Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

3-25-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Welcome to this week's program featuring primarily newer releases with a bit of jazz to fill out Phase Three. 
BTW, I've released a single that's available for your listening/downloading pleasure.  Here's the Bandcamp link: https://joelkrutt.bandcamp.com/track/con-forza
(Yes, I dabble in some found sound/musique concrete type audio manipulation myself.)
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
3-25-23 PTE Playlist
 
The Body of Your Dreams - Prism Saxophone Quartet / composer: Jacob TV - XAS (2023)
https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/body/ 
 
...and the higher leaves of the trees seemed to shimmer in the last of the sunlight's lingering touch of them... - field studies: chamber music of Emilie Cecilia LeBel - Redshift Records (2023)
https://www.emilielebel.ca/blue-of-the-distance/ 
 
Part 1: Beneath the Dust - Joseph Blane - The Spider Room - digital album (2023)
https://josephblane.bandcamp.com/album/the-spider-room 
 
Sub Wub - Death Tape Super Bass - Hellmouth - Spider Baby (2023)
https://deathtapesuperbass.bandcamp.com/album/hellmouth 
 
The Space Between Silence and Enough / Confessional / Tattoo - Guy Barash (electronics) & Nick Flynn (poetry) w/ Kathleen Supové (piano), Frank London (trumpet) & Eyal Maoz (guitar) - Killdeer - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/guy-barash-killdeer/ 
 
Blow Upon My Death Whistle - Anatomy of the Heads - In the Realm of Allied Barbarians and Tributary Lords - digital release (2023)
https://aoftheh.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-realm-of-allied-barbarians-and-tributary-lords 
 
Lost In Reading - guitar/midi instruments: Gordon Grdina / composer: Tim Berne - Oddly Enough: The Music of Tim Berne - Attaboygirl Records (2022) - track included on the Musicworks #144 CD
https://gordongrdina.bandcamp.com/album/oddly-enough
https://www.musicworks.ca 
 
Ascending Bird - Kayhan Kalhor (kamancheh or "Persian spiked fiddle") and Brooklyn Rider - Silent City - World Village (2008)
 
Far From Your Fire - anth​é​ne & Clara Engel - Anxiety / Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope 
 
Nephophilia - Robert Scott Thompson - Ascension - Aucourant Records (2022)
https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/ascension-2 
 
Flashback - Reiner Witzel/Ritchie Beirach Quintet - The World Within - Jazzsick Records (2023)
https://www.jazzsick.com/blog/releases/the-world-within/ 
 
Rumi and the Whirling Dervish - Joel Goodman - An Exquisite Moment - (2023 pre-release, June) 
 
Critical Conversation - Joel Harrison & Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage - Alternative Guitar Summit Recordings (2023)
https://agsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mirage 
 
Reeper - John Oliver - Cool Take - John Oliver Music (2017)
https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/cool-take 

3-18-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Simple format this week.  One set of new things followed by a sampling of music procured during my seasonal winter 2023 visit to the Princeton Record Exchange in lovely Princeton, NJ.  A little over an hour and forty bucks later, Joel was a happy boy with 23 CDs in hand.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
 
3-18-23 PTE Playlist
 
Historic Western Ghost Town Engulfed in Fire (ft. Walter Thompson) - Astroturf Noise - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023)
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-freezing
 
Bedford Stop - Angelica Olsted - American - Sonder House (2023)
https://angelicaolstad.bandcamp.com/album/american 
 
 Sonata in E Minor, Hob.XVI34 , Adagio - pianoforte: Boyd McDonald / composer: Joseph Haydn - Works by Joseph Haydn – Heretic Threads - Astrila Records (2023)
 
Sonata in E Minor, Hob.XVI34, Adagio - accordion: Joseph Petric / composer: Joseph Haydn - Works by Joseph Haydn – Heretic Threads - Astrila Records (2023)
 
