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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
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
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
Greetings!
According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, one of the possible definitions of the word "multiples", when used as a noun, is "something in units of more than one or two". That will be the conceptual thread tying today's program together. Pieces of music that are primarily played by multiples of the same instrument, though several composers took the idea of multiples to new limits, such as Henry Brandt and Karlheinz Stockhausen who created compositions for multiple orchestras.
This will likely be the first in a series of "multiples" programs since there were many other potential selections and only 1 hour and 59 minutes at hand. (If you have other "multiples" selections you'd like to hear, please drop me a line.)
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
6-3-23 PTE Playlist
Music For Pieces of Wood (for five pairs of tuned claves) - Group 180 / composer: Steve Reich - Group 180 - Hungaroton (1980)
https://stevereich.com/composition/music-for-pieces-of-wood/
We Know You Know: Reverie for Mahavishnu - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet / composer: Brian Head - LAGQ's Guitar Heroes - Telarc (2004)
https://www.lagq.com/
Extensions RC (Reach) - Jon Gibson - Relative Calm - New World Records (2016)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/jon-gibson-relative-calm
Trinity of Spheres - Denver Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Hangen, Carl Topilow, and Henry Brant, conductors /composer: Henry Brant - The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 3 - Innova Records (2006)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/henry-brant/henry-brant-collection-vol-3
Inner Time II: Homage to Calder for 7 B flat clarinets (excerpt) - Armand Angster Clarinet System / composer: Horatiu Radulescu - Inner Time II - Audivis / Montaigne (1994)
https://www.europeanluceroensemble.com/biography
Die Donnergötter (for 6 electric guitars, electric bass & drums) - composer/conductor: Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergötter - Homestead Records (1989)
https://www.rhyschatham.net/works-projects/die-donnergotter/
Fathom - accordions: Bratko Bibic, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, Guy Klucevsek & Otto Lechner - Accordion Tribe - Intuition (1998)
https://www.schott-music.com/de/accordion-tribe-accordion-tribe-no64540.html
Adagio For Strings - Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble / composer: Samuel Barber - Lift Off - DMP (1993)
Shell Shock (for 3 conch shells) - conchs: Stuart Dempster, Moc Escobedo, Chad Kirby - Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel - New Albion Records (1995)
http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-stuart-dempster-underground-overlays-from-the-cistern-chapel
The Sound of Burning Chairs - Tilted Axes - Music for Mobile Electric Guitars - Peppergreen Media (2016)
http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html
Lacquer Prints, No. 3: A Burnt Offering - Northwestern University Cello Ensemble / composer: Zachary Wadsworth - Shadow, Echo, Memory - Sono Luminis (2016)
https://www.sonoluminus.com/store/shadow-echo-memory
Music for Voices - voice: Mabou Mines Theater Company / composer: Philip Glass - Early Voice - Orange Mountain Music (2002)
https://philipglass.com/recordings/early_voice/
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Greetings!
Phase One of this week's program features a number of newer releases, while the remainder of the show was assembled in "stream of consciousness" fashion with one piece bringing to mind another, related by either theme or some sort of musical "trigger". I hope you enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
5-27-23 PTE Playlist
Songbird - clarinet/electronics/composer: Louise Campbell - Sources - Redshift Music (2023)
https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/sources
Veiled - viola: Kimia Hesabi / composer: Niloufar Nourbakhsh - Namano Gaona - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/kimia-hesabi-nem-no-gaona/
La Rage, Part 1 - percussion/electroacoustics: Martin Daigle / composer: Pierre Alexandre Termblay - Drum Machines - Ravello Records (2023)
https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8088/
Like This - Scatter - On A Clear Day - 577 Records (2023)
https://www.577records.com/catalog#/5876/
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation (Yellow Light Section) - Pauline Oliveros & Christopher Willes - Resonance Gathering - Art Metropole (2023)
https://christopherwilles.bandcamp.com/album/resonance-gathering
Aiwass - Imaginary Beings - Comp22 - 42 Seconds #6 - Owlripper Recordings (2023)
https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp22-42-seconds-6
Prologue / Song No. 1 / Song No. 2 / Song No. 3 from Violin Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" - violin: Robert McDuffie / London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Marin Alsop / Composer: Philip Glass - Orange Mountain Music (2010)
http://philipglass.com/recordings/american4seasons/
Endless Shout - piano: Jacob Greenberg / composer: George Lewis - Living Language - Furious Artisans (2023)
https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/jacob-greenberg-living-language/
Lonesome Train - Soldier String Quartet / composer: Dave Soldier - Sojourner Truth - Newport Classic (1991)
http://davesoldier.com/quartet.html
Elephant Talk - King Crimson - Discipline - Warner Bros. (1981)
https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/discipline
Solarization - Billy Cobham - Rudiments: The Billy Cobham Anthology - Rhino/Atlantic (2001)
https://www.billycobham.com/
David Van Tieghem - Safety In Numbers - Private Music (1987)
https://davidvantieghem.bandcamp.com/album/safety-in-numbers
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
Greetings!
