Greetings!

I've never been a huge fan of end of year "best of" lists, but more appropriately for Pushing The Envelope,  this is the first batch of 2024 releases that made my cochlea's hair cells tingle! 

Enjoy!

Joel

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12-21-24 PTE Playlist: The Most Interesting Releases of 2024, Part 1

Greetings!

One of the joys of hosting PTE over the past 35 years is the opportunity to present multiple genres over a two hour period and make the flow, or non-flow, of the program interesting.  This week we have creative improv, brushing on both jazz and classical realms. Then we move one to contemporary composition, electroacoustics & experimental ambient.  And that's only in Phase One...

Enjoy!

Joel

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12-14-24 PTE Playlist

Greetings!

As usual, I'm offering up a veritible cornucopia of interesting music, from brand new items to older classics and not so classic. I had no planned thematic agenda, but assembled the sets so that they made sense to me. I hope they do the same for you.

Enjoy!

Joel

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12-7-24 PTE Playlist

Greetings!

Almost all new releases this week, save some classic Soft Machine & Vanilla Fudge. (Vanilla Fudge?!!)

Enjoy!

Joel

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11/30/24 PTE Playlist

Greetings!

Much new music with a few classic items (Steve Reich, Tangerine Dream) for your listening pleasure.

Enjoy!

Joel

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11-23-24 PTE Playlist

Greetings!

So, during my recent jaunt to Europe, I found a killer used CD/vinyl store in Budapest and was tempted to dispose of my clothes and just fill my suitcase up with CDs. The track from George Harrison's "Electronic Sound" is a sampling from the stack I did procure, with other items likely to show up in the coming weeks.

I'm also happy to highlight electric guitarist Garrett Gleason's "Myths & Hymns", incredibly imaginative take on Adam Guettel's beautiful song cyle.

Enjoy!

Joel

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11-16-24 PTE Playlist

Greetings!

Well, I'm off on vacation and between work and packing, not a lot of time to assemble the varied type of program you've grown to know and love.  That being said, in lieu of playing another re-run, I've chosen a pair of fascinating long-form works from Markus Reuter & Kate Soper.

Enjoy!

Joel

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11-2-24 PTE Playlist

Greetings!

This is the first in a pair of programs that will feature extended pieces, primarily because I am preparing, then will be travelling to Europe and felt this would be a good opportunity to present some longer compositions together a smattering of other interesting items.

Enjoy!

Joel

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10-26-24 PTE Playlist

• The Forest of Old-Timey Plagues - Takamaa - Brothers, Sisters​.​.​. It was just the Wind​.​.​. - digital release (2024)

• Ghost Geography (for solo piano & e-bow drone) - piano: Wesley Shen / composer: Emilie Cecilia LeBel - landscapes of memory - Redshift Music (2024)

• Monochromatic Bloodstains - Morbid Beauty's remix of "The Grey Area" by Envelope Muse - Mis-Conception-S (ReWorked 2008-2023) - Owlripper Records (2024)

• untitled 2 (perturbance) - How Much - 083024​.​vacantdreams - Fish Prints (2024)

• K.A. (Kohntarkosz Anteria) - Magma - K.A. - Seventh Records (2004)

• Forty Reasons - Chad Wackerman - Forty Reasons - CMP (1991)

Greetings!

Welcome to the UCONN sports truncated edition of PTE!  It's quite amazing how much great music you can squeeze into 59 minutes and 30 seconds!

Enjoy!

Joel

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10-19-24 PTE Playlist

• Triton - John Oliver, electronics / Douglas Schmidt, Bandoneon - Doug and John Live at Eternal Equinox  - John Oliver Music (2024) (a subscriber exclusive release)

• Music for Three Vibraphones - Patrick O'Hearn - Slow Time - self-release (2005)

• false chime - tttc - milky smell armpits - Fruit Exports (2024)

• Gumboot Time - Stefan Smulovitz — Bow & Brush: 12 Scores of Nadina Tandy - Redshift Records (November 2024 pre-release)

• Crossroads - The Noonan Trio - Inherit a Memory - Neuma Records (2024) 

• Survival - Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release - Sundazed Music / Modern Harmonic (1979/2021)

• Peking O - Can - Tago Mago - Mute/Spoon (1971)

Greetings!

Some new things from the folks at Neuma Records & Projekt Records morphs into a bunch of used goodies I found in a store in Ellicott City, MD.  Someone was getting rid of their collection of prog and prog-metal, so I scarfed up a handful of Spock's Beard releases along with most of what comprises Phase Two.

Enjoy!

Joel

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10-12-24 PTE Playlist

• Fantasía Flamenca -  Elisabet Curbelo - Resonance Unbound - Neuma Records (2024)

• Little Otto's Laboratory - David Merrill - Golden Oranges of Mars - Neuma Records (2024)

• One Day - Steve Roach - One Day of Forever - Projekt Records (2024)

• The Passage - black tape for a blue girl - As one aflame laid bare by desire (2024 remaster) - Projekt (1999/2024)

• Miin Triuwa (I Am True) - Under The Surface - Miin Triuwa - Jazz In Motion Records (2022)

• Argento's Glove - Pope John Paul Van Damme (AKA Cardiff's Tom Wallace) - DisInfamy - Machine Records (2024)

• Wherever You Stand - Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard - InsideOut Music (2006)

• Joint Ventures - Anders Johansson (drums) / Jens Johansson (keyboards / Allan Holdsworth (guitar) - Heavy Machinery - Shrapnel Records (1997) 

• Empire - The Winery Dogs - Hot Streak - Loud & Proud Records (2015)

• My New World - Transatlantic - Live In America - Inside Out Music (2001)

• Even Less - Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream - KScope (1999)

• Estonia - Marillion - This Strange Engine - Eaglerock Entertainment (1997)

• A Threefold Curse - David Wallraf  - نه (no) - Brachliegen Tapes ☽ (2024 pre-release)