Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

11-18-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Lots of cool things this week with a focus on Ian Power's new release, "Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi" which I felt could not be done justice by only playing a portion of it.  It's a fascinating look at how the briefest of melodies can be interpreted and re-interpreted in order to take on the melody from different perspectives.  
In addition, we'll check out new releases from William Susman, Homebrewed Universe, The Owl, Joseph Bohgian and the Thin Edge New Music New Music Collective w/ Linda Caitlin Smith together w/ some older goodies.
Enjoy!
Joel 
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
11-18-23 PTE Playlist
 
Quiet Rhythms Nos. 3 & 13 - piano/composer: William Susman - Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC - Belarca Records (2023)
https://susmanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-rhythms-live-at-spectrum-nyc
 
Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi - piano/voice: Anne Rainwater / composer: Ian Power - Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi - Carrier Records (2023)
https://ianpoweromg.bandcamp.com/album/ave-maria-variations-on-a-theme-by-giacinto-scelsi-2 
 
Kodomo Tachi - Akiko Yano - To Ki Me Ki - WeWantSounds (1978 / 2023)
https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/akiko-yano-to-ki-me-ki-1lp-deluxe-black-vinyl-edition-with-4page-insert 
 
Everything Is Temporary - Homebrewed Universe - The Loneliness Economy - digital release (2023)
https://homebreweduniverse.bandcamp.com/album/the-loneliness-economy 
 
Etudes 1 & 2 (Live) - Petridisch - Etudes Live -digital release (2022)
https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/etudes-live 
 
The Solemn Humans - The Owl - Our Mechanical Failure As Drones - Owlripper Records (2020)
https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/orr002-our-mechanical-future-as-drones 
 
Wanderer (2009 rev 2022) clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion - Thin Edge New Music Collective / composer: Linda Caitlin Smith - Dark Flower - Redshift Records (2023)
https://redshiftrecords.org/new-releases/tk543/ 
 
Terrace of Memories - Sam Rosenthal & Dirk Serris (Vidna Obmana) - Terrace of Memories (2023 remaster) - Projekt Records (1992/2022)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/terrace-of-memories 
 
The Water Has Found It's Crack - Catherine Sandstedt, soprano; Heidi Schneider, soprano; Alina Tamborini, soprano; Rob Cosgrove, percussion; Kate Dreyfuss, violin; Sophia Sun, viola; Tsung-Yu Tsai, cello / composer: Joseph Bohgian - The Water Has Found It's Crack - Other Minds Records (2023) 
https://www.otherminds.org/recording/the-water-has-found-its-crack/ 
 
1950's Voice-O-Graph Recording from my personal collection
 
Who's Latheing Now? - Walter Campbell - Thunder Perfect Thighs - digital release (2022)
https://waltercampbell.bandcamp.com/album/thunder-perfect-thighs 
 
Pi (Part 1) (LP Version) - The Orb - U.F. Off: The Best of The Orb - Island Records (1998)
https://www.theorb.com/u-f-off-the-best-of-the-orb/ 

10-21-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Character Flaws

Greetings!
So, I'm in my car listening to Graham Fitkin's wonderful 2017 release, "Veneer", which explores, per GF, "the twisted moral fragility of our current celebrity-icon-tumbling era".
As the track, "I'm Such A Shallow Person" is displayed on the digital readout, I start to think that a show featuring tunes concerning flawed human character traits and/or behaviors might be an interesting.  Here it is.  I hope you do too!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
 
10-21-23 PTE Playlist: Character Flaws
 
excerpt from People Telling Lies (1987) - Scott Marshall - Watching The Void: A Smattering of Panic Records & Tapes - No Part Of It (2023)
https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/watching-the-void-a-smattering-of-panic-records-tapes 
 
I'm Such A Shallow Person - Graham Fitkin - Veneer - self-release (2017)  https://fitkin.com/project/veneer-2002-2003/ 
 
Stranger Still - Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets - Virgin (1981) 
https://www.sofasound.com/phcds 
 
I Don't Remember - Security Project - Contact (2017)
https://securityproject.bandcamp.com/album/contact 
 
Everything Is So Beautiful, I Need To Lie Down - 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 
 
