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Episodes
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
9-2-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Greetings!
Primarily brand new goodies this week! The music will speak for itself.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
ex-Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
9-2-23 PTE Playlist
Crocked Usage - Soft Machine - Other Doors - Moonjune Records (2023)
https://softmachine-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/other-doors
Two-Week Notice / Initials In The Wood / Rose Is On The Air - Electric Forgiveness - Original Score - Broken Sound Tapes (pre-release October 2023)
https://electricforgiveness.bandcamp.com/album/original-score
The Early Ohms - Lalén Ríos Luna - The Structure of Silk - Porous Collective (2023)
https://porouscollective1.bandcamp.com/album/the-structure-of-silk
Sound Study Fifteen - Devin Sarno & Fletina- Perceived Sound digital single (2023)
https://www.destroyexist.com/2023/08/devin-sarno-x-fletina-sound-study.html
Mapping a Joyful Path - violin: Olivia De Prato / composer: Miya Masaoka - Panorama - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/olivia-de-prato-panorama/
The Softening Door - David First - Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996 - 2009) - XI Records (2010)
https://experimentalintermedia.org/xi/134.shtml
Desolation Pops: I. The Smiling Fish / II. All the Insects Ceased / III. A Hoop for the Lowly / IV. Little Teeth / V. M'Ugly Spine / VI. Far from Buddha / VII. Misurgirafical & Plomlied / VIII. Empty Space Blue - piano: Kathleen Supové / string quartet: The Rhythm Method / composer: James Moore - Desolation Pops - New World Records (2023)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/james-moore-desolation-pops
Avots for fixed audio media w/ glockenspiel - glockenspiel: Russell Fisher / composer: Krists Auznieks - Computer & Electronic Music, Vol. 3 - Music from the APNM (Association for the Promotion of New Music) - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/music-from-the-association-for-the-promotion-of-new-music-apnm-vol-3/
Treatise - Quartet Twentytwentyone / composer: Cornelius Cardew - Treatise -digital single (2006)
https://bumsteinas.bandcamp.com/album/treatise
Friday Aug 25, 2023
8-19-23 PTE Celebrates International Strange Music Day 2023
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 Aug 05, 2023
8-5-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Greetings!
Today's program starts with a backlog of newer psychedelic/prog kinds of things, followed by a dive into mostly newer acousmatic and experimental contemporary composition items.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
ex-Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
8-5-23 PTE Playlist
Foucault's Pendulum (1st Movement) - Robert Svilpa - Foucault's Pendulum - Melodic Revolution Records (2022)
https://robertsvilpamusic.bandcamp.com/album/foucaults-pendulum
It's Beautiful / Wink of the Third Eye / It Has No Eyes But Sight / Twirl - The Fraternal Order of the All (Andrew Gold) - Greetings From Planet Love - Esoteric Records (1997/2023)
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/andrew-gold-the-fraternal-order-of-the-all-greetings-from-planet-love-cd-edition/
Painted By The Sun - Todd Cochran - From the Vault: Notes for the Future - Blue Buddha Productions (2023)
https://bluebuddha.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-vault-notes-for-the-future
Echoes - feat. Frank Dimino (Angel) - Meddle Reimagined – A Tribute to Pink Floyd - Cleopatra Records (2023)
https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/meddle-reimagined-a-tribute-to-pink-floyd-cd/
Stay for the Ending - District 97 - Stay for the Ending - Spirit of the Unicorn Records (October 2023 pre-release)
https://district97.net/news/stay-ending-available-pre-order
Grow Dark - Held By Trees - Eventide - Sound Canyon (2023)
https://mellotone.net/products/copy-of-held-by-trees-eventide
Reverie - Leah Reid - Musicworks #145 - Musicworks (2023)
https://www.musicworks.ca/winners-2022-musicworks-electronic-music-composition-contest
Save Changes Before Quitting for electronic tape - Stephen Rush - Murders In The Rue Morgue: The Music of Stephen Rush - MMC Recordings (1997)
https://stephenjrushmusic.com/?p=2539
Chreiai - David Dunn - At The Margin of The Sensate - Neuma Records (2023)
https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-margin-of-the-sensate
Describe Yourself - violin: Christopher Whitely / voice/composer: Leslie Ting - Describe Yourself - Redshift Records (2023)
https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/describe-yourself
Not Being Mirrored - Parallel Worlds - Shade - DiN (2009)
https://din7d.bandcamp.com/album/shade-din32
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
7-29-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Greetings!
