful-monster
- Of Circles and Shadows - Part XIII - Robert Scott Thompson - Of Circles and Shadows - Aucourant Records (2022)
- https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/of-circles-and-shadows
Greetings!
As we close out 2023, I thought I'd sample a bit of new & classic prog in addition to sampling some tracks from releases I acquired thanks to this cool free music download web-site, "https://www.getmusic.fm/".
Per the site, "artists can promote their Bandcamp releases without having to worry about tracking codes. When a fan clicks the link to redeem a code, it's automatically redeemed, and the code is marked as used so that it won't be handed out again."
It's an excellent way to explore music in many different genres, for free! Check it out.
Here's wishing you a happy and healthy new year!
Joel
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12-30-23 PTE Playlist
- Extinction Event - ANYONE - Miracles in the Nothingness - TogethermenT Records (2023)
- https://www.anyoneden.net/miracles-in-the-nothingness
- When the Heart Sinks Like a Stone / Worlds Apart - Dave Kerzner - Heart Land Mines, Vol. 1 - self-release (2023)
- https://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/album/heart-land-mines-vol-1
- Crowded Isolation - Kansas - The Prelude Implicit - Inside Out (2016)
- https://www.insideoutmusic.com/release/The-Prelude-Implicit
- Deep Blue Shade - Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding - KScope (2023)
- https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/lotus-unfolding
- The Glorious Om Riff - Steve Hillage - Green - Virgin (1978)
- The Beat (Colonel 32 Mix) - Otaku - Bitwise Operators - Malvado Records (2000)
- https://malvadorecords.bandcamp.com/album/bitwise-operators
- Pandas In Tandem - Harold Budd / Hector Zazou - Glyph - Made To Measure (1995)
- https://hectorzazou.bandcamp.com/album/hector-zazou-harold-budd-glyph
- Intervail - Agalma Isle - Warrens - digital release (2023)
- https://agalmaisle.bandcamp.com/album/warrens
- Heterodyne - harp: Ayako Shinozaki / violin, composer: Takehisa Kosugi - Music Now For Harp feat. Takehisa Kosugi - Wewantsounds (1974/2023 vinyl release)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ayako-shinozaki-music-now-for-harp-feat-takehisa-kosugi-cd-edition-with-8pp-booklet
- LAD - violin: Rakhi Singh / composer: Julia Wolfe - Purnima - Canteloupe Music (2023)
- https://rakhisingh.bandcamp.com/album/purnima
- Earth, Sea & Sky - Cornflux Caldwell -Memorex Mori - Subexotic Records (2023)
- https://confluxcoldwell.bandcamp.com/album/memorex-mori
- dead at twenty-one - onetwotwofour - dead at twenty-one - Burnt Seed Records (2023)
- https://onetwotwofour.bandcamp.com/album/dead-at-twentyone
Seasons Greetings!
So much music, so little time!
That's pretty much my train of thought this week as we feature a bunch of new releases in addition to some holiday related music from Scanner & Cucurbitophobia.
For those who partake, Merry Christmas!
Joel
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12-23-23 PTE Playlist
- Watch Over Us - violin: Yvonne Lam (from the new music ensemble, Eighth Blackbird) / composer: Nathalie Joachim - Watch Over Us - Blue Griffin Records (2023)
- https://yvonnelam.bandcamp.com/album/watch-over-us
- Life on Mars - Marty Isenberg - The Way I Feel Inside: Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson - Truth Revolution Recording Collective (2023)
- https://trrstore.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-i-feel-inside-inspired-by-the-films-of-wes-anderson
- Stand - Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra feat. Bernie Worrell (Hammond B3 organ), Sandra St. Victor (vocals) & Vernon Reid (electric guitar) - MTO Plays Sly - A Train Entertainment (2011)
- https://stevenbernstein.bandcamp.com/album/mto-plays-sly
- Hardcore Orange Eyelids of the Sun - Playfield - Magic Heart - 577 Records (Jan 2024 pre-release)
- https://danielcarternyc.bandcamp.com/album/magic-heart
- Fantasie for Horns I - Hildegarde Westerkamp - Klavierklang - Earsay Music (2023)
- https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/klavierklang
- distress - Centrozooan - Angel Liquor - Iapetus (2006)
- https://centrozoon.bandcamp.com/album/angel-liquor
- Electrolytes - Cymbalic Encounters/Mark Murdock - Incandescent Spirits - digital release (2023)
- https://cymbalicencounters.bandcamp.com/album/incandescent-spirits
- Step Right Up / Karnevel! - Scott Henderson - Karnevel! - Mango Prom Music (2024 pre-release)
- https://www.scotthenderson.net/
- Freeworld - Phreeworld - Crossing The Sound - Friends In The Garden (1998)
- Flotando en Vacio - Beledo - Fuente de la Abundancia: MoonJune Toledo Festival 2023 Sampler - Moonjune Records (2023)
- https://moonjunetoledo.bandcamp.com/album/fuente-de-la-abundancia
- Lamedvaniks - Sollilians - Shin - digital release (2023)
- https://solilians.bandcamp.com/album/shin
- Away in a Manger - Scanner - A Scanner Christmas - digital release (2023)
- https://scanner.bandcamp.com/album/a-scanner-christmas
- A Liturgy for Yule - Cucurbitophobia (fear of pumpkins) - A Druid's Tale - digital release (2020)
- https://cucurbitophobia.bandcamp.com/album/a-druids-tale
Greetings!
This week's program features lots of new releases in varied genres in addition to another track from the Larks' Tongues In Aspic (The Complete Recording Sessions) 50th Anniversary release. LTIA has always been one of my favorite KC albums and now even more so with the new Steven Wilson and old David Singleton mixes. It only made sense to precede that track with a new take on the KC classic, "Starless" from Crimson alumnus, David Cross from his latest, "Ice Blue, Silver Sky".
Enjoy!
Joel
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12-16-23 PTE Playlist
- Internal Structure - reeds: Frank Paul Schubert / e-guitar, electronics: Kazuhisa Uchihashi / drums, gongs: Klaus Kugel - Black Holes Are Hard To Find - Nemu Records (2023)
- https://www.schubert.uchihashi.kugel-trio.com
- Starless - David Cross Band - Ice Blue, Silver Sky - Noisy Records (2023)
- https://www.davidcrossband.com/
- Larks' Tongues In Aspic, part 1 (David Singleton Elemental mix) - King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (The Complete Recording Sessions) - DGM (1973/2023)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/news/larks-toungues-in-aspic-50th-anniversary-edition
- Lineal - J. Zunz - Del Aire - Rocket Recordings (2022)
- https://jzunz.bandcamp.com/album/del-aire
- The sonic reverberation of Saint Marinus (San Marino) - Andy Billington - Sounds of the Year 2023 by Cities and Memory - Cities & Memory (2023)
- https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-the-year-2023
- Symmetrical Variations - Delta Saxophone Quartet / composer: Steve Crowther - Late Music Digital Extra - digital release (2023)
- https://deltasaxophonequartet1.bandcamp.com/album/late-music-digital-extra
- Catarro - Farmacia - Música Envasada - Discos Sordos (2000)
- https://farmacia.bandcamp.com/album/m-sica-envasada
- Mother Tales I - Croon / Mother Tales II - Perpetual Delight - piano: Clara Yang / violin: Sunmi Chang / composer: Liliya Ugay - Mother Tales- Navona Records (2023)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6581/
- Parade - John Oswald - ReR Quarterly, Vol. 2 #1 - ReR (1987)
- Remonstration - Letters from Mouse - Engrams - digital release (2023)
- https://lettersfrommouse.bandcamp.com/album/engrams
- Departing Ravens - Steve Roach - Sanctuary of Desire - Projekt Records (2023)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sanctuary-of-desire
Greetings!
Welcome to today's UCONN Sports truncated edition of Pushing The Envelope. It's quite amazing how much cool music one can pack into 59 minutes and 30 seconds!
A bunch of new things (Philip Blackburn, Cymbalic Encounters & Ozric Tentacles), vinyl re-release of Akiko Yano's second album and some older items that caught my ear this week, including Baltimore favorites, Matmos. (Baltimore now being my new musical gravitational center.)
Enjoy & Happy Hanukkah to those that partake,
Joel
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12-9- 23 PTE Playlist
- Weft Sutra - Phillip Blackburn - ORDO - Neuma Records (2023)
- https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/philip-blackburn-ordo
- Electricus - Cymbalic Encounters / Mark Murdock - Electricus - digital release (2023)
- https://cymbalicencounters.bandcamp.com/album/electricus
- Crumplepenny - Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding - KScope (2023)
- https://kscopemusic.com/artists/ozrictentacles/
- Sunbittern Lovesong - flute/composer: Michael Pestel - Feathered Jewels Gala - National Aviary (2006)
- Yo Ro Ko Bi - Akiko Yano - To Ki Me Ki - WeWantSounds (2023 vinyl re-release)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/akiko-yano-to-ki-me-ki-1lp-deluxe-black-vinyl-edition-with-4page-insert
- 17 Species of North American Animals - Matmos - Sonic Scenery: Music for Collections (compilation) -dublab (2005)
- https://dublab.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-scenery
- Shapeshifter Lab 01 - Emily Hay / Steuart Liebig Duo - NOMADS - pfMENTUM (2018)
- https://www.pfmentum.com
Greetings!
Lot's of new releases featured in today's program, save a 2003 track from your humble host & one featuring Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins & Tom Rainey circa 2004.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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12-2-23 PTE Playlist
- Lake, Thunder - Bb clarinet: E. Michael Richards / trombone: Patrick Crossland / composer: Linda Dusman - Flashpoint - Neuma Records (2023)
- https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/linda-dusman-flashpoint
- Metamorphosis 1 (in the loop) - double bass, prepared double bass:Daniel Barbiero /electronics: Gary Rouzer - Metamorphoses - Zeromoon (2023)
- https://zeromoon.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphoses
- Chunk Shanty - John Garner - Movie Night - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
- https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/movie-night
- Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse - accordian/composer: Guy Klucevsek / violin: Todd Reynolds - Hope Dies Last - Starkland (2023)
- https://starkland.org/catalog/guy-klucevsek-hope-dies-last/
- Sing Your Way Home - Shoo - Horn - Cassiar Records (2023)
- https://cassiarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/horn
- Book of Saturday (instrumental) - King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (The Complete Recordings) - DGM (2023)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/larks-tongues-in-aspic-boxset
- Schema IV - Daniel Reyes Llinás, Harvey Valdes, Elliott Sharp - String Schemas -7d Media (2023)
- https://llinas.bandcamp.com/album/string-schemas
- Light Is Calling - violin: Rakhi Singh / composer: Michael Gordon - Purnima - Cantaloupe Music (2023)
- https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/purnima
- Kimonos In Kyoto - Allen Whitman - Monogatari no Fūkei - Squeakey Studios (2023)
- https://squeakeystudios.bandcamp.com/album/monogatari-no-f-kei
- Spectral Landscapes Postmemory - Heavy Cloud - Anamnesis - Human Geography Recordings (2023)
- https://human-geography-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/anamnesis
- Adagio for a Broken Home - Jackson Greenberg - The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes - cmntx records (2023)
- https://jacksongreenberg.bandcamp.com/album/the-things-we-pass-on-through-our-genes
- Tuneup - Joel Krutt -What Next? - self-release EP (2003)
- https://soundcloud.com/joelkru/sets/what-next
- Shadow Boxing - Ladyy Birdd (Gina Izzo) -Tomorrow’s Yesterday - Innova (2023)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/ladyybirdd/tomorrows-yesterday
- Requiem Æternam - Against Robots - Radio Null - digital release (2023)
- https://againstrobots.bandcamp.com/album/radio-null
- On The Other Side - Tu-Ner - T1 - Contact Information - 7d Media (2023)
- https://tu-ner7d.bandcamp.com/album/t1-contact-information-two-disc-set
- Raptor - Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey - Ash And Tabula (Out Trios Volume Three)- Atavistic (2004)
Greetings!
Well...in October I was back in Connecticut for my 50th high school reunion and on the way back I had to make my quarterly pilgrimage to the Princeton Record Exchange and load up, thus the title of today's program, an inquiry from my wife.
I was thrilled to find a bunch of CDs released on Foster Reed's wonderful New Albion label. I've never been a completist about any label or artist, but I've been making a concerted effort to obtain the New Albion catalog due to their consistent high quality in terms of performances, composers and recording quality. While no longer producing new releases, they are available for digital download. Do check their catalog out. http://www.newalbion.com
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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11-25-23 PTE Playlist: "Where the heck are you going to put all those CDs?"
- "Bells & Whistles" from Saranada Schizophrana - conducter: John Mauceri /composer: Danny Elfman - Seranada Schizophrana - Sony Classical (2006)
- https://www.dannyelfman.com/classical/seranada-schizophrana
- One Last Bar, Then Joe Can Sing (1994) - percussion ensemble: Nexus / composer: Gavin Bryars - farewell to philosophy - Point Music (1996)
- https://gavinbryars.com/
- Ari Sleepy Too / Iceberg I - ensemble: Ice Nine / composer: John Cale - Dance Music (composed for "Nico, The Ballet") - Erato/Detour (1998)
- https://john-cale.com/
- Nagoya Guitars - guitar/arrangement: David Tannenbaum / composer: Steve Reich - David Tannenbaum - New Albion (1997)
- http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-david-tanenbaum-na095cd
- Sleeping Powder/Snapshots of A Ghost - David Toop - Spirit World - Virgin Records (1997)
- https://davidtoopblog.com/
- Not So Heavy Metal - guitar: Steve Mackey / composer: Paul Lansky - smalltalk - New Albion (1994)
- http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-paul-lansky-smalltalk
- Psycho / One Man's Meat - Gary Lucas - Gods & Monsters, vocal: David Johansen - Coming Clean - Mighty Quinn (2006)
- www.garylucas.com
- Limbo - Marco Oppedisano - electroacoustic compositions for electric guitar - OKS recordings of north america (2007)
- https://marcooppedisano.bandcamp.com/album/electroacoustic-compositions-for-electric-guitar
- All Together Now - NOW Ensemble / composer: Patrick Burke - NOW - New Amsterdam Records (2007)
- https://www.newamrecords.com/albums/now
- Finding Gabriel - Brad Melhau - Finding Gabriel - Nonesuch Records (2019)
- https://www.bradmehldaumusic.com/finding-gabriel
- Shaman's Column - David Hykes & Djamchid Chemirani - Windhorse Riders - New Albion (1989)
- http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-david-hykes-windhorse-riders
Greetings!
Lots of cool things this week with a focus on Ian Power's new release, "Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi" which I felt could not be done justice by only playing a portion of it. It's a fascinating look at how the briefest of melodies can be interpreted and re-interpreted in order to take on the melody from different perspectives.
In addition, we'll check out new releases from William Susman, Homebrewed Universe, The Owl, Joseph Bohgian and the Thin Edge New Music New Music Collective w/ Linda Caitlin Smith together w/ some older goodies.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
11-18-23 PTE Playlist
- Quiet Rhythms Nos. 3 & 13 - piano/composer: William Susman - Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC - Belarca Records (2023)
- https://susmanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-rhythms-live-at-spectrum-nyc
- Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi - piano/voice: Anne Rainwater / composer: Ian Power - Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi - Carrier Records (2023)
- https://ianpoweromg.bandcamp.com/album/ave-maria-variations-on-a-theme-by-giacinto-scelsi-2
- Kodomo Tachi - Akiko Yano - To Ki Me Ki - WeWantSounds (1978 / 2023)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/akiko-yano-to-ki-me-ki-1lp-deluxe-black-vinyl-edition-with-4page-insert
- Everything Is Temporary - Homebrewed Universe - The Loneliness Economy - digital release (2023)
- https://homebreweduniverse.bandcamp.com/album/the-loneliness-economy
- Etudes 1 & 2 (Live) - Petridisch - Etudes Live -digital release (2022)
- https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/etudes-live
- The Solemn Humans - The Owl - Our Mechanical Failure As Drones - Owlripper Records (2020)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/orr002-our-mechanical-future-as-drones
- Wanderer (2009 rev 2022) clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion - Thin Edge New Music Collective / composer: Linda Caitlin Smith - Dark Flower - Redshift Records (2023)
- https://redshiftrecords.org/new-releases/tk543/
- Terrace of Memories - Sam Rosenthal & Dirk Serris (Vidna Obmana) - Terrace of Memories (2023 remaster) - Projekt Records (1992/2022)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/terrace-of-memories
- The Water Has Found It's Crack - Catherine Sandstedt, soprano; Heidi Schneider, soprano; Alina Tamborini, soprano; Rob Cosgrove, percussion; Kate Dreyfuss, violin; Sophia Sun, viola; Tsung-Yu Tsai, cello / composer: Joseph Bohgian - The Water Has Found It's Crack - Other Minds Records (2023)
- https://www.otherminds.org/recording/the-water-has-found-its-crack/
- 1950's Voice-O-Graph Recording from my personal collection
- Who's Latheing Now? - Walter Campbell - Thunder Perfect Thighs - digital release (2022)
- https://waltercampbell.bandcamp.com/album/thunder-perfect-thighs
- Pi (Part 1) (LP Version) - The Orb - U.F. Off: The Best of The Orb - Island Records (1998)
- https://www.theorb.com/u-f-off-the-best-of-the-orb/
Greetings!
So, I'm in my car listening to Graham Fitkin's wonderful 2017 release, "Veneer", which explores, per GF, "the twisted moral fragility of our current celebrity-icon-tumbling era".
As the track, "I'm Such A Shallow Person" is displayed on the digital readout, I start to think that a show featuring tunes concerning flawed human character traits and/or behaviors might be an interesting. Here it is. I hope you do too!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
10-21-23 PTE Playlist: Character Flaws
- excerpt from People Telling Lies (1987) - Scott Marshall - Watching The Void: A Smattering of Panic Records & Tapes - No Part Of It (2023)
- https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/watching-the-void-a-smattering-of-panic-records-tapes
- I'm Such A Shallow Person - Graham Fitkin - Veneer - self-release (2017) https://fitkin.com/project/veneer-2002-2003/
- Stranger Still - Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets - Virgin (1981)
- https://www.sofasound.com/phcds
- I Don't Remember - Security Project - Contact (2017)
- https://securityproject.bandcamp.com/album/contact
- Everything Is So Beautiful, I Need To Lie Down - Stereo Minus One - Everything Is So Beautiful, I Need To Lie Down - Machine Records (2023)
- https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-beautiful-i-need-to-lie-down
- Freaky Women - David Greenberger & Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic - 1001 Real Apes - Pel Pel Records (2006)
- http://birdsongsofthemesozoic.org/1001-real-apes/
- Tantrum - piano: John McDonald / composer: Julia Werntz - Someone Who Loves You Throws Me At You - New Focus Recordings (2023)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/julia-werntz-someone-who-loves-you-throws-me-at-you/
- Sleeping With The Lights On - Paul Dresher Ensemble w/ Rinde Eckert - Slow Fire - Minmax Music (1992)
- https://minmax.bandcamp.com/album/slow-fire
- cheating, lying, stealing - Bang on a Can All-Stars composer: David Lang - Australia Tour 2018 Mixtape - Cantaloupe Music (2018)
- https://bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/australia-tour-2018-mixtape
- Despotic - final (Justin K. Broadrick) - One - Subharmonic (1993)
- https://www.justinkbroadrick.com/
- Psycho Killer - Talking Heads - Sand In The Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976 - 1992 - Sire/Warner Bros. (1992)
- https://talkingheadsofficial.com/
- TV Can TEach Me - David Garland - Control Songs - Review Records (1997)
- https://davidgarland.bandcamp.com/album/control-songs
- Mr. Punch - Future Bible Heroes / Neil Gaiman - Where's Neil When You Need Him? - Dancing Ferrett Discs (2006)
- https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/various-artists-wheres-neil-when-you-need-him-57709/
- Paranoimia feat. Max Headroom (extended version) - The Art of Noise - The Best of The Art of Noise - China/Polydor (1988)
- https://theartofnoiseonline.com/MAX-HEADROOM.php
- You, The Vandal - Dedalus & Muzzix - Moondog (Louis Hardin): Round The World Of Sound - New World Records (2016)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/moondog-aka-louis-hardin-round-the-world-of-sound
- 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson - Meltdown (Live in Mexico, 2017) - DGM (2017)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/
- You're Blase - Jonathan & Darlene Edwards (Paul Weston / Jo Stafford) - Jonathan & Darlene's Greatest Hits - Corinthian Records (1987)
- https://www.corinthianrecordsonline.com/about-jonathan--darlene-edwards
- Untidy Habits - Derek Bailey / Pat Metheny / Gregg Bendian / Paul Wertico - The Sign of 4 - Knitting Factory Works (1997)
- https://www.patmetheny.com/qa/questionView.cfm?queID=392
- Sympathy for the Devil (Time For A Change) - Laibach - Sympathy For The Devil - MUTE (1992)
- https://www.laibach.org/discography/sympathy-for-the-devil/
- Devil Syndrome - Bill Laswell - Dub Chamber 3 - ROIR (Reachout International Records) (2000)
- https://billlaswell1.bandcamp.com/album/dub-chamber-3
Greetings!
According to the folks at NationalDayCalendar.com, pianos not only get an International Piano Day on March 27th (the 88th day of the year, a wink to the piano’s 88 keys), but also a National Piano Month during September.
Therefore, today is a piano extravaganza with numerous new releases peppered with some excellent older chestnuts, including a "faux piano" piece cobbled together by yours truly.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
ex-Twitter thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
9-9-23 PTE Playlist: Celebrating National Piano Month
- Anne Bolyen - Rick Wakeman - The Myths & Legends of Rick Wakeman (Disc 2) - Purple Pyramid (2022)
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https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/rick-wakeman-the-myths-and-legends-of-rick-wakeman-4-cd/
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Study No. 37 - Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - Other Minds Records (2008)
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https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/studies-for-player-piano
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Quiet Rhythms: Prologue and Action No. 9 - piano: Erika Tazawa / composer: William Susman - Rhythm of Silence - Belarca Records (2015)
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https://belarca.com/releases/rhythm-of-silence.php
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Frankentoy - Twink, The Toy Piano Band - Happy Houses - digital release (2014)
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https://toypianoband.bandcamp.com/album/happy-houses
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Piano Improvisation, No. 2 - Keith Emerson - Emerson, Lake & Palmer: King Biscuit Flower Hour - King Biscuit Flower Records (1997)
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Piano Etude, No. 1 - Petridisch - Piano Etudes - digital release (2022)
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https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/piano-etudes
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Control de daños - piano/composer: Eduardo Elia / double bass: Maximiliano Kirszner / drums: Nicolás Politzer - Una pregunta, tres respuestas - Orbit577 (2023)
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https://orbit577.bandcamp.com/album/una-pregunta-tres-respuestas
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Adrenaline Revival: Movements VIII & IX - piano: Kathleen Supové / composer: Randall Woolf - Infusion: Four Works for Piano & Electronis - Koch International Classics (2004)
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http://www.supove.com/discography/infusion-2/
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Three Romances - piano: Liora Ziv-Li / composer: Ari Ben-Shabetai - Composing Israel: The First Three Generations - Neuma Records (2023)
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https://neumarecords.bandcamp.com/album/composing-israel-the-first-three-generations
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Six Pianos (1973) - pianos: Bob Becker / Steve Chambers / Russell Hartenberger / James Preiss / Steve Reich / Glen Velez / composer: Steve Reich - From The Kitchen Archives No. 2: Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977 - Orange Mountain Music (2005)
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https://stevereich.com/disc/six-pianos-2005/
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Tantrum - piano: John McDonald / composer: Julia Werntz - Someone Who Loves You Throws Me At You - New Focus Recordings (2023)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/julia-werntz-someone-who-loves-you-throws-me-at-you/
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Sonatas I - III - prepared-piano: Agnese Toniutti / composer: John Cage - Sonatas & Interludes - Neuma Records (2023)
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https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/john-cage-sonata--interludes-for-prepared-piano
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What Next? - Joel Krutt - What Next? - self-release (2004)
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https://soundcloud.com/joelkru/what-next
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Stephen Scott / The Bowed Piano Ensemble - Vikings of the Sunrise: Fantasy on the Polynesian Star Path Navigators - New Albion Records (1996)
- http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-stephen-scott-vikings-of-the-sunrise
Greetings!
Primarily brand new goodies this week! The music will speak for itself.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
ex-Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
9-2-23 PTE Playlist
- Crocked Usage - Soft Machine - Other Doors - Moonjune Records (2023)
- https://softmachine-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/other-doors
- Two-Week Notice / Initials In The Wood / Rose Is On The Air - Electric Forgiveness - Original Score - Broken Sound Tapes (pre-release October 2023)
- https://electricforgiveness.bandcamp.com/album/original-score
- The Early Ohms - Lalén Ríos Luna - The Structure of Silk - Porous Collective (2023)
- https://porouscollective1.bandcamp.com/album/the-structure-of-silk
- Sound Study Fifteen - Devin Sarno & Fletina- Perceived Sound digital single (2023)
- https://www.destroyexist.com/2023/08/devin-sarno-x-fletina-sound-study.html
- Mapping a Joyful Path - violin: Olivia De Prato / composer: Miya Masaoka - Panorama - New Focus Recordings (2023)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/olivia-de-prato-panorama/
- The Softening Door - David First - Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996 - 2009) - XI Records (2010)
- https://experimentalintermedia.org/xi/134.shtml
- Desolation Pops: I. The Smiling Fish / II. All the Insects Ceased / III. A Hoop for the Lowly / IV. Little Teeth / V. M'Ugly Spine / VI. Far from Buddha / VII. Misurgirafical & Plomlied / VIII. Empty Space Blue - piano: Kathleen Supové / string quartet: The Rhythm Method / composer: James Moore - Desolation Pops - New World Records (2023)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/james-moore-desolation-pops
- Avots for fixed audio media w/ glockenspiel - glockenspiel: Russell Fisher / composer: Krists Auznieks - Computer & Electronic Music, Vol. 3 - Music from the APNM (Association for the Promotion of New Music) - New Focus Recordings (2023)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/music-from-the-association-for-the-promotion-of-new-music-apnm-vol-3/
- Treatise - Quartet Twentytwentyone / composer: Cornelius Cardew - Treatise -digital single (2006)
- https://bumsteinas.bandcamp.com/album/treatise
Greetings!