Freaky Women - David Greenberger & Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic - 1001 Real Apes - Pel Pel Records (2006)
http://birdsongsofthemesozoic.org/1001-real-apes/ 
 
Tantrum - piano: John McDonald / composer: Julia Werntz - Someone Who Loves You Throws Me At You - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/julia-werntz-someone-who-loves-you-throws-me-at-you/ 
 
Sleeping With The Lights On - Paul Dresher Ensemble w/ Rinde Eckert - Slow Fire - Minmax Music (1992)
https://minmax.bandcamp.com/album/slow-fire 
 
cheating, lying, stealing - Bang on a Can All-Stars composer: David Lang - Australia Tour 2018 Mixtape - Cantaloupe Music (2018)
https://bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/australia-tour-2018-mixtape 
 
Despotic - final (Justin K. Broadrick) - One  - Subharmonic (1993)
https://www.justinkbroadrick.com/ 
 
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads - Sand In The Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1976 - 1992 - Sire/Warner Bros. (1992)
https://talkingheadsofficial.com/ 
 
TV Can TEach Me - David Garland - Control Songs - Review Records (1997)
https://davidgarland.bandcamp.com/album/control-songs 
 
Mr. Punch - Future Bible Heroes / Neil Gaiman - Where's Neil When You Need Him? - Dancing Ferrett Discs (2006)
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/various-artists-wheres-neil-when-you-need-him-57709/ 
 
Paranoimia feat. Max Headroom (extended version) - The Art of Noise - The Best of The Art of Noise - China/Polydor (1988)
https://theartofnoiseonline.com/MAX-HEADROOM.php 
 
You, The Vandal - Dedalus & Muzzix - Moondog (Louis Hardin): Round The World Of Sound - New World Records (2016)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/moondog-aka-louis-hardin-round-the-world-of-sound 
 
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson - Meltdown (Live in Mexico, 2017) - DGM (2017)
https://www.dgmlive.com/ 
 
You're Blase - Jonathan & Darlene Edwards (Paul Weston / Jo Stafford) - Jonathan & Darlene's Greatest Hits - Corinthian Records (1987) 
https://www.corinthianrecordsonline.com/about-jonathan--darlene-edwards 
 
Untidy Habits - Derek Bailey / Pat Metheny / Gregg Bendian / Paul Wertico - The Sign of 4 - Knitting Factory Works (1997)
https://www.patmetheny.com/qa/questionView.cfm?queID=392 
 
Sympathy for the Devil (Time For A Change) - Laibach - Sympathy For The Devil - MUTE (1992)
https://www.laibach.org/discography/sympathy-for-the-devil/ 
 
Devil Syndrome - Bill Laswell - Dub Chamber 3 - ROIR (Reachout International Records) (2000)
https://billlaswell1.bandcamp.com/album/dub-chamber-3 
 

10-7-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
A bunch of cool new things and some other stuff.
Enjoy!
Joel
 
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
 
 
10-7-23 PTE Playlist
 
Dialing With Abandon  - Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly - Hopeful Monster - No Hay Discos (2023)
https://eveegoyanmauriciopauly.bandcamp.com/album/hopeful-monster 
 
Back In Season - Soft Machine - Other Doors - Moonjune Records (2023)
https://softmachine-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/other-doors 
 
Bark - Branchroot Ensemble - Far From The Tree - What Not Records (2023)
https://branchrootensemble.bandcamp.com/album/far-from-the-tree 
 
Punkadelic Feverosa - The Telepathic Band - Electric Telepath, Vol. 2 - 577 Records (2023)
https://telepathicband.bandcamp.com/album/electric-telepathy-vol-2 
 
Holding Pattern - Josh Cole - Kind Mind - Cassiar Records (2023)
https://cassiarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kind-mind 
 
Eric Arn & Eyal Myoz - Kost Nix (No Cost) - self-release (2023)
https://ericarn.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-concessions 
 
Asthenosphere (Lower Mantle) - Olio Flux - Atmospheres - digital release (2023)
https://olioflux.bandcamp.com/album/atmospheres 
 
Entitled - Amy X. Neuberg - Entitled - digital track - (2019 -- stereo remix 2020)
https://amyxneuburg.bandcamp.com/track/entitled 
 