No particular theme this week, instead, the usual mish-mosh of new and old things that caught my ear. That being said, I'm busy concocting a program base on the concept of "multiples". Stay tuned.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
5-20-23 PTE Playlist
Quombex - violin: Paul Zukovsky / composer: Henry Brandt - Brant • Scelsi • Wolpe • Xenakis • Cage • Glass • Feldman - CP² (1991)
https://musicalobservations.bandcamp.com/album/brant-scelsi-wolpe-xenakis-cage-glass-feldman
VII - Octarine Sky - Close to Nearby (feat. Simon Phillips) - self-release (2021)
https://octarinesky.bandcamp.com/album/close-to-nearby-feat-simon-phillips
Maynardvishnu w/ Billy Cobham - Michael Franklin & Timothy Franklin - Anahata - Solar Music (2023)
https://solarmusic.com/anahata/
Who's Afraid of Retrograde? - King Chubby - is - Caliente Music / Pimienta Records (2004)
http://robertdick.net/category/recordings/king-chubby-is/
Kingdom Come / Malaise - Thinking Plague - Upon Both Your Houses - Cuneiform Records (2000)
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/upon-both-your-houses
Deaf Machines - John Oliver - Warfire Welfare - John Oliver Music (2023)
https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/warfire-welfare
Transition III - Transatlantic Five - Transitions - Nemu Records (2023)
https://wooley.vandermark.dell.ramond.kugel-quintet.com/
Unseen - Jeff Greinke - A Thousand Year Flood - Projekt Records (2023)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-year-flood
Extrait - Petridisch - Extrait - Mahorka (2023)
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/
Coordinates - Phase4our - Coordinates - Machine Records (2023)
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/coordinates
It Bears Repeating - dogs versus shadows - Smog and an Ambush - Subexotic Records (2022)
https://dogsversusshadows.bandcamp.com/album/smog-an-ambush
Calmozart - Hugh Hopper - Jazzloops - Explore Rights Management (2003/2023)
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/hugh-hopper-jazzloops-the-stolen-hour/
Squalls - David Curington w/ Nina Whiteman - Canon Chops - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/canon-chops
Time Apart - double bass: Helen Svoboda / piano: Joe O’Connor / drums: Tim Green - Time Together - 577 Records (2023)
https://www.577records.com/5896
Tuesday May 23, 2023
Tuesday May 23, 2023
Greetings!
For the second year in a row, Pushing The Envelope is happy to be celebrating International Tuba Day (May 1) which occurs yearly on the first Friday of May. It was founded by a gentleman named Joel Day in 1979 while attending Lower Merion High School in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Being one of only two tuba players in the school band and finding a lack of respect from his fellow classmates, he decided to set a day aside for our recognition as reputable musicians.