International Strange Music Day, celebrated annually on August 24, was created by Patrick Grant, a New York City musician and composer. The premise of the day is simple: to get people to play and listen to types of music they have never experienced before.
He believes that broadening people’s musical spectrums can also change the way that society looks at other aspects of life – his mantra is ‘listening without prejudice’.
It is that spirit which today's program honors. Thank you, Patrick!
PTE Celebrates International Strange Music Day 2023
- Tobacco / Seven Years At Sea - Patrick Grant - A Sequence of Waves (twelve stories and a dream) - Peppergreen Media (2017)
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http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/seqwav.html
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etudes 01-03 - J. Lynch (Johny Lamb) - Work of Progress & Etudes - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
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https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/work-of-progress-etudes
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Yep Hassu - Skyjelly - Spirit Guide مرشد حقيقة -digital release (2023)
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https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-guide
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Three Layers of Iron - Anatomy of the Heads - In The Realm of Allied Barbarians & Tributary Lords - self-release (2023)
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https://aoftheh.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-realm-of-allied-barbarians-and-tributary-lords
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Attack, Decay - Bell & Circuit - Ambient 4 - digital album (2021)
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https://bellandcircuit.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-4
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Con Forza - Joel Krutt - digital single (2023)
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https://joelkrutt.bandcamp.com/track/con-forza
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Not Made of Stone - Polly Moller & Company - Not Made of Stone - Silver Wheel Music (2007)
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flusterville - Tim Walters - Stricture - Vaux Flores Industrial (2021)
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https://thecoldvacuumofspace.bandcamp.com/album/stricture
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Upside-down Wedding - Usufruct (Polly Moller/Tim Walters) - Windfall - Vaux Flores Industrial (2017)
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https://thecoldvacuumofspace.bandcamp.com/album/windfall
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See Your Shadow - tenor saxophone: Matthew Levy / electronics/composer: Nick DiBerardino - See Your Shadow - XAS (2022)
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https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/shadow/
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Pied Piper - Guy Barash/Nick Flynn - Killdeer - New Focus Recordings (2023) https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/killdeer
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L'âge du capitaine - NLC (NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES) - 42 Seconds #3 (compilation) - Owlripper Recordings (2022)
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https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp15-42-seconds-3
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Arctic Hysteria - The Residents - Eskimo - East Side Digital (1979)
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https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=eskimo
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Ittoqqortoormiit - The Owl - Hibernation - Owlripper Recordings (2021)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/orr006-hibernation
Greetings!
Today's program starts with a backlog of newer psychedelic/prog kinds of things, followed by a dive into mostly newer acousmatic and experimental contemporary composition items.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
ex-Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
8-5-23 PTE Playlist
- Foucault's Pendulum (1st Movement) - Robert Svilpa - Foucault's Pendulum - Melodic Revolution Records (2022)
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https://robertsvilpamusic.bandcamp.com/album/foucaults-pendulum
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It's Beautiful / Wink of the Third Eye / It Has No Eyes But Sight / Twirl - The Fraternal Order of the All (Andrew Gold) - Greetings From Planet Love - Esoteric Records (1997/2023)
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https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/andrew-gold-the-fraternal-order-of-the-all-greetings-from-planet-love-cd-edition/
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Painted By The Sun - Todd Cochran - From the Vault: Notes for the Future - Blue Buddha Productions (2023)
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https://bluebuddha.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-vault-notes-for-the-future
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Echoes - feat. Frank Dimino (Angel) - Meddle Reimagined – A Tribute to Pink Floyd - Cleopatra Records (2023)
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https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/meddle-reimagined-a-tribute-to-pink-floyd-cd/
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Stay for the Ending - District 97 - Stay for the Ending - Spirit of the Unicorn Records (October 2023 pre-release)
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https://district97.net/news/stay-ending-available-pre-order
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Grow Dark - Held By Trees - Eventide - Sound Canyon (2023)
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https://mellotone.net/products/copy-of-held-by-trees-eventide
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Reverie - Leah Reid - Musicworks #145 - Musicworks (2023)
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https://www.musicworks.ca/winners-2022-musicworks-electronic-music-composition-contest
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Save Changes Before Quitting for electronic tape - Stephen Rush - Murders In The Rue Morgue: The Music of Stephen Rush - MMC Recordings (1997)
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https://stephenjrushmusic.com/?p=2539
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Chreiai - David Dunn - At The Margin of The Sensate - Neuma Records (2023)
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https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-margin-of-the-sensate
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Describe Yourself - violin: Christopher Whitely / voice/composer: Leslie Ting - Describe Yourself - Redshift Records (2023)
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https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/describe-yourself
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Not Being Mirrored - Parallel Worlds - Shade - DiN (2009)
- https://din7d.bandcamp.com/album/shade-din32
Greetings!
A bunch of new stuff, older personal acquisitions and a couple of things I thought fit in nicely in-between. And there you have it.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
the company previously known as Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-29-23 PTE Playlist
- Bad Karma / Two-Three-Seven Folds on the Five-Eight-Nine (Paranoia Mix) - Stereo Minus One - Everything Is So Beautiful, I Need To Lie Down - Machine Records (2023)
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https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-beautiful-i-need-to-lie-down
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Preludes & Debka - Cassatt String Quartet featuring Colin Williams, trombone / composer: Gerald Cohen - Voyagers - Innova (2023)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-cohen/voyagers
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Metamorphosis - I. Side by Side / II. Tango del Currie / III. Mystics / IV. Down in the Basement - Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet / composer: Fred Stride - Metamorphosis - Redshift Records (September 1st, 2023 release on Redshift Records)
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https://redshiftrecords.org/
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Anat Loop - Tod Dockstader - From The Archives - Starkland (2016)
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https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/album/tod-dockstader-from-the-archives
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The Frozen Facade (for I.M. Pei) / The Weston Link - The Metamorph - The Man on the 99th Floor - Werra Foxma (2023)
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https://themetamorph.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-on-the-99th-floor-2
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Seatbelt Seatbelt - Charles Amirkhanian - Lexical Music - Other Minds (1980/2017)
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https://www.otherminds.org/recording/lexical-music/
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Avian Reduction - Joel Krutt - Melt: Minnesota Remixed - Wandering Ear (2007) OOP
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https://disquiet.com/2007/02/01/heartland-remix-mp3s/
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Interstellar Resorption #5 - Geiger von Mueller - Slide Sonatas II - digital release (2023)
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https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/slide-sonatas-ii
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Crazy Jane - Crazy Jane (baritone: Patrick Mason / guitar: David Starobin / percussion: Daniel Druckman) / composer: Ronald Roxbury - Crazy Jane - Bridge Records (2011)
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https://bridgerecords.com/products/9290
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To Keep My Loneliness Warm: I. Insomnia / II. Odd Behavior - Loadbang / composer: Andy Kozak - Quiver - New Focus Recordings (2022)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/loadbang-quiver/
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100 Years - Happy Rhodes - Many Worlds are Born Tonight - 7D Media (1998/2017)
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https://happyrhodes7d.bandcamp.com/album/many-worlds-are-born-tonight
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Round Trips - violin: Yaz Lancaster / composer: Andrew Noseworthy - Ameth Yst - People Places Records (2023)
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https://yaz-j.bandcamp.com/album/amethyst
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Oohuku - Sam Rosenthal - Round Trip - Projekt Records (1984)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/round-trip-1984
Greetings!
"What's in a name?" According to the Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: "What someone or something is called or labeled is arbitrary compared to their or its intrinsic qualities. A reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet bemoans Romeo's last name of Montague, her family's sworn enemies."
Today's selections were chosen primarily based upon their titles. I suspect that naming pieces of music is meant to communicate some type of message from the composer. Whether it's meant to be narrative, technically descriptive, relay emotion or humor, be provocative, employ a total non-sequitur or present any combination of the above, the title is often the first piece of information related about any given piece of music. ("Have you heard_________?") Let's see how arbitrary the titles of today's playlist turn out to be.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-15-23 PTE Playlist: "What's In a Name?" (… with apologies to William Shakespeare)
- Twitching Gait for chamber ensemble - flute: Petri Alanko / clarinet: Heikki Nikula / Pasi Pirinen / violin: Jari Valo / cello: Risto Poutanen / composer: Juhani Nuorvala - What's a Nice Chord Like You Doing in a Piece Like This - BIS (2000)
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https://bis.se/composer/nuorvala-juhani/whats-a-nice-chord-like-you-doing-in-a-piece-like-this-chamber-m
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Suck It And See - Sirius Quartet / composer: Bernard Hughes - Playing On The Edge, Vol. 3 - Navona Records (2023)
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https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6520/
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Omaggio a Jerry Lee Lewis - Richard Trythall - CMCD: Six Classics - ReR (2004)
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https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=4ad4d06ebcf4b681b7ea218e39c3ffca&Screen=PROD&Category_Code=RL&Initial=&CatListingoffset=24∏_Code=ReRCMCD-RE&Store_Code=RM&Initial=
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Flying Spoons - Swansither - States - Subexotic Records (2022)
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https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/states
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Spigot (Draw The Pirate) - Mike Keneally - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat - Exowax Recordings (2023)
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https://www.keneally.com/music/discography-mike-keneally/the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat/
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"The Wide Screen Erupts... 200 Motels promotional radio spot / I'm Stealing The Towels / Dental Hygiene Dilemma - Frank Zappa w/ The Mothers of Invention & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - Ryko/MGM (1971/1997)
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https://www.zappa.com/releases/200-motels/#/
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Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus - Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo - Zappa Records (1972)
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https://www.zappa.com/releases/grand-wazoo/#/
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The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) / Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Reprise (1970)
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http://www.beefheart.com/trout-mask-replica-discography/
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Sun / Zoom / Spark - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot - Reprise (1972/1990)
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http://www.beefheart.com/clear-spot-discography/
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Zen Archer - Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star...Live! - Purple Pyramid (2020)
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http://cleorecs.com/home/playlist/todd-rundgren-a-wizard-a-true-star-live/
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Maggot Brain - P-Funk All Stars - Live At The Beverly Theater In Hollywood - Westbound Records (1990)
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https://georgeclinton.com/audio/p-funk-all-stars-live-at-the-beverly-theater-in-hollywood/
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I Hope They Let Us Hunt Like Men In The Next Life, part 2 - Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
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https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-they-let-us-hunt-like-men-in-the-next-life
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because a circle is not enough - violin/composer: Malcom Goldstein - because a circle is not enough: music for bowed string instruments - New World Records (2022)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/malcolm-goldstein-because-a-circle-is-not-enough-music-for-bowed-string-instruments
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A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies (for Maybeck) - pianos, voice, brandy snifter: Charlemagne Palestine - Cold Blue Music (2007)
- https://coldbluemusic.com/cb0025/
Greetings!
No solid rhyme or reason this week, just lots of interesting newer releases.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-8-23 PTE Playlist
- Her Voice Has Life - Heavy Cloud - Echo - digital release (2023)
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https://hardreturn.bandcamp.com/album/echo
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Zone - Taylor Joshua Rankin - Sun Will Grow - digital release (2023)
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https://taylorjoshuarankin.bandcamp.com/album/sun-will-grow
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Metamorphosis - MOLLY - Picturesque - Sonic Cathedral (2023)
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https://wearemolly.bandcamp.com/album/picturesque
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Starless (Live in Tokyo, 8-12-21) - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50 A Film By Toby Amies): Music From The Soundtrack And Beyond - Discipline Global Mobile (2022)
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https://www.dgmlive.com/
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Self Portrait / M.A.Y. In The Backyard - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ongaku Zukan (Musical Encyclopedia) - WeWantSounds (1984/2023)
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https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ryuichi-sakamoto-ongaku-zukan-lp-7-ep-edition-black-vinyl-with-gatefold-sleeve-2p-insert-and-obi-strip
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Dark Star 3 - John Oliver - Messages From Beyond the Ether - John Oliver Music (2023)
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https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/
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SKETCHBOOK (for The Unbearable Lightness of Being) - Low female voice accompanying herself at the piano: Liz Pearse / computer musician: Paul Hembree / composer: Roger Reynolds / text: Milan Kundera - For A Reason - Neuma Records (2023)
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https://rogerreynolds.bandcamp.com/album/for-a-reason
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break #1 / dureth / a different man / the wood and the vine - Quince Ensemble / composer: David Lang - love fail - Innova (2020)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/quince-ensemble/david-lang-love-fail
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Algonquin - Good Weather For An Airstrike & 94 Skies - Anxiety/Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
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https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope
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Slaap - Henrik Meierkord & Sole Gipp Ossler - Anxiety/Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
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https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope
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No-One In The World - W.F.O. - Excursions In Ambience: The Second Orbit - Astralwerks (1993)
Greetings!
Welcome to another veritable potpourri of music, with phase one featuring new releases from the folks at 577 Records which segues through the Paul Flaherty release to focus on various assemblages featuring Jim Matus (who I once had the honor of seeing play in his Hartford, CT apartment), then over to an old friend, harmonic overtone singer & CT denizen, Jim Cole (who I took some overtone singing lessons from, back in the day). The balance of the show highlights mostly newer independent releases.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/joelkru/
7-1-23 PTE Playlist
- Lost In The Tin Labyrinth - violins/fx: Sana Nagano / Leonor Falcón - Peach & Tomato - 577 Records (2023)
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https://www.577records.com/5915
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What It Melted On Is Also Gone - reeds: Paul Flaherty / guitars: Jim Matus / keyboards: Larry Derdeyn - Wednesday Weld - 577 Records (2023)
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https://www.577records.com/5880
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Twelve Long Fire - Impulse Ensemble - Initiation - self-release (2010)
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http://www.jimmatus.com/impulse.html
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History's Fractal Mountain / I'm a User / Pilentzee Pee - Paranoise - ISHQ - Ancient Records (2001)
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http://www.jimmatus.com/past-projects.html
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Bislama - Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole - Bislama - Harmonic Resonance Recordings digital release (2000)
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https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com/album/bislama
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Know Way (Way) - Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Sky (harmonic singing in a water tower) - Spectral Spiral Music (2000)
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https://spectralvoices.com/jim-cole-spectral-voices/
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Hope for Enlightenment - Lama Gyurmé & Jean Philippe Rykiel - The Lama's Chant: Songs of Awakening - Sony Classical (1994)
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http://jeanphilipperykiel.com/rencontres/lama-gyurme/
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FM - Patrick Corcoran - Comp22 - 42 Seconds #6 - Owlripper Records (2023)
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https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp22-42-seconds-6
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The Great Mirage - Joel Harrison & Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage - AGS Recordings (2023)
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https://agsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mirage
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Althin ärar nervositeten - tarotplane - Lysergic Forgeries - digital release (2021)
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https://tarotplane.bandcamp.com/album/lysergic-forgeries
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Snap To Save Yourself - Archizer x Renjā - Reality Sinking - NO PROBLEMA | DIGITAL (2023)
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https://noproblemadigital.bandcamp.com/album/reality-sinking
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Messages - Mike Benoit - Bleak & Convulsed - digital album (2021)
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https://mikebenoit.bandcamp.com/album/bleak-convulsed
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Five Strings II - Ian Vine - Five Strings - self-release (2023)
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https://ianvine.bandcamp.com/album/five-strings
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Needless Guise - Fletina - Here #15: Causal EP - Here Free Press (2023)
- https://herefreepress.bandcamp.com/album/here-15-fletina-causal-ep
Greetings!
Welcome to another PTE program where I share some of my more recent used CD acquisitions from the past few months. Jazz, world music and contemporary composition releases are blended into a tasty aural stew together with a few items that defy easy categorization.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-17-23 PTE Playlist / "Recent Acquisitions" or "Journeys Thru The Used CD Racks"
- Main Bersama-Sama - french horn: Scott L. Hartman w/ Gamelan Sekar Kembar - Lou Harrison: Chamber & Gamelon Works - New World Records (2006)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/lou-harrison-chamber-gamelan-works
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Open Veins - violin: Alexander Balanescu / ensemble: Piano Circus Band / composer/conductor: Robert Moran - Open Veins: Music of Robert Moran - Neuma (2021)
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https://robertmoran.bandcamp.com/album/open-veins
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Hall of Mirrors - Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express - Capitol (1977)
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https://kraftwerk.com/
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King Earth, King Earth - Xiu Xiu - Chapel of the Chimes - Absolutely Kosher Records (2002)
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https://xiuxiu69.bandcamp.com/album/chapel-of-the-chimes
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Daughter of the Waves - ensemble: yMusic / composer: Sarah Kirkland Snider - Beautiful Mechanical - New Amsterdam Records (2011)
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https://ymusicensemble.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-mechanical
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Line And Shadow - Odense Symphony Orchestra, cond. Justin Brown / composer: Paul Lansky - Notes To Self - Bridge Records (2013)
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https://bridgerecords.com/products/9405?_pos=1&_sid=d4880353d&_ss=r
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One Zero - Periodic Orbits From Chaos To Order And Back / Two Is The First Sophie Germain Prime / Five Planets Visible With The Naked Eye - Shawn Persinger is Prester John - Halloween Baptizm - Quixotic Music (2017)
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http://presterjohnmusic.com/halloween/
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The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro - Ornette Coleman (feat. Scott LaFaro) - The Artistry of Scott LaFaro - CD included w/ the July 2011 edition of the Italian magazine, "Musica Jazz".
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Composition No. 70 (excerpt) - Anthony Braxton - Composition, Improvisation, Synthesis: Selections From The Tri-Centric Foundation Archives - New Braxton House (1999)
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https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/four-compositions-washington-d-c-1998
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Jambo, Jambo - Bernie Krause - Citadels of Mystery - Takoma (1979/2004 remaster)
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Yemaya - Milton Cardona - Bembe - American Clave (1994)
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https://www.americanclave.com/1-records-pages/1004-bembe.html
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Homage to the Gurus / Heart Sutra Song - Gone Beyond - Laurie Anderson / Tenzin Choegyal / Jesse Paris Smith - Songs From The Bardo - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (2019)
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https://folkways.si.edu/songs-from-the-bardo
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Irresistible Flux - tárogató: Esther Lamneck / composer - electronics: Mara Helmuth - Tárogató Constructions - Innova (2018)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/esther-lamneck/tarogato-constructions
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Nardis - Bill Evans - At The Montreaux Jazz Festival - Verve (1968)
- https://billevansofficial.com/about/
Greetings!
Since the over-arching theme of PTE is "multi-genre" avant-garde, I decided to focus today's LGBTQ+ Pride program on living composers working in various styles, some more "avant" than others, but all worth recognition and airplay.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-24-23 PTE Playlist / LGBTQ+ Pride Special
- Spectrum I: Red - Divisi Chamber Singers / composer & text: Sally Whitwell - Spectrum - Divisi Chamber Singers (2022)
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https://divisichamber.com/
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Spectrum III: Yellow - Divisi Chamber Singers / composer: Sally Whitwell, text: Monique Duval - Spectrum - Divisi Chamber Singers (2022)
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https://divisichamber.com/
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Syrup & Silicone - Divisi Chamber Singers / composer: Robert McIntyre, text: Savanna Wegman / Spectrum - Divisi Chamber Singers (2022)
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https://divisichamber.com/
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Chamber Concerto No. 2, op. 28B for violin & - violin: Aiman Mussakhajayeva (EYE-mahn mousah-ha-jah-YEH-vah) / Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, cond. Tigran Shiganyan / composer: Lowell Liebermann - Violin Concerto, Op. 74 | Chamber Concertos 1 and 2 | Air - Blue Griffin Records (2023)
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https://www.bluegriffin.com/cd-catalog/p/lowell-liebermann-violin-concerto-op-74-chamber-concertos-1-and-2-air
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Silent Passability (Ride To The Countryside) - Terre Thaemlitz - Couture Cosmetique: Transgendered electroacoustique sympotomatic of the need for a cultural makeover (or... What's behind all that foundation?) - Comatonse Recordings (1997)
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https://comatonse.bandcamp.com/album/couture-cosmetique-transgendered-electroacoustique-sympotomatic-of-the-need-for-a-cultural-makeover-or-whats-behind-all-that-foundation
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Monster Walk Instrumental - Jack Curtis Dubowski - Halloween Horror - self-release (2022)
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https://jackcurtisdubowsky.bandcamp.com/album/halloween-horror
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The Only Tune: Part 1 - The Two Sisters / Part 2 - The Old Mill Pond / Part 3 - The Only Tune - voice/banjo/guitar: Sam Amidon / composer: Nico Muhly - Brassland/Bedroom Community (2008)
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https://nicomuhly.bandcamp.com/album/mothertongue
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Fields/Clouds - Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble - Book of Days - ECM (1989)
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https://www.meredithmonk.org/
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Vibrate - Rufus Wainwright - Want One - Dreamworks (2003)
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https://rufuswainwright.com/music/want-one/
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Just Imaginings - Wendy Carlos - Beauty In The Beast - Audion (1986)
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https://www.wendycarlos.com/+bitb.html#1notes
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Time is of the Crosscents - ‡Starving Poet§ - Syllabic Idyllic - digital album (2021)
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https://starvingpoet.bandcamp.com/album/syllabic-idyllic
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Out of the Dark, Suite for Chamber Orchestra after Three Paintings by Helen Frankenhaler - London Symphony Orchestra, cond. JoAnn Falletta / composer: Kenneth Fuchs - An American Place / Eventide / Out of the Dark - Naxos (2005)
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https://www.naxos.com/MainSite/BlurbsReviews/?itemcode=8.559224&catnum=559224&filetype=AboutThisRecording&language=English
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Disintegration Loops (excerpt) - Wordless Music Orchestra / composer: William Basinski / arrangement: Maxim Moston - Sound And Silence: 'Remembering Sept. 11' At The Temple Of Dendur NPR Broadcast 9-10-2011
- https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2011/09/07/140265002/remembering-september-11-a-live-concert-webcast-from-the-temple-of-dendur#above
Greetings!
This week's program honors the life and music of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho who passed away on June 2. In addition, a bunch of new items and some older random things to sweeten the pot.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-10-23 PTE Playlist
- Hypogean - Robert Scott Thompson - Placid - Aucourant Records (2023)
- https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/placid
RIP Kaija Saariaho
- Changing Light for soprano & violin - soprano: Luyba Petrova / violin: Edna Mitchell / composer: Kaija Saariaho - The Compassion Project - Innova (2018)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/edna-michell/compassion-project
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NoaNoa for flute & electronics - flute: Camilla Hoitenga / composer: Kaija Saariaho - Electro Acoustic Muisc III - Neuma Records (1994)
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https://neumarecords.bandcamp.com/album/electro-acoustic-music-iii
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Pale Blue - Glen Whitehead - Pale Blue - Neuma Records (2023)
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https://glenwhitehead.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue
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In A Silent Way / Shhh/Peaceful / It's About That Time - Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Music fo Miles Davis 1969-1974 > reconstruction & mix translation by Bill Laswell - Columbia (1998)
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https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/panthalassa-the-music-of-miles-davis-1969-1974/
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Is It That Dark? (excerpt) - cornet/electronics: Graham Haynes / sound design: Hardedge - Is It That Dark? - Hardedge (2008)
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https://www.hardedge.net/
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startled deer resume their dreams in the clouds - David Beardsley - klang and the silver cord - digital release (2023)
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https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/klang-and-the-silver-cord
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Ragas in minor scale (Phase duo version) - Phase Duo / composers: Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar - Minimal Electric Music - digital release (2019)
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https://stefanogreco.bandcamp.com/album/minimal-electric-music
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C18 - pä (Paulo da Fonseca) - Hone nami (bone wave) - digital release (2023)
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https://lesondouble.bandcamp.com/album/hone-nami
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The Emerald Path to Redemption - Joseph Benzola - The Emerald Path to Redemption - digital release (2023)
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https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/the-emerald-path-to-redemption
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Killer B - Skyjelly - Spirit Guide مرشد حقيقة - digital pre-release (2023)
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https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-guide
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Song and Whispers - viola: Kimia Hesabi / composer: Gity Razaz - Nemāno Gaona (“colors of home”) - New Focus Recordings (2023)
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https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/nem-no-gaona
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Some Kind of Symmetry - Seawind of Battery (Mike Horn) / Ryley Walker / Jarrod Annis - Some Kind of Symmetry: Live at Room 31, New York City – 1/26/23 - digital release (2023)
- https://seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/track/some-kind-of-symmetry-with-ryley-walker-jarrod-annis-live-at-room-31-new-york-city-1-26-23
Greetings!
According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, one of the possible definitions of the word "multiples", when used as a noun, is "something in units of more than one or two". That will be the conceptual thread tying today's program together. Pieces of music that are primarily played by multiples of the same instrument, though several composers took the idea of multiples to new limits, such as Henry Brandt and Karlheinz Stockhausen who created compositions for multiple orchestras.
This will likely be the first in a series of "multiples" programs since there were many other potential selections and only 1 hour and 59 minutes at hand. (If you have other "multiples" selections you'd like to hear, please drop me a line.)