Nightcall - Kristin Norderval - Aural Histories (post-ambient arias for voice & electronics) - Deep Listening Institute (2012)
https://kristinnorderval.bandcamp.com/album/aural-histories 
 
The Belldog - Brian Eno, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius - Eno Box II: Vocals - Virgin Records (1993)
https://www.brian-eno.net/ 
 
Flying Saucer Dialogue - Voices: Robert Ashley and Jacqueline Humbert / composer: Robert Ashley -  Music From Mills  College Compilation
 
Irrational - Loadbang / composer: Chaya Czernowin - Quiver - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/loadbang-quiver/ 
 
Mad - Cholly - you are the fabric - WFR London 10​/​6​/​23 - Werra Foxma (2023)
https://werrafoxmarecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-the-fabric-wfr-london-10-6-23 
 
Blinking In Time - Scanner - you are the fabric - WFR London 10​/​6​/​23 - Werra Foxma (2023)
https://werrafoxmarecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-the-fabric-wfr-london-10-6-23 

9-30-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Welcome to another veritable cornucopia of musics from the newly acquired new pile and newly acquired old pile.  If you haven't already noticed, each playlist item includes a link where you may obtain further information about said releases. That being said....
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
 
9-30-23 PTE Playlist
 
Edweena - The Residents - Available Now - East Side Digital (1978/1988)
https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=notavailable 
 
Prisms for Gene Davis (2018-2021) - ensemble: Nata Swara / composer: Brian Baumbusch - Chemistry for Gamelan & String Quartet - New World Records (2023)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/recent-release-3/products/brian-baumbusch-chemistry-for-gamelan-and-string-quartet 
 
Acosta - Skyjelly - Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert, or Wizard - digital release (2016/2023)
https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/blank-panthers-priest-expert-or-wizard 
 
For The Birds - BUNKR - you are the fabric - WFR London 6-10/​23 - Werra Foxma (2023)
https://werrafoxmarecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-the-fabric-wfr-london-10-6-23 
 
Moulssinia - Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects - El Buya - Barraka El Farnatshi (1991)
https://worldmusiccentral.org/2018/10/19/artist-profiles-aisha-kandishas-jarring-effects/ 
 
My Computer Crash - Comp24: Different Angles - Owlripper Records (2023)
https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp24-different-angles 
 
Condemned - Morbid Beauty - Comp24: Different Angles - Owlripper Records (2023)
https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp24-different-angles 
 
Violin Diptych I. Playing Changes / II. Changes Move - Karen Gomyo, violin; Conor Hanick, piano / composer: Samuel Adams - Current - Other Minds Records (2023)
https://www.otherminds.org/recording/current/ 
 
Interstitials - Nicole Rampersaud - Saudade - Ansible Editions (2023)
https://ansibleeditions.com/saudade.html 
 
Lakefield Sound Experiment #2 - Fletina - Lakefield Sound Experiment - (2023 pre-release)
https://fletina.bandcamp.com/ 
 
Sit With Me - Steve Roach - Rest of Life - Projekt Records (2023)
https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/rest-of-life 
 
Weird Fishes - Joshua Icban & Cellista - Apparition - digital release (2021)
https://cellista.bandcamp.com/album/apparition 
 
About To Fall - Ben Verdery & Ulysses Quartet - A Giant Beside You - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/ben-verdery-ulysses-quartet-a-giant-beside-you/ 
 
Son of Soe-Pa - classical guitar: Clement Marshall / composer & electronic processing: Ingram Marshall - Cold Blue Two (compilation) - Cold Blue Music (2012)
https://coldbluemusic.com/cb0036/ 
 
Hototogisu - Petridisch - Dream T.V. - digital release (2023)
https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/dream-t-v 
 
Encase / Enclose Me - Aidan Baker - Tense Surface - Broken Spine Productions (2004/2023)
https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com/album/tense-surfaces 

9-23-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
This week I'm showing off music from many shiny new releases including those from Paramorph Collective, Onepointtwo, Anahita Abbasi from the Iranian Female Composers Association, Stanley Grill, Ruigi Wang and Claire Chase.
As if that wasn't enough, I'm throwing in a couple of recent personal acquisitions including music from David First and a selection from the 11 CD set of Simeon Ten Holt's multiple piano works.  
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
alphabet letter Twitter thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
 