A bunch of new stuff, older personal acquisitions and a couple of things I thought fit in nicely in-between. And there you have it.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
the company previously known as Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-29-23 PTE Playlist
Bad Karma / Two-Three-Seven Folds on the Five-Eight-Nine (Paranoia Mix) - Stereo Minus One - Everything Is So Beautiful, I Need To Lie Down - Machine Records (2023)
https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-beautiful-i-need-to-lie-down
Preludes & Debka - Cassatt String Quartet featuring Colin Williams, trombone / composer: Gerald Cohen - Voyagers - Innova (2023)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-cohen/voyagers
Metamorphosis - I. Side by Side / II. Tango del Currie / III. Mystics / IV. Down in the Basement - Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet / composer: Fred Stride - Metamorphosis - Redshift Records (September 1st, 2023 release on Redshift Records)
https://redshiftrecords.org/
Anat Loop - Tod Dockstader - From The Archives - Starkland (2016)
https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/album/tod-dockstader-from-the-archives
The Frozen Facade (for I.M. Pei) / The Weston Link - The Metamorph - The Man on the 99th Floor - Werra Foxma (2023)
https://themetamorph.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-on-the-99th-floor-2
Seatbelt Seatbelt - Charles Amirkhanian - Lexical Music - Other Minds (1980/2017)
https://www.otherminds.org/recording/lexical-music/
Avian Reduction - Joel Krutt - Melt: Minnesota Remixed - Wandering Ear (2007) OOP
https://disquiet.com/2007/02/01/heartland-remix-mp3s/
Interstellar Resorption #5 - Geiger von Mueller - Slide Sonatas II - digital release (2023)
https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/slide-sonatas-ii
Crazy Jane - Crazy Jane (baritone: Patrick Mason / guitar: David Starobin / percussion: Daniel Druckman) / composer: Ronald Roxbury - Crazy Jane - Bridge Records (2011)
https://bridgerecords.com/products/9290
To Keep My Loneliness Warm: I. Insomnia / II. Odd Behavior - Loadbang / composer: Andy Kozak - Quiver - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/loadbang-quiver/
100 Years - Happy Rhodes - Many Worlds are Born Tonight - 7D Media (1998/2017)
https://happyrhodes7d.bandcamp.com/album/many-worlds-are-born-tonight
Round Trips - violin: Yaz Lancaster / composer: Andrew Noseworthy - Ameth Yst - People Places Records (2023)
https://yaz-j.bandcamp.com/album/amethyst
Oohuku - Sam Rosenthal - Round Trip - Projekt Records (1984)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/round-trip-1984
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Greetings!
"What's in a name?" According to the Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: "What someone or something is called or labeled is arbitrary compared to their or its intrinsic qualities. A reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet bemoans Romeo's last name of Montague, her family's sworn enemies."