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-3-23 PTE Playlist
- Music For Pieces of Wood (for five pairs of tuned claves) - Group 180 / composer: Steve Reich - Group 180 - Hungaroton (1980)
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https://stevereich.com/composition/music-for-pieces-of-wood/
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We Know You Know: Reverie for Mahavishnu - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet / composer: Brian Head - LAGQ's Guitar Heroes - Telarc (2004)
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https://www.lagq.com/
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Extensions RC (Reach) - Jon Gibson - Relative Calm - New World Records (2016)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/jon-gibson-relative-calm
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Trinity of Spheres - Denver Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Hangen, Carl Topilow, and Henry Brant, conductors /composer: Henry Brant - The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 3 - Innova Records (2006)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/henry-brant/henry-brant-collection-vol-3
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Inner Time II: Homage to Calder for 7 B flat clarinets (excerpt) - Armand Angster Clarinet System / composer: Horatiu Radulescu - Inner Time II - Audivis / Montaigne (1994)
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https://www.europeanluceroensemble.com/biography
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Die Donnergötter (for 6 electric guitars, electric bass & drums) - composer/conductor: Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergötter - Homestead Records (1989)
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https://www.rhyschatham.net/works-projects/die-donnergotter/
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Fathom - accordions: Bratko Bibic, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, Guy Klucevsek & Otto Lechner - Accordion Tribe - Intuition (1998)
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https://www.schott-music.com/de/accordion-tribe-accordion-tribe-no64540.html
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Adagio For Strings - Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble / composer: Samuel Barber - Lift Off - DMP (1993)
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Shell Shock (for 3 conch shells) - conchs: Stuart Dempster, Moc Escobedo, Chad Kirby - Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel - New Albion Records (1995)
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http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-stuart-dempster-underground-overlays-from-the-cistern-chapel
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The Sound of Burning Chairs - Tilted Axes - Music for Mobile Electric Guitars - Peppergreen Media (2016)
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http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html
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Lacquer Prints, No. 3: A Burnt Offering - Northwestern University Cello Ensemble / composer: Zachary Wadsworth - Shadow, Echo, Memory - Sono Luminis (2016)
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https://www.sonoluminus.com/store/shadow-echo-memory
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Music for Voices - voice: Mabou Mines Theater Company / composer: Philip Glass - Early Voice - Orange Mountain Music (2002)
- https://philipglass.com/recordings/early_voice/
Greetings!
Phase One of this week's program features a number of newer releases, while the remainder of the show was assembled in "stream of consciousness" fashion with one piece bringing to mind another, related by either theme or some sort of musical "trigger". I hope you enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
5-27-23 PTE Playlist
- Songbird - clarinet/electronics/composer: Louise Campbell - Sources - Redshift Music (2023)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/sources
- Veiled - viola: Kimia Hesabi / composer: Niloufar Nourbakhsh - Namano Gaona - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/kimia-hesabi-nem-no-gaona/
- La Rage, Part 1 - percussion/electroacoustics: Martin Daigle / composer: Pierre Alexandre Termblay - Drum Machines - Ravello Records (2023)
- https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8088/
- Like This - Scatter - On A Clear Day - 577 Records (2023)
- https://www.577records.com/catalog#/5876/
- To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation (Yellow Light Section) - Pauline Oliveros & Christopher Willes - Resonance Gathering - Art Metropole (2023)
- https://christopherwilles.bandcamp.com/album/resonance-gathering
- Aiwass - Imaginary Beings - Comp22 - 42 Seconds #6 - Owlripper Recordings (2023)
- https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp22-42-seconds-6
- Prologue / Song No. 1 / Song No. 2 / Song No. 3 from Violin Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" - violin: Robert McDuffie / London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Marin Alsop / Composer: Philip Glass - Orange Mountain Music (2010)
- http://philipglass.com/recordings/american4seasons/
- Endless Shout - piano: Jacob Greenberg / composer: George Lewis - Living Language - Furious Artisans (2023)
- https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/jacob-greenberg-living-language/
- Lonesome Train - Soldier String Quartet / composer: Dave Soldier - Sojourner Truth - Newport Classic (1991)
- http://davesoldier.com/quartet.html
- Elephant Talk - King Crimson - Discipline - Warner Bros. (1981)
- https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/discipline
- Solarization - Billy Cobham - Rudiments: The Billy Cobham Anthology - Rhino/Atlantic (2001)
- https://www.billycobham.com/
- David Van Tieghem - Safety In Numbers - Private Music (1987)
- https://davidvantieghem.bandcamp.com/album/safety-in-numbers
Greetings!
No particular theme this week, instead, the usual mish-mosh of new and old things that caught my ear. That being said, I'm busy concocting a program base on the concept of "multiples". Stay tuned.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
5-20-23 PTE Playlist
- Quombex - violin: Paul Zukovsky / composer: Henry Brandt - Brant • Scelsi • Wolpe • Xenakis • Cage • Glass • Feldman - CP² (1991)
- https://musicalobservations.bandcamp.com/album/brant-scelsi-wolpe-xenakis-cage-glass-feldman
- VII - Octarine Sky - Close to Nearby (feat. Simon Phillips) - self-release (2021)
- https://octarinesky.bandcamp.com/album/close-to-nearby-feat-simon-phillips
- Maynardvishnu w/ Billy Cobham - Michael Franklin & Timothy Franklin - Anahata - Solar Music (2023)
- https://solarmusic.com/anahata/
- Who's Afraid of Retrograde? - King Chubby - is - Caliente Music / Pimienta Records (2004)
- http://robertdick.net/category/recordings/king-chubby-is/
- Kingdom Come / Malaise - Thinking Plague - Upon Both Your Houses - Cuneiform Records (2000)
- https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/upon-both-your-houses
- Deaf Machines - John Oliver - Warfire Welfare - John Oliver Music (2023)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/warfire-welfare
- Transition III - Transatlantic Five - Transitions - Nemu Records (2023)
- https://wooley.vandermark.dell.ramond.kugel-quintet.com/
- Unseen - Jeff Greinke - A Thousand Year Flood - Projekt Records (2023)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-year-flood
- Extrait - Petridisch - Extrait - Mahorka (2023)
- https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/
- Coordinates - Phase4our - Coordinates - Machine Records (2023)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/coordinates
- It Bears Repeating - dogs versus shadows - Smog and an Ambush - Subexotic Records (2022)
- https://dogsversusshadows.bandcamp.com/album/smog-an-ambush
- Calmozart - Hugh Hopper - Jazzloops - Explore Rights Management (2003/2023)
- https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/hugh-hopper-jazzloops-the-stolen-hour/
- Squalls - David Curington w/ Nina Whiteman - Canon Chops - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
- https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/canon-chops
- Time Apart - double bass: Helen Svoboda / piano: Joe O’Connor / drums: Tim Green - Time Together - 577 Records (2023)
- https://www.577records.com/5896
Greetings!
For the second year in a row, Pushing The Envelope is happy to be celebrating International Tuba Day (May 1) which occurs yearly on the first Friday of May. It was founded by a gentleman named Joel Day in 1979 while attending Lower Merion High School in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Being one of only two tuba players in the school band and finding a lack of respect from his fellow classmates, he decided to set a day aside for our recognition as reputable musicians.
International Tuba Day was created for both tuba players and non-tuba players alike to learn more about the significance of the tuba in our musical society. For additional info, please check out the ITD website, http://www.tubaday.com/.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
5-6-23 PTE Playlist
- I Heard Behind Me A Loud Voice (Revelation 1:10) - tuba: Kjetil Myklebust / composer-electronics: Stefan Klaverdal - Electric Tuba - C-Y Contemporary (2009)
- http://www.c-y.se/CDdetail.php
- Cappricio for Tuba & Marimba - tuba: Jarrod Williams / marimba: Kevin Meyer / composer: William Penn - Get It! - Potenza Music (2021)
- https://potenzamusic.com/product/get-it/
- Sonata For Tuba and Piano - tuba: Harvey Philips / horn: John Barrows / piano: Bernie Leighton, Tait Sanford / composer: Alec Wilder - Golden Crest (1965)
- https://www.alecwildermusicandlife.com
- Meltdown - Gerhard Meinl's Tuba Sextette / composer: Jonathan Sass - TUBA!: A Six-Tuba Musical Romp - Angel Records (1992)
- http://www.jonsass.com/
- Neon Waddle - Jon Hansen - Electric Tuba - digital release (2021)
- https://jonhansen.bandcamp.com/album/electric-tuba
- Singing Next to a Tuba by the River Near Pope Rd. (with a microphone in it), June 25th 2020 - id m theft able - A tuba (with a microphone in it) - digital release (2020)
- https://idmtheftable.bandcamp.com/album/a-tuba-with-a-microphone-in-it
- "The Trinity" based on the story of Roger Bobo for Tuba & Piano - tuba: Avital Handler/ piano: Anna Kavalerova / text & reader: Roger Bobo / composer: Anna Segal - digital release (2021)
- https://annasegalcomposer.bandcamp.com/track/the-trinity-based-on-the-story-of-roger-bobo-for-tuba-piano
- Tubby The Tuba - tuba: Herbert Jenkel / narration: Victor Jory / composer: George Kleinsinger / story-lyrics: Paul Tripp - Cosmo Records (1945)
- https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/tubby-the-tuba-80-years-of-music-animation-history/
- https://archive.org/details/78_tubby-the-tuba_victor-jory-leon-barzin-g-kleinsinger-p-tripp_gbia8005252/04+-+TUBBY+THE+TUBA+-+VICTOR+JORY+-+LEON+BARZIN.flac
- Plethora - Drums & Tuba - Drums & Tuba Live! - digital release (2016)
- https://drumsandtuba.bandcamp.com/album/drums-and-tuba-live
Greetings!
As promised, today's program celebrates the April birthdays and music of composers who are continuing to bring us fascinating music. Wishing many happy returns of the day to Graham Fitkin, Mary Ellen Childs, Hildegard Westerkamp & Morton Subotnick!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingthenevelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-29-23 PTE Playlist: April Birthdays!
Graham Fitkin (April 19) https://fitkin.com
- Stub - Delta Saxophone Quartet / composer: Graham Fitkin - Facing Death - FMR (2002)
- https://www.deltasax.com/
- Veneer - Graham Fitkin - Veneer - self-release (2016)
- https://fitkin.com/product/veneer/
Mary Ellen Childs (April 13) http://www.maryellenchilds.com/
- Oa Poa Polka - Guy Klucevsek / composer: Mary Ellen Childs - Polka From The Fringe - Starkland (2012)
- https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/guy-klucevsek-polka-from-the-fringe
- After Dust (from Dream House) - Ethel / composer: Mary Ellen Childs
- https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/light
- Kalli / The Lake - Mary Ellen Childs - Wreck - Innova (2012)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/mary-ellen-childs/wreck
Hildegard Westerkamp (April 8) https://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca/
- Cricket Voice - Hildegard Westerkamp - Transformations - empreintes DIGITALes (2010)
- https://electrocd.com/en/album/2369/Hildegard_Westerkamp/Transformations
- Gently Penetrating - Hildegard Westerkamp - Into India - Earsay Music (2002)
- https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/into-india?from=embed
- MotherVoice Talk - Hildegard Westerkamp - Breaking News - Earsay Music (2022)
- https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-news
Morton Subotnick (April 19) http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/
- The Wild Bull (Part A) - Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon / The Wild Bull - Wergo (1994)
- https://www.schott-music.com/en/silver-apples-of-the-moon-the-wild-bull-no93270.html
- The Last Dream of the Beast - for soprano, two celli, electronics, and "ghost" electronics - Conductor: Stephen L. Mosko / Performers: Erika Duke, cello; Dane Little, cello; Morton Subotnick, Buchla 400 Electronic Musical Instrument and "ghost" electronics - The Art Of Joan La Barbara - Nonesuch Silver Series (1985)
- http://www.joanlabarbara.com/
- The Key To Songs Electronics [Yamaha Tx-816 And Qx-1 Electronic Music System] (excerpt) - Morton Subotnick - Music from Mills - Mills College (1986)
- http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/
- Piano Piece very late 92 - Graham Fitkin - Hard Fairy - Argo (1994)
- https://fitkin.com
Greetings.
Man...I'll tell ya. Of course death is an everyday part of life, but the passing of folks whose music has touched your brain and heart is never easy. Let's see...my short list for 2023 includes Jeff Beck, Burt Bacharach, Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant), Wayne Shorter, Scott Johnson, Fuzzy Haskins (Parliament-Funkadelic), Yukihiro Takahashi (Yellow Magic Orchestra) and now his YMO cohort, the brilliant musician/composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto. In Phase One, we'll hear a bunch of pieces from Sakamoto & YMO, while in Phase Two things will change up to bring you some new progressive rock in tandem with some other goodies.
In an attempt to try to balance things out, next week's program will feature the music of living composers whose birthdays are in April.
Take care,
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-23-23 PTE Playlist
- _Latkes_ / _Flaounes_ - Petridisch - Extrait - Mahorka (2023)
- https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/extrait
- Scattered Focus - Valiska - Wolf Moon - digital release (2023)
- https://valiska.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-moon
R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto (March 28) / Yukihiro Takahashi (Jan 11)
https://www.sitesakamoto.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/arts/music/yukihiro-takahashi-dead.html
- Thatness Thereness - Ryuichi Sakamoto - B-2 Unit (2019 Remaster) - Alfa Music (2019/1980)
- Diabaram - Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Youssou N'Dour - Beauty - Virgin (1989)
- Yellow Magic (Tong Poo) - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra (U.S. Version) - Restless Records (1979)
- Be A Superman - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodon - EMI Japan (1993)
- Kai-Koh - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys - Restless Records (1983)
- Improvisation (Live) - Ryuichi Sakamoto / Jaques Morelenbaum - Morelenbaum²/Sakamoto - CASA - Sony Classical (20020
- Milan, 1909 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Futurista - Midi (1986)
- Acceptance - End Credits - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Little Buddha (Original Soundtrack) - Milan (1993)
- Time (Eric's Songwriting Diary) - Eric Woolfson - The Turn of a Friendly Card CD 2 (Eric's Songwriting Diaries) - The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Limited Edition Box Set) - Esoteric Recordings (2023)
- https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-alan-parsons-project-the-turn-of-a-friendly-card-3cd-blu-ray-limited-edition-box-set/
- Time - The Alan Parson's Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card CD 1 - The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Limited Edition Box Set) - Esoteric Recordings (2023)
- https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-alan-parsons-project-the-turn-of-a-friendly-card-3cd-blu-ray-limited-edition-box-set/
- My Moonlight Dream - Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble - A Gallery of the Imagination - Madfish (2022)
- https://www.rwcc.com/notices/agoti.php
- Riverflow - M-Opus - At The Mercy Of Manannán - Rude Chord Recordings (2023)
- https://m-opus.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-mercy-of-manann-n
- Tomorrow - Days Before Tomorrow - Now and Then Part II: Stories and Dreams - digital self-release (2023)
- https://daysbeforetomorrow.bandcamp.com/track/tomorrow
- Royal Augmentation - Anchor & Burden - Kosmonautik Pilgrimage - Moonjune Records (2023)
- https://anchorandburden.bandcamp.com/album/kosmonautik-pilgrimage
- Change - Goldfeather - Change - Innova (2023)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/goldfeather/change
- Teenbeat Introduction / Teenbeat - Henry Cow - Leg End - ReR Megacorp/Morphius Records (1973)
- https://henrycow.bandcamp.com/album/leg-end
Greetings!
As long time listeners might have figured out, I'm quite fond of percussion based music in all it's forms. So, today's program will give you a taste of music spanning in time from historically classic percussion compositions to contemporary pieces in multiple genres. Considering the pile of music I couldn't fit into today's show, Greatest Hits!, Vol. 2 should appear not too far down the road.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-15-23 PTE Playlist: Greatest Hits, Vol 1 (...as in percussion.)
- Sonatas I-IV - prepared piano: Agnese Toniutti / composer: John Cage - John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - Neuma Records (2023)
- https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/john-cage-sonata--interludes-for-prepared-piano
- Ballet Mecanique - Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra / composer: George Antheil - Antheil: Ballet Mecanique - Naxos (2001)
- https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.559060
- 22 Sounds - percussion: Douglas Perkins / composer: Larry Polansky - These Are The Generations - New World Records (2020)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/recent-release-3/products/larry-polansky-these-are-the-generations
- An Inmates Lullaby - Gentle Giant (R.I.P. Ray Shulman) - In A Glass House - DRT Entertainment (1973)
- https://gentlegiantmusic.com/w/index.php?title=In_a_Glass_House&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop
- Somneuk's Ranat Solo / Percussion Trio - David Soldier & Richard Lair - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2000)
- https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra
- Sorbet No. 3 - UDU Trail - percussion/composer: Evelyn Glennie - Drumming - Catalyst (1996)
- https://www.evelyn.co.uk/the-evelyn-glennie-collection/discography/1980s-1990s/
- The Wheelbarrow Piece / Noel's Garden / Noel's Song - So Percussion & Trollstilt w/ Rinde Eckert & Jennifer Trueman - Five (and-a-half) Gardens - Shhh Productions (2007)
- https://sopercussion.com/shop-item/so-percussion-and-trollstilt-five-and-a-half-gardens/
- beat - solo drum kit: Martin Daigel / composer: Sylvain Pohu - Drum Machines - Ravello Records (2023)
- https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8088/#listen
- Life is Beautiful and Painful... Like a Feather Pulled From a Wing. - Joseph Benzola - Life is Beautiful and Painful... Like a Feather Pulled From a Wing. - digital single (2022)
- https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/life-is-beautiful-and-painful-like-a-feather-pulled-from-a-wing
- Ionisation - Robert Craft conducts woodwinds, brass & percussion / composer: Edgar Varèse - The Music of Edgar Varèse - Columbia (1960)
- Sound On Low - Dave Schoepke - Drums On Low - self-release (2019)
- https://daveschoepke.bandcamp.com/album/drums-on-low
- Five Movements for Drum Set & Orchestra: Mvt. 3 - Terry Bozzio feat. Metropole Orkest - Chamber Works - Favored Nations (1997)
- https://www.favorednations.com/artists/terry-bozzio/
- Sweet Sixteen - Diga Rhythm Band - Diga - Ryko (1976)
- https://www.mickeyhart.net/music/diga
Greetings!
Another April Fools Day is upon us and I chose a bunch of music that has humor, both topically and/or structurally at it's core with Phase Two focused on music directly from or influenced by cartoons, both classic and more recent. In addition, this particular theme gives me another excuse to play Komar & Melamid/Dave Soldier's masterpiece, "The Most Unwanted Music" which makes me laugh out loud every time I hear it.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-1-23 PTE Playlist: "What's So Funny?"
- lontanofaune - Rascali Klepitoire / John Oswald - CLASSICS from the Rascali Klepitoire - PFONY (2020)
- https://johnoswald.bandcamp.com/album/classics-from-the-rascali-klepitoire
- John Somebody (complete, 1980-82) - Scott Johnson (R.I.P.) - John Somebody - Tzadik (2004)
- https://scottjohnsoncomposer.com/compositions/johnsomebody.html
- Magoo In Hi-Fi - composer: Dennis Faron / Mr. Magoo: Jim Backus / Waldo: Daws Butler - Magoo In Hi-Fi - RCA Victor (1957)
- Captain's Log/Space Madness - Ren & Stimpy - composers: Tom Armbruster, Chris Reccardi, Jim Smith - You Eediot! - Nickelodeon/Sony Wonder (1993)
- https://vgmdb.net/album/69958
- The Jetson's (End Titles) - featuring Doc Severinsen on trumpet - composer: Hoyt Curtin - Cartoon Classics & Wacky Sounds by Hannah-Barbera - Rhino/Cartoon Network (2001)
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-11-me-64056-story.html
- Road Runner - accordian: Guy Klucevsek / composer: John Zorn - Manhattan Cascade - CRI Emergency/New World Records (1992)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/guy-klucevsek-manhattan-cascade
- There They Go Go - Carl Stalling - The Carl Stalling Project: Music form Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958 - Warner Bros. (1990)
- https://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.1/articles/goldmark2.1.html
- Powerhouse - Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights: The Music of Raymond Scott - Columbia (1992)
- https://www.raymondscott.net/
- Dragalong Droopy - Scott Bradley - Tex Avery Cartoons - Milan (1993)
- https://www.tomandjerryonline.com/bradley.cfm
- Magic Toenail - Brak / composers: Pete Smith, Eddie Horst - Brak Presents: The Brak Album - starring Brak - Rhino/Cartoon Network (2000)
- https://vgmdb.net/album/96600
- Sounds to Forget (excerpt)(1963) / This Thing Called Key (1956) / Arcane Presents Lulu (1956) - Hugh Le Caine - Compositions/Demonstrations 1946-1974) - JWD (1999)
- https://hughlecaine.com/en/compositions.html
- The Most Unwanted Song - Komar & Melamid / Dave Soldier - The People's Choice Music - NeedleJuice Records (2019)
- https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/the-peoples-choice-music
- Slush - Bonzo Dog Band - Let's Make Up and Be Friendly - United Artists (1972)
- http://www.bonzodog.org/bonzos/friendly.htm
Greetings!
Welcome to this week's program featuring primarily newer releases with a bit of jazz to fill out Phase Three.
BTW, I've released a single that's available for your listening/downloading pleasure. Here's the Bandcamp link: https://joelkrutt.bandcamp.com/track/con-forza
(Yes, I dabble in some found sound/musique concrete type audio manipulation myself.)
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
3-25-23 PTE Playlist
- The Body of Your Dreams - Prism Saxophone Quartet / composer: Jacob TV - XAS (2023)
- https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/body/
- ...and the higher leaves of the trees seemed to shimmer in the last of the sunlight's lingering touch of them... - field studies: chamber music of Emilie Cecilia LeBel - Redshift Records (2023)
- https://www.emilielebel.ca/blue-of-the-distance/
- Part 1: Beneath the Dust - Joseph Blane - The Spider Room - digital album (2023)
- https://josephblane.bandcamp.com/album/the-spider-room
- Sub Wub - Death Tape Super Bass - Hellmouth - Spider Baby (2023)
- https://deathtapesuperbass.bandcamp.com/album/hellmouth
- The Space Between Silence and Enough / Confessional / Tattoo - Guy Barash (electronics) & Nick Flynn (poetry) w/ Kathleen Supové (piano), Frank London (trumpet) & Eyal Maoz (guitar) - Killdeer - New Focus Recordings (2023)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/guy-barash-killdeer/
- Blow Upon My Death Whistle - Anatomy of the Heads - In the Realm of Allied Barbarians and Tributary Lords - digital release (2023)
- https://aoftheh.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-realm-of-allied-barbarians-and-tributary-lords
- Lost In Reading - guitar/midi instruments: Gordon Grdina / composer: Tim Berne - Oddly Enough: The Music of Tim Berne - Attaboygirl Records (2022) - track included on the Musicworks #144 CD
- https://gordongrdina.bandcamp.com/album/oddly-enough
- https://www.musicworks.ca
- Ascending Bird - Kayhan Kalhor (kamancheh or "Persian spiked fiddle") and Brooklyn Rider - Silent City - World Village (2008)
- Far From Your Fire - anthéne & Clara Engel - Anxiety / Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
- https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope
- Nephophilia - Robert Scott Thompson - Ascension - Aucourant Records (2022)
- https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/ascension-2
- Flashback - Reiner Witzel/Ritchie Beirach Quintet - The World Within - Jazzsick Records (2023)
- https://www.jazzsick.com/blog/releases/the-world-within/
- Rumi and the Whirling Dervish - Joel Goodman - An Exquisite Moment - (2023 pre-release, June)
- Critical Conversation - Joel Harrison & Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage - Alternative Guitar Summit Recordings (2023)
- https://agsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mirage
- Reeper - John Oliver - Cool Take - John Oliver Music (2017)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/cool-take
Greetings!
Simple format this week. One set of new things followed by a sampling of music procured during my seasonal winter 2023 visit to the Princeton Record Exchange in lovely Princeton, NJ. A little over an hour and forty bucks later, Joel was a happy boy with 23 CDs in hand.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
3-18-23 PTE Playlist
- Historic Western Ghost Town Engulfed in Fire (ft. Walter Thompson) - Astroturf Noise - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-freezing
- Bedford Stop - Angelica Olsted - American - Sonder House (2023)
- https://angelicaolstad.bandcamp.com/album/american
- Sonata in E Minor, Hob.XVI34 , Adagio - pianoforte: Boyd McDonald / composer: Joseph Haydn - Works by Joseph Haydn – Heretic Threads - Astrila Records (2023)
- Sonata in E Minor, Hob.XVI34, Adagio - accordion: Joseph Petric / composer: Joseph Haydn - Works by Joseph Haydn – Heretic Threads - Astrila Records (2023)
- Sintering - electronics/soundmanipulation: Peter Lutek / composer: Joseph Haydn - Works by Joseph Haydn – Heretic Threads - Astrila Records (2023)
- Inhalant Survival Series pt.1: Drowning in the Bigot's Rivulet - c.soûle - A Certain Amount of Spillage (EP) - digital album (2023)
- https://wileysoule.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-amount-of-spillage-ep-2
- Study No. 10 - Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (Complete) - Other Minds (2008)
- https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/studies-for-player-piano
- In nomine lucis - organ: Christoph Maria Moosmann / composer: Giacinto Scelsi - annum per annum - New Albion (1995)
- http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-christoph-maria-moosmann-annum-per-annum
- Le Cirque-Oh! / Ghost Dance / Portrait III - Fred Frith - middle of the moment - RecRec Music (1995)
- https://rermegacorp2022.bandcamp.com/album/middle-of-the-moment
- Pinch - piano: Nathanael May / composer: Brian Hulse - Pseudosynthesis - Albany Records (2009)
- https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD∏_Code=TROY1094&Store_Code=AR&search=brian+hulse&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=⦥_low=⦥_high=
- Improvisation sur Mallarme II - soprano: Christine Schäfer / Ensemble Intercontemporain / composer: Pierre Boulez - Portait de Mallarmé- Deutsche Grammophon (2002)
- https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/boulez-pli-selon-pli-schaefer-8981
- Stratifications - solo soprano/alto saxophone / composer: Peter Epstein - Solus - MA Recordings (1998)
- https://www.unr.edu/music/people/peter-epstein
Greetings!
Phase One of the program features some new music and an extended piece from M.C. Schmidt (one half of Baltimore favorites, Matmos), while Phase Two extols the glories of music composed for and made with toy pianos! (I've got two of them myself.)