9-23-23 PTE Playlist
 
Thought and Desire, for piano & voice - Paramorph Collective (voice: Kim Farris-Manning)  / piano & composer: Linda Catlin Smith / Text: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 45 - All We're Made of Is Borrowed, still holding the time we have left as medicine - Redshift (2023)
https://redshiftrecords.org/new-releases/tk534/
 
Lemniscaat (1982-1983) Part I: Episodes I & II - The Piano Ensemble (Jeroen van Veen, Sandra van Veen, Irene Russo, Fred Oldenburg) / composer: Simeon Ten Holt - Simeon Ten Holt: Complete Multiple Piano Works - Brillant Classics (2005)
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/t/ten-holt-complete-multiple-piano-works/ 
 
Club Uranium - Onepointtwo - Cycles - Subexotic Records (2023  Nov. pre-release)
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/ 
 
Sirventès for cello & percussion - cello: Amahl Arul an andam / percussion: Nathan Petitpas / composer: Anahita Abbasi - Sirventès: Iranian Female Composers Association - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.sirventesalbum.com/ 
 
Entrée: Cross-Eyed Luck - David "Dave" First - Dave's Waves Sonic Home Delivery - digital release (2020)
https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/daves-waves-sonic-home-delivery 
 
Symphony of Sighs -  Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, conductor: Marek Stilec / composer: Stanley Grill - (2023 pre-release)
https://www.stangrillcomposer.com/compositions/symphony-of-sighs/ 
 
Reservoir 2 for bass flute & voices (Intrusion) - bass flute: Claire Chase / Constellation Chor- Marisa Michelson, director / composer: Sarah Hennies - Density 2036: Part VI (2019) - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/claire-chase-density-2036-part-vi-2019/ 
 
A Letter to L - Ruiqi Wang (pronounced ray-chee wong) - Subduing The Silence -Orchard of Pomegranites (2023 pre-release)
https://orchardofpoms.bandcamp.com/ 
 
Gone To Croatan - Jah Wobble - Heaven & Earth - Island Records (1995)
https://jahwobble.com/ 
 

9-16-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
With autumn soon upon us, PTE offers up a veritable harvest cornucopia of brand new and brand old musical explorations for your listening pleasure.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like X thing:  https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
 
9-16-23 PTE Playlist
 
The Hearts Filthy Lesson - David Bowie feat. Mike Garson - OUTSIDE - Virgin (1995)
https://www.davidbowie.com/1-outside 
 
Hymn Of... - EF - We salute you, you and you! - Pelagic Records (2022)
https://efmusicsweden.bandcamp.com/album/we-salute-you-you-and-you 
 
Ensenada - DELREI - Desolation & Radiation - Projekt Records (2023)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/desolation-and-radiation 
 
Scandinavia - JJ Chardeau - Ombres & Lumieres: In Terra Cognita 2 - Cherry Red Records (2023)
https://www.chardeau-officiel.com/ombres-et-lumieres 
 
Monolitos - Pathos Trio / composer: Vincente Hansen Atria - Polarity - Imaginary Animals (2023)
https://www.imaginaryanimals.ninja/polarity 
 
Hi-Fi Stimulant - Xingu Hill - Grigri Pavilion - Subexotic Records (2023)
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/grigri-pavilion 
 
Black Dust - Bill Laswell & Grandmixer DXT - AFTERMATHematics instruMENTAL- Rhythm And Recurrence - SubRosa (2004)
https://billlaswell2.bandcamp.com/album/aftermathematics-instrumental 
 
Ketamine Entity - The Higher Intelligence Agency - Ambient Dub Volume 1: The Big Chill - Beyond (1993) 
 
Enceladus - Squid In Chains (Douglas Schmidt, bandoneon / John Oliver, synthesizers) - Celestial Wanderer - Earsay Records (2023)
https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-wanderer 
 
Structure VIII - Otto Laske - The Otto Laske Collection Part Two: Electronic Music - Neuma Records (2023)
https://ottolaske.bandcamp.com/album/the-otto-laske-collection-part-two-electronic-music 
 
Certain Passage - Mordant Arrow - Certain Passage - Ventriloquism Communications (2023)
https://colludere.bandcamp.com/album/certain-passage 
 