Today's selections were chosen primarily based upon their titles. I suspect that naming pieces of music is meant to communicate some type of message from the composer. Whether it's meant to be narrative, technically descriptive, relay emotion or humor, be provocative, employ a total non-sequitur or present any combination of the above, the title is often the first piece of information related about any given piece of music. ("Have you heard_________?") Let's see how arbitrary the titles of today's playlist turn out to be.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
7-15-23 PTE Playlist: "What's In a Name?" (… with apologies to William Shakespeare)
Twitching Gait for chamber ensemble - flute: Petri Alanko / clarinet: Heikki Nikula / Pasi Pirinen / violin: Jari Valo / cello: Risto Poutanen / composer: Juhani Nuorvala - What's a Nice Chord Like You Doing in a Piece Like This - BIS (2000)
https://bis.se/composer/nuorvala-juhani/whats-a-nice-chord-like-you-doing-in-a-piece-like-this-chamber-m
Suck It And See - Sirius Quartet / composer: Bernard Hughes - Playing On The Edge, Vol. 3 - Navona Records (2023)
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6520/
Omaggio a Jerry Lee Lewis - Richard Trythall - CMCD: Six Classics - ReR (2004)
https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=4ad4d06ebcf4b681b7ea218e39c3ffca&Screen=PROD&Category_Code=RL&Initial=&CatListingoffset=24&Product_Code=ReRCMCD-RE&Store_Code=RM&Initial=
Flying Spoons - Swansither - States - Subexotic Records (2022)
https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/states
Spigot (Draw The Pirate) - 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/
"The Wide Screen Erupts... 200 Motels promotional radio spot / I'm Stealing The Towels / Dental Hygiene Dilemma - Frank Zappa w/ The Mothers of Invention & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - Ryko/MGM (1971/1997)
https://www.zappa.com/releases/200-motels/#/
Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus - Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo - Zappa Records (1972)
https://www.zappa.com/releases/grand-wazoo/#/
The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) / Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Reprise (1970)
http://www.beefheart.com/trout-mask-replica-discography/
Sun / Zoom / Spark - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot - Reprise (1972/1990)
http://www.beefheart.com/clear-spot-discography/
Zen Archer - Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star...Live! - Purple Pyramid (2020)
http://cleorecs.com/home/playlist/todd-rundgren-a-wizard-a-true-star-live/
Maggot Brain - P-Funk All Stars - Live At The Beverly Theater In Hollywood - Westbound Records (1990)
https://georgeclinton.com/audio/p-funk-all-stars-live-at-the-beverly-theater-in-hollywood/
I Hope They Let Us Hunt Like Men In The Next Life, part 2 - Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-they-let-us-hunt-like-men-in-the-next-life
because a circle is not enough - violin/composer: Malcom Goldstein - because a circle is not enough: music for bowed string instruments - New World Records (2022)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/malcolm-goldstein-because-a-circle-is-not-enough-music-for-bowed-string-instruments
A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies (for Maybeck) - pianos, voice, brandy snifter: Charlemagne Palestine - Cold Blue Music (2007)
https://coldbluemusic.com/cb0025/
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
7-8-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
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)
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
7-1-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Greetings!
Welcome to another veritable potpourri of music, with phase one featuring new releases from the folks at 577 Records which segues through the Paul Flaherty release to focus on various assemblages featuring Jim Matus (who I once had the honor of seeing play in his Hartford, CT apartment), then over to an old friend, harmonic overtone singer & CT denizen, Jim Cole (who I took some overtone singing lessons from, back in the day). The balance of the show highlights mostly newer independent releases.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/joelkru/