Enjoy
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
3-4-23 PTE Playlist
- Condition Safety - Imrryr - The Black Corridor - digital album (2022)
- https://imrryr.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-corridor
- Bach Strips - David Currington - Canon Chops - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
- https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/canon-chops
- Cheat Codes - Autumna - Secret Radio - Werra Foxma (2022)
- https://autumna.bandcamp.com/album/secret-radio
- Piano (1964) - Tremolo Audio - States - Facade Electronics (2022)
- https://facadelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/states
- Mountain Side - M.C. Schmidt - Batu Malablab Suite for Prepared Piano, Flute and Electronics - digital album (2014)
- https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/batu-malablab-suite-for-prepared-piano-flute-and-electronics
- Part VI - George Winstone w/ Ben Monder - Odysseus- digital self-release (2023)
- https://georgewinstone.bandcamp.com/album/odysseus
- Shapard's Pi - toy piano: Genevieve Feiwen Lee / composer - electronics: Tom Flaherty - Mixed Messages - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://tomflaherty.bandcamp.com/album/mixed-messages
- Many Little Dyings - sampling keyboard/composer: Kyle Gann / voice: Kenneth Patchen - Custer and Sitting Bull - New World Records (2018)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/kyle-gann-custer-and-sitting-bull?_pos=2&_sid=cad1e7cfc&_ss=r&variant=31809796243535
- Suite for Toy Piano - toy piano: Stephen Drury / composer: John Cage - In a Landscape - Catalyst (1994)
- Toy Piano Jump - Johnny Messner And His Hotel McAlpin Orchestra - The Uncollected 1939 - Hindsight Records (1982)
- https://www.hindsightrecords.com/uncollected-collections
- Disaster - The Residents feat. Snakefinger - Diskomo 2000 - East Side Digital (2000)
- https://meettheresidents.fandom.com/wiki/Diskomo_2000
- Frankentoy - Twink The Toy Piano Band - Happy Houses - digital album (2014)
- https://toypianoband.bandcamp.com/album/happy-houses
- An Wem: Notes From Underground - toy piano: Xenia Pestova / composer - electronics: Derek Hurst - Shadow Piano - Innova (2013)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/xenia-pestova/shadow-piano
- Modern Love Waltz - toy piano: Margaret Leng Tan / composer: Philip Glass - The Art of the Toy Piano - Point Music (1997)
- https://www.margaretlengtan.com/pages/recordings.html
- Three Landscapes for Peter Wyer - toy piano: Margaret Leng Tan / composer: Jed Distler - The Art of the Toy Piano - Point Music (1997)
- https://www.margaretlengtan.com/pages/recordings.html
Greetings!
Today's program has no particular theme other than including lots of music from artists that have lately piqued my interest. I hope they do the same for you and inspire you to further explore their work by clicking on the links below.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
2-25-23 PTE Playlist
- Round - John Oliver - COOL TAKE - John Oliver Music (2023)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/cool-take
- After The Fire - Swansither (Tom Kennedy) - States - Subexotic Records (2022)
- https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/states
- Stream of Forever - Steve Roach - Rest of Life - Projekt Records (2023 pre-release)
- https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/rest-of-life
- The Path Divides - Karen Vogt & Simon McCorry - Anxiety/Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
- https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope
- of becoming - Jason Doelle - Becoming In Shadows: Of Being Touched -Whited Sepulchre Records (2023 pre-release)
- https://whitedsepulchrerecords.com/
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - soprano: Deobrah Norin-Kuehn / composer - electronics: Mikel Kuehn / poem: Wallace Stevens - Entanglements - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/mikel-kuehn-entanglements/
- Crime Minister - Mörglbl - The Story Of Scott Rötti - Laser's Edge (2019)
- https://lasersedge.bandcamp.com/album/the-story-of-scott-r-tti
- Waiting For The Fall - Matt Dorsey - Let Go - digital self-pre-release (2023)
- https://mattdorsey1.bandcamp.com/album/let-go
- A Scarcity of Miracles (Live in Japan 2015) - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50 A Film By Toby Amies): Music From The Soundtrack And Beyond - DGM (2022)
- https://dgmlive.com/
- Transmissions - Sulk Rooms - Viewers - Werra Foxma Records (2022)
- https://thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/viewers-2
- Oxygen, for 12 flutes - flute: Jennifer Grim / composer: Julia Wolfe - Through Broken Time - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/through-broken-time
- Parallel - Adeptus Mechanicus - REQUIEM: Klaus Schulze Tribute - Aural Films (2022)
- https://auralfilms1.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-klaus-schulze-tribute
Greetings!
Today we open w/ a chunk of King Crimson from the soundtrack of "In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50)", then proceed to the usual mélange of genres ranging from musique concrete, space and electroacoustic music to contemporary composition in the form of pieces from Eric Richards, Chaya Czernowin and Brad Lubman.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
2-18-23 PTE Playlist
- The Letters - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50) - DGM (2022)
- https://dgmlive.com/news/kc-doco-soundtrack-preorder
- Radical Action Suite - Live In The Studio, Tring, 2018: Radical Action I / Meltdown / Radical Action II / Level Five - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50) - DGM (2022)
- https://dgmlive.com/news/kc-doco-soundtrack-preorder
- Tangents - Icarus Quartet / composer: Brad Lubman - Big Things - Furious Artisans (2022)
- https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/icarus-quartet-big-things/
- The Space Ahead - Siddhartha Barnhoom & Robert Logan - Cosmos Unfolding - digital self-release (2022)
- https://siddharthabarnhoorn.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos-unfolding
- Irrational - loadbang / composer: Chaya Czernowin - Quiver - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/loadbang-quiver/
- The Consent of Sound and Meaning - basses: Robert Black / trumpets: Andy Kozar / composer: Eric Richards - The Consent of Sound and Meaning: Music of Eric Richards - New Focus Recordings (2023)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/the-consent-of-sound-and-meaning-the-music-of-eric-richards/
- In The Canopy, part 3 - Sarah Peebles - In The Canopy: Meditations from Paparoa and Kapiti Island - Panospria (2022)
- https://notype.com/en/drones/a/366/in-the-canopy-meditations-from-paparoa
- Maccine - CZiGO - Aishroo - Machine Records (2023)
- https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/aishroo
Greetings!
Welcome to another "short on time" show featuring longer pieces from a number of newer releases.
During my long weekend trip to visit friends and family in Connecticut, I had the opportunity to see Toby Amies' documentary, "In The Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50". Even if you're not a King Crimson or a progressive rock fan, the film is quite engaging, both funny and moving. Well worth checking out. In addition, on the way back I was able to make my seasonal winter stop at the Princeton Record Exchange and loaded up on goodies to be shared on upcoming programs.
Enjoy the show and be sure to check out older programs you might have missed!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
2-11-23 PTE Playlist
- Hymn 532292 - Xqui - Hymns for Terry Francis - Subexotic Records (2022)
- https://xqui.bandcamp.com/album/hymns-for-terry-francis
- When The Machine Rhymes With My Body - Kukuruz Quartet /composer: Julie Herndon - Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving - Innova Recordings (2023)
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/kukuruz-quartet/breathing-remembering-dissolving
- Through The Closing Portal - Robert Scott Thompson - Night and Day - Aucourant Records (2023)
- https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/night-and-day
- Somehow We Can (String Quartet No. 3) - Momenta Quartet / composer: Alvin Singleton - Alvin Singleton: Four String Quartets - New World Records (2022)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/recent-release-3/products/alvin-singleton-four-string-quartets
- Toy Room / Q & A - Circle (Anthony Braxton/Chick Corea/David Holland/Barry Altschul) - Paris-Concert - ECM (1973)
- https://www.ecmrecords.com/shop/143038750610/paris-concert-circle
- Section 7 (electronics intro) / Section 8 to X - The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet - 132350 -pfMENTUM (2022)
- https://music.jeffkaiser.com/album/132350-the-jeff-kaiser-ockodektet
- Ricercar Primo for solo cello - cello: Marina Hasselberg / composer: Domenico Gabrielli / improvised electronics: Georgio Magnanensi - Redshift Records (2022)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/red-2
- Ricercar for solo cello - cello: Marina Hasselberg / composer: Linda Catlin Smith - RED - Redshift Records (2022)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/red-2
Greetings!
Phase One of today's program highlights a number of new releases, concluding with the emotional, "Journey’s End," Neil Rolnick's reflection on the battle with cancer experienced by the his wife of 45 years, Wendy. The piece was commissioned and performed by Kathleen Supové who, as a personal friend of the couple, witnessed Wendy’s heroic fight with the disease and Rolnick’s role in caring for her throughout her illness.
In Phase Two, we celebrate the 86th revolution around the sun of Philip Glass, featuring some lesser known pieces.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
2-4-23 PTE Playlist
- Part II / Part III - George Winstone w/ Ben Monder - Odysseus - digital self-release (2023)
- https://georgewinstone.bandcamp.com/album/odysseus
- The Difference Is The Buildings Between Us - No Hay Banda / composer: Mauricio Pauly - I Had A Dream About This Place - No Hay Discos (2022)
- https://nohaybandamtl.bandcamp.com/album/i-had-a-dream-about-this-place
- Over The Hill - Van der Graaf Generator - The Bath Forum Concert - Esoteric (2023)
- https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/van-der-graaf-generator-the-bath-forum-concert-2cd-blu-ray-dvd-box-set-4-disc/
- Journey's End - piano: Kathleen Supové / electronics - composer: Neil Rolnick - Lockdown Fantasies - Other Minds Records (2023)
- https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lockdown-fantasies
"Happy 86th Birthday, Philip Glass!"
- Phaedra: Scene 2 for String Trio - violin: Christina Fong / viola: Christopher Martin / cello: Karen Krummel - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
- https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
- Phaedra: Scene 4 for Percussion & String Trio - percussion: Glenn Freeman / violin: Christina Fong / viola: Christopher Martin / cello: Karen Krummel - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
- https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
- Phaedra: Scene 6/Scene 14 for Guitar & String Trio - guitar: Paul Vondiziano / violin: Christina Fong / viola: Christopher Martin / cello: Karen Krummel - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
- https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
- Phaedra: Scene 15A for Percussion - Grand Valley State Univeristy Percussion Ensemble - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
- https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
- Truman Sleeps - Philip Glass - Soundtrack: The Truman Show - Milan (1998)
- https://philipglass.com/films/truman_show/
- Changing Opinion - The Philip Glass Ensemble - vocal: Bernard Fowler / composer: Philip Glass / lyrics: Paul Simon - Songs from Liquid Days - Sony Masterworks (1985)
- https://philipglass.com/recordings/songs_from_liquid_days/
- from Wichita Vortex Sutra - The Philip Glass Ensemble / Allen Ginsberg / composer: Philip Glass - Hydrogen Jukebox - Nonesuch (1993)
- https://philipglass.com/recordings/hydrogen_jukebox/
- Offering - Ravi Shankar (raga melody) & Philip Glass (composition) - Passages - Private Music (1990)
- https://philipglass.com/recordings/passages/
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2 For Gaia - Phillip Glass, Mickey Hart, Kitaro - Freedom Chants From The Roof Of The World - Rykodisc (1989)
- https://folkways.si.edu/the-gyuto-monks/freedom-chants-from-the-roof-of-the-world/music/album/smithsonian
Greetings & Felicitations!
I am flabbergasted by the sheer quantity AND quality of new music, in all genres, available to air. This makes the listening & selection process quite enjoyable, though time consuming. (That's where being semi-retired often comes in handy.) I've also been pondering about the sheer number of electronic artists, in multiple genres, that are populating the world of Bandcamp. With that in mind, you might want to check out this interesting article from the folks at Pitchfork (https://t.co/FVjUvETtR3) concerning the ambient streaming boom.
Enjoy this week's mulit-genre extravaganza!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
1-28-23 PTE Playlist
- Five Fantasies For The Japanese Consort: The Cries of Kyoto / Fantasia 'Tohoku' / Cancion Japonesa / Fantasia 'Indonesian' / Fantasia 'Indian' - Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort / composer: David Loeb - Between Sea and Sky - Furious Artisans (2022)
- https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/david-loeb-between-sea-and-sky/
- crank / set - percussion: Yang Chen, composer: Stephanie Orlando - longing for - People Places Records (2022)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/longing-for
- Gift From The North - yeemeen nosa - SFTS: Experimental Ambient Compilation - Sounds for the Soul Records (2022)
- https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/sfts-experimental-ambient-compilation
- Sne og fortvilelse (snow and despair)- Polarforsker - SFTS: Experimental Ambient Compilation - Sounds for the Soul Records (2022)
- https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/sfts-experimental-ambient-compilation
- The Lost - GorMusik - Snakes and Angels - Melodic Revolution Records (2021)
- https://gormusik1.bandcamp.com/album/snakes-angels
- The Carousel of Progress - Mike Keneally - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat - Exowax Recordings pre-release (2023)
- https://store.keneally.com/products/mike-keneally-the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat-cd-plus-download
- How Soon We Forget, How Long We Remember feat. Amy Denio, Amy Engelhardt, Bill Burnett, Jonathan Feinberg, Paul F. Perry, Tulasi Rain & Johnny Unicorn - Brian Woodbury - Rhapsody & Fillegree (Anthems & Antithets Volume 4) - Some Phil Records (2022)
- https://brianwoodbury.bandcamp.com/album/rhapsody-filigree
- Wearable Plaid Shirt - Lexic Task - Glimpses of the Endless Sky - digital release (2022)
- https://lexictask.bandcamp.com/album/glimpses-of-the-endless-sky
- Electric World - Prog Collective - Seeking Peace - Purple Pyramid (2022)
- https://theprogcollective.bandcamp.com/album/seeking-peace
- 35 Tapes - Walk - Home - Apollon Records Prog (2021)
- https://35tapes.bandcamp.com/album/home
- Long Take 06 - Yamaoka - Long Takes - Facade Electronics (2022)
- https://facadelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/long-takes
- Megapolis - Leon Alvorado - Charging The Electric Dream - Melodic Revolution Records (2022)
- https://leonalvarado.bandcamp.com/album/chasing-the-electric-dream
- Border Loss - percussion: Greg Stuart / composer: Sarah Hennies - Subtractions - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://gregstuart.bandcamp.com/album/subtractions
- WAH - cadeu - LANGUAGE (EP) - Hyperboloid Music (2022)
- https://hyperboloidrecords.com/album/language
Greetings!
This week features a set focused on a combination of new and old things featuring some type of slide guitar, including the my discovery of the extraordinary Baltimore pedal steel guitarist, Susan Alcorn. In addition, a bunch of new things from multiple genres.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
1-21-23 PTE Playlist
- Some Kind of Symmetry - Seawind of Battery - IH001- Clockwatching - Island House Recordings. (2002)
- https://seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/ih-001-clockwatching
- Space Digger #2 - Geiger Von Muller - Slide Sonatas I. - digital album (2022)
- https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/slide-sonatas-i
- Brack Water Waltz - Astroturf Noise feat. Susan Alcorn - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-freezing
- So Close, So Far Away - The Derek Trucks Band - Joyful Noise - Columbia (2007)
- Thollem / Susan Alcorn 3 - Thollem (McDonas) / Susan Alcorn - Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions - digital album (2021)
- https://susanalcorn1.bandcamp.com/album/thollem-susan-alcorn-thollems-astral-traveling-sessions
- The Mill Pond Drowns Hope - John Fahey - The Mill Pond - digital album (1997)
- https://thejohnfahey.bandcamp.com/album/the-mill-pond
- Track 3 - Luke Vibert / BJ Cole - Unofficial Live Set
- green volcano - Helios Creed - guitarrorists (compilation) - no. 6 records (1991)
- http://www.helioschrome.com/guitarrorists.html
- Alma - flute: Jennifer Grim / composer: Tania León - Through Broken Time - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/through-broken-time
- Praia Ambiente - João Victor Barroso - Pequenos Guerreiros - digital album (2022)
- https://jvictorbarroso.bandcamp.com/album/pequenos-guerreiros
- Immensity Of - Departure Duo: soprano - Nina Guo / double bass - Edward Kass / composer: Emily Praetorius - Immensity Of - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/immensity-of
- An Exchange - Chloe Alexandra Thompson - They Cannot Burn The Stars - Siege Records (2022) / track included in Musicworks #143 CD
- https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/they-can-never-burn-the-stars
- https://www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside-musicworks-143
- Fractal 5.7 - Jon Durant & Stephan Thelan - Crossings - Alchemy Records (2021)
- https://jondurant.bandcamp.com/album/crossings
- Hairpin Turn - Galan Trio / composer: Paul Richards - Kinesis - Neuma Records (2022)
- https://galantrio.bandcamp.com/album/kinesis
- Denim - percussion: Jamie Drake, Daniel Morphy / toy piano: Joseph Ferretti, Wesley Shen / composer: Monica Pearce - Textile Fantasies - Centrediscs (2022)
- https://centrediscs.bandcamp.com/album/textile-fantasies-3
- Engine Down - C-Sides - Purple Hearts Corner - White Knight Records (2020)
- https://csides1.bandcamp.com/album/purple-hearts-corner
Greetings!
This week's program opens with a set to honor the memory and music of guitarist, Jeff Beck. I'm a particular fan of his fusion-oriented albums which are the ones I've highlighted tracks from. The balance of the music samples from the large pile of current releases I have scattered around me in my basement lair.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@whus
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
1-14-23 PTE Playlist
Jeff Beck R.I.P.
- Diamond Dust - Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow - Epic (1975)
- Sophie - Jeff Beck - Wired - Epic (1976)
- Where Were You - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop w/ Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas - Epic (1989)
- Scatterbrain - Jeff Beck w/ The Jan Hammer Group - Live - Epic (1977)
- Star Cycle - Jeff Beck - Guitar Samurai - Unofficial Recording: Live at Kouseinenkin Kaikan in Osaka, Japan on 9th July 2005
- Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow - Epic (1975)
- Character Studies / violin: Miranda Cuckson - composer: Anthony Cheung - All Roads - New Focus Recordings (2022)
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/anthony-cheung-all-roads/
- From Post to Palm - Forrest Fang - The Lost Seasons of Amorphia - Projekt Records (2022)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-seasons-of-amorphia
- Green Line 2065 - Avik Chari - MIND & MACHINE, VOLUME FOUR: ORGANIC AND ELECTRONIC WORKS - Ravello Records (2022)
- https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8070/
- Upheaval Version 98 - Arvo Zylo - Upheaval - No Part of It (2018)
- https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/upheaval-2
- Supervillan Etudes: Riddler / 2-Face / Penguin / Catwoman / Poison Ivy / Joker - piano: Vicky Chow / composer: Vincent Ho - SANDMAN’S CASTLE: THE SOLO AND DUO WORKS OF VINCENT HO - Navona Records (2022)
- https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6462/
- Humility - Jairus Sharif - Water & Tools - Telephone Explosion Records (2022)
- https://jairussharif.bandcamp.com/album/water-tools
- Sinensis - Antariksh Daddy - Jasminoides EP - Antariksh Records (2022)
- https://antarikshrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antariksh-daddy-jasminoides-ep
Greetings!
Back in October I was in the Princeton, NJ area for a family event and there was no way I could return home to Maryland without embarking on a pilgrimage to the Princeton Record Exchange in order to reap from the musical harvest available from their cornucopia of lightly pre-owned CDs & DVDs. (For now, I let the vinyl be.) All of the pieces you'll hear were gleaned from that haul.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: Pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
January 7, 2023 PTE Playlist
- ABC - Paul Lansky - Alphabet Book - Bridge Records (2002)
- https://bridgerecords.com/collections/catalog-all/products/9126
- La Rosa - Oren Bloedow & Jennifer Charles - La Mar Enfortuna - Tzadik (2001)
- https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7146
- Dark Wind for bass clarinet (Marty Walker), vibraphone, marimba, and piano- John Luther Adams - Adams / Cox / Fink / Fox (an original anthology) - Cold Blue Music (2001)
- https://coldbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/adams-cox-fink-fox-an-original-anthology
- Changes 'for David Starobin' (1983)- guitar: Edith Leerkes / composer: Elliott Carter - homages & dedications - Naive Classique (2003)
- https://www.elliottcarter.com/discography/nieuw-ensemble-homages-dedications/
- Synchronisms #10 - guitar: David Starobin / composer-electronics: Mario Davidowsky - New Music for Guitar, Vol. 5 - Bridge Records (1993)
- https://bridgerecords.com/collections/catalog-all/products/9042
- Release for 8 players - The Nash Ensemble / composer: Mark-Anthony Turnage - Turnage - NMC (1995)
- https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/composers/mark-anthony-turnage#recordings
- Piano Sketch / Lullaby - Simon Jeffes - Piano Music - Penguin Cafe Music (2001)
- https://www.penguincafe.com/penguinshop/piano-music-2011-re-master-out-now
- Introduction/Diaphanous (Nels Cline)- Nels Cline - Lovers - Blue Note (2016)
- https://www.nelscline.com/lovers
- So Hard It Hurts / Touching (Annette Peacock) - Nels Cline - Lovers - Blue Note (2016)
- https://www.nelscline.com/lovers
- Piano Piece No. 4 - piano: Anthony de Mare / composer: Frederic Rzewski - Frederic Rzewski: Piano Music - OO Discs (1995)
- https://www.anthonydemare.com/mobile/discography.php
- Double Music - The New Music Consort / composers: John Cage & Lou Harrison - PULSE! PERCUSSION WORKS - New World Records (1990)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/pulse-percussion-works?_pos=2&_sid=803edd9fa&_ss=r&variant=32064939720783
- Repons: Coda -Ensemble InterContemporain / composer: Pierre Boulez - Deutsche Grammophon (1998)
- The Bucket Rider from Opere Della Musica Povera (Works Of A Poor Music) - Bang on a Can All-Stars / composer: Martin Bresnick - The Essential Martin Bresnick - Cantaloupe Records (2006)
- https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/essential-martin-bresnick
- Blue Rondo a la Turk - Chris Brubeck's Triple Play - LIVE at the Arthur Zankel Music Center / June 10, 2011 - Blue Forest Records (2011)
- http://chrisbrubeck.com/music/recordings/?id=167
Greetings!
The selection of the works making up a majority of today's program were inspired by my recent trip to Turkey. You'll get a bit of a history lesson in how traditional Turkish music was integrated with Western music in the early 20th century following the Turkish War of Independence which ended in 1923 and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey which followed. In addition, I've got some new releases thrown in for good measure.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
12-31-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Electronic Music No. 1 - Bülent Arel - Electronic Pioneers - CRI (1976)
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/electronic-pioneers
- Reflections / Canine / Traffic / The Window / Double Mask & Deployment / Bal Des Leurres - Ilhan Mimaroglu - Music for Jean Dubuffet's COUCOU BAZAR - Finnadar (1973)
- Dances of Nasreddin Hodja - piano: Nene Hatun / composer: Fazil Say - Pianistics - digital release (2014)
- https://nenehatun.bandcamp.com/album/pianistics
- Sonare - JACK Quartet / composer: Cenk Ergün - Sonare & Celare - New Focus Recordings (2019)
- https://cenkergun.bandcamp.com/album/cenk-erg-n-sonare-celare
- Mouram / Tokiwarai - Carl Stone - Gall Tones - digital self-release (2022)
- https://carlstone.bandcamp.com/album/gall-tones
- Schizoid Breakbeat Polka - Tomoroh Hidari - Alien Audio Absurdities - Ivory Bunker Recordings (2008/2018)
- https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/alien-audio-absurdities
- Uncanny Being (Violin Study #2) - violin/composer: Jessica Moss / drums: Jim White / upright bass: Thierry Amar - Galaxy Heart - Constellation Records (2022) also included on Musicworks #143
- https://cstrecords.com/products/cst168-jessica-moss-galaxy-heart?variant=39842999074950
- https://www.musicworks.ca/featured-article/jessica-moss-orchestra-within
- Symphony No. 2, Part 5 - Douglas Schmidt & John Oliver - Symphony No. 2, "Iceberg" - John Oliver Music (2022)
- https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-no-2-iceberg
- Accento Ferreo - Cubico - Roba Mista - LOF Crew (2022)
- https://lofcrew.bandcamp.com/album/roba-mista
- Uncomfortable Possibilities - Tolga Tüzün - An Anthology Of Turkish Experimental Music 1961-2014 - Sub Rosa (2017)
- https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/an-anthology-of-turkish-experimental-music-1961-2014
- Democracy Lessons - Asaf Zeki Yüksel - An Anthology Of Turkish Experimental Music 1961-2014 - Sub Rosa (2017)
- https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/an-anthology-of-turkish-experimental-music-1961-2014
Greetings!
The first half of today's program is sort of a mish-mosh of fairly newer music, followed by a large chunk of progressive and avant-rock tunes featuring hammer and mallet percussion.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
12-17-22 PTE Playlist
- chain maille for percussion quartet - ensemble: TorQ Percussion Quartet: Richard Burrows, Adam Campbell, Jamie Drake, Daniel Morphy / composer: Monica Pearce - Textile Fantasies - Centrediscs (2022)
- https://cmccanada.org/shop/cd-cmccd-30322/#tab-description
- Der Vierte Kuss - Ash Ra Tempel - Supernatural Fairy Tales - Rhino (1996)
- https://www.ashra.com/disco/8961vi.htm
- Sunrain - ASHRA - New Age of Earth - Virgin (1977)
- https://www.ashra.com/disco/1761ne.htm
- Tchoupitoulas Byrd Song for clarinet & piano - Jeff Harrington - digital self-release (2004)
- http://www.parnasse.com/jh/blog/archives/000147.html
- The Door To The Unknown - Obsidian Shard - The Marble Admiral - Histamine Tapes (2022)
- https://histaminetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-marble-admiral-ht065
- On The Seventh Hour - Alex Lubet - Songs in Time of Plague - Neuma Records (2022)
- https://alexlubet.bandcamp.com/album/songs-in-time-of-plague
- Stuck In A Loopcut - Lights In Pairs - Bad Extrusions - digital self-release (2022)
- https://lightsinpairs.bandcamp.com/album/bad-extrusions
- The Bell - Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II - Virgin (1992)
- https://mikeoldfieldofficial.com/discography/
- The Flight Onward: Phases 1-5 - Isildurs Bane - MIND Volume 1 - Svenska Unikum (1997)
- https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/In_a_Glass_House
- Danse With Me George (Chopin's Plea) - Ambrosia - Somewhere I've Never Travelled - 20th Century Fox Records (1976)
- https://www.ambrosialive.net/
- Echidna's Arf (Of You) / Cheepnis Percussion - Frank Zappa & The Mothers - ROXY: The Movie - Zaapa / Eagle Vision (2015/1973)
- https://www.zappa.com/
- Happy Band - Abus Dangereux - Happy French Band - (1983)
- https://pierrejeangaucher.bandcamp.com/album/happy-french-band
- Alice In Blunderland - Capt. Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid - Reprise Records (1972)
- As Expanding As - Stomu Yamash'ta - Red Buddha - Vanguard Records (1971)
Greetings!