International Tuba Day was created for both tuba players and non-tuba players alike to learn more about the significance of the tuba in our musical society. For additional info, please check out the ITD website, http://www.tubaday.com/.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
5-6-23 PTE Playlist
I Heard Behind Me A Loud Voice (Revelation 1:10) - tuba: Kjetil Myklebust / composer-electronics: Stefan Klaverdal - Electric Tuba - C-Y Contemporary (2009)
http://www.c-y.se/CDdetail.php
Cappricio for Tuba & Marimba - tuba: Jarrod Williams / marimba: Kevin Meyer / composer: William Penn - Get It! - Potenza Music (2021)
https://potenzamusic.com/product/get-it/
Sonata For Tuba and Piano - tuba: Harvey Philips / horn: John Barrows / piano: Bernie Leighton, Tait Sanford / composer: Alec Wilder - Golden Crest (1965)
https://www.alecwildermusicandlife.com
Meltdown - Gerhard Meinl's Tuba Sextette / composer: Jonathan Sass - TUBA!: A Six-Tuba Musical Romp - Angel Records (1992)
http://www.jonsass.com/
Neon Waddle - Jon Hansen - Electric Tuba - digital release (2021)
https://jonhansen.bandcamp.com/album/electric-tuba
Singing Next to a Tuba by the River Near Pope Rd. (with a microphone in it), June 25th 2020 - id m theft able - A tuba (with a microphone in it) - digital release (2020)
https://idmtheftable.bandcamp.com/album/a-tuba-with-a-microphone-in-it
"The Trinity" based on the story of Roger Bobo for Tuba & Piano - tuba: Avital Handler/ piano: Anna Kavalerova / text & reader: Roger Bobo / composer: Anna Segal - digital release (2021)
https://annasegalcomposer.bandcamp.com/track/the-trinity-based-on-the-story-of-roger-bobo-for-tuba-piano
Tubby The Tuba - tuba: Herbert Jenkel / narration: Victor Jory / composer: George Kleinsinger / story-lyrics: Paul Tripp - Cosmo Records (1945)
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/tubby-the-tuba-80-years-of-music-animation-history/
https://archive.org/details/78_tubby-the-tuba_victor-jory-leon-barzin-g-kleinsinger-p-tripp_gbia8005252/04+-+TUBBY+THE+TUBA+-+VICTOR+JORY+-+LEON+BARZIN.flac
Plethora - Drums & Tuba - Drums & Tuba Live! - digital release (2016)
https://drumsandtuba.bandcamp.com/album/drums-and-tuba-live
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Greetings!
As promised, today's program celebrates the April birthdays and music of composers who are continuing to bring us fascinating music. Wishing many happy returns of the day to Graham Fitkin, Mary Ellen Childs, Hildegard Westerkamp & Morton Subotnick!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingthenevelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-29-23 PTE Playlist: April Birthdays!
Graham Fitkin (April 19) https://fitkin.com
Stub - Delta Saxophone Quartet / composer: Graham Fitkin - Facing Death - FMR (2002)
https://www.deltasax.com/
Veneer - Graham Fitkin - Veneer - self-release (2016)
https://fitkin.com/product/veneer/
Mary Ellen Childs (April 13) http://www.maryellenchilds.com/
Oa Poa Polka - Guy Klucevsek / composer: Mary Ellen Childs - Polka From The Fringe - Starkland (2012)
https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/guy-klucevsek-polka-from-the-fringe
After Dust (from Dream House) - Ethel / composer: Mary Ellen Childs
https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/light
Kalli / The Lake - Mary Ellen Childs - Wreck - Innova (2012)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/mary-ellen-childs/wreck
Hildegard Westerkamp (April 8) https://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca/
Cricket Voice - Hildegard Westerkamp - Transformations - empreintes DIGITALes (2010)
https://electrocd.com/en/album/2369/Hildegard_Westerkamp/Transformations
Gently Penetrating - Hildegard Westerkamp - Into India - Earsay Music (2002)
https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/into-india?from=embed
MotherVoice Talk - Hildegard Westerkamp - Breaking News - Earsay Music (2022)
https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-news
Morton Subotnick (April 19) http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/
The Wild Bull (Part A) - Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon / The Wild Bull - Wergo (1994)
https://www.schott-music.com/en/silver-apples-of-the-moon-the-wild-bull-no93270.html
The Last Dream of the Beast - for soprano, two celli, electronics, and "ghost" electronics - Conductor: Stephen L. Mosko / Performers: Erika Duke, cello; Dane Little, cello; Morton Subotnick, Buchla 400 Electronic Musical Instrument and "ghost" electronics - The Art Of Joan La Barbara - Nonesuch Silver Series (1985)
http://www.joanlabarbara.com/
The Key To Songs Electronics [Yamaha Tx-816 And Qx-1 Electronic Music System] (excerpt) - Morton Subotnick - Music from Mills - Mills College (1986)
http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/
Piano Piece very late 92 - Graham Fitkin - Hard Fairy - Argo (1994)
https://fitkin.com
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Greetings.
Man...I'll tell ya. Of course death is an everyday part of life, but the passing of folks whose music has touched your brain and heart is never easy. Let's see...my short list for 2023 includes Jeff Beck, Burt Bacharach, Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant), Wayne Shorter, Scott Johnson, Fuzzy Haskins (Parliament-Funkadelic), Yukihiro Takahashi (Yellow Magic Orchestra) and now his YMO cohort, the brilliant musician/composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto. In Phase One, we'll hear a bunch of pieces from Sakamoto & YMO, while in Phase Two things will change up to bring you some new progressive rock in tandem with some other goodies.