7-1-23 PTE Playlist
Lost In The Tin Labyrinth - violins/fx: Sana Nagano / Leonor Falcón - Peach & Tomato - 577 Records (2023)
https://www.577records.com/5915
What It Melted On Is Also Gone - reeds: Paul Flaherty / guitars: Jim Matus / keyboards: Larry Derdeyn - Wednesday Weld - 577 Records (2023)
https://www.577records.com/5880
Twelve Long Fire - Impulse Ensemble - Initiation - self-release (2010)
http://www.jimmatus.com/impulse.html
History's Fractal Mountain / I'm a User / Pilentzee Pee - Paranoise - ISHQ - Ancient Records (2001)
http://www.jimmatus.com/past-projects.html
Bislama - Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole - Bislama - Harmonic Resonance Recordings digital release (2000)
https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com/album/bislama
Know Way (Way) - Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Sky (harmonic singing in a water tower) - Spectral Spiral Music (2000)
https://spectralvoices.com/jim-cole-spectral-voices/
Hope for Enlightenment - Lama Gyurmé & Jean Philippe Rykiel - The Lama's Chant: Songs of Awakening - Sony Classical (1994)
http://jeanphilipperykiel.com/rencontres/lama-gyurme/
FM - Patrick Corcoran - Comp22 - 42 Seconds #6 - Owlripper Records (2023)
https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp22-42-seconds-6
The Great Mirage - Joel Harrison & Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage - AGS Recordings (2023)
https://agsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mirage
Althin ärar nervositeten - tarotplane - Lysergic Forgeries - digital release (2021)
https://tarotplane.bandcamp.com/album/lysergic-forgeries
Snap To Save Yourself - Archizer x Renjā - Reality Sinking - NO PROBLEMA | DIGITAL (2023)
https://noproblemadigital.bandcamp.com/album/reality-sinking
Messages - Mike Benoit - Bleak & Convulsed - digital album (2021)
https://mikebenoit.bandcamp.com/album/bleak-convulsed
Five Strings II - Ian Vine - Five Strings - self-release (2023)
https://ianvine.bandcamp.com/album/five-strings
Needless Guise - Fletina - Here #15: Causal EP - Here Free Press (2023)
https://herefreepress.bandcamp.com/album/here-15-fletina-causal-ep
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/
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Greetings!
Since the over-arching theme of PTE is "multi-genre" avant-garde, I decided to focus today's LGBTQ+ Pride program on living composers working in various styles, some more "avant" than others, but all worth recognition and airplay.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-24-23 PTE Playlist / LGBTQ+ Pride Special
Spectrum I: Red - Divisi Chamber Singers / composer & text: Sally Whitwell - Spectrum - Divisi Chamber Singers (2022)
https://divisichamber.com/
Spectrum III: Yellow - Divisi Chamber Singers / composer: Sally Whitwell, text: Monique Duval - Spectrum - Divisi Chamber Singers (2022)
https://divisichamber.com/
Syrup & Silicone - Divisi Chamber Singers / composer: Robert McIntyre, text: Savanna Wegman / Spectrum - Divisi Chamber Singers (2022)
https://divisichamber.com/
Chamber Concerto No. 2, op. 28B for violin & - violin: Aiman Mussakhajayeva (EYE-mahn mousah-ha-jah-YEH-vah) / Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, cond. Tigran Shiganyan / composer: Lowell Liebermann - Violin Concerto, Op. 74 | Chamber Concertos 1 and 2 | Air - Blue Griffin Records (2023)
https://www.bluegriffin.com/cd-catalog/p/lowell-liebermann-violin-concerto-op-74-chamber-concertos-1-and-2-air
Silent Passability (Ride To The Countryside) - Terre Thaemlitz - Couture Cosmetique: Transgendered electroacoustique sympotomatic of the need for a cultural makeover (or... What's behind all that foundation?) - Comatonse Recordings (1997)
https://comatonse.bandcamp.com/album/couture-cosmetique-transgendered-electroacoustique-sympotomatic-of-the-need-for-a-cultural-makeover-or-whats-behind-all-that-foundation
Monster Walk Instrumental - Jack Curtis Dubowski - Halloween Horror - self-release (2022)
https://jackcurtisdubowsky.bandcamp.com/album/halloween-horror
The Only Tune: Part 1 - The Two Sisters / Part 2 - The Old Mill Pond / Part 3 - The Only Tune - voice/banjo/guitar: Sam Amidon / composer: Nico Muhly - Brassland/Bedroom Community (2008)