Fractured Self - Anchor & Burden -  Fuente de la Abundancia - Moonjune Records (2023) 
https://moonjunetoledo.bandcamp.com/album/fuente-de-la-abundancia 
 
Willow's Song / Shimmer - cello: Ashley Bathgate / composer: Alex Weiser - 8-Track - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/ashley-bathgate-8-track/ 
 
Confession - Zbigniew Seifert - Solo Violin - EMI (1978) 
http://www.zbigniewseifert.org/ 

9-9-23 Pushing The Envelope - Music Decidedly Left of Center: Celebrating National Piano Month

Greetings!
According to the folks at NationalDayCalendar.com, pianos not only get an International Piano Day on March 27th (the 88th day of the year, a wink to the piano’s 88 keys), but also a National Piano Month during September.
Therefore, today is a piano extravaganza with numerous new releases peppered with some excellent older chestnuts, including a "faux piano" piece cobbled together by yours truly.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
ex-Twitter thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
9-9-23 PTE Playlist: Celebrating National Piano Month
 
Anne Bolyen - Rick Wakeman - The Myths & Legends of Rick Wakeman (Disc 2) - Purple Pyramid (2022)
https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/rick-wakeman-the-myths-and-legends-of-rick-wakeman-4-cd/ 
 
Study No. 37 - Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - Other Minds Records (2008)
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/studies-for-player-piano 
 
Quiet Rhythms: Prologue and Action No. 9  - piano: Erika Tazawa / composer: William Susman - Rhythm of Silence - Belarca Records (2015)
https://belarca.com/releases/rhythm-of-silence.php 
 
Frankentoy - Twink, The Toy Piano Band - Happy Houses - digital release (2014)
https://toypianoband.bandcamp.com/album/happy-houses 
 
Piano Improvisation, No. 2 - Keith Emerson - Emerson, Lake & Palmer: King Biscuit Flower Hour - King Biscuit Flower Records (1997) 
 
Piano Etude, No. 1 - Petridisch - Piano Etudes - digital release (2022)
https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/piano-etudes 
 
Sonatina Chuscada - piano: Po Sim Head / composer: Francisco Pulgar-Vidal - Between The Andes & The Amazon - Navona Records (2023)
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6534/  
 
Control de daños - piano/composer: Eduardo Elia / double bass: Maximiliano Kirszner / drums: Nicolás Politzer - Una pregunta, tres respuestas - Orbit577 (2023)
https://orbit577.bandcamp.com/album/una-pregunta-tres-respuestas 
 
Adrenaline Revival: Movements VIII & IX - piano: Kathleen Supové / composer: Randall Woolf - Infusion: Four Works for Piano & Electronis - Koch International Classics (2004)
http://www.supove.com/discography/infusion-2/ 
 
Three Romances - piano: Liora Ziv-Li / composer: Ari Ben-Shabetai - Composing Israel: The First Three Generations - Neuma Records (2023)
https://neumarecords.bandcamp.com/album/composing-israel-the-first-three-generations 
 
Six Pianos (1973) - pianos: Bob Becker / Steve Chambers / Russell Hartenberger / James Preiss / Steve Reich / Glen Velez / composer: Steve Reich - From The Kitchen Archives No. 2: Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977 - Orange Mountain Music (2005)
https://stevereich.com/disc/six-pianos-2005/ 
 
Tantrum - piano: John McDonald / composer: Julia Werntz - Someone Who Loves You Throws Me At You - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/julia-werntz-someone-who-loves-you-throws-me-at-you/ 
 
Sonatas I - III - prepared-piano: Agnese Toniutti / composer: John Cage - Sonatas & Interludes - Neuma Records (2023)
https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/john-cage-sonata--interludes-for-prepared-piano 
 
What Next? - Joel Krutt - What Next? - self-release (2004)
https://soundcloud.com/joelkru/what-next 
 
Stephen Scott / The Bowed Piano Ensemble - Vikings of the Sunrise: Fantasy on the Polynesian Star Path Navigators - New Albion Records (1996)
http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-stephen-scott-vikings-of-the-sunrise 

9-2-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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 

8-19-23 PTE Celebrates International Strange Music Day 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 م​ر​ش​د ح​ق​ي​ق​ة -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'​â​ge 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 
 

8-5-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

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