In an attempt to try to balance things out, next week's program will feature the music of living composers whose birthdays are in April.
Take care,
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-23-23 PTE Playlist
_Latkes_ / _Flaounes_ - Petridisch - Extrait - Mahorka (2023)
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/extrait
Scattered Focus - Valiska - Wolf Moon - digital release (2023)
https://valiska.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-moon
R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto (March 28) / Yukihiro Takahashi (Jan 11)
https://www.sitesakamoto.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/arts/music/yukihiro-takahashi-dead.html
Thatness Thereness - Ryuichi Sakamoto - B-2 Unit (2019 Remaster) - Alfa Music (2019/1980)
Diabaram - Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Youssou N'Dour - Beauty - Virgin (1989)
Yellow Magic (Tong Poo) - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra (U.S. Version) - Restless Records (1979)
Be A Superman - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodon - EMI Japan (1993)
Kai-Koh - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys - Restless Records (1983)
Improvisation (Live) - Ryuichi Sakamoto / Jaques Morelenbaum - Morelenbaum²/Sakamoto - CASA - Sony Classical (20020
Milan, 1909 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Futurista - Midi (1986)
Acceptance - End Credits - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Little Buddha (Original Soundtrack) - Milan (1993)
Time (Eric's Songwriting Diary) - Eric Woolfson - The Turn of a Friendly Card CD 2 (Eric's Songwriting Diaries) - The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Limited Edition Box Set) - Esoteric Recordings (2023)
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-alan-parsons-project-the-turn-of-a-friendly-card-3cd-blu-ray-limited-edition-box-set/
Time - The Alan Parson's Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card CD 1 - The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Limited Edition Box Set) - Esoteric Recordings (2023)
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-alan-parsons-project-the-turn-of-a-friendly-card-3cd-blu-ray-limited-edition-box-set/
My Moonlight Dream - Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble - A Gallery of the Imagination - Madfish (2022)
https://www.rwcc.com/notices/agoti.php
Riverflow - M-Opus - At The Mercy Of Manannán - Rude Chord Recordings (2023)
https://m-opus.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-mercy-of-manann-n
Tomorrow - Days Before Tomorrow - Now and Then Part II: Stories and Dreams - digital self-release (2023)
https://daysbeforetomorrow.bandcamp.com/track/tomorrow
Royal Augmentation - Anchor & Burden - Kosmonautik Pilgrimage - Moonjune Records (2023)
https://anchorandburden.bandcamp.com/album/kosmonautik-pilgrimage
Change - Goldfeather - Change - Innova (2023)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/goldfeather/change
Teenbeat Introduction / Teenbeat - Henry Cow - Leg End - ReR Megacorp/Morphius Records (1973)
https://henrycow.bandcamp.com/album/leg-end
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Greetings!
As long time listeners might have figured out, I'm quite fond of percussion based music in all it's forms. So, today's program will give you a taste of music spanning in time from historically classic percussion compositions to contemporary pieces in multiple genres. Considering the pile of music I couldn't fit into today's show, Greatest Hits!, Vol. 2 should appear not too far down the road.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-15-23 PTE Playlist: Greatest Hits, Vol 1 (...as in percussion.)