https://nicomuhly.bandcamp.com/album/mothertongue
Fields/Clouds - Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble - Book of Days - ECM (1989)
https://www.meredithmonk.org/
Vibrate - Rufus Wainwright - Want One - Dreamworks (2003)
https://rufuswainwright.com/music/want-one/
Just Imaginings - Wendy Carlos - Beauty In The Beast - Audion (1986)
https://www.wendycarlos.com/+bitb.html#1notes
Time is of the Crosscents - ‡Starving Poet§ - Syllabic Idyllic - digital album (2021)
https://starvingpoet.bandcamp.com/album/syllabic-idyllic
Out of the Dark, Suite for Chamber Orchestra after Three Paintings by Helen Frankenhaler - London Symphony Orchestra, cond. JoAnn Falletta / composer: Kenneth Fuchs - An American Place / Eventide / Out of the Dark - Naxos (2005)
https://www.naxos.com/MainSite/BlurbsReviews/?itemcode=8.559224&catnum=559224&filetype=AboutThisRecording&language=English
Disintegration Loops (excerpt) - Wordless Music Orchestra / composer: William Basinski / arrangement: Maxim Moston - Sound And Silence: 'Remembering Sept. 11' At The Temple Of Dendur NPR Broadcast 9-10-2011
https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2011/09/07/140265002/remembering-september-11-a-live-concert-webcast-from-the-temple-of-dendur#above
Friday Jun 23, 2023
6-10-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Greetings!
This week's program honors the life and music of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho who passed away on June 2. In addition, a bunch of new items and some older random things to sweeten the pot.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-10-23 PTE Playlist
Hypogean - Robert Scott Thompson - Placid - Aucourant Records (2023)
https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/placid
RIP Kaija Saariaho
Changing Light for soprano & violin - soprano: Luyba Petrova / violin: Edna Mitchell / composer: Kaija Saariaho - The Compassion Project - Innova (2018)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/edna-michell/compassion-project
NoaNoa for flute & electronics - flute: Camilla Hoitenga / composer: Kaija Saariaho - Electro Acoustic Muisc III - Neuma Records (1994)
https://neumarecords.bandcamp.com/album/electro-acoustic-music-iii
Pale Blue - Glen Whitehead - Pale Blue - Neuma Records (2023)
https://glenwhitehead.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue
In A Silent Way / Shhh/Peaceful / It's About That Time - Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Music fo Miles Davis 1969-1974 > reconstruction & mix translation by Bill Laswell - Columbia (1998)
https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/panthalassa-the-music-of-miles-davis-1969-1974/
Is It That Dark? (excerpt) - cornet/electronics: Graham Haynes / sound design: Hardedge - Is It That Dark? - Hardedge (2008)
https://www.hardedge.net/
startled deer resume their dreams in the clouds - David Beardsley - klang and the silver cord - digital release (2023)
https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/klang-and-the-silver-cord
Ragas in minor scale (Phase duo version) - Phase Duo / composers: Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar - Minimal Electric Music - digital release (2019)
https://stefanogreco.bandcamp.com/album/minimal-electric-music
C18 - pä (Paulo da Fonseca) - Hone nami (bone wave) - digital release (2023)
https://lesondouble.bandcamp.com/album/hone-nami
The Emerald Path to Redemption - Joseph Benzola - The Emerald Path to Redemption - digital release (2023)
https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/the-emerald-path-to-redemption
Killer B - Skyjelly - Spirit Guide مرشد حقيقة - digital pre-release (2023)
https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-guide
Song and Whispers - viola: Kimia Hesabi / composer: Gity Razaz - Nemāno Gaona (“colors of home”) - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/nem-no-gaona
Some Kind of Symmetry - Seawind of Battery (Mike Horn) / Ryley Walker / Jarrod Annis - Some Kind of Symmetry: Live at Room 31, New York City – 1/26/23 - digital release (2023)
https://seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/track/some-kind-of-symmetry-with-ryley-walker-jarrod-annis-live-at-room-31-new-york-city-1-26-23