Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

11-30-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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  
 
ekkor​ä​ä​g - taroplane - ekkor​ä​ä​g - 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 

11-23-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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 

11-16-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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 

11-2-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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 

10-26-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

 
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 
 

10-19-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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
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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/ 

10-12-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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 

10-5-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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/ 

9-28-24 Pushing The Envelolpe: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Celebrating National Piano Month

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/ 
 
 

9-21-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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
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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