Sonatas I-IV - prepared piano: Agnese Toniutti / composer: John Cage - John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - Neuma Records (2023)
https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/john-cage-sonata--interludes-for-prepared-piano
Ballet Mecanique - Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra / composer: George Antheil - Antheil: Ballet Mecanique - Naxos (2001)
https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.559060
22 Sounds - percussion: Douglas Perkins / composer: Larry Polansky - These Are The Generations - New World Records (2020)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/recent-release-3/products/larry-polansky-these-are-the-generations
An Inmates Lullaby - Gentle Giant (R.I.P. Ray Shulman) - In A Glass House - DRT Entertainment (1973)
https://gentlegiantmusic.com/w/index.php?title=In_a_Glass_House&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop
Somneuk's Ranat Solo / Percussion Trio - David Soldier & Richard Lair - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2000)
https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra
Sorbet No. 3 - UDU Trail - percussion/composer: Evelyn Glennie - Drumming - Catalyst (1996)
https://www.evelyn.co.uk/the-evelyn-glennie-collection/discography/1980s-1990s/
The Wheelbarrow Piece / Noel's Garden / Noel's Song - So Percussion & Trollstilt w/ Rinde Eckert & Jennifer Trueman - Five (and-a-half) Gardens - Shhh Productions (2007)
https://sopercussion.com/shop-item/so-percussion-and-trollstilt-five-and-a-half-gardens/
beat - solo drum kit: Martin Daigel / composer: Sylvain Pohu - Drum Machines - Ravello Records (2023)
https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8088/#listen
Life is Beautiful and Painful... Like a Feather Pulled From a Wing. - Joseph Benzola - Life is Beautiful and Painful... Like a Feather Pulled From a Wing. - digital single (2022)
https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/life-is-beautiful-and-painful-like-a-feather-pulled-from-a-wing
Ionisation - Robert Craft conducts woodwinds, brass & percussion / composer: Edgar Varèse - The Music of Edgar Varèse - Columbia (1960)
Sound On Low - Dave Schoepke - Drums On Low - self-release (2019)
https://daveschoepke.bandcamp.com/album/drums-on-low
Five Movements for Drum Set & Orchestra: Mvt. 3 - Terry Bozzio feat. Metropole Orkest - Chamber Works - Favored Nations (1997)
https://www.favorednations.com/artists/terry-bozzio/
Sweet Sixteen - Diga Rhythm Band - Diga - Ryko (1976)
https://www.mickeyhart.net/music/diga
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Greetings!
Another April Fools Day is upon us and I chose a bunch of music that has humor, both topically and/or structurally at it's core with Phase Two focused on music directly from or influenced by cartoons, both classic and more recent. In addition, this particular theme gives me another excuse to play Komar & Melamid/Dave Soldier's masterpiece, "The Most Unwanted Music" which makes me laugh out loud every time I hear it.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
4-1-23 PTE Playlist: "What's So Funny?"
lontanofaune - Rascali Klepitoire / John Oswald - CLASSICS from the Rascali Klepitoire - PFONY (2020)
https://johnoswald.bandcamp.com/album/classics-from-the-rascali-klepitoire
John Somebody (complete, 1980-82) - Scott Johnson (R.I.P.) - John Somebody - Tzadik (2004)
https://scottjohnsoncomposer.com/compositions/johnsomebody.html
Magoo In Hi-Fi - composer: Dennis Faron / Mr. Magoo: Jim Backus / Waldo: Daws Butler - Magoo In Hi-Fi - RCA Victor (1957)
Captain's Log/Space Madness - Ren & Stimpy - composers: Tom Armbruster, Chris Reccardi, Jim Smith - You Eediot! - Nickelodeon/Sony Wonder (1993)
https://vgmdb.net/album/69958
The Jetson's (End Titles) - featuring Doc Severinsen on trumpet - composer: Hoyt Curtin - Cartoon Classics & Wacky Sounds by Hannah-Barbera - Rhino/Cartoon Network (2001)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-11-me-64056-story.html
Road Runner - accordian: Guy Klucevsek / composer: John Zorn - Manhattan Cascade - CRI Emergency/New World Records (1992)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/guy-klucevsek-manhattan-cascade
There They Go Go - Carl Stalling - The Carl Stalling Project: Music form Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958 - Warner Bros. (1990)
https://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.1/articles/goldmark2.1.html
Powerhouse - Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights: The Music of Raymond Scott - Columbia (1992)
https://www.raymondscott.net/
Dragalong Droopy - Scott Bradley - Tex Avery Cartoons - Milan (1993)
https://www.tomandjerryonline.com/bradley.cfm
Magic Toenail - Brak / composers: Pete Smith, Eddie Horst - Brak Presents: The Brak Album - starring Brak - Rhino/Cartoon Network (2000)
https://vgmdb.net/album/96600
Sounds to Forget (excerpt)(1963) / This Thing Called Key (1956) / Arcane Presents Lulu (1956) - Hugh Le Caine - Compositions/Demonstrations 1946-1974) - JWD (1999)
https://hughlecaine.com/en/compositions.html
The Most Unwanted Song - Komar & Melamid / Dave Soldier - The People's Choice Music - NeedleJuice Records (2019)
https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/the-peoples-choice-music
Slush - Bonzo Dog Band - Let's Make Up and Be Friendly - United Artists (1972)
http://www.bonzodog.org/bonzos/friendly.htm