Sintering - electronics/soundmanipulation: Peter Lutek / composer: Joseph Haydn - Works by Joseph Haydn – Heretic Threads - Astrila Records (2023)
 
Inhalant Survival Series pt​.​1: Drowning in the Bigot's Rivulet - c.soûle - A Certain Amount of Spillage (EP) - digital album (2023)
https://wileysoule.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-amount-of-spillage-ep-2 
 
Study No. 10 - Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (Complete) - Other Minds (2008)
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/studies-for-player-piano 
 
In nomine lucis - organ: Christoph Maria Moosmann / composer: Giacinto Scelsi - annum per annum - New Albion (1995)
http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-christoph-maria-moosmann-annum-per-annum 
 
Le Cirque-Oh! / Ghost Dance / Portrait III - Fred Frith - middle of the moment - RecRec Music (1995)
https://rermegacorp2022.bandcamp.com/album/middle-of-the-moment 
 
Pinch - piano: Nathanael May / composer: Brian Hulse - Pseudosynthesis - Albany Records (2009)
https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY1094&Store_Code=AR&search=brian+hulse&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high= 
 
Improvisation sur Mallarme II - soprano: Christine Schäfer / Ensemble Intercontemporain / composer: Pierre Boulez - Portait de Mallarmé- Deutsche Grammophon (2002)
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/boulez-pli-selon-pli-schaefer-8981 
 
Stratifications - solo soprano/alto saxophone / composer: Peter Epstein - Solus - MA Recordings (1998)
https://www.unr.edu/music/people/peter-epstein 
 

3-4-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Phase One of the program features some new music and an extended piece from M.C. Schmidt (one half of Baltimore favorites, Matmos), while Phase Two extols the glories of music composed for and made with toy pianos! (I've got two of them myself.)
Enjoy
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
 
 
3-4-23 PTE Playlist
 
Condition Safety - Imrryr - The Black Corridor - digital album (2022)
https://imrryr.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-corridor  
 
Bach Strips - David Currington - Canon Chops - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/canon-chops 
 
Cheat Codes - Autumna - Secret Radio - Werra Foxma (2022)
https://autumna.bandcamp.com/album/secret-radio 
 
Piano (1964) - Tremolo Audio - States - Facade Electronics (2022)
https://facadelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/states 
 
Mountain Side - M.C. Schmidt - Batu Malablab Suite for Prepared Piano, Flute and Electronics - digital album (2014)
https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/batu-malablab-suite-for-prepared-piano-flute-and-electronics 
 
Part VI - George Winstone w/ Ben Monder - Odysseus- digital self-release (2023)
https://georgewinstone.bandcamp.com/album/odysseus 
 
Shapard's Pi - toy piano: Genevieve Feiwen Lee / composer - electronics: Tom Flaherty - Mixed Messages - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://tomflaherty.bandcamp.com/album/mixed-messages 
 
Many Little Dyings - sampling keyboard/composer: Kyle Gann / voice: Kenneth Patchen - Custer and Sitting Bull - New World Records (2018)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/kyle-gann-custer-and-sitting-bull?_pos=2&_sid=cad1e7cfc&_ss=r&variant=31809796243535 
 
Suite for Toy Piano - toy piano: Stephen Drury / composer: John Cage - In a Landscape - Catalyst (1994)
 
Toy Piano Jump - Johnny Messner And His Hotel McAlpin Orchestra - The Uncollected 1939 - Hindsight Records (1982)
https://www.hindsightrecords.com/uncollected-collections 
 
Disaster - The Residents feat. Snakefinger - Diskomo 2000 - East Side Digital (2000)
https://meettheresidents.fandom.com/wiki/Diskomo_2000 
 
Frankentoy - Twink The Toy Piano Band - Happy Houses - digital album (2014)
https://toypianoband.bandcamp.com/album/happy-houses 
 
