Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

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February 20, 20262-7-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - PIANO!
Greetings!
Sports-truncated show. Pianos!
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky / Twitter: @envpusher1

1-10-26 PTE Playlist
All The Things You Are - Bill Evans - The Solo Sessions: Volume 2 - Milestone (1963/1992)
https://billevansofficial.com/
Dispatch From The Interzone - Joseph Benzola - Amanita Music single (2026)
https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/dispatch-from-the-interzone
Poivrottes (x3 pianos) - Euan Dalgarno - Poivrottes (x3 pianos) - self-released single (2025)
https://euandalgarno.bandcamp.com/track/poivrottes-x3-pianos
MODUL 13 - Nik Bärtsch - Hishiryo (Piano Solo) - Ronin Rhythm Records (2002)
https://nikbaertsch.bandcamp.com/album/hishiryo-piano-solo
Piano Study #5 (for just Fender Rhodes) - piano: Andrew C. Smith / composer: Larry Polansky - Indexical (2017)
https://indexical.bandcamp.com/album/larry-polansky-piano-study-5
Symbi Oasis - Thollem McDonas - Infinite-Sum Game - ESP-Disk (2024)
https://thollem-esp.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-sum-game
Metamorphosis Nos. 3 & 5 - piano: Bruce Brubaker / composer: Philip Glass - Glass Cage - Arabesque Records
https://arabesquerecords.com/z6744-glass-cage/
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February 15, 20261-3-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
Only the first half of this show was aired due to a sports pre-emption, but here's the whole thing in it's glorious completeness!
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky:

1-3-26 PTE Playlist
Parallels for tuned triangles, hi-hats & 4-channel 1-bit electronics / percussion: Meehan/Perkins Duo, composer/electronics/programming: Tristan Perich - Parallels - Physical Editions (2015)
https://tristanperich.bandcamp.com/album/parallels
Under Dali's Wing / These Castle Children - The Muffins - <185> - Cuneiform Records (1996)
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/185
Dancer Portraits Nos. 1-6 - Andrew Staniland - The Laws of Nature - Leaf Music (2025)
https://andrewstaniland.bandcamp.com/album/the-laws-of-nature
In The Name(less) for Quadrachord and Marimba Lumina - Paul Dresher - Cage Machine - New Albion (2004)
http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-paul-dresher-cage-machine-na125cd
He Loved Him Madly - Miles Davis / