Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
Episodes
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
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)
http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/seqwav.html
etudes 01-03 - J. Lynch (Johny Lamb) - Work of Progress & Etudes - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/work-of-progress-etudes
Yep Hassu - Skyjelly - Spirit Guide مرشد حقيقة -digital release (2023)
https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-guide
Three Layers of Iron - Anatomy of the Heads - In The Realm of Allied Barbarians & Tributary Lords - self-release (2023)
https://aoftheh.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-realm-of-allied-barbarians-and-tributary-lords
Attack, Decay - Bell & Circuit - Ambient 4 - digital album (2021)
https://bellandcircuit.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-4
Con Forza - Joel Krutt - digital single (2023)
https://joelkrutt.bandcamp.com/track/con-forza
Not Made of Stone - Polly Moller & Company - Not Made of Stone - Silver Wheel Music (2007)
flusterville - Tim Walters - Stricture - Vaux Flores Industrial (2021)
https://thecoldvacuumofspace.bandcamp.com/album/stricture
Upside-down Wedding - Usufruct (Polly Moller/Tim Walters) - Windfall - Vaux Flores Industrial (2017)
https://thecoldvacuumofspace.bandcamp.com/album/windfall
See Your Shadow - tenor saxophone: Matthew Levy / electronics/composer: Nick DiBerardino - See Your Shadow - XAS (2022)
https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/shadow/
Pied Piper - Guy Barash/Nick Flynn - Killdeer - New Focus Recordings (2023) https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/killdeer
L'âge du capitaine - NLC (NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES) - 42 Seconds #3 (compilation) - Owlripper Recordings (2022)
https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp15-42-seconds-3
Arctic Hysteria - The Residents - Eskimo - East Side Digital (1979)
https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=eskimo
Ittoqqortoormiit - The Owl - Hibernation - Owlripper Recordings (2021)
https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/orr006-hibernation
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
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)
https://hardreturn.bandcamp.com/album/echo
Zone - Taylor Joshua Rankin - Sun Will Grow - digital release (2023)
https://taylorjoshuarankin.bandcamp.com/album/sun-will-grow
Metamorphosis - MOLLY - Picturesque - Sonic Cathedral (2023)
https://wearemolly.bandcamp.com/album/picturesque
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)
https://www.dgmlive.com/
Self Portrait / M.A.Y. In The Backyard - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ongaku Zukan (Musical Encyclopedia) - WeWantSounds (1984/2023)
https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ryuichi-sakamoto-ongaku-zukan-lp-7-ep-edition-black-vinyl-with-gatefold-sleeve-2p-insert-and-obi-strip
Dark Star 3 - John Oliver - Messages From Beyond the Ether - John Oliver Music (2023)
https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/
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)
https://rogerreynolds.bandcamp.com/album/for-a-reason
break #1 / dureth / a different man / the wood and the vine - Quince Ensemble / composer: David Lang - love fail - Innova (2020)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/quince-ensemble/david-lang-love-fail
Algonquin - Good Weather For An Airstrike & 94 Skies - Anxiety/Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope
Slaap - Henrik Meierkord & Sole Gipp Ossler - Anxiety/Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope
No-One In The World - W.F.O. - Excursions In Ambience: The Second Orbit - Astralwerks (1993)
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
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)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/lou-harrison-chamber-gamelan-works
Open Veins - violin: Alexander Balanescu / ensemble: Piano Circus Band / composer/conductor: Robert Moran - Open Veins: Music of Robert Moran - Neuma (2021)
https://robertmoran.bandcamp.com/album/open-veins
Hall of Mirrors - Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express - Capitol (1977)
https://kraftwerk.com/
King Earth, King Earth - Xiu Xiu - Chapel of the Chimes - Absolutely Kosher Records (2002)
https://xiuxiu69.bandcamp.com/album/chapel-of-the-chimes
Daughter of the Waves - ensemble: yMusic / composer: Sarah Kirkland Snider - Beautiful Mechanical - New Amsterdam Records (2011)
https://ymusicensemble.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-mechanical
Line And Shadow - Odense Symphony Orchestra, cond. Justin Brown / composer: Paul Lansky - Notes To Self - Bridge Records (2013)
https://bridgerecords.com/products/9405?_pos=1&_sid=d4880353d&_ss=r
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)
http://presterjohnmusic.com/halloween/
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".