An Wem: Notes From Underground - toy piano:  Xenia Pestova / composer - electronics: Derek Hurst - Shadow Piano - Innova (2013)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/xenia-pestova/shadow-piano 
 
Modern Love Waltz - toy piano: Margaret Leng Tan / composer: Philip Glass - The Art of the Toy Piano - Point Music (1997)
https://www.margaretlengtan.com/pages/recordings.html
 
Three Landscapes for Peter Wyer - toy piano: Margaret Leng Tan / composer: Jed Distler - The Art of the Toy Piano - Point Music (1997)
https://www.margaretlengtan.com/pages/recordings.html 
 
 
 
 
 

2-18-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Today we open w/ a chunk of King Crimson from the soundtrack of "In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50)", then proceed to the usual mélange of genres ranging from musique concrete, space and electroacoustic music to contemporary composition in the form of pieces from  Eric Richards, Chaya Czernowin and Brad Lubman.
 
Enjoy!
Joel
 
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
2-18-23 PTE Playlist
 
The Letters - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50) - DGM (2022)
https://dgmlive.com/news/kc-doco-soundtrack-preorder 
 
Radical Action Suite - Live In The Studio, Tring, 2018: Radical Action I / Meltdown / Radical Action II / Level Five - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50) - DGM (2022)
https://dgmlive.com/news/kc-doco-soundtrack-preorder 
 
Tangents - Icarus Quartet / composer: Brad Lubman - Big Things - Furious Artisans (2022)
https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/icarus-quartet-big-things/ 
 
The Space Ahead - Siddhartha Barnhoom & Robert Logan - Cosmos Unfolding - digital self-release (2022)
https://siddharthabarnhoorn.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos-unfolding 
 
Irrational - loadbang / composer: Chaya Czernowin - Quiver - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/loadbang-quiver/ 
 
The Consent of Sound and Meaning - basses: Robert Black / trumpets: Andy Kozar / composer: Eric Richards - The Consent of Sound and Meaning: Music of Eric Richards - New Focus Recordings (2023)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/the-consent-of-sound-and-meaning-the-music-of-eric-richards/ 
 
In The Canopy, part 3 - Sarah Peebles - In The Canopy: Meditations from Paparoa and Kapiti Island - Panospria (2022)
https://notype.com/en/drones/a/366/in-the-canopy-meditations-from-paparoa 
 
Maccine - CZiGO - Aishroo - Machine Records (2023)
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/aishroo 
 

2-11-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Welcome to another "short on time" show featuring longer pieces from a number of newer releases. 
During my long weekend trip to visit friends and family in Connecticut, I had the opportunity to see Toby Amies' documentary, "In The Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50".  Even if you're not a King Crimson or a progressive rock fan, the film is quite engaging, both funny and moving.  Well worth checking out. In addition, on the way back I was able to make my seasonal winter stop at the Princeton Record Exchange and loaded up on goodies to be shared on upcoming programs.  
Enjoy the show and be sure to check out older programs you might have missed!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
2-11-23 PTE Playlist
 
Hymn 532292 - Xqui - Hymns for Terry Francis - Subexotic Records (2022)
https://xqui.bandcamp.com/album/hymns-for-terry-francis 
 
When The Machine Rhymes With My Body - Kukuruz Quartet /composer: Julie Herndon - Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving - Innova Recordings (2023)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/kukuruz-quartet/breathing-remembering-dissolving 
 
Through The Closing Portal - Robert Scott Thompson - Night and Day - Aucourant Records (2023)
https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/night-and-day 
 
Somehow We Can (String Quartet No. 3) - Momenta Quartet / composer: Alvin Singleton - Alvin Singleton: Four String Quartets - New World Records (2022)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/recent-release-3/products/alvin-singleton-four-string-quartets 
 
Toy Room / Q & A - Circle (Anthony Braxton/Chick Corea/David Holland/Barry Altschul) - Paris-Concert - ECM (1973)
https://www.ecmrecords.com/shop/143038750610/paris-concert-circle 
 
