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Sunday Jul 21, 2024
Sunday Jul 21, 2024
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
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
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/
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Greetings!
New, New, New, New, Conlon Nancarrow (2008), Emily Hay (2005), New, New, New, New, New & New!!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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
Friday Jun 28, 2024
Friday Jun 28, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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.
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Greetings!
New music, kid's stories and lot's of drums!! That's only Phase One!!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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/
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
Greetings!
So much music, so little time!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
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
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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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
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
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