Composition No. 70 (excerpt) - Anthony Braxton - Composition, Improvisation, Synthesis: Selections From The Tri-Centric Foundation Archives - New Braxton House (1999)
https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/four-compositions-washington-d-c-1998
Jambo, Jambo - Bernie Krause - Citadels of Mystery - Takoma (1979/2004 remaster)
Yemaya - Milton Cardona - Bembe - American Clave (1994)
https://www.americanclave.com/1-records-pages/1004-bembe.html
Homage to the Gurus / Heart Sutra Song - Gone Beyond - Laurie Anderson / Tenzin Choegyal / Jesse Paris Smith - Songs From The Bardo - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (2019)
https://folkways.si.edu/songs-from-the-bardo
Irresistible Flux - tárogató: Esther Lamneck / composer - electronics: Mara Helmuth - Tárogató Constructions - Innova (2018)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/esther-lamneck/tarogato-constructions
Nardis - Bill Evans - At The Montreaux Jazz Festival - Verve (1968)
https://billevansofficial.com/about/
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
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)
https://stevereich.com/composition/music-for-pieces-of-wood/
We Know You Know: Reverie for Mahavishnu - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet / composer: Brian Head - LAGQ's Guitar Heroes - Telarc (2004)
https://www.lagq.com/
Extensions RC (Reach) - Jon Gibson - Relative Calm - New World Records (2016)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/jon-gibson-relative-calm
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)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/henry-brant/henry-brant-collection-vol-3
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)
https://www.europeanluceroensemble.com/biography
Die Donnergötter (for 6 electric guitars, electric bass & drums) - composer/conductor: Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergötter - Homestead Records (1989)
https://www.rhyschatham.net/works-projects/die-donnergotter/
Fathom - accordions: Bratko Bibic, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, Guy Klucevsek & Otto Lechner - Accordion Tribe - Intuition (1998)
https://www.schott-music.com/de/accordion-tribe-accordion-tribe-no64540.html
Adagio For Strings - Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble / composer: Samuel Barber - Lift Off - DMP (1993)
Shell Shock (for 3 conch shells) - conchs: Stuart Dempster, Moc Escobedo, Chad Kirby - Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel - New Albion Records (1995)
http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-stuart-dempster-underground-overlays-from-the-cistern-chapel
The Sound of Burning Chairs - Tilted Axes - Music for Mobile Electric Guitars - Peppergreen Media (2016)
http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html
Lacquer Prints, No. 3: A Burnt Offering - Northwestern University Cello Ensemble / composer: Zachary Wadsworth - Shadow, Echo, Memory - Sono Luminis (2016)
https://www.sonoluminus.com/store/shadow-echo-memory
Music for Voices - voice: Mabou Mines Theater Company / composer: Philip Glass - Early Voice - Orange Mountain Music (2002)
https://philipglass.com/recordings/early_voice/
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
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
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
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)
https://susmanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/motions-of-return
Eyes - Silvan Strauss - Facing - Kabul Fire Records (2022)
https://silvanstrauss.bandcamp.com/album/facing
Catalyst - Superimpozer - Machine Mix 2 (compilation) - Machine Records (2022)
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/machine-mix-2
Flotation Device - Ben Neill feat. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Triptycal - Antilles (1996)
https://www.benneill.com/listen/
Peace In - Dan Kurfirst - Arkinetics - Neuma Records (2022)
https://dankurfirst.bandcamp.com/album/arkinetics
Calls and Echoes - trumpet: James Thompson / composer: Verne Reynolds - An American Portrait -International Trumpet Guild (2003)
https://store.trumpetguild.org/products/an-american-protrait
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)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/music-from-the-association-for-the-promotion-of-new-music-apnm-vol-1-2/
Seven (feat. Bryan Bellar) - Alberto Rigoni & Michael Manring - Grains of Sand - self-release (2022)
https://albertorigoni.bandcamp.com/
Glorious Pastorius - Bass Extremes: Steve Bailey & Victor Wooten - Cookbook - Tone Center (1998)
Joe Frazier-Round 3 - Jeff Berlin w/ Steve Vai, David Sancious, Keith Carlock & Tom Hemby- JOE FRAZIER Round 3 - JBMG Records (2018)
https://www.jeffberlinmusicgroup.com/music
The Sacred Ladder - PAKT feat. Percy Jones, Alex Skolnick, Kenny Grohowski & Tim Motzer - PAKT - Moonjune Records (2021)
https://paktmoonjune.bandcamp.com/album/pakt
The Ballad of Billy Pilgrim - Stuart Hamm - The Diary of Patrick Xavier - self-release (2018)
https://stuhamm.com/
Valentine (1969) - double bass: Robert Black / composer: Jacob Druckman - Modern American Bass - New World Records (2011)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/modern-american-bass?_pos=2&_sid=8665c9e05&_ss=r&variant=31816928231503
Selene - Michael Manring - Soliloquy - Manthing Music (2005)
http://www.manthing.com
Inflections I - double bass: Bertram Turetszky / composer: Robert Hall Lewis - New Music For Virtuosos - New World Records (1998)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/new-music-for-virtuosos?_pos=3&_sid=34e57b82a&_ss=r
Sbass Music - Scott Petito - Sbass Music - Hudson Valley Records (2002)
http://www.scottpetitoproductions.com/credits.html
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
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)
https://redshiftrecords.org/releases/tk486/
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)
https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/
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)
https://danielcarternyc.bandcamp.com/album/the-uproar-in-bursts-of-sound-and-silence
Expansion Of... - Jarguna & Various Artists - Chimera of a New World, Session Two - Projekt Records (2022)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chimera-of-a-new-world-session-two-name-your-price
Miniatüre #9 - Nobuka - Miniatüre - Difficult Art & Music (2022)
https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/miniat-re
High Alien Priest - Clara Engel - Their Invisible Hands - self-release (2022)
https://claraengel.bandcamp.com/album/their-invisible-hands
When The Fire Grows Cold - Vanderwolf & The Last Man Standing Ensemble, feat. Robert Wyatt - Extinction! - digital EP (2022)
https://vanderwolf1.bandcamp.com/album/extinction
Close To You - John Hallenbeck - Songs We Like A Lot - flexatonic records (2020 re-issure)
https://johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com/album/songs-we-like-a-lot
Energy Prayer / Cradle of Life - New Party Systems - The Best We Can: Songs by David First - digital release (2020)
https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-we-can
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)
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)
https://www.americanmodernrecordings.com/the-indianapolis-quartet-robert-paterson-string-quartets-1-3
Not Waving, But Drowning - Collins - Skins - Subexotic Records (2022)
https://garycollins.bandcamp.com/album/skins
Sunday Jan 06, 2019
Sunday Jan 06, 2019
Greetings!