Section 7 (electronics intro) / Section 8 to X - The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet - 132350 -pfMENTUM (2022)
https://music.jeffkaiser.com/album/132350-the-jeff-kaiser-ockodektet 
 
Ricercar Primo for solo cello - cello: Marina Hasselberg / composer: Domenico Gabrielli / improvised electronics: Georgio Magnanensi - Redshift Records (2022)
https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/red-2 
 
Ricercar for solo cello - cello: Marina Hasselberg / composer: Linda Catlin Smith  - RED - Redshift Records (2022)
https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/red-2 
 
 

2-4-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center / ”Happy 86th Birthday, Philip Glass!”

Greetings!
Phase One of today's program highlights a number of new releases, concluding with the emotional, "Journey’s End," Neil Rolnick's reflection on the battle with cancer experienced by the his wife of 45 years, Wendy. The piece was commissioned and performed by Kathleen Supové who, as a personal friend of the couple, witnessed Wendy’s heroic fight with the disease and Rolnick’s role in caring for her throughout her illness. 
In Phase Two, we celebrate the 86th revolution around the sun of Philip Glass, featuring some lesser known pieces.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
 
 
2-4-23 PTE Playlist
 
Part II / Part III -  George Winstone w/ Ben Monder - Odysseus - digital self-release (2023)
https://georgewinstone.bandcamp.com/album/odysseus
 
The Difference Is The Buildings Between Us - No Hay Banda / composer: Mauricio Pauly - I Had A Dream About This Place - No Hay Discos (2022)
https://nohaybandamtl.bandcamp.com/album/i-had-a-dream-about-this-place
 
Over The Hill - Van der Graaf Generator - The Bath Forum Concert - Esoteric (2023)
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/van-der-graaf-generator-the-bath-forum-concert-2cd-blu-ray-dvd-box-set-4-disc/ 
 
Journey's End - piano: Kathleen Supové / electronics - composer: Neil Rolnick - Lockdown Fantasies - Other Minds Records (2023)
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lockdown-fantasies
 
"Happy 86th Birthday, Philip Glass!"
 
Phaedra: Scene 2 for String Trio - violin: Christina Fong / viola: Christopher Martin / cello: Karen Krummel - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
 
Phaedra: Scene 4 for Percussion & String Trio - percussion: Glenn Freeman / violin: Christina Fong / viola: Christopher Martin / cello: Karen Krummel - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
 
Phaedra: Scene 6/Scene 14 for Guitar & String Trio - guitar: Paul Vondiziano / violin: Christina Fong / viola: Christopher Martin / cello: Karen Krummel - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
 
Phaedra: Scene 15A for Percussion - Grand Valley State Univeristy Percussion Ensemble - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music / Modern Love Waltz - OgreOgress Productions (2011)
https://ogreogress.bandcamp.com/album/ph-dra-modern-love-waltz
 
Truman Sleeps - Philip Glass - Soundtrack: The Truman Show - Milan (1998)
https://philipglass.com/films/truman_show/
 
Changing Opinion - The Philip Glass Ensemble - vocal: Bernard Fowler / composer: Philip Glass / lyrics: Paul Simon - Songs from Liquid Days - Sony Masterworks (1985)
https://philipglass.com/recordings/songs_from_liquid_days/
 
from Wichita Vortex Sutra - The Philip Glass Ensemble / Allen Ginsberg / composer: Philip Glass - Hydrogen Jukebox - Nonesuch (1993)
https://philipglass.com/recordings/hydrogen_jukebox/
 
Offering - Ravi Shankar (raga melody) & Philip Glass (composition) - Passages - Private Music (1990)
https://philipglass.com/recordings/passages/
 
#2 For Gaia - Phillip Glass, Mickey Hart, Kitaro - Freedom Chants From The Roof Of The World - Rykodisc (1989)
https://folkways.si.edu/the-gyuto-monks/freedom-chants-from-the-roof-of-the-world/music/album/smithsonian
 
 
 
 

1-28-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings & Felicitations!
I am flabbergasted by the sheer quantity AND quality of new music, in all genres, available to air. This makes the listening & selection process quite enjoyable, though time consuming. (That's where being semi-retired often comes in handy.)  I've also been pondering about the sheer number of electronic artists, in multiple genres, that are populating the world of Bandcamp. With that in mind, you might want to check out this interesting article from the folks at Pitchfork (https://t.co/FVjUvETtR3) concerning the ambient streaming boom.
Enjoy this week's mulit-genre extravaganza!
Joel
 
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
 
1-28-23 PTE Playlist
 
Five Fantasies For The Japanese Consort: The Cries of Kyoto / Fantasia 'Tohoku' / Cancion Japonesa / Fantasia 'Indonesian' / Fantasia 'Indian' - Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort / composer: David Loeb - Between Sea and Sky - Furious Artisans (2022)
https://furiousartisans.com/catalog/david-loeb-between-sea-and-sky/
 
crank / set - percussion: Yang Chen, composer: Stephanie Orlando - longing for - People Places Records (2022)
https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/longing-for
 
Gift From The North - yeemeen nosa - SFTS: Experimental Ambient Compilation - Sounds for the Soul Records (2022)
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/sfts-experimental-ambient-compilation
 
Sne og fortvilelse (snow and despair)- Polarforsker - SFTS: Experimental Ambient Compilation - Sounds for the Soul Records (2022)
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/sfts-experimental-ambient-compilation
 
The Lost - GorMusik - Snakes and Angels - Melodic Revolution Records (2021)
https://gormusik1.bandcamp.com/album/snakes-angels
 
The Carousel of Progress - Mike Keneally - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat -  Exowax Recordings pre-release (2023)
https://store.keneally.com/products/mike-keneally-the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat-cd-plus-download
 
How Soon We Forget, How Long We Remember feat. Amy Denio, Amy Engelhardt, Bill Burnett, Jonathan Feinberg, Paul F. Perry, Tulasi Rain & Johnny Unicorn - Brian Woodbury - Rhapsody & Fillegree (Anthems & Antithets Volume 4) - Some Phil Records (2022)
https://brianwoodbury.bandcamp.com/album/rhapsody-filigree
 
Wearable Plaid Shirt - Lexic Task - Glimpses of the Endless Sky - digital release (2022)
https://lexictask.bandcamp.com/album/glimpses-of-the-endless-sky
 
Electric World - Prog Collective - Seeking Peace - Purple Pyramid (2022)
https://theprogcollective.bandcamp.com/album/seeking-peace
 
35 Tapes - Walk - Home - Apollon Records Prog (2021)
https://35tapes.bandcamp.com/album/home
 
Long Take 06 - Yamaoka - Long Takes - Facade Electronics (2022)
https://facadelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/long-takes
 
Megapolis - Leon Alvorado - Charging The Electric Dream - Melodic Revolution Records (2022)
https://leonalvarado.bandcamp.com/album/chasing-the-electric-dream
 
Border Loss - percussion: Greg Stuart / composer: Sarah Hennies - Subtractions - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://gregstuart.bandcamp.com/album/subtractions
 
WAH - cadeu - LANGUAGE (EP) - Hyperboloid Music (2022)
https://hyperboloidrecords.com/album/language
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1-21-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
This week features a set focused on a combination of new and old things featuring some type of slide guitar, including the my discovery of the extraordinary Baltimore pedal steel guitarist, Susan Alcorn. In addition, a bunch of new things from multiple genres.
Enjoy!
Joel
 
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
 
1-21-23 PTE Playlist
 
Some Kind of Symmetry - Seawind of Battery - IH001- Clockwatching - Island House Recordings. (2002)
https://seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/ih-001-clockwatching
 
Space Digger #2 - Geiger Von Muller - Slide Sonatas I. - digital album (2022)
https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/slide-sonatas-i
 
Brack Water Waltz - Astroturf Noise feat. Susan Alcorn - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023)
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-freezing
 
So Close, So Far Away - The Derek Trucks Band - Joyful Noise - Columbia (2007) 
 
Thollem / Susan Alcorn 3 - Thollem (McDonas) / Susan Alcorn - Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions - digital album (2021)
https://susanalcorn1.bandcamp.com/album/thollem-susan-alcorn-thollems-astral-traveling-sessions 
 
The Mill Pond Drowns Hope - John Fahey - The Mill Pond - digital album (1997)
https://thejohnfahey.bandcamp.com/album/the-mill-pond
 
Track 3 - Luke Vibert / BJ Cole - Unofficial Live Set
 
green volcano - Helios Creed - guitarrorists (compilation) - no. 6 records (1991)
http://www.helioschrome.com/guitarrorists.html
 
Alma - flute: Jennifer Grim / composer: Tania León - Through Broken Time - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/through-broken-time
 
Praia Ambiente - João Victor Barroso - Pequenos Guerreiros - digital album (2022)
https://jvictorbarroso.bandcamp.com/album/pequenos-guerreiros
 
Immensity Of - Departure Duo: soprano - Nina Guo / double bass - Edward Kass / composer: Emily Praetorius - Immensity Of - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/immensity-of
 
An Exchange - Chloe Alexandra Thompson - They Cannot Burn The Stars - Siege Records (2022) / track included in Musicworks #143 CD
https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/they-can-never-burn-the-stars
https://www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside-musicworks-143
 
Fractal 5.7 - Jon Durant & Stephan Thelan - Crossings - Alchemy Records (2021)
https://jondurant.bandcamp.com/album/crossings
 
Hairpin Turn - Galan Trio / composer: Paul Richards - Kinesis - Neuma Records (2022)
https://galantrio.bandcamp.com/album/kinesis
 
Denim - percussion: Jamie Drake, Daniel Morphy / toy piano: Joseph Ferretti, Wesley Shen / composer: Monica Pearce - Textile Fantasies - Centrediscs (2022)
https://centrediscs.bandcamp.com/album/textile-fantasies-3
 
Engine Down - C-Sides - Purple Hearts Corner - White Knight Records (2020)
https://csides1.bandcamp.com/album/purple-hearts-corner
 
 

1-14-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
This week's program opens with a set to honor the memory and music of guitarist, Jeff Beck.  I'm a particular fan of his fusion-oriented albums which are the ones I've highlighted tracks from.  The balance of the music samples from the large pile of current releases I have scattered around me in my basement lair.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@whus
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
 
1-14-23 PTE Playlist
 
Jeff Beck R.I.P.
Diamond Dust - Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow - Epic (1975)
Sophie - Jeff Beck - Wired - Epic (1976)
Where Were You - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop w/ Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas - Epic (1989)
Scatterbrain - Jeff Beck w/ The Jan Hammer Group - Live - Epic (1977)
Star Cycle - Jeff Beck - Guitar Samurai - Unofficial Recording: Live at Kouseinenkin Kaikan in Osaka, Japan on 9th July 2005
Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow - Epic (1975)
 
Character Studies / violin: Miranda Cuckson - composer: Anthony Cheung - All Roads - New Focus Recordings (2022)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/anthony-cheung-all-roads/
 
From Post to Palm - Forrest Fang - The Lost Seasons of Amorphia - Projekt Records (2022)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-seasons-of-amorphia
 
Green Line 2065 - Avik Chari - MIND & MACHINE, VOLUME FOUR: ORGANIC AND ELECTRONIC WORKS - Ravello Records (2022)
https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8070/
 
Upheaval Version 98 - Arvo Zylo - Upheaval - No Part of It (2018)
https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/upheaval-2
 
Supervillan Etudes: Riddler / 2-Face / Penguin / Catwoman / Poison Ivy / Joker -  piano: Vicky Chow / composer: Vincent Ho - SANDMAN’S CASTLE: THE SOLO AND DUO WORKS OF VINCENT HO - Navona Records (2022)
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6462/
 
Humility - Jairus Sharif - Water & Tools - Telephone Explosion Records (2022)
https://jairussharif.bandcamp.com/album/water-tools
 
Sinensis - Antariksh Daddy - Jasminoides EP - Antariksh Records (2022)
https://antarikshrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antariksh-daddy-jasminoides-ep
 

1-7-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!
Back in October I was in the Princeton, NJ area for a family event and there was no way I could return home to Maryland without embarking on a pilgrimage to the Princeton Record Exchange in order to reap from the musical harvest available from their cornucopia of lightly pre-owned CDs & DVDs. (For now, I let the vinyl be.)  All of the pieces you'll hear were gleaned from that haul.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: Pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1
 
January 7, 2023 PTE Playlist
 
ABC - Paul Lansky - Alphabet Book - Bridge Records (2002)
https://bridgerecords.com/collections/catalog-all/products/9126
 
La Rosa - Oren Bloedow & Jennifer Charles - La Mar Enfortuna - Tzadik (2001)
https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7146
 
Dark Wind for bass clarinet (Marty Walker), vibraphone, marimba, and piano- John Luther Adams - Adams / Cox / Fink / Fox (an original anthology) - Cold Blue Music (2001)
https://coldbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/adams-cox-fink-fox-an-original-anthology
 
Changes 'for David Starobin'  (1983)- guitar: Edith Leerkes / composer: Elliott Carter - homages & dedications - Naive Classique (2003)
https://www.elliottcarter.com/discography/nieuw-ensemble-homages-dedications/
 
Synchronisms #10 - guitar: David Starobin / composer-electronics: Mario Davidowsky - New Music for Guitar, Vol. 5 - Bridge Records (1993)
https://bridgerecords.com/collections/catalog-all/products/9042
 
Release for 8 players - The Nash Ensemble / composer: Mark-Anthony Turnage - Turnage - NMC (1995)
https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/composers/mark-anthony-turnage#recordings
 
Piano Sketch / Lullaby - Simon Jeffes - Piano Music - Penguin Cafe Music (2001)
https://www.penguincafe.com/penguinshop/piano-music-2011-re-master-out-now
 
Introduction/Diaphanous (Nels Cline)- Nels Cline - Lovers - Blue Note (2016)
https://www.nelscline.com/lovers
 
So Hard It Hurts / Touching (Annette Peacock) - Nels Cline - Lovers - Blue Note (2016)
https://www.nelscline.com/lovers
 
Piano Piece No. 4 - piano: Anthony de Mare / composer: Frederic Rzewski - Frederic Rzewski: Piano Music - OO Discs (1995)
https://www.anthonydemare.com/mobile/discography.php
 
Double Music - The New Music Consort / composers: John Cage & Lou Harrison - PULSE! PERCUSSION WORKS - New World Records (1990)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/pulse-percussion-works?_pos=2&_sid=803edd9fa&_ss=r&variant=32064939720783
 
Repons: Coda -Ensemble InterContemporain / composer: Pierre Boulez - Deutsche Grammophon (1998) 
 
The Bucket Rider from Opere Della Musica Povera (Works Of A Poor Music) - Bang on a Can All-Stars / composer: Martin Bresnick - The Essential Martin Bresnick - Cantaloupe Records (2006)
https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/essential-martin-bresnick
 
Blue Rondo a la Turk - Chris Brubeck's Triple Play - LIVE at the Arthur Zankel Music Center / June 10, 2011 - Blue Forest Records (2011)
http://chrisbrubeck.com/music/recordings/?id=167