This week's program features some great new releases featuring Canadian related composers & musicians, including Nick Storring, Yang Chen, Yaz Lancaster & Badge Époque Ensemble. In addition, you'll hear a set of pieces featuring a piece of flute hardware, created by flutist Robert Dick, the Glissando Headjoint. (http://robertdick.net/the-glissando-headjoint/)
Dick's creation features a telescoping headjoint, with a contemporary cut silver headjoint sliding inside a carrier tube. Two “wings” extend from the lip plate and comfortably embrace the flutist’s cheeks. Moving the flute to the right slides the headjoint from its “home position” (all the way in) and extends the length of the flute, resulting in the ability to produce glissandi which can be made both to and from every note on the flute, resulting in some incredible sounds.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
12-3-22 PTE Playlist
- Seeing It As You Really Are - Hawkwind - Space Rock: An Interstellar Travellers Guide - Purple Pyramid (2016)
- https://purplepyramid.bandcamp.com/album/space-rock-an-interstellar-traveler-s-guide
- The Final Frontier, Part 1 - Nik Turner - The Final Frontier - Purple Pyramid (2019)
- https://nikturnermusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-frontier
- Prometheus Passage - Steve Roach - What Remains - Projekt Records (2022)
- https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/what-remains
- Music from W・i 成为 - Parts IV & V - Nick Storring - Music from W・i 成为 - Orange Milk Records (2022)
- https://nickstorring.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-w-i
- EUPH0RIC - percussion: Yang Chen / composer: Yaz Lancaster - longing for _ - people | places | records (2022)
- https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/longing-for
- All Same 2 Each, Each Same 2 All - Badge Époque Ensemble - Clouds of Joy - digital self-release (2022)
- https://badgeepoque.bandcamp.com/album/clouds-of-joy
- Theseus Rex feat. Tulasi Rain, Derek Day & Rob Shapiro - Brian Woodbury - Rhapsody & Filigree, Volume 4 - Some Phil Records (2022)
- https://brianwoodbury.bandcamp.com/album/rhapsody-filigree
- Planet - Jostaberry - Hello Turbine! - Tangy Citrus Records (2022)
- https://jostaberry.bandcamp.com/album/hello-turbine
- Lapis Blues - flute w/ glissando headjoint: Robert Dick / prepared piano: Ursel Schlict / Photosphere - Nemu Records (2004)
- https://www.nemu-records.com/nemu-002.html
- Angularities for solo Glissando Headjoint - Tammy Evans Yonce / composer: David Mitchell - Dreams Grow Like Slow Ice - (2018)
- https://tammyevansyonce.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-grow-like-slow-ice
- Tilt for electric glissando flute - Melissa Keeling - Tilt - digital single (2019)
- https://melissakeeling.bandcamp.com/track/tilt
- The Bird On The Scene Says Yes - flute: Robert Dick / voice: Thomas Buckner - Flutes & Voices - Mutable Music (2010)
- https://mutablemusic.bandcamp.com/album/flutes-voices
- At A Distance - Marina Hasselberg - RED - Redshift Records (2022)
- https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/red-2
- Void Pulse II - Untiled - Void Pulse - Machine Records (2021)
- https://untiled.bandcamp.com/album/void-pulse
- Interstellar Resorption #4 - Geiger Von Muller - Slide Sonatas 1 - self-release (2022)
- https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/slide-sonatas-i
Greetings!
The general conceit for this week is short mic breaks and longer pieces. Between a crazed couple of weeks at work and getting ready to head off to Turkey on vacation, time constraints result in what you'll be listening to momentarily!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
11-26-22 PTE Playlist
- To The Horror Of The Frost - Kurt Prisbe / Jaime Rodríguez / Joshua Shapero / Kenn Thomas - Soul Sun - Porous Collective (2022)
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https://porouscollective1.bandcamp.com/album/soul-sun
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This Most Ancient Doctrine of Mortality - onewayness + Modulator ESP - Orbital Transit - Onomastic Records (2017)
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https://onewayness.bandcamp.com/album/orbital-transits
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Listening / Compassion - Jane Rigler, Curtis Bahn, Thomas Ciufo - ElectroResonance - Neuma Records (2022)
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https://neumarecords.bandcamp.com/album/electroresonance
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Soundpiece No. 4 - Flux Quartet / composer: John J. Becker - Soundpieces 1-7 - New World Records (2020)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/john-j-becker-soundpieces-1-7
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Live at the Stone - Fred Frith & Chris Cutler - The Stone: Issue Two - Tzadik (2007)
- https://www.tzadik.com/
Greetings!
I thought I'd mention that in mulling over the current Twitter debacle, for the time being, Pushing The Envelope will continue it's primary presence on that site, until a viable alternative makes itself known.
That being said, a broad range of goodies are on today's program with a highlight featuring two compositions from the Borderlands Ensemble's 2021 tour-de-force, "the space in which to see".
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
11-5-22 PTE Playlist
- Crossing The Rubicon - Randi Pontoppidan & Povl Kristian - Life In Life - Chant Records (2022)
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https://randipontoppidanpovlkristian.bandcamp.com/album/life-in-life
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Rain - Masahiko Togashi with Don Cherry & Charlie Haden - Song of Soil - Wewantsounds (1979/2022)
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https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/masahiko-togashi-with-don-cherry-charlie-haden-song-of-soil-cd-edition
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Vapor Capture - guitar & modular synth: Bartolo / tenor sax: Pedro Sousa / drums: Gabriel Ferrandini - BASFE - Chant Records (2022)
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https://bart-olo.bandcamp.com/album/basfe
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It's Like They Never Existed At All - worriedaboutsatan (Gavin Miller) - Glass Infinites - digital self-release (2022)
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https://worriedaboutsatan.bandcamp.com/album/glass-infinites
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Corridors of Time - Michael Stearns - Chronos — 2022 Remaster, Original X-86 Ambisonics Mix - Projekt Records (2022)
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https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chronos-2022-remaster-original-x-86-ambisonics-mix
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Endless Journey - Ant-Bee (Billy James) feat. Peter Banks - Electronic Church Muzik - Barking Moondog Records (2011)
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avian reduction (2022 remix) - Joel Krutt - "Melt : Minnesota Remixed" - Wandering Ear (2006)
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https://soundcloud.com/the-envelope-pusher/avian-reduction
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True Finders - Rent Romus, Heikki Koskinen, Life's Blood Ensemble - Manala - Edgetone Records (2020)
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https://edgetonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/manala
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the space in which to see - Borderlands Ensemble / composer: Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti - text: Layli Long Soldier / the space in which to see - New Focus Recordings (2021)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/borderlands-ensemble-the-space-in-which-to-see/
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Tête et Queue du Dragon/Head and Tail of the Dragon - Luc Ferrari - Early Modulations: Vintage Volts - Caipirinha Productions (2000)
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http://lucferrari.com/en/analyses-reflexion/tete-et-queue-du-dragon/
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Passing Ships - Borderlands Ensemble / composer: Jay Vosk / the space in which to see - New Focus Recordings (2021)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/borderlands-ensemble-the-space-in-which-to-see/
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Cetacean Somnolence - Yannick Dauby - Belly of the Whale (compilation) - Important Records (2006)
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https://importantrecords.com/products/imprec098
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Angels (featuring Stu Hamm) - Alberto Rigoni & Michael Manring - Grains of Sand - self-release (2022)
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https://albertorigoni.bandcamp.com/
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Cerulean Cathedral - Cymbalic Encounters - Cerulean Cathedral - digital self-release (2022)
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https://cymbalicencounters.bandcamp.com/album/cerulean-cathedral
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Mexican Puppets - Dallas Perkins - Experimental Truth - D-Mania Records (2022)
- https://www.dallasperkins.com/
Greetings!
Welcome to the Halloween 2022 Edition of Pushing The Envelope, thanks to the reminder from my brother, Dan, an aficionado of all things Halloween.
Since I sold 99% of my vinyl collection prior to moving to Maryland, I no longer have my stockpile of old spooky favorites and have perused currently available items to assemble today's program with particular new favorites being Jack Curtis Dubowski's new release, "Halloween Horror", the audience recording of John Geist's "The Music of Erich Zann" (featuring the Kronos Quartet w/ Peter Hamill) & particularly (after doing some research), the story behind "The Mummies of Cobbosseecontee" by Dreadnaught.
Enjoy!!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
10-29-22 PTE Playlist
- Dark Cotillion Waltz / Monster Walk Instrumental - Jack Curtis Dubowski - Halloween Horror - De Stijl Music (2022)
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https://jackcurtisdubowsky.bandcamp.com/album/halloween-horror
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TRAUMWANDLER (Dreamwalker) - Hall Of NIGHTMARE (tribute to Klaus Schulze) 2008 - TT Geigenschrey - REQUIEM: Klaus Schulze Tribute (compilation) - Aural Films (2022)
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https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-klaus-schulze-tribute
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Ghost Killers - Dan Kurfirst - Arkinetics - Neuma Music (2022)
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https://dankurfirst.bandcamp.com/album/arkinetics
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Mummies of Cobbosseecontee - Dreadnaught - Hard Drivin' - Red Fez Records (2017)
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https://dreadnaughtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hard-chargin
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Ghost Girl - District 97 - Screens - MindScan Records (2019)
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https://district97.bandcamp.com/album/screens
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Lycanthrope - Thinking Plague - In This Life - Cuneiform Records (1989)
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https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-this-life
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The Music of Erich Zann - Kronos Quartet w/ Peter Hamill / composer: John Geist
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Prelude-Nightmare/ Fanfare-Fire Poem - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Polydor (1968)
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Fire - Arthur Brown feat. James Williamson, Brian Auger & Carmine Appice - Monster Ball - Cleopatra (2022)
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https://arthurbrownfire.bandcamp.com/album/monsters-ball-3
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Boo To You Too - Nick Mason - Nick Mason's Ficticious Sports - Columbia (1981)
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Phantoms Keeping Watch - David Toop - Spirit World - Virgin Records (1997)
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Inventing New Emotions to Feel During A Full Moon - Wings of an Angel - Melodies Of Miraculous Boredom To A Pariah Who Cannot Become One Of The Quorum - digital self-release (2022)
- https://wingsofanangel.bandcamp.com/album/melodies-of-miraculous-boredom-to-a-pariah-who-cannot-become-one-of-the-quorum
Greetings!
If you told me, a couple of weeks ago, that during the first set I'd segue from Gyorgy Ligeti to Robert Fripp based on a similar "riff", I'd have gone, "Huh?", but when I heard the opening notes from Ligeti's "Continuum", it immediately made me run for my copy of Fripp's "Exposure". Check it out, you'll understand.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
10-22-22 PTE Playlist
- Sexual Vibration Chakra - Charles Xavier - Pandemic Piano - Happy Note Records (2022)
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https://charlesxavierjr.bandcamp.com/album/pandemic-piano
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3 Pieces For Harpsichord: Hungarian Rock / Passacaglia ungherese / Continuum - harpsichord: Erika Haase / composer: Gyorgy Ligeti - Klavier und Cembalo - col legno/Aurophon (1991)
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Exposure (alternate take) - Robert Fripp (w/ Daryl Hall) - Exposure - DGM (1979/2005) Exposure (alternate take) - Robert Fripp (w/ Daryl Hall) - Exposure - DGM (1979/2005)
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https://www.dgmlive.com/news/exposure-4th-edition-steven-wilson-mix
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The Pillars of Hercules - Jeffrey Fayman & Robert Fripp - A Temple In The Clouds - Projekt Records (2000)
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https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-temple-in-the-clouds
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All I Need - The Trackers (Gary Husband & Alf Terje Hana) - Vaudeville 8:45 - Abstract Logic (2022)
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https://garyhusband-ablx.bandcamp.com/album/vaudeville-8-45
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Passing Through The Wall - Zevious - Passing Through The Wall - Cuneiform (2013)
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https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/passing-through-the-wall
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The Future Is Nau - Tehowl (A collaboration between The Owl & Teh(A)nu.) - #88: Mythology Of Nau: Introduction - digital self-release (2022)
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https://theowl.bandcamp.com/album/88-mythology-of-nau-introduction
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Leylines To Glassdom / Crystal City / Activation Meditation / The Glorious Om Riff - Steve Hillage - Green - Virgin (1978)
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https://twitter.com/stevehillage/
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Transcendental - Ken Field - Transmittere - Neuma Records (2022)
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https://kenfield.bandcamp.com/album/transmitter
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Out Beyond - composer/conch shell/voice: Philip Blackburn / countertenor solo: Ryland Angel - Justinian Intonations - Neuma Records (2022)
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https://philipblackburn.bandcamp.com/album/justinian-intonations
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Hotbird - Mike Frengel - Music For Guitar & Electronics - Ravello Records (2020)
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https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8035/
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Cachos - Nichunimu - Un Cacho de Metal, Un Resto de Vaivén- 577 Records (2022)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/un-cacho-de-metal-un-resto-de-vaiv-n
Greetings!
Today's festivities include a number musique-concrète pieces with sound sources gleaned from numerous intentional and unintentional sources, including one of my own pieces gleaned from the archives.
The tail end of the show focuses on my acquisition of a new vocabulary work, "campanology", the scientific and musical study of bells. This resulted in my selection of pieces including hand bells, gamelan & carillon.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
10-8-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Multiverse Unsound Montage - ‡Starving Poet§ - Syllabic Idyllic - digital release (2021)
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https://starvingpoet.bandcamp.com/album/syllabic-idyllic
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Trans Dimensional Beings - ‡Starving Poet§ - digital single (June 2022)
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https://starvingpoet.bandcamp.com/album/trans-dimensional-beings
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Twenty Words - Hello Yellow - Fragile Lesson (musique concrète compilation) - Institute For Alien Research (2017)
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https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/track/twenty-words
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Con Forza - Joel Krutt - digital single (2022)
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https://soundcloud.com/the-envelope-pusher/con-forza
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Bird Cage - Museleon - digital single (2022)
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https://museleon.com/2022/10/03/the-dark-outside-10th-anniversary-bird-cage/
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Stumbling Block - Anatomist - Black Smoke Rings - Machine Records (2021)
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https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-smoke-curls
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Mono Phase - Onepointtwo - Synchronization - Subexotic Records (2021)
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https://onepointwo.bandcamp.com/album/synchronization
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Antibodies - Joe Frawley - Body Noctures - Joe Frawley Music (2020)
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https://joefrawley.bandcamp.com/album/body-nocturnes
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The White Gloves - Joe Frawley - The Hypnotist - Joe Frawley Music (2008)
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https://joefrawley.bandcamp.com/album/the-hypnotist
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Three Etudes (1987): 1. Paced, almost hurried / 2. Slowly, almost lost / 3. With drive - carillon: Tiffany Ng / composer: Stephen Rush - Dark Matters - Innova (2021)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/tiffany-ng/dark-matters
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40 Random Numbered Clangs - Gamelan Son of Lion / composer: Daniel Goode - The Complete Gamelan in the New World - Locust (2004)
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https://folkways.si.edu/the-gamelan-son-of-lion/in-the-new-world-vol-2/contemporary-electronic/music/album/smithsonian
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Pump Organ & Hand Bells - thanksforwaiting - Ten Duets - digital release (2013)
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https://thanksforwaiting.bandcamp.com/album/ten-duets
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String Quartet #2: Pa Kua (1998) - The Flux Quartet / composer: Steve Horowitz - The String Quartets - self-release (2022)
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https://www.stevehorowitzmusic.com/albums
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Bathymetry 5 - Matt McBane & Sandbox Percussion - Cantaloupe Music (2022)
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https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/bathymetry
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The Gene Pool - Ensemble Bash / composer: Steward Copland - Launch - Sony Classical (1996)
- http://www.ensemblebash.com/
Greetings!
Today's program highlights music featuring the trumpet for most of Phase One, followed by both acoustic and electric bass for the balance of the show.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
10-1-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Motions of Return (1996) for flute & piano - flute: Alessandra Amorino / piano: Fabio Silvestro / composer: William Susman - Collision Point - Susman Music (2021)
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https://susmanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/motions-of-return
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Eyes - Silvan Strauss - Facing - Kabul Fire Records (2022)
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https://silvanstrauss.bandcamp.com/album/facing
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Catalyst - Superimpozer - Machine Mix 2 (compilation) - Machine Records (2022)
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https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/machine-mix-2
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Flotation Device - Ben Neill feat. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Triptycal - Antilles (1996)
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https://www.benneill.com/listen/
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Peace In - Dan Kurfirst - Arkinetics - Neuma Records (2022)
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https://dankurfirst.bandcamp.com/album/arkinetics
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Calls and Echoes - trumpet: James Thompson / composer: Verne Reynolds - An American Portrait -International Trumpet Guild (2003)
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https://store.trumpetguild.org/products/an-american-protrait
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Strange Pilgrims: I. Light Is Like Water - trumpet/composer/live interactive electronics: Samuel Wells - Music From The Association for the Promotion of New Music (APNM), Vol. 2 - New Focus Recordings (2019)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/music-from-the-association-for-the-promotion-of-new-music-apnm-vol-1-2/
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Seven (feat. Bryan Bellar) - Alberto Rigoni & Michael Manring - Grains of Sand - self-release (2022)
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https://albertorigoni.bandcamp.com/
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Glorious Pastorius - Bass Extremes: Steve Bailey & Victor Wooten - Cookbook - Tone Center (1998)
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Joe Frazier-Round 3 - Jeff Berlin w/ Steve Vai, David Sancious, Keith Carlock & Tom Hemby- JOE FRAZIER Round 3 - JBMG Records (2018)
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https://www.jeffberlinmusicgroup.com/music
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The Sacred Ladder - PAKT feat. Percy Jones, Alex Skolnick, Kenny Grohowski & Tim Motzer - PAKT - Moonjune Records (2021)
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https://paktmoonjune.bandcamp.com/album/pakt
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The Ballad of Billy Pilgrim - Stuart Hamm - The Diary of Patrick Xavier - self-release (2018)
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https://stuhamm.com/
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Valentine (1969) - double bass: Robert Black / composer: Jacob Druckman - Modern American Bass - New World Records (2011)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/modern-american-bass?_pos=2&_sid=8665c9e05&_ss=r&variant=31816928231503
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Selene - Michael Manring - Soliloquy - Manthing Music (2005)
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http://www.manthing.com
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Inflections I - double bass: Bertram Turetszky / composer: Robert Hall Lewis - New Music For Virtuosos - New World Records (1998)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/new-music-for-virtuosos?_pos=3&_sid=34e57b82a&_ss=r
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Sbass Music - Scott Petito - Sbass Music - Hudson Valley Records (2002)
- http://www.scottpetitoproductions.com/credits.html
Greetings!
As I look at today's playlist, it reminds me of just how musically impressionable I am. All it takes is a minimal cue to check out new music, based on as little as a single sentence seen in a random post on my Twitter feed (i.e., the Jostaberry release) or on the other hand, how I'm perfectly happy to head down a rabbit hole based on researching the list of guest singers highlighted on the recent Badge Époque Ensemble release ("Clouds of Joy"). That was the inspiration for most of the first set.
Enjoy!!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
9-24-22 PTE Playlist
- Conspiring With Nature - Badge Époque Ensemble - Clouds of Joy - Telephone Explosion Records (2022)
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https://bbadgepoqueensemble2.bandcamp.com/
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How's it Gonna Be? - Alex Samaras - Big Bonky Tones (complilation) - Tone Bonk (2021)
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https://tonebonk.bandcamp.com/album/big-bonky-tones
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My Hero - Robin Dann - Big Bonky Tones (complilation) - Tone Bonk (2021)
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https://tonebonk.bandcamp.com/album/big-bonky-tones
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Imagine Someday - Bernice - digital single (2022)
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https://bernice.bandcamp.com/track/imagine-someday
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6 or 7 Miles After - Jostaberry - Hello Turbine - Tangy Citrus Records (2022)
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https://jostaberry.bandcamp.com/album/hello-turbine
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Not Alone - composer: Fernando Perdomo / keyboards: Rick Wakeman - Frost (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Cleopatra Records (2022)
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http://cleorecs.com/home/playlist/frost-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/
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Dream Sequence - Ian Beggs - Ode To Martone 1984 Pt. 1 - digital self-release (2022)
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https://ianbeggsrectifier.bandcamp.com/album/ode-to-martone-1984-pt-1
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Mycelium - Tremolo Audio - States - Facade Electronics (2022)
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https://facadelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/states
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In Lights Starkly Different for tenor sax & electronics - tenor sax: Drew Whiting / composer-electronics: Robin Julian Heifetz - In Lights Starkly Different - Innova (2020)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/drew-whiting/lights-starkly-different
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The Cyanea Jellyfish / The Blanket Octopus / Hermit Crabs (Intro) - Tomar Baruch - Synthesized Sounds of the Sea: An Album of Animals & Synthesizers - Hamseen Sounds (2022)
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https://animalsandsynthesizers.bandcamp.com/album/synthesized-sounds-of-the-sea
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Bolsa Chica Surf - Jack Curtis Dubowsky - Bolsa Chica Calm - self-release CD/digital (2022)
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https://jackcurtisdubowsky.bandcamp.com/album/bolsa-chica-calm
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turntable drawing no. 16 • studio version - Giacomo Fiore & Danny Clay - turntable drawing no. 16 - self-released digital and 12” vinyl (2022)
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https://gfguitar.bandcamp.com/album/turntable-drawing-no-16
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Desert Planet - Endeleas - Twisted Prophecy - digital self-release (2021)
- https://endeleas.bandcamp.com/album/desert-planet-remaster
Greetings!
This show will put me about half way to catching up on posting recent shows. Not a lot of focus, though I did base part of a set on individuals composer & Baltimore local, Ian Power studied with including Chaya Czernowin & John Luther Adams. (I was reading his bio after I planned on airing his composition "BUOY" on today's program.)
Enjoy, enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
9-10-22 PTE Playlist
Evryali - midi programming: Daniel Grossmann / composer: Iannis Xenakis - Music for Keyboard Instruments Realised By Computer - NEOS Music (2008) https://neos-music.com/
Moebius-Ring - piano: Ning Yu / composer: Misato Mochizuki - Of Being - New Focus Recordings (2020) https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/of-being
Frederick Chopin / Arthur Ferrante & Louis Teicher - Christian Marclay - More Encores - ReR (1997)
Deux oreilles concrètess - Rémy Carré - fragile lesson - Institute For Alien Research (2022) https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/fragile-lesson
BUOY (after Laurence Crane) - organ, appliances & composer: Ian Power - Maintenance Hums - Carrier (2020) https://ianpoweromg.bandcamp.com/album/maintenance-hums
The Last Leaf for sopranino saxophone - sax: Ryan Muncy / composer: Chaya Czernowin - HOT - New Focus Recordings (2013) https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hot
Dream of the Canyon Wren - ensemble: The Jack Quartet / composer: John Luther Adams - The Wind In High Places - Cold Blue Music (2015) https://johnlutheradams-coldblue.bandcamp.com/album/the-wind-in-high-places
The Village Choir Asks The Important Questions of The Day / The Village Orchestra Poses The Main Themes of This Musical Quest / The Village Wind Orchestra: The Answer Is Blowing In The Winds / Who Has The Biggest Noise? / Who Can Play The Fastest? - Paul Dolden - Who Has the Biggest Sound? - Starkland (2014) https://starkland.org/catalog/st220/
Smiles Story & Morning Grin / Rope Ladder To The Moon - Jeff Berlin - Jack Songs - self-release (2022) https://www.jeffberlinmusicgroup.com/shop/scy7kkswbv62yy8z7apqlq5dbc8yrx
Post War - Jack Bruce w/ Clem Clempson, Billy Cobham & David Sancious - Concert Classics: Volume 9 - Concert Classics (1999) http://www.jackbruce.com/
Greetings!
Well, I'm about a month behind in posting recent shows, so I'll begin with the next up from early September which appears to have been all over the place musically.
