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5 hours ago
5 hours ago
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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
4 days ago
4 days ago
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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
Monday Oct 21, 2024
10-19-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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/
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
10-12-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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
Friday Oct 11, 2024
10-5-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Friday Oct 11, 2024
Friday Oct 11, 2024
Greetings!
Progressive rock, music recorded in reverberent spaces and other assorted bric a brac... a brief summary of this week's program.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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/
Saturday Oct 05, 2024
Saturday Oct 05, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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/
Friday Sep 27, 2024
9-21-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Friday Sep 27, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
9-14-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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/
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
9-7-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Cetner
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Greetings!
As usual, multi-genre fits the bill!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: http://twitter.com/envpusher1
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
Monday Aug 26, 2024
Monday Aug 26, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
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