Welcome to the PTE Pick List for the year gone by, recordings that caught my attention during 2018. Considering the sheer number of releases and broad scope of genres, it didn't make sense to rank them, since I found something special in each one that resonated with me.
Check out something you might not have listened to and find that "something special" for yourself! Links to the labels and cuts from the albums have been provided for your listening pleasure.
Enjoy and Happy New Year!!
Joel
2018 Pushing The Envelope Pick List
Emily Hay / Steuart Leibig Duo: Nomads
pfMENTUM http://pfmentum.com
Youtube music link: hay liebig duo at st mark's 5 feb 2016
Otherworld Ensemble: Live at Malmitalo (Feat. Heikki “Mike Koskinen, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Rent Romus & Mikko Innanen)
Edgetone Records http://edgetonerecords.com
Youtube music link: Malmitalo (Live Track)
Quince Ensemble: Motherland
New Focus Recordings https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/
Youtube music link: Bone Needles / composer: Gilda Lyons
Areon Flutes / No Era
Innova https://www.innova.mu
Youtube music link: Get Go!: III / composer: Ryan Brown
Conrad Harris & Joseph Kubera: Lejaren Hiller: Sonatas
New World Records http://www.newworldrecords.org
Youtube music link: Sonata No. 5 for Piano - 1st Movement / composer: Lejaren Hiller
Kyle Gann / Custer and Sitting Bull
New World Records http://www.newworldrecords.org
Youtube music link: Custer and Sitting Bull (1st Movement)
Esperanza Spalding / 12 Little Spells
Concord Records https://concord.com
Youtube music link: Thang
King Crimson / Live in Vienna (1 December 2016)
Discipline Global Mobile https://www.dgmlive.com
Patrick Grant: Fields Amaze and Other Strange Music
Peppergreen Media http://www.strangemusic.com
Youtube music link: fIELDS aMAZE (excerpt)
Carl Stone: Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties
Unseen Worlds https://www.unseenworlds.com/
Youtube music link: Banteay
Jenny Olivia Johnson / Sylvia Songs & Glass Heart
Innova https://www.innova.mu
Youtube music link: Sylvia Songs: No. 4, Wellesley
NakedEye Ensemble / Storylines Crossing
Starkland http://www.starkland.com
Youtube music link: Punching The Clock / composer: Randall Woolf
Kyle Gann / Hyperchromatica
Other Minds https://www.otherminds.org
Youtube music link: Hyperchromatica: II. Futility Row
Glenn Kotche & NYU Percussion Ensemble: Sticks, Skins, Metal and Stone: NYU Plays the Percussion Music of Glenn Kotche
National Sawdust Tracks https://nationalsawdust.org
Youtube music link: Wild Sound, Pt. 4 / composer: Glenn Kotche
Angélique Kidjo / Remain In Light
Kravenworks https://www.kidjo.com
Youtube music link: The Great Curve
Peter Garland / William Winant: Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies #1)
Cold Blue Music http://coldbluemusic.com/
Youtube music link: Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies No. 1) : IV. As I Look at the Moon (Saigyo) / composer: Peter Garland, percussion: William Winant
Mathew Rosenblum: Lament / Witches' Sabbath
New Focus Recordings https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/
Youtube music link: Lament / Witches' Sabbath
Usufruct: Windfall
VauxFlores Industrial http://usufructmusic.com/
Youtube music link: This Is Only a Test
Lend Me Your Underbelly: Cocoon
Lend me your underbelly https://music.lendmeyourunderbelly.com/
Youtube music link: Swim fish. Swim body.
Kevin Kastning / Sándor Szabó / Balázs Major: Ethereal II
Greydisc Records http://www.kevinkastning.com/
Youtube music link: Arrival (Second Recall)
Big Big Train / Merchants of Light
English Electric Recordings http://www.bigbigtrain.com/
Youtube music link: Swan Hunter
Delta Saxophone Quartet: Bowie, Berlin & Beyond
FMR http://www.deltasax.com/
Youtube music link: Warszawa
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: The Roxy Performances
Zappa Records https://www.zappa.com
Youtube music link: Inca Roads (Live / 12-9-73 / Show 2)
Monday May 07, 2018
Monday May 07, 2018
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!
Thursday Jun 15, 2017
Thursday Jun 15, 2017
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