Hope you enjoy & subscribe to get notified when the shows are posted!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
9-3-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- The Inner Landscape of a Cabin in the Woods (for found sounds and improvised electric guitar) - Gina Biver (composer/electric guitar) - Mind & Machine, Vol. 4 - Ravello Records (2022)
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https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8070/
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Invitation To A Party In The Sky - Lewis Jordan & Music At Large - Critical Mass - Innova Recordings (2022)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/lewis-jordan-and-music-large/critical-mass?qt-album_tabs=0
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Electric Rock Like A Cat / sanse is crede nza- Reconnaissance Fly - Flower Futures - Edgetone Records (2014)
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http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4139.html
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To The Concert - Dafnis Prieto, feat. Luciana Souza - Cantar - Dafnison Music (2022)
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https://dafnisonmusic.com/cantar
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La Sirène - Cellista - digital single (2015)
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https://cellista.bandcamp.com/track/la-sir-ne
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King Carlos Of Silverstone - Charles Rice Goff III & Eric Matchett - All Taped Out - digital self-release (2022)
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https://archive.org/details/AllTapedOut
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There Are Never Guilty - Mabisyo - Memories Of Semipalatinsk - digital self-release (2022)
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https://mabisyo.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-semipalatinsk
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Lithuania (Martin Homtveth mix) - Jaga Jazzist - Animal Chin EP - Gold Standard Laboratories (2003)
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Time-Sound Canvas Brush Fire - Sarah Belle Reid / David Rosenboom - NOWS - Ravello Records (2022)
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https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8072/
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Anthemes 2 - violin: Hae-Sun Kang / electronics: Andrew Gerzso / composer: Pierre Boulez - Deutsche Grammophon (2000)
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https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/boulez-sur-incises-messagesquisse-8075
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Seismologic for bassoon & recombinant electronics - bassoon: Dana Jessen / electronics: Eli Stine / composer: George Lewis - The Recombinant Trilogy - New Focus Recordings (2021)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/george-lewis-the-recombinant-trilogy/
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Mechanical Rhythms, Part 2 - Trinity Ward - Hymns for Machines - digital self-release (2015)
- https://bandcamp.com/trinityward
THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STRANGE MUSIC DAY
International Strange Music Day was created by Patrick Grant, a New York City musician and composer. The aim of the celebration was to get people to play and listen to types of music that they had not before. Grant believed that something as simple as broadening our musical taste can also make us broadminded and more accepting of others. He follows the mantra ‘listening without prejudice.’ Grant also picked the day to promote his new album “Fields Amaze” in 1997, as a way to honor his girlfriend’s father (and his artistic mentor) on his birthday. By 2002, the day became an international phenomenon with various artists and venues. This growing movement is now attached to concerts, hosts a record label, and gains popular support from summer schools. The day is also appreciated as a great way to stimulate young minds.
8-27-22 PTE Playlist: Celebrating International Strange Music Day
- Fields Amaze - Patrick Grant - FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music-: 20th Anniversary Edition Pepergreen Media (2018)
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https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/album/fields-amaze-and-other-strange-music
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Infinite Queue 5 / Gravity Assist 2 - Jeff Carey - index [off] - digital self-release (2020)
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https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/album/index-off
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Roses & Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein - Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of A Beast - Matador (2006)
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https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/the-rose-has-teeth-in-the-mouth-of-a-beast
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Thermoplastic Riot Shield - Matmos - Plastic Anniversary - Thrill Jockey (2019)
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https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-anniversary
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Flight To Sodom _ Lot do Sodom - Matmos - Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer - Thrill Jockey (2022)
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https://matmos.bandcamp.com/
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Project for Tuba and Tape (1980) - tuba: Zdzisław Piernik /composer, tape: Bogusław Schäffer - Tuba Universale - Pro Viva (1980)
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https://soundcloud.com/piernicazioni/sets/piernik-plays-sikora-schaffer-borkowski-zajaczek-piernik-pro-viva-1980
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Gala / The Governeses' Departure - Petridisch - Les Gouvernantes (The Governesses) - digital self-release (2022)
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https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/les-gouvernantes
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The Most Unwanted Music - David Soldier (2015)
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https://davesoldier.com/experimental.html
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Kimbolton Gnome Song (1981) - Renaldo & The Loaf - Songs For Swinging Larvae / Songs From The Surgery - Klanggalerie (2015)
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https://klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-swinging-larvae-songs-from-the-surgery
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Aloha! - Main Title Theme - Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The White Lotus (soundtrack from the HBO Original Limited Series) - Watertower Music (2021)
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https://www.watertower-music.com/releases/release.php?title=thewhitelotus
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Goosebump (1980): Disaster / Plants / Farmers / Twinkle - The Residents - Diskomo 2000 - East Side Digital (2000)
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https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=diskomo#diskomo2000
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Tevye's Dream - Negativland - Knitting On The Roof - Knitting Factory Records / Jewish Alternative Movement (1999)
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Gadberry's- Carl Stone - Mom's - New Albion (1992)
- https://carlstone.bandcamp.com/music
Greetings!
Quite the genre mish-mash this week, though with a focus on the new Klaus Schulze tribute album, "Requiem: Klaus Schulze Tribute / Electronic Music Artists for Ukraine Relief" from the folks at Aural Films.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
8-20-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Esthetic Nourishment - Steve Horowitz - Old Monsters Trio (Deluxe Blend) [feat. Jim Bove & Scott Looney] - Steve Horowitz Music (2022)
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https://www.stevehorowitzmusic.com/home
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Sound Tenement - Zero Times Everything - Sound of Music, Disc 1: Black Hole - Skrymir (2021) https://www.zerotimeseverything.com/
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The Arrow of Time - Jordan Dykstra - The Arrow of Time - New World Records (2020)
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https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jordan-dykstra-the-arrow-of-time
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Ifrastructure - Charles Rice Goff III - Requiem: Klaus Schulze Tribute / Electronic Music Artists for Ukraine Relief - Aural Films (2022)
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https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-klaus-schulze-tribute
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Wind Valley Advisory - Carlos Jennings - Requiem: Klaus Schulze Tribute / Electronic Music Artists for Ukraine Relief - Aural Films (2022)
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https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-klaus-schulze-tribute
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Denkmal - Chuck Van Zyl - Requiem: Klaus Schulze Tribute / Electronic Music Artists for Ukraine Relief - Aural Films (2022)
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https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-klaus-schulze-tribute
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Boddy Love - Ian Boddy - Requiem: Klaus Schulze Tribute / Electronic Music Artists for Ukraine Relief - Aural Films (2022)
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https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-klaus-schulze-tribute
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The Evolution of Dawn (bonus track) - Alpha Wave Movement - Transcendence - Harmonic Resonance (1995)
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https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com/album/transcendence
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Flowering Dandelion (2020) for violin and electronics- violin: Sarah Plum / composer- electronics: Kyong Mee Choi - Personal Noise - Blue Griffin Records (2022)
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https://www.bluegriffin.com/cd-catalog/p/personalnoisesarahplum
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Layered Lament - English Horn: Jacqueline Leclair / composer: Fay-Ellen Silverman - Muisc for English Horn Alone - New Focus Recordings (2020)
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https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-english-horn-alone
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Syncophony - harp/composer: Elizabeth Panzer - Dancing In Place - O.O. Discs (1999)
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Glow - Paulina Fae - Glow - Projekt Records (2022)
- https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glow
Greetings!
I'm finally catching up on the backlog of unposted shows and continuing to go through the piles of music that have amassed since before the onset of the pandemic. Therefore, many new or new-ish items in addition to honoring the memory of the late Michael Henderson, bassist extraordinaire, here shining on a track recorded during his tenure with Miles Davis, from the classic "On The Corner" sessions.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-30-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- At Sergio's Request - Tim Brady - Actions Speak Louder – ACT 1: SOLOS and a QUARTET: Simple loops in complex times - Redshift Records (2021)
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https://redshiftrecords.org/releases/tk486/
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R.I.P. Michael Henderson: Helen Butte / Mr. Freedom X - Unedited Mastern - Miles Davis - The Complete On The Corner Sessions - Columbia Legacy (1972-75/2007)
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https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/
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Aquarian Mars / Daniel Carter: Flute, Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone , Voice - 5-Track: Guitar - Evan Strauss: Electric Bass, Upright Bass, Bass Clarinets, Tenor Saxophone, Synthesizers, Programming - Sheridan Riley: Drums / The Uproar in Bursts of Sound and Silence / 577 Records (2022 - August pre-release)
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https://danielcarternyc.bandcamp.com/album/the-uproar-in-bursts-of-sound-and-silence
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Expansion Of... - Jarguna & Various Artists - Chimera of a New World, Session Two - Projekt Records (2022)
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https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chimera-of-a-new-world-session-two-name-your-price
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Miniatüre #9 - Nobuka - Miniatüre - Difficult Art & Music (2022)
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https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/miniat-re
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High Alien Priest - Clara Engel - Their Invisible Hands - self-release (2022)
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https://claraengel.bandcamp.com/album/their-invisible-hands
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When The Fire Grows Cold - Vanderwolf & The Last Man Standing Ensemble, feat. Robert Wyatt - Extinction! - digital EP (2022)
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https://vanderwolf1.bandcamp.com/album/extinction
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Close To You - John Hallenbeck - Songs We Like A Lot - flexatonic records (2020 re-issure)
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https://johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com/album/songs-we-like-a-lot
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Energy Prayer / Cradle of Life - New Party Systems - The Best We Can: Songs by David First - digital release (2020)
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https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-we-can
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In The Air Tonight - Ben Aldridge / Charlie Anson / Jonathan Bailey / Katie Brayben / Cassandra Compton / Susannah Fielding / Holly James / Lucie Jones / Tom Kay / Gillian Kirkpatrick / Eugene McCoy / Hugh Skinner / Holly Dale Spencer - American Psycho: Original London Cast Recording - Concord Music (2016)
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String Quartet No. 3: I. Twist and Shout / II. Poet Voice / III. Auction Chant / IV. Effects Pedal / V. Anthem - The Indianapolis Quartet / composer: Robert Paterson - Robert Paterson: String Quartets 1-3 - American Modern Recordings (2022)
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https://www.americanmodernrecordings.com/the-indianapolis-quartet-robert-paterson-string-quartets-1-3
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Not Waving, But Drowning - Collins - Skins - Subexotic Records (2022)
- https://garycollins.bandcamp.com/album/skins
Greetings!
This week's program starts with some fine examples of contemporary composition from Viet Cuong, interpreted by saxophonist, Dylan Ward, the latest release from Aaron Jay Myers & experimental electronics from Anıl Çamcı. Following a brief Gentle Giant interlude, the balance of the show consists of electronic/electro-acoustic artists, demonstrating the broad scope of sound made available for us to partake of.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-23-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Naica - saxophone: Dylan Ward / composer: Viet Cuong - Tourmaline - Neuma Records (2022)
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https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/dylan-ward-tourmaline
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A Now Unknown - Anıl Çamcı - Dekagon - Innova (2022)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/anil-camci/dekagon
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Clever Machines - Transient Canvas: bass clarinet - Amy Advocat / marimba - Matt Sharrock / composer: Aaron Jay Myers - Clever Machines - New Focus Recordings (2021)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/aaron-jay-myers-clever-machines/
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Paroxysm - bass guitar: Kevin Price / electric guitar & composer: Aaron Jay Myers / piano: Sarah Bob / drums: Daniel T. Lewis - Clever Machines - New Focus Recordings (2021)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/aaron-jay-myers-clever-machines/
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Experience - Gentle Giant - In A Glass House - Alucard (1973)
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https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/In_a_Glass_House
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Neptune - Spectral Bazaar - The Planets - digital self-release (2019)
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https://spectralbazaar.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets-album-in-various-formats
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Invitation - Violet Mist - Cyberwave - Subexotic Records (2022)
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https://violetmistmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cyberwave
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Arcadia - Tim Walters - Stricture - Vaux Flores Industrial (2021)
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https://thecoldvacuumofspace.bandcamp.com/album/stricture
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Thieve's Cant - Pulselovers - Circles Within Circles (pre-release) - Subexotic Records (2022)
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https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/
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Music to Vernisage II - Flute: Miloš Jurkovič / composer: Ivan Parik - Anthology of Slovak Electroacoustic Music 1966-1991 - Centre for Electroacoustic and Computer Music, Bratislava, 1992 (CD 1, 2) and 1994 (CD 3)
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https://monoskop.org/CECM/Anthology_of_Slovak_Electroacoustic_Music
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Life Tumbling & Absorption / The Elderly Gentleman / Stranger 2 - Petridisch - Les Gouvernantes (The Governesses) - digital self-release (2022)
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https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/les-gouvernantes
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Memoir - Robert Scott Thompson - Ascension - Aucourant Records (2022)
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https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/ascension-2
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Ian Power - for "current" resonance - Brian Archinal, percussion / piano: Antoine Françoise, piano (resonance) / composer: Ian Power - Maintenance Hums - Carrier (2020)
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https://ianpoweromg.bandcamp.com/album/maintenance-hums
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Sonambulist - Museleon - Eidolon - digital self-release (2022)
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https://museleon.bandcamp.com/album/eidolon
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Electric Fence - Swansither / Tom Kennedy - Inner Space - Subexotic Records (2022)
- https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/inner-space
Greetings!
Yes, I'm finally getting to catch up on posting current programs since I wasn't needed to work on Sunday as I had been originally scheduled. (I'm per diem speech pathologist, but I'm still not overly fond of 6 day work weeks.) Nonetheless, today's program focuses primarily on a playlist suggested by an article, written by Paul Walker on the Medium.com website, entitled, "The Best Seven Prog Rock Albums of 2022 So Far". (Unfortunately, you can't check out the article, since it has since been removed by the author.) Having not heard any of the releases, I thought it would be interesting how my thoughts about the music lined up (or not) with Mr. Walker's. Actually, they're quite close.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-16-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Opening - Psalm - Son of the Morning - digital self-release (2022)
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https://psalm2.bandcamp.com/album/son-of-the-morning
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Wind Down 2 - Yaz Lancaster - Musicworks #142 (SUMMER 2022: INVENTIONS AND INTERVENTIONS) - Musicworks (2022)
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https://www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside-musicworks-142
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Washington Square XI - Robert Fripp - Washington Square Church - DGM (2022)
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https://www.dgmlive.com/
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Renewal - Frederick Hand - Across Time - New Focus Recordings/ReEntrant (2022)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/frederic-hand-across-time/
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Lilly - Kompendium feat. Steve Hackett -Beneath The Waves - Tigermoth Records (2012)
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https://kompendium.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-waves
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Mine Is The Mountain - Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene - Inside Out Music (2022)
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https://jethrotull.com/the-zealot-gene/
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World Gone Crazy - The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree - Inside Out Music (2022)
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https://www.roinestolt.com/
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The Connection Plan - Big Big Train - English Electric Recordings (2022)
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https://www.bigbigtrain.com/discography/welcome-to-the-planet/
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The Frozen Dead of Night - Kaipa - Urskog - Inside Out Music (2022)
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https://kaipa.info/discography/urskog.html
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Rats Return - Porcupine Tree - Closer/Continuation - MRI (2022)
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https://porcupinetree.com/
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The Tangent - Songs from the Hard Shoulder - InsideOut Music (2022)
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https://thetangent.org/articles/tangent-songs-from-the-hard-shoulder
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Rock-Paper-Scissors - Pattern-Seeking Animals - Only Passing Through - InsideOut Music (2022)
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https://www.psanimals1.com/
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Herd Culling - Porcupine Tree - Closer/Continuation - MRI (2022)
- https://porcupinetree.com/
Greetings!
This week I've decided to return to my old PTE tradition of featuring progressive rock on the week of July 4th. Outside of a track from Renaissance, most of my selections are based on newer bands, including Connecticut based bands like new band The Far Cry and an older band that members came out of, Holding Pattern.
I hope you enjoy my Progressive 4th on the 2nd!!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-2-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Sirrah - Trey Gunn Band - Live @ The Baked Potato_Hollywood, CA / 2-9-2001 - bootleg
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http://www.treygunn.com/
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Programophone - The Far Cry - If Only - Paid Piper Productions (2021)
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https://thefarcry1.bandcamp.com/
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Out Of The Tunnels - Holding Pattern - Holding Pattern - Cleefo Archive Series (1981)
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https://www.facebook.com/Holding-Pattern-136046976412179/
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Not The Future I Ordered - Blue Shift - [Not The Future I Ordered] - Mayday Records (1997)
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1684
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It's Too Late - The Prog Collective feat. Candice Night (Blackmore’s Night) & Dweezil Zappa - Songs We Were Taught - Cleopatra Records (2022)
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https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/the-prog-collective-songs-we-were-taught-cd-digipak/
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Speak To Me / Breathe - Adrian Belew / Alan White / Tony Kaye / Jeff "Skunk" Baxter / Malcom McDowell - Return to the Dark Side of the Moon: A Tribute to Pink Floyd - Purple Pyramid (2006)
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https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/return-to-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-cd-digipak/
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The Sorcerer (excerpt) - CYAN - For King and Country - Tigermoth Records (2022)
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https://www.tigermothshop.co.uk/store/Cyan-For-King-And-Country-2021-CD-DVD-p383087294
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Utopia Theme - Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Live At The Chicago Theater (May 22, 2018) - Cleopatra (2019)
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https://toddrundgren.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-chicago-theatre
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Return To OM - Artnat - The Mirror Effect - self-release (2021)
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https://soundcloud.com/artnat_progrock/track-3-return-to-om/s-Xkn7G5Lzyr0
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Ocean Gypsy - Renaissance - Scheherazade & Other Stories - Sire (1975)
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https://renaissancetouring.com/
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New Design - Clint Bahr - Puzzlebox - MoonJune Records (2022)
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https://clint-bahr-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/puzzlebox
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Driving Patterns - Patrick Grant - A Sequence of Waves (twelve stories and a dream) - Peppergreen Media (2017)
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https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/album/a-sequence-of-waves-twelve-stories-and-a-dream
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Level 5 - Stick Men (Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter w/ Gary Husband) - Owari - Moonjune Records (2021)
- https://stickmen.bandcamp.com/album/owari
Greetings!
On today's program, I'm happy to open with new music from a long-time friend of PTE, guitarist Kevin Kastning in tandem with pianist, Laszlo Gardony from their new release of improvisations, "Levitations I". In addition, continuing PTE tradition of bringing attention to music from the state of Connecticut, my home state and home of WHUS, the show closes with music from CT-based musician Liquid Terrain (Tim Wolf) and the New London Drone Orchestra, of which Tim is a member.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-25-22 PTE Playlist
- Levitation, Opus III - 36-string Double Contraguitar: Kevin Kastning / piano: Laszlo Gardony - Levitation I - Greydisc (2022)
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http://www.kevinkastning.com/ http://www.lgjazz.com
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A Day At The Beach - David Margolin Lawson & David Merrill - Signals - Neuma Records (2022)
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https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/lawson-merrill-signals
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The Invocation Sky - Geoff Gersh - These Predicaments - Deep Listening (2009)
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https://geoffgersh.bandcamp.com/album/these-predicaments
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Ancient Ocean Floor - Gayle Young w/ Sarah Albu - Musicworks #142 - Musicworks (2022)
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https://www.musicworks.ca/gayle-young-gentle-interventions
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of architecture and accumulation (for organ & wine glasses) - organ: Wil Smith / composer: Paula Matthusen - Pieces for People - Innova (2015)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/paula-matthusen/pieces-people
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Eastern Platinum - Gong Expresso - Decadence - self-release (2017)
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https://hansfordrowe.bandcamp.com/album/decadence
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Deep Sleep I - Akku Quintet - Live - 7dMedia (2022)
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https://akkuquintet7d.bandcamp.com/album/live
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Red (for two marimbas) - New Music Detroit / composer: Marc Mellits - Smoke: Music of Marc Mellits - Innova (2018)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/new-music-detroit/smoke-music-marc-mellits
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Fraud - Liquid Terrain (Tim Wolf) - Ripples - self-release (2022)
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https://liquidterrain.bandcamp.com/album/ripples
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Liquid Mix - New England Drone Orchestra - Isolation-Collaboration - self-release (2020)
- https://enterthecircle.bandcamp.com/album/isolation-collaboration
Greetings!
Today's festivities feature tracks of some length, since I will be away in Portugal and wanted to have a show ready, but put it together in a minimal amount of time while I get all my travel stuff together. I'm particularly happy to feature one of two extended tracks from Jack Curtis Dubowsky from his new release, "Bolsa Chica Calm", an homage to Bolsa Chica State Beach, one of his favorite surfing spots in Huntington Beach. The piece references ambient, environmental, new age and experimental music, from vaporwave to Wendy Carlos’ "Sonic Seasonings."
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
6-11-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Way - String Noise (violins: Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim Harris) / composer: Alex Mincek - WAY - New Focus Recordings (2022)
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https://stringnoise.bandcamp.com/album/way
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Washington Square Five - Robert Fripp - Washington Square Chruch - Discipline Global Mobile (2022)
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https://www.dgmlive.com/
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Four North American Ballads: dreadful memories / which side are you on? / down by the riverside / Winnsboro cotton mill blues - piano: Kathleen Supove / composer: Frederic Rzewski - Figure 88 - New World Records (1993)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/kathleen-supove-figure-88
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Bolsa Chica Rain - Jack Curtis Dubowsky - Bolsa Chica Calm - self-release CD/digital (2022)
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https://jackcurtisdubowsky.bandcamp.com/album/bolsa-chica-calm
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Poppies In A Field / The Last Bridge Organ - Tom Doncourt & Mattias Olsen's Cathedral - Roth-händle (2020)
- https://roth-handle.bandcamp.com/album/tom-doncourt-mattias-olssons-cathedral
Greetings!
Today's program features a set themed around the topic of telephones and telephone calls, with pieces ranging from a new contemporary classical piece from composer Margaret Brouwer to funkmeister Bootsy Collins. I had fun putting it together and I hope you have as much fun listening to it.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
6/4/22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Everything Is Something, part 2 - Dave Tucker, Pat Thomas, Thurston Moore, Mark Sanders - Educated Guess, Vol. 2 (EP) - 577 Records (2022)
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https://www.577records.com/5833-2
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Aural - Phase Duo - Generative Glimpse - Chant Records (2022)
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https://phaseduo.bandcamp.com/album/generative-glimpse
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Of Uncertainty - Head With Wings - Comfort In Illusion - self-released CD/digital (2021)
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https://headwithwings.bandcamp.com/album/comfort-in-illusion
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a13 - Adrian Belew - digital single - Ingrooves Music (2022)
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https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles2/2022/04/27/adrian-belew-releases-a13-from-upcoming-album-and-announces-summer-tour/
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Fracture - King Crimson - Live In Vienna - Discipline Global Mobile (2017)
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https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/live-in-vienna
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All Lines Are Still Busy - violin/narrator: Mari Sato / composer: Margaret Brouwer - Reactions: Songs & Chamber Music - Naxos (2022)
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https://www.margaretbrouwer.com/cds
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On Hold - Mike Tiano - Creétisvan - Mike Tiano Music CD/digital (2022)
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https://miketiano.bandcamp.com/album/cre-tisvan-5
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Telephone & Rubber Band - Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Preludes, Airs & Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer) - Caroline Records (1996)
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https://www.penguincafe.com/
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What's A Telephone Bill? - Bootsy Collins - Aah...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! - Warner Bros. (1977)
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https://www.thebootcave.com/
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The Telephone Call - Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe - Elektra (1986)
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https://kraftwerk.com/
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Ritournelles: Téléphone - Florent Ghys - Ritournelles & Mosaïques - Cantaloupe Music (2022)
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https://florentghys.bandcamp.com/album/ritournelles
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New York Telephone Conversation - Lou Reed - Transformer - RCA (1972)
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https://loureed.com/
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Telephone Call From Istanbul - Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years - Island (1987)
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http://www.tomwaits.com/albums/album/20/Franks_Wild_Years/
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Telephone Conversation - Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money - Zappa Records (1968)
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https://www.zappa.com/music/were-only-it-money
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You Didn't Try To Call Me - Frank Zappa - Zappa/Erie - Zappa Records/UMe (2022)
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https://www.zappa.com/news/new-frank-zappa-boxed-set-zappaerie-collects-together-exciting-trio-shows-erie-pa-and
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Fideliotrio - The Barton Workshop (viola: Marieke Keser / cello: Judith van Swaay / piano: Frank Denyer) / composer: Alvin Lucier - Wind Shadows - New World Records (2005)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/alvin-lucier-wind-shadows
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50 Words For Snow - Kate Bush feat. Stephen Fry - 50 Words For Snow - Fish People/Anti (2011)
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https://www.katebush.com/discography/50-words-snow
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Frozen / Iceman Is - Terje (teri-ya) isungset - Iceman Is - All Ice Records (2007)
- http://www.all-ice.no/iceman-is.html
Greetings!
I'm slowly getting through a ton of new releases only to have them replaced by other new releases. A radio programmer's work is never done.
I'm very happy to open the program with "Music Inspired By Two Poems Against War" by Stanley Grill who states, "I still harbor an inner faith that music possesses a power to reach into the hearts and minds of those who are listening and influence them for the better. With that thought in mind, much of my music was written to encourage thoughts about the possibility of peace."
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
5-28-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- The Permanent Fragility of Meaning - cello: Christina Gullins - composer/reader: Stanley Grill - poet: Elizabeth Austin - Music Inspired By Two Poems Against War - provided by composer (2022)
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https://www.stangrillcomposer.com/music-category/music-for-peace-project/
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Swarming - cello: Christina Gullins - composer/reader: Stanley Grill - poet: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke - Music Inspired By Two Poems Against War - provided by composer (2022)
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https://www.stangrillcomposer.com/music-category/music-for-peace-project/
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Interstice / Splaat - Swansither - Inner Space - Subexotic Records (2022)
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https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/inner-space
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Dichotomie - Christian Clozier - Lettre à une demoiselle / Dichotomie / Petite suite / D’une multitude en fête - EMI (1970)
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https://alphastate.nyc/products/francoise-barriere-christian-clozier-jacques-lejeune
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The Visitations - White Noise - An Electric Storm - Virgin (1969)
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Inner Secrets - Eddie Jobson - Theme of Secrets - Private Music (1985)
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Inversion, Part 4 - Erik Wollo - Inversions - Projekt Records (2022)
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https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/inversions-ep-name-your-price
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Melodica (1966) - Steve Reich - Music from Mills - Mills College (1986)
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Mangetsu (Full Moon) - Duo della Luna (composer/voice: Susan Botti / violin: Airi Yoshioka) - Mangetsu - New Focus Recordings (2021)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/duo-della-luna-mangetsu/
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Saved - Mike Ian - The Learning Tree - Voidfree Records (2022)
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https://mikeian.com/the-learning-tree
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Rosewind - Octarine Sky - Close To Nearby - Uberwald Records (2021)
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100055373160597
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Plate (improv) - Clint Bahr - Puzzle Box - MoonJune Records (2022)
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https://clint-bahr-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/puzzlebox
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per cry tim - Moray Newlands - Zeds - digital pre-release (2022)
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https://newlandsmusic.bandcamp.com/
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Cryptid Bop - Clara Engel - Their Invisible Hands - self-release (2022)
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https://claraengel.bandcamp.com/album/their-invisible-hands
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Auroville - Magma - ESKÄHL 2020 Bordeaux - Toulouse - Perpignan - Seventh Records (2020)
- https://www.seventhrecords.com/magma-19/eskahl-2020-bordeaux-toulouse-perpignan-1306.html
Greetings!
As usual, quite the mélange of music, with a few tracks inspired by having seen The Security Project in concert, playing brilliant interpretations of the music of Peter Gabriel. The all-star band features Jerry Marotta, Trey Gunn, Michael Cozzi, David Jameson and the breath-taking vocals of Happy Rhodes. Do check them out at https://securityprojectband.com/.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
5-21-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- JLP - Art Griffin's Sound Chaser - The Seven Ages of Starlight - self-release (2022)
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https://artgriffinssoundchaser.bandcamp.com/album/the-seven-ages-of-starlight
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Security Project - San Jacinto - Contact - 7d Media (2017)
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https://securityproject.bandcamp.com/album/contact
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The Tower That Ate People - Tammy Scheffer - Through the Wire, Volume One - digital release (2022)
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https://jeremynesse.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-wire-volume-one
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Mercy Street - Project Lo feat. Happy Rhodes - Black Canvas - Lolo Records (1997)
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https://www.lolorecords.com/
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From the Earth, featuring Marianne Trudel - Hard Rubber Orchestra / composer: John Korsrud - Iguana - Redshift Records (2022)
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https://redshiftrecords.org/releases/tk520/
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Symmetrical Variations - Delta Saxophone Quartet / composer: Steve Crowther - digital single (2022)
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https://deltasaxophonequartet1.bandcamp.com/track/symmetrical-variations
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Mosaïques: Comrades / Météos - Florent Ghys - Ritournelles & Mosaïques - Cantaloupe Music (2022)
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https://www.florentghys.com/ritournellesandmosaiques
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Black Boxes and Springtime - electronics/composer: Amanda Chaudhary / voice: Amy Barnes-/ trumpet: Nathan Plante - Aquatic - self-release (2005)
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https://amandachaudhary.bandcamp.com/album/aquatic
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Sirens and Broken Drums - John Oliver - departing souls - John Oliver Music (2022)
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https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/departing-souls
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The Wind at Beni Midar for Cello Sextet - cello: Craig Hultgren / composer: Robert Scott Thompson - The Wind at Beni Midar - Aucourant Records (2021)
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https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/track/the-wind-at-beni-midar-for-cello-sextet
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Echo Harp - Liquid Terrain (Tim Wolf) - Ripples - digital release (2022)
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https://liquidterrain.bandcamp.com/album/ripples
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Thetis The Nereid - Deletist - Women Take Back The Drone - Women Take Back The Noise (2022)
- https://womentakebackthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/various-women-take-back-the-drone
Greetings & welcome to another edition of Pushing The Envelope.
The 5/14 program focused on longer pieces since I was jammed for time due to a week spent travelling (Montana, Wyoming, Idaho) with my daughter, her husband and four and a half year old twins. When I got back I needed a vacation from the vacation. As usual, music from all over the spectrum.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
5-14-22 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Rainforest IV (excerpt) - composer: David Tudor / ensemble: Composers Inside Electronics - Rainforest IV - Neuma (2022)
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https://composersinsideelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/composers-inside-electronics-perform-david-tudors-rainforest-iv
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Capriccio - Hub New Music / composer: Michael Ippolito - Cappriccio - digital release (2021)
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https://hubnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/capriccio
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In Zeungen - Rainer Bürck / Marko Kassl, accordion - Feurer Zeungen Glocken Saiten - Earsay Music (2022)
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https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/feuer-zungen-glocken-saiten
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Modul 6 / Modul 8_9 - Nik Bärtsch - Hishiryo: Piano Solo - Ronin Rhythm Records (2006)
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https://roninrhythmrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hishiryo-piano-solo-2
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Suite Ran - Bi Kyo Ran - Parallax - Belle Antique (1983)
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Silver Apples of the Moon: Revisited (50th Anniversary • LIVE at Redcat • Feb. 13, 2018) - Morton Subotnick - Dublab (2022)
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https://dublab.bandcamp.com/album/silver-apples-of-the-moon-revisited-50th-anniversary-live-at-redcat-feb-13-2018
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Le Son Doublé (excerpt) - pä (Paulo da Fonseca) - digital release (2021)
- https://lesondouble.bandcamp.com/album/le-son-doubl
Greetings!
A lot of synchronicity occurred in the construction of this particular show. It started with the book pictured below which was rescued from a local thrift store. It consists, as the title indicates, of a collection of program notes for performances of compositions with the tuba as a solo classical instrument. As I started going through it, I found that while there were some interesting pieces documented, the copyright date was 1994. This, in turn, inspired a dive down another internet rabbit hold to find more current tuba based music. In addition as I was digging, I found that May 6th, the day before the broadcast, was International Tuba Day. Whoda thunk?
My resulting research turned up three doctoral dissertations which focused on various aspects of tuba repertoire, a solo tuba discography & a resource for composers concerning the capabilities of tuba, including the use of extended techniques.
⦁ Investigating "experimentalism" : a case study of the tuba and its repertoire - Andrew Brian Larson - DMA diss., Louisiana State University, 2013 ⦁ Tuba Solo Discography: A Comprehensive Guide to Solo Literature Recordings Released on Compact Disc - Brian Gallion - DMA diss., Louisiana State University, 2010. ⦁ The Composers Guide To The Tuba: Creating A New Resource On The Capabilities of the Tuba - Aaron Michael Hynds - DMA diss., Graduate College of Bowling Green State University (2019)
With these resources, it's your turn to deep dive into contemporary tuba music.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopwhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
Playlist: 5/7/22 Pushing The Envelope: Celebrating International Tuba Day
- T.U.B.A. Canon / Bourbon Regurgitation - tubas: Brian Gallion / Joseph Skillen - 2ba 2unes - Mark Records
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https://markcustom.com/MarkCustom_New/Menu2_ViewAlbum.asp?CDNum=52098-MCD
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Concerto for Tuba & Orchestra - tuba: Velvet Freeman / Bowling Green Philharmonia / composer: John Williams - New Music from Bowling Green - Albany Records (2004)
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https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR∏_Code=TROY633&Category_Code=a-NR
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Second Hand Paint - Leo Bachmann - Palette of Sounds - Unit Records (2001)
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http://leobachmann.ch/
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Low - tuba: Jay Rozen / piano: Joseph Kubera / composer: Howard Skempton - Naked Singularity; Killer Tuba Songs V. 2 - Composers Concordance Records (2015)
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https://jayrozen.wixsite.com/tuba
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Idiot Bastard Son - Jay Rozen / composer: Frank Zappa - Naked Singularity; Killer Tuba Songs V. 2 - Composers Concordance Records (2015)
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https://jayrozen.wixsite.com/tuba
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Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie (Any Mo') - Taj Mahal, feat. Howard Johnson - The Real Thing - Columbia/Legacy (1971)
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https://www.tajblues.com/discography/
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Silicate - ORE (Sam Underwood) - Belatedly - digital release (2017)
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https://oretubadoom.bandcamp.com/
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Music For Two Big Instruments - tuba: Alan Baer / piano: Brad Haag / composer: Alex Shapiro - Notes from the Kelp - Innova (2007)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/alex-shapiro/notes-kelp
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Western Sky - Tom Heasley - Where The Earth Meets The Sky - Hypnos (2001)
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http://www.soundswim.com/products/594735-tom-heasley-where-the-earth-meets-the-sky
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Eclipse - violin: L Subranamiam / tuba: Øystein Baadsvik / vocal: Kavita Krishnamurti - Journey: music for Indian violin & tuba - BIS (2018)
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https://bis.se/composer/subramaniam-lakshminarayana/journey-music-for-indian-violin-tuba
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Serenade No. 12 for Solo Tuba, Opus 88 - tuba: David Zerkel / composer: Vincent Persichetti - American Music For Tuba: Something Old Something New - Mark Records (2006)
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https://smtd.umich.edu/about/faculty-profiles/david-zerkel/
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Incurzion for Tuba & Synthesizer - tuba: Ben Miles / composer: Curtis Olsen - Contraptions - Blue Griffin (2012)
- https://www.bluegriffin.com/cd-catalog/p/contraptions-ben-miles
Greetings, Friends.
Having received my second COVID booster on Wednesday and having my typical reaction, which is essentially like having COVID come and tap you on the shoulder and say, "Remember me?" (I had it last January. Feh.) I took a steady stream of Tylenol on Thursday so I could wrap up this weeks program and get the files in to WHUS. So not the most "sparkling" vocal presentation, but functional.
Enjoy and stay safe!
Joel
e-mail: pushingetheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
4/30 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- For Frey - piano: Kate Ledger / composer: Matthew Lee Knowles - FOR [PART ONE: ACCRETION] - digital self-release (2022)
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https://matthewleeknowles.bandcamp.com/album/for-part-one-accretion
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Come - Randi Pontoppidan and Sissel Vera Pettersen - Inner Lift - Chant Records (2021)
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https://randipontoppidansisselverapettersen.bandcamp.com/album/inner-lift-2
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The Different Dimension - Jason Wayne Sneed and Toshinori Kondo - Guardians Of The Most Cosmic Shrine - Chant Records (2022)
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https://jasonwaynesneed.bandcamp.com/album/guardians-of-the-most-cosmic-shrine
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Bushwick - Graham Haynes vs Submerged - Echolocation - Burning Ambulance Music (2021)
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https://grahamhaynesvssubmerged.bandcamp.com/
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He Loved Him Madly - Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969–1974 - Sony (1998)
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https://www.soundonsound.com/people/bill-laswell-re-shaping-music-miles-davis
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Alma - flute: Sarah Frisof / piano: Daniel Pesca / composer: Tania Leon - Beauty Crying Forth: Flute Music By Women Across Time - Furious Artisans (2020)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/beauty-crying-forth-flute-music-by-women-across-time/
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Timberline - Relâche / composer: Lois V. Vierk - Outcome Inevitable - OO Discs (1994)
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https://www.relache.org/ https://www.loisvvierk.com/
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Tread On The Trail - Delta Saxophone Quartet / composer: Terry Riley - Minimal Tendencies - Clarinet Classics (1998)
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https://www.deltasax.com/
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Daymoon Maidment - Shalmaneser - Vierhehbigkeit - Doubtful Palace Music / Aural Films (2021)
- https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/vierhebigkeit
Greetings!
Among this week's musical wanderings, Phase 2 presents a sizeable chunk of prog created by Steve Hackett, including Genesis (after Peter Gabriel's departure) and his early solo works, in addition to his influence on the next generation of musicians including Tiger Moth Tales & the Spectral Mornings 2015 project.
Stay Safe & Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: @envpusher1
4/23 Pushing The Envelope Playlist
- Chin Go Gae - Carl Stone - Music for Ukraine - We Jazz Records (2022)
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https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-ukraine
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The Famous Box-Trick (2015) for bass flute and electronics - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Francesca Verunelli - Density 2036: part iii (2015) - Corbett vs. Dempsey (2020)
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https://clairechase.bandcamp.com/album/density-2036-part-iii-2015
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Swimming In The Dust - Audio Obscura vs Black Sonar - A Scream From Outer Space - Subexotic Records (2020)
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https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-scream-from-outer-space
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Avara - Ozone Player - Avara - self-release (2022)
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https://ozoneplayer.bandcamp.com/
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Mad Man Moon - Genesis - Atco (1976)
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A Visit to Chigwick - Tiger Moth Tales - Still Alive / A Visit To Rockfield - White Knight Records (2020)
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https://tigermothtales.bandcamp.com/
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Icarus Ascending - Steve Hacket feat. Richie Havens - Please Don't Touch - Chrarisma Records (1978)
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http://www.hackettsongs.com
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Spectral Mornings 2015 (Classic Mix) - Christina Booth, David Longdon, Rob Reed, Nick Beggs, Nick D'Virgilio, Steve Hackett - Esoteric Antenna (2015)
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Tiger Moth - Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings - Chrysalis (1979)
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http://www.hackettsongs.com/
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In Her Words - Stefania Kenessey - In Her Words - Neuma Records (2022)
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https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/stefania-de-kenessey-in-her-words
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Inni - Jessica McMann - Musicworks #141 - Musicworks (2022)
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https://www.musicworks.ca/sound-bite/jessica-mcmann-brings-music-home
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Subterranean - Museleon - Eidoleon - digital self-release (2022)
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https://museleon.bandcamp.com/releases
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Mysterium - Held By Trees - Solace - Tweed Jacket Music (2022)
- https://heldbytrees.com/
Greetings, Fair Listeners!
Welcome to this week's installment of Pushing The Envelope. I continue to listen to the many releases that came in when the program was shut down due to the pandemic and other aspects of real life, like moving from Connecticut to Maryland. I've been feeding things from this pile along with brand new and even pre-released music that's been rolling in (like the Pluhm track).
I hope you enjoy breadth of scope I try to present and please feel free to get in touch.
Take care,
Joel
PTE e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
4/9/2 PTE Playlist
- Such is Now the Necessity - Loadband / composer: Paula Matthusen - Plays Well With Others - New Focus Recordings (2021)
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https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/loadbang-plays-well-with-others
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Letter From Woody: Pastures of Plenty / Hobo's Lullaby / The Growling Old Man & Woman / Love You Down To Your Feet / The Scribbling Will Remain - Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Jiří Petrdlík, conductor / composer: Andy Teirstein - RESTLESS NATION: THE MUSIC OF ANDY TEIRSTEIN - Navona Records (2022)
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https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6397/
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Old Schmeckled Hen - Solilians - In the Running 2: Solilians - American Klezmische - I Heart Noise (2022)
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https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-running-2-solilians-american-klezmische
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Dissolver - Hard Rubber Orchester / composer: Peggy Lee - Iguana - Redshift Records (2022)
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https://www.hardrubber.com/info
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Loony & Blue - FS3 - Cats ‘n’ Strats - Cats ‘n’ Strats Records (2022)
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https://glassonyonpr.com/category/fs3/
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Cosmik Krautrock - Stephan Thelen feat. David Torn & Markus Reuter - Fractal Guitar 2 - Moonjune Records (2021)
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https://stephanthelen-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/fractal-guitar-2
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VII - Octarine Sky feat. Guthrie Govan - Close To Nearby - Uberwald Records (2021)
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100055373160597
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Electric Birds - Phase Duo - Generative Glimpse - Chant Records (2022)
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https://chantrecords.com/releases/phase-duo-generative-glimpse/
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Unsettle - Bent Duo: David Friend, piano / Bill Soloman, percussion / composer: Sarah Hennies - Spectral Malsconcities - New World Records (2020)
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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/sarah-hennies-spectral-malsconcities
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Loro ci sono sempre stati (They’ve always been there.) - Pluhm - Canzoni Di Buio E Luce (Songs of Dark and Light) - SubExotic Records (2022)
- https://www.subexotic.com/
Greetings!
Welcome to the latest installment of Pushing The Envelope. A sizeable chunk of this week's program focuses on the work of Mike Garson, both as composer and pianist/keyboard player whose is particularly noted for his years playing live and in studio with David Bowie.
For further insight into Mr. Garson's work, check out Clifford Slapper's book, "Bowie's Piano Man: The Life of Mike Garson" and for his own insight into his work with Bowie, the fascinating 2017 documentary, "David Bowie: The Last Five Years".
Enjoy!!
Joel
P.S. If you'd like to get in touch: here's the e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
4/2 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
- Selected Nowtudes - piano: Danny Holt / composer: Mike Garson - Piano Music of Mike Garson - Innova (2022)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/danny-holt/piano-music-mike-garson
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Tribute to David - Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations - Reference Recordings (2011)
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https://referencerecordings.com/recording/the-bowie-variations-garson/
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Heroes - Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations - Reference Recordings (2011)
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https://referencerecordings.com/recording/the-bowie-variations-garson/
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Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) - David Bowie feat. Mike Garson - Aladdin Sane - Parlophone (2015/1973)
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Life On Mars - David Bowie feat. Mike Garson - Net Aid: Wembley Stadium (1999)
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https://youtu.be/zEa4WZaWKAw
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Life On Mars - Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross - Watchmen: Vol. 3 (Music from the HBO Series) - The Null Corporation (2019)
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https://variety.com/2020/music/news/trent-reznor-atticus-ross-watchmen-score-interview-1234696355/
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Blackstar - Mya Beiser / Evan Ziporyn / Ambient Orchestra - Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar - Islandia Music (2020)
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https://www.islandiamusic.com/#content
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ecole polytechnique - Hildegard Westerkamp - Breaking News - Earsay Music (2021)
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https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-news
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Ni ici, ni là-bas - Juro Kim Feliz - Musicworks #141 - Musicworks (2022)
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https://www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside-musicworks-141
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Dawn Chorus (In memory of Terry Boblet) - Dubious Candy - Women Take Back The Drone (compilation) - digital release (2022)
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https://womentakebackthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/various-women-take-back-the-drone
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Witch Versus Men & Machines - Cyoakha Grace - Women Take Back The Drone (compilation) - digital release (2022)
- https://womentakebackthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/various-women-take-back-the-drone
Greetings!
Welcome to the latest installment of Pushing The Envelope. As you will note, I was recovering from a fairly intense chest cold that my 4 year old grandson, he of the large germs, was kind enough to share with me. I therefore opted to have some fun with some online text to speech voices and processing to present the show. Enjoy!!
Joel
P.S. If you'd like to get in touch, here's the e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
3/19/22 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
- Planet (Live) - Solilians - In the Running 1 - Skyjelly / Solilians - I Heart Noise (2020)
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https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-running-1-skyjelly-solilians
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Seein It (Vinyl) - Skyjelly - Skyjelly / Solilians - I Heart Noise (2020)
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https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-running-1-skyjelly-solilians
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Poptones - Jah Wobble - Metal Box - Rebuilt In Dub - Cleopatra (2021)
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http://cleorecs.com/home/playlist/jah-wobble-metal-box-rebuilt-in-dub/
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Unison - String Noise - A Lunch Between Order and Chaos - self-release (2021)
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https://stringnoise.bandcamp.com/album/a-lunch-between-order-and-chaos
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Part 1 - Francisco Mela and Shinya Lin - Motions Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2022)
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https://www.577records.com/5908-1
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Celestial Navigation - Richard Carr - Over The Ridge - Neuma Records (2021)
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https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/richard-carr-over-the-edge
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Sirens of Kyiv / Crowd Life Underground - Squid In Chains (Douglas Schmidt / John Oliver / Francois Houle) - Sirens of Kyiv - John Oliver Music (2022)
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https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/sirens-of-kyiv
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The Mask - Octarine Sky feat. Simon Phillips & Guthrie Govan- Close To Nearby - Uberwald Records (2021)
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https://twitter.com/OctarineSkyBand
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Fives - Lee Ritenour w/ Guthrie Govan & Tal Wilkenfeld - Lee Ritenour's 6 String Theory - Concord Records (2010)
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https://leeritenour.com/music/6-string-theory/
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Alien Orifice - Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention - Zappa Records (1985)
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https://www.zappa.com/music/frank-zappa-meets-mothers-prevention
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The Advent of Panurge - Gentle Giant - Octopus (Steven Wilson Mix) - Alucard (1972/2015)
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https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/Octopus#CD_releases
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This Is The Way I Am - Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside - Rachel Flowers Music (2021)
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http://rachelflowersmusic.com/discography/bigger-on-the-inside/
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For A. E. On Their 30th Birthday - piano: Kate Ledger /composer: Matthew Lee Knowles - FOR [PART ONE: ACCRETION]" - digital release (2022)
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https://matthewleeknowles.bandcamp.com/album/for-part-one-accretion
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Fists - Perry Botkin, Jr. - Combines 3 - self-release (2003)
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La Muchacha De Los Suenos Dorados - Harold Budd / Ruben Garcia / Daniel Lentz - Music for Three Pianos - Gyroscope / All Saints Records (1992)
Greetings!
"Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" returns to the airwaves of WHUS, now in pre-recorded form, following a move from Connecticut to Maryland. It airs in it's same time-slot, Saturdays from 11am to 1pm EST, should you want to hear it fresh off the presses, or you can check it out at your leisure, here.
To get in touch, here's the new email: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Enjoy!
Joel
Playlist for "Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" 3/12/22
- \very/ specifically vague - Transient Canvas (bass clarinet: Amy Advocat/percussion:Matt Sharrock) / composer: Emily Koh - Right now, in a second - New Focus (2020)
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https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/transient-canvas-right-now-in-a-second/
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medi + aTion - baritone sax: Philipp Staudin / composer: Emily Koh - [word] plays - Innova (2021)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/emily-koh/wordplays
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Postnuclearwinterscenario - guitar: William Anderson / composer: JacobTV - GENIUS LOCI: Audacities & Properties - Ravello Records (2021)
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https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8047/index.html
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On The Sixth Attempt They Trod On It - Peter Banks’s Harmony In Diversity - The Best Of... - The Peter Banks Musical Estate (2021)
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https://glassonyonpr.com/category/peter-banks/
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The Shadow Garden - Bill Nelson - Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks from the Echo Observatory - Cocteau Discs (2017)
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https://www.billnelson.com/dreamy-screens
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Hallogallo - Neu! - Neu! - Groenland Records (1972)
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https://www.groenland.com/en/artist/neu-2/
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Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom - Virgin (1974)
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Champegarpaen - Jean Yves Labat - M. Frog - Bearsville (1973)
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The Rhythm of the Heat - Security Project - Contact - 7d Media (2017)
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https://securityproject.bandcamp.com/album/contact
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Nights in White Satin / Moggio - The Ed Palermo Big Band - The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III: Run for Your Life - Sky Cat Records (2020)
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https://palermobigband.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-un-american-songbook-vol-iii-run-for-your-life
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Dark Riders - Matrix - Matrix IX - RCA (1977)
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http://www.matrixjazz.com/
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I'm a Mineralist - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports - Columbia (1981)
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https://www.allmusic.com/album/nick-masons-fictitious-sports-mw0000094501
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Jagannath - Simon Phillips - Protocol V - Phantom Recordings (2022)
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http://www.simon-phillips.com/
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Luciform for flute & electronics - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Mario Diaz de Leon - Density 2036 (2013-2015) - Corbett vs Dempsey (2020)
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http://www.clairechase.net/densityoverview
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Dover Beach (from "Jubilee", 1978) - Brian Eno - Film Music 1976-2020 - Opal Records (2020)
- http://brian-eno.net
Greetings!
After leaving the airwaves and live broadcasting upon the advent of the pandemic, "Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" returns to the airwaves of WHUS, now in pre-recorded form, following a move from Connecticut to Maryland. It airs in it's same time-slot, Saturdays from 11am to 1pm EST, should you want to hear it fresh off the presses, or you can check it out at your leisure, here.
To get in touch, here's the new email: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Enjoy!
Joel
Playlist for "Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" 2/26/22
- Little Rotors (Requiem for Osmia) - Museleon - In Other Places Too - self-release (2020)
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https://museleon.bandcamp.com/track/little-rotors-requiem-for-osmia
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Backmask - preston.outatime - Mirror Radius - Subexotic (2021)
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https://prestonoutatime.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-radius-2
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Four Parts Five:, part 2 - Gordon Beeferman - Four Parts Five - Innova (2015)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/gordon-beeferman/four-parts-five
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Land of Dragons Suite - Anthony Phillips -Missing Links I-IV - Esoteric Recordings (2020)
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http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/
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Theusz Hamtaahk (fragment) - Magma - Eskähl 2020 Bordeaux-Toulouse-Perpignan - Seventh Records (2021)
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https://seventhrecordsmagma.bandcamp.com/album/esk-hl-2020-bordeaux-toulouse-perpignan
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Pigs (Three Different Ones) - James LaBrie / Al Di Meola, Joe Bouchard / Patrick Moraz / Billy Cobham - Animals Reimagined - A Tribute to Pink Floyd - Cleopatra (2021)
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http://cleorecs.com/home/playlist/animals-reimagined-a-tribute-to-pink-floyd/
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The Endless Enigma - Keith Emerson Band & Rachel Flowers - Fanfare for the Uncommon Man: The Official Keith Emerson Tribute Concert - Cherry Red (2021)
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https://fanfarefortheuncommonman.com/
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Take Me Away - Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside - Rachel Flowers Music (2021)
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http://rachelflowersmusic.com/
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Shipol - KALI Trio - LOOM - Ronin Rhythm Records (2021)
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https://roninrhythmrecords.bandcamp.com/album/loom
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Master Builder - Gong - Live At The Gong Family Unconventional Gathering by Gong - A-Wave (2021)
- https://gong2032.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-gong-family-unconventional-gathering
Greetings!
After leaving the airwaves and live broadcasting upon the advent of the pandemic, "Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" returns to the airwaves of WHUS, now in pre-recorded form, following a move from Connecticut to Maryland. It airs in it's same time-slot, Saturdays from 11am to 1pm EST, should you want to hear it fresh off the presses, or you can check it out at your leisure, here.
To get in touch, here's the new email: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Enjoy!
Joel
Playlist for "Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" 2/26/22
- Crimson Jig - City Weezle - No. 2 - self-release (2020)
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https://cityweezle.bandcamp.com
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Protuberanzen Nos. 2 & 3 - TRIONYS - Earsay Music (2021)
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https://earsay.com/
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Bell Illuminations - piano: Daniel Pesca / composer: Augusta Read Thomas - Promontory - Neuma Records (2021)
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www.NeumaRecords.org
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31 Breaths - Douglas Schmidt - Isolation Journal 4 - Friends - John Oliver Music (2021)
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https://johnolivermusic.com/
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31 Clouds - John Oliver & Douglas Schmidt - Isolation Journal 4 - John Oliver Music (2021)
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https://johnolivermusic.com/
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Citrus, My Love (Scenes 1-8) - accordian/composer: Guy Klucevsek w/ The Bantam Orchestra - Citrus, My Love -Starkland (2021/1995)
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https://www.starkland.com/
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Hammers - percussion ensemble: RECAP / flute: Tiahna Sterling / composer: Allison Loggins-Hull - Count To Five - Innova (2021)
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https://www.innova.mu/albums/recap/count-five
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Type Writer - Flutronix (Nathalie Joachim / Allison Loggins-Hull) - Flutronix 2.0 - Flutronix Records (2014)
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https://www.flutronix.com/
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Donershtik - Amanda Chaudhary - Meow Meow Band - self-release (2021)
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https://amandachaudhary.bandcamp.com/album/meow-meow-band
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Preview - Grant Calvin Weston - Dance Romance - In & Out Records (1988)
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https://gcalvinweston1.bandcamp.com/
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Offering (Parts I-IV) - composer: Douglas J. Cuomo /feat. Nels Cline and the Aizuri Quartet - Seven Limbs - Sunnyside Records (2021)
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https://www.sunnysiderecords.com/site/release_detail?id=1084
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House of Return - The Jeff Gauthier Goatette - Cryptogramophone (2008)
- https://cryptogramophone.com/
Greetings!
PTE's radio presence continues for it's 28th year, airing on Saturday mornings from 10am – 1pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you a new series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty.
Enjoy!
Joel
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!
The concerts will take place from June 15-19 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
http://xelanaduo.com/
Xelana Duo balances the refinement of classical music while zigzagging through hip-hop, blues, flamenco, bollywood, and rock n' roll. The Duo surprises you with an unexpected instrumentation filled with vibrant shades, that are each dazzling on their own, but simply breathtaking when joined together. Daring these two instruments to have a conversation, Xelana Duo commissions electrifying works, creating an ice-breaker for this unusual collaboration of bassoon and saxophone.
Ana and Alex return to Connecticut Summerfest for a second year as one of three ensembles-in-residence. During our talk, they catch us up on what has developed since last year's Summerfest and their future plans.
Enjoy!
Greetings!
Welcome to the return of the Pushing The Envelope Podcast! PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the fourth in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty. Today's podcast features an interview with CT Summerfest ensemble-in-residence, Apple Orange Pair.
Don't forget, PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27th year, airing on Saturdays from 11am to 2pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
Enjoy!
Joel
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
Apple Orange Pair (Emily Boyer, horn, and Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp) is a duo committed to engaging audiences through a growing repertoire for this unexpected pairing. Since its founding in Connecticut in 2010, the duo has premiered fourteen new works by emerging composers. Five of these new works are featured on their debut album, “Seeds,” released in 2013. Apple Orange Pair regularly serves as an ensemble-in-residence at new music festivals and universities, where they present workshops on contemporary composition for their instruments and bring to life new works by student and faculty composers.
They have performed as ensemble-in-residence at Connecticut Summerfest at Hartt School of Music in Hartford, where they are returning for a second season this June, and are serving as ensemble-in-residence for Central Connecticut State University’s music department for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Apple Orange Pair has been honored as the recipient of commissioning grants from the American Harp Society and the Yale School of Music’s alumniVentures program. They have also participated in several chamber music residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire.
For further information, please visit http://www.appleorangepair.com
Greetings!
Welcome to the return of the Pushing The Envelope Podcast! PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the third in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty. Today's podcast features an interview with CT Summerfest composer faculty member, Gilda Lyons.
Don't forget, PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27th year, airing on Saturdays from 11am to 2pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
Enjoy!
Joel
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
GILDA LYONS, composer, vocalist, and visual artist, combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, folk, agitprop Music Theater, and extended vocalism to create works of uncompromising emotional honesty and melodic beauty. An active vocalist and fierce advocate of contemporary music, Dr. Lyons has commissioned, premiered, and workshopped new vocal works by dozens of composers.
She received her Ph.D. in Music Composition from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Bard College. Dr. Lyons made her professional debut as composer and vocalist with the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra in 1997, performing the world premiere of her orchestral song cycle "Feis."
As composer, current recording projects include the release of Lyons’ work by Quince and Entelechron in the upcoming season. Lyons’ vocal collaboration with Laura Ward will be released on Lyric Fest’s all-Hagen CD. Sing for Hope featured Lyons' Hold On on their most recent release, An AIDS Quilt Songbook. Lindsey Goodman's tour de force performance of Lyons' Chrysalis was released on Goodman's debut CD, reach through the sky. As composer and vocalist her works and performances are available on the Clarion, GPR Records, Naxos, New Dynamic Records, and Roven Records labels.
Dr. Lyons serves on the Board of Advisors of Composers Now and teaches composition at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. In addition, she is Artistic and Executive Director of The Phoenix Concerts, New York's "intrepid" and "plucky Upper West Side new-music series" (The New Yorker). Their mission is to offer excellent contemporary concert music of a broad stylistic range, commission new works by emerging and established composers and to remain committed to the inclusive nature of musical performance.
For further information, please visit www.gildalyons.com.
Greetings!
Welcome to the return of the Pushing The Envelope Podcast! PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the second in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty.
Don't forget, PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27th year, airing on Saturday mornings from 10am – 1pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
Enjoy!
Joel
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
Ken Steen is a composer, sound artist and educator living in Glastonbury, CT. His music sits squarely on the frontier between the acoustic and electronic domains of musical expression; often combining traditional orchestra, chamber ensemble or soloist with electronic instruments or processed sound and noise. He is currently Professor of Composition and Theory, director of Studio D at the Hartt School, University of Hartford and member of the 2017 CT Summerfest composition faculty.
In addition to composing concert music in many forms, Steen has composed a wide variety of works both acoustic and electronic for sound installation, dance, theater and web-distribution. His music and soundworks have been featured on concert and radio programs throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Australia, Cuba and Japan among others.
Steen's music can be found on the Capstone, Vienna Modern Masters, Auralit and CRI CD labels, as well as at www.kensteen.com, and is published by University of Arizona Publications, Harrock Hall Music as well as American Composers Edition.
Greetings!
As the phoenix rises from the ashes, so returns the Pushing The Envelope Podcast! PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27yh year, airing on Saturday mornings from 10am – 1pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the first in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty.
Enjoy!
Joel
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
https://youtu.be/JrzF8r9vrxE
Xelana Duo balances the refinement of classical music while zigzagging through hip-hop, blues, flamenco, bollywood, and rock n' roll. The Duo surprises you with an unexpected instrumentation filled with vibrant shades, that are each dazzling on their own, but simply breathtaking when joined together. Daring these two instruments to have a conversation, Xelana Duo commissions electrifying works, creating an ice-breaker for this unusual collaboration of bassoon and saxophone.
Get to know Ana García Caraballos and Alex Davis, the artists behind Xelana Duo!
Greetings!
Hi....remember Pushing The Envelope? The radio program version on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live) has continued on, but the rigors of graduate school put the brakes on the podcast. That period of my life has ended and so the return of the podcast. Any questions, let me know.
Best wishes,
Joel
2-1-2014 PTE Playlist
Landler Land composer: Daniel Goode Annbling New World Records (2014)
Greetings! Remember me? While “Pushing The Envelope” has continued with its radio presence, airing on Saturday mornings from 10 – Noon EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (tune in: http://www.whus.org/listen-live ). The podcast, on the other hand, has had to take a back seat to grad school. That being said, it’s not every day we have the opportunity celebrate John Cage’s 100th birthday.
Enjoy!
Joel
Episode 16: John Cage 100th Birthday PTE Podcast (9-8-12)
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Dream / A Room composer: John Cage / piano: Bruce Brubaker Glass Cage Arabesque Recordings (2000)
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The Seasons composer: John Cage / American Composers Orchestra, cond. Dennis Russell Davies The Seasons ECM New Series (2000)
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Five / Songbooks Singer Pur Electric Seraphim KuK (1998)
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4'33" - live radio performance composer: John Cage
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Suite for Toy Piano composer: John Cage / toy piano: Stephen Drury In A Landscape Catalyst (1994)
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Williams Mix (1952) John Cage OHM: the early gurus of electronic music Ellipsis Arts (1999)
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Six (1991) composer: John Cage / percussion: Glenn Freeman Three2 / Twenty-Three / Six / Twenty-Six Ogre Ogress (1999) http://ogreogress.com/
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One6 A (1990) composer: John Cage / violin: Christina Fong ONEviolin Ogre Ogress (1998) http://ogreogress.com/
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In A Landscape composer: John Cage / piano: Margaret Leng Tan Musicworks #52 Musicworks (1992) http://www.musicworks.ca/
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Sonatas I - IV for prepared piano composer: John Cage / prepared piano: Boris Berman Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano Naxos (1999) http://www.naxos.com
Greetings!
Yes, it's been a while. I just finished my first semester of grad school this morning and this is the first nano-second I've had to devote some time to getting a new podcast up here. Thanks to all the new listeners and subscribers who've arrived in my absence and also to those folks who've been so patient in waiting for the arrival of Episode 15.
I am particularly fond of this show since it's got a bunch of things that are my favorites. Let me know what you think.
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Happy & Healthy New Year!
Joel
Episode 15: Pushing The Envelope Podcast
Dead Elvis - composer: Michael Dauhgerty / bassoon: Charles Ullery - London Sinfonietta cond. David Zinman - American Icons - Argo (1998)
http://www.michaeldaugherty.net/
Matchmaker - composer: Jerry Bock (R.I.P.) / The Residents - Knitting On The Roof - Knitting Factory Records
http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/00_03/wet_ink/music_im/085_knitting_on_the_roof.shtml
Scenes From The Electric Circus -Djam Karet - Reflections from the Firepool - HC Prod. (1989)
http://www.djamkaret.com/disc-rftp.php
Duck Blind - Paul Dresher Ensemble - Slow Fire - Minmax (1993)
http://www.dresherensemble.org/
Frog A le Peche - Charles Carpenter - Frog A Le Peche - Caterwaul (1994)
http://www.charlescarpenter.net/index.html
Hyperballad - Travis Sullivan's Bjokestra - Enjoy! - KOCH (2008)
http://www.bjorkestra.com
Sabbath Prayer - Uri Cane - Knitting On The Roof - Knitting Factory Records
http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/00_03/wet_ink/music_im/085_knitting_on_the_roof.shtml
She Said - T - Naive - Galileo Records (2002)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4855
Anchor - Lonely Universe - A La Plage - Rant (1993)
http://www.nette.ca/rantjazz/biolu.htm
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (OST) -Milan (1994)
http://www.sitesakamoto.com/
Fugue for Sam (1989) - Michael Horwood - Motility - Furiant Records (2000)
http://www.horwoodcomposer.com/
The Fog Of War - Philip Glass - The Fog of War (OST) - Orange Mountain Music (2003)
http://www.philipglass.com/
From the North - Philharmonie - Nord - Cuneiform Records (1994)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5214
Stub - composer: Gram Fitkin / Dleta Saxophone Quartet - Facing Death - FMR Records (2002)
http://www.fitkin.com/
Ground Zero -Tom Heasley - Where the Earth Meets the Sky - Hypnos (2001)
http://tomheasley.com/
Greetings!
So, now we're a baker's dozen episodes in and there's 283 of you fine folks on board worldwide as subscribers. Again, many thanks! I hope you're enjoying the programs and should you have any suggestions or comments as to what you're hearing or what you'd like to hear, please feel free to get in touch.
Until next time,
Take care.
Joel
Now Playing: Messenger of the Sun - Cyrille Verdeaux
http://www.clearlight888music.com/catalog.htm
Episode 13 PTE Playlist
Inverting The Sphere - Eric Glick Rieman - Trilogy From The Outside - self-release (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/ericglickrieman
Aime Moie - Etans Donnes - Bleu - STAALPLAAT (1993)
http://etant-donnes.com
Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum - composer: Harrison Birtwistle / ensemble: Alarm Will Sound - A/rhythmia - Nonesuch (2009)
http://www.alarmwillsound.com/recordings.html
Porcelain - Demians - Mute - InsideOut Music (2010)
http://www.myspace.com/demiansmusic
Fractured Bronze - Marc Barreca - Subterranean - Palace of Lights (2010)
http://www.palaceoflights.com
Abandoned Mines - Barry Cleveland - Hologramatron - Moonjune Records (2010)
http://www.barrycleveland.com/
Le Provence - 7 for 4 - Contact Streetlife Studios (2001)
http://www.7for4.de
broken aphorism_15 [-=] - Anti-Social Music - Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore Innova (2010)
http://www.patmuchmore.com/FractureCD.html
Journey Stars Beyond - Sun Ra And His Omniverse Jet-set Arkestra - Detroit Jazz Center 1980 Art Yard (2010)
http://www.reusa.com
Aviation - Elephant9 - Walk The Nile - Rune Gramofon (2010)
http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/elephant9/rcd-2095-elephant9_-walk-the-nile
Heyday - Kombinat M - Hybrid Beat - Cuneiform Records (1993)
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2598
Material Real - Allan Holdsworth - Road Games - Warner Bros. (1983)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5287
Plasmodium Falciparum - Local 7 - Substrat - Musea (2002)
http://www.dprp.net/reviews/0211.htm
In The Darkness - Steven Schoenberg - Live: An Improvisational Journey - JKN (2010)
http://www.stevenschoenberg.com/
Greetings!
I've been quite busy, to say the least. Finished up my employment with the U.S. Census, purchased my books for school which starts in a couple of weeks and have started my reading in the glorious field of Speech/Language Pathology. (A recommended course of action for those, like myself, have been out of the world of graduate academia since the 80's.)
Arguably, more important, attending two wonderful shows at MASS MOCA featuring the Bang On A Can Summer Music Festival (http://bangonacan.org/summer_festival). First was a celebration of International George Crumb Day which featured an afternoon gallery performance of "Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)" for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists, followed by a concert performance which included Crumb's string quartet, "Black Angels".
The following weekend was the 6 hour Bang On A Can Marathon. Highlights for me included performances of: Tom Johnson's, "Narayana's Cows", Ted Hearne's, "Katrina Ballads", Michael Gordon's. "Yo, Shakespeare", and Steve Reich's, "Double Sextet". Should you have the opportunity to attend, it would certainly be worth your time. (Here is a listing of the full summer festival performance schedule: http://bangonacan.org/summer_festival/performance_calendar )
As always, please tell your friends about "Pushing The Envelope", the more subscribers, the merrier. (Don't forget to check us out on Facebook and MySpace.)
Until next time,
Take care,
Joel
Now onto this week's playlist:
Episode 12: Pushing The Envelope Podcast (6-17-10)
Birds & Machines (machine suite) /Gen Ken Montgomery / Birds & Machines (1980 - 1989) / Pogus Productions (2010)
http://www.pogus.com
Track 1 / Green Flem / Unstable Hairy Back Melodies (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/imgreenflem
hommage / K. Leimer / degraded certainties / Palace of Lights (2010)
http://www.palaceoflights.com
Chole and the Pirates / Soft Machine / NDR Jazz Workshop / Cuneiform Records (2010)
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com
Beautiful Pea Green Boat / Laurie Anderson / Bright Red Warner Brothers (1994)
http://www.laurieanderson.com/projects/
Homespun (topophilia) / Alexander Baker / Deep Wireless 7: Radio Art Compilation New Adventures In Sound Art (2010)
http://www.naisa.ca
Where Is Home? / Viv Corringham / Deep Wireless 7: Radio Art Compilation New Adventures In Sound Art (2010)
http://www.naisa.ca
Barugon / Murder Lengendre / Collection Spine Punch Music (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/murderlegendre
(Re)Bound /Gray Code / Floating Point / Circumvention Music (2010)
http://www.circumventionmusic.com
Leaves Again / Jake Herzog / Patterns / Buckyball Records (2010)
http://www.buckyballmusic.com
Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles (1995) / Charles Dodge / A Retrospective (1977 - 2009) / New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org
My Dad Makes Robots / Jack Curtis Dubowsky / Vocal Music / De Stijl Music
http://www.destijlmusic.com
The Super Thing / Devo / New Traditionalists Warner Bros.
http://www.clubdevo.com/
Ashtray Man / Blue Sausage / Flight Of The Solstice Queens / Zero Moon (2010)
http://bluesausageinfant.com/
R.P.F. In Tuva (to Richard Feynman) / Gregg Bendian / Definite Pitch Aggregate Music (1994)
http://www.greggbendian.com/page.cfm?content=disc_detail&id=13
Greetings!
Featured in this week's podcast are a number of tracks from one of my favorite releases in 2010, Joe Frawley's latest, "Left Cincinnati". I am pleased to let you know that on July 15th, Joe will be my guest on "Pushing The Envelope", live in the studio, where we will discuss and play his music in addition to letting Joe spin music that he has found influential to his own artistic development.
Please join us, streamed live, on Thursday, July 15th from 8 to 10 PM, EST. http://www.whus.org
Any questions? Please let me know!
Joel
Episode 11: Pushing The Envelope Podcast (5-27-2010)
Mysteries Of Love - Stomu Yamashta's Go - Go Too - One Way Records (1977)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta
Polarity - composer: Kathy Jackanich / ensemble: Zeitgeist - In Bone-Colored Light - Innova (2010)
http://innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=402
The Golden Needle - A Produce - Slumberland (episode one) - Waveform (1997)
http://www.answers.com/topic/a-produce
The Crypt / The Death - composer: Philip Feeney / Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra, cond. John Pryce-Jones - Dracula (Ballet In 3 Acts) - Naxos (1996)
http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.553964&catNum=553964&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English#
Plain Yellow Dress / Left Cincinnati / Secretary in Slowmo - Joe Frawley - Left Cincinnati - Joe Frawley Music (2010)
http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/
Norway - Centenaire - Centenaire - Chief Inspector (2007)
http://www.centenaire.net/
On Planet X - David Garland - "Control Songs" - Review Records (1997)
http://www.davidgarland.com/controlsongs.html
Space - Blue Sausage Infant - Flight Of The Solstice Queens - Zero Moon (2010)
http://www.zeromoon.com/?p=276 or http://www.bluesausageinfant.com/discography.html
Different Trains for string orchestra & pre-recorded performance tape - composer: Steve Reich / Orchestre National De Lyon, cond. David Robertson - Naive (2004)
http://www.stevereich.com/
Returning to a Place We've Never Been - Sandor Szabo / Kevin Kastning - Returning - Greydisc (2010)
http://www.kevinkastning.com/
Greetings!
This week's show has a bit more of a jazz/fusion bent to it due to the fact I grabbed the bag of CDs I would normally take to do a fill in for someone else's show. You could do worse.... ;>p
'Til next time,
Take care.
Joel
Pushing The Envelope Playlist (5-13-2010)
A Love Supreme (Alternate - Take 2) - Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender - Columbia / Legacy (1973)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Devotion_Surrender
Down the Road / Link 3a - Soft Machine - NDR Jazz Workshop - Cuneiform Records (1973/2010)
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/softmachine.html
Inner Flames - KBB - Proof of Concept - Musea/Poseidon (2007)
http://tsuboy.internet.ne.jp/kbb/index-e.html
Stories To Tell - Stanley Clarke feat. Allan Holdsworth - If Only This Bass Could Talk - Portrait (1988)
http://www.answers.com/topic/if-this-bass-could-only-talk-1
Gravity Waves - Chris Brown / Pauline Oliveros - Music In The Air - Deep Listening (2010)
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5763
The Agonist - Dave Halverson - Apothecary Charms - Lucid Moon Child Music (2008)
http://www.davehalverson.com/
Distant Saxophones - Jan Steele - Voices & Instruments - Obscure (1976)
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/11/jan-steele-john.html
Sonata (1957) - composer: Ezra Sims / cello: Ted Mook / piano: Eric Moe - Musing And Reminiscence - New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=84351
For That Which Was Living, Lost - Ellen Rowe Quartet - Wishing Well - PKO Records (2010)
http://www.ellenrowe.com/records.html
Greetings!
Funny how the "real world" (i.e. dazzling the world as a census taker) has a way of getting in the way of important stuff, like posting the next installment of "Pushing The Envelope" Well...here it is, with more catch up episodes to come. Enjoy!
Note: Due to a minor technical glitch, all the music is in place, but mysteriously, I do not reappear after the second set to back announce the set, so please refer to the playlist for info on all the music played.
Pushing The Envelope Playlist 4-29-2010
Nightwatching - cello & voice: Theresa Wong - Earthmusic: 10 Years of Meridian Music: Composers In Performance - Innova (2010)
http://www.theresawong.org/ or http://www.innovarecordings.com/artist1.asp?skuID=384
Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, & Automated Coded Relays - Alvin Lucier - Imaginary Landscapes: New Electronic Music (compilation) - elektra/nonesuch (1989)
http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu/index.html
Terrain - composer: Brian Ferneyhough / violin: Irvine Arditti w/ ASKO Ensemble - Fourth String Quartet; Kurze Schatten II; Trittico per g.s.; Terrain - Disques Montaigne (2003)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ferneyhough
Stumpside - Rasputina - Thanks For The Ether - Columbia (1996)
http://www.myspace.com/rasputina
The Well Oiled Mobius Strip - Random Touch - Through The Lens of the Other Dimension - Token-Boy Records (2010)
http://www.randomtouch.com/releases_open.php?rid=12
End Credits (Long Version) - Michael Boddicker - The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension#Soundtrack
Good Intentions Paving Co. - Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me - Drag City (2010)
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13960-have-one-on-me/
Bridges Burned - Paranoid Motives - Disruptive Potential - Paranoid Foundation (2010)
http://paranoidfoundation.blogspot.com/2010/03/next-release-paranoid-motives-17th-may.html Head Count - ROVA & Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet - New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=83684
Interlude from "Orphee" (Act II, Scene 5) - Philip Glass - Symphony No. 2 - Nonesuch (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmANnGkLzM Al Gharaniq II:}{:Fracture IV - Anti-Social Music - Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore - Innova (2010)
http://www.antisocialmusic.org/default.html
Trance - Steve Kuhn - Trance - ECM (1974)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18807
Greetings from the wilds of Connecticut!!
Well...you folks are accomplishing the "mission" of spreading the PTE word quite effectively. As of this morning, there are 199 subscribers to our humble little podcast. You have my sincere thanks and I hope you're enjoying what you hear. As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Until next time,
Take care!
Joel
Pushing The Envelope Playlist 4-22-10
Vida De Lujo - Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Manuel Mota / Gino Robair / Ernesto Rodrigues - Our Faceless Empire - Pax Recordings (2010)
http://www.paxrecordings.com/
One Voice Imagining - Jeffrey Roden - Bridge To The Other Place - The Big Tree Music (2008)
http://www.thebigtreemusic.com/
Hinge: Spiral - Christopher Burns and Christopher Froh - Triptych - Innova (2010)
http://innova.mu/notes/761.htm
Curriculum Vitae - Lukas Foss - Curriculum Vitae - New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=84046
Starless & Bible Black - King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black - Atlantic (1974)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starless_and_Bible_Black
No One Receiving - Brian Eno - Before & After Science - EG (1977)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_and_After_Science
Music Is Math - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - Warp (2002)
http://www.boardsofcanada.com/discography.html
Track 4 - Gen Ken Montgomery / CONrad Schnitzler - GenCon Duets - GD Stereo (2010)
http://www.gdstereo.com/recordings/
Miles Away - The Freight Elevator Quartet - Becoming Transparent - Caipirinha Music (2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_Elevator_Quartet
Kindness - Todd Rundgren - Second Wind - WB (1991)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Wind
Cumulus - Joe Frawley - Left Cincinnati - Joe Frawley Music (2010)
http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/audio.htm
Shadows Of - Gong - Gazeuse - Virgin (1976)
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=gong-gaz
Greetings!
Here's a bonus sized PTE from last week thanks to an opportune afternoon fill-in. As always, spread the word and feel free to let me know what you think about the show and the music.
Til next time,
take care.
Joel
Pushing The Envelope (Chelsea fill-in) 4-14-10
Holland Point Music for soprano sax & marimba - composer: Ron Hannah / sax: William H. Street - Westwind: Canadian Music For Saxophone - Eclectra (2007)
http://www.music.ualberta.ca/wstreet.cfm
Freshwater Hydra - Matt Davignon - Living Things - Edgetone Records (2010)
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4097.html
Main Titles / Overture - Louis and Bebe Barron - Forbidden Planet strk. - GNP Crescendo Records (1956)
http://therisingstorm.net/electronic-pioneers-louis-bebe-barron-forbidden-planet/
The Machineries of Joy - HB3 - Studies For Traps & Piccolo - Zegnotropic (2010)
http://www.hb3.com/
Miracle In The Bazaar - Todd Rundgren - Acapella - Rhino (1985)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cappella_album
Soup - Can - Ege Bamyasi - Mute (1972)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ege_Bamyasi
Canon For Three - composer/piano(s): Anthony Genge - Opus 108 (2008)
http://www.anthonygenge.com/anthony_Genge_CD.html
The Words Are Like Leaves - Kaipa - In The Wake of Evolution - Inside/Out (2010)
http://www.myspace.com/kaipa
Sound & Vision - Mask - Technopia - Repertoire Records (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/maskuk
Heartland - Ekstasis - Wake Up & Dream - CyberOctave (1998) Fermet's Last Theorem - UEM (Urban Electronic Music) - Science Can't Explain It - self-release (2009)
http://www.redlinepark.com/release/19/
Clever Use of Shadows - Nathan Mahl - Clever Use of Shadows - Mahl Productions (1998)
http://www.myspace.com/nathanmahl
Noise Is the Price We Pay for Signal - Virgil Moorefield - Distractions on the way to the King's Party - Cuneiform (1994)
http://www.virgilmoorefield.com/index.html
Suite from "The Crazies" - Mark Isham - mp3 download from: http://www.isham.com/
HiLoFi - composer: Tony Blomdahl / tuba: Kjetil Myklebust - Electric Tuba - C-Y Contemporary (2009)
http://www.c-y.se/CDdetail.php
Prelude - Tom Heasley - On The Sensations Of Tone - Innova (2002)
http://tomheasley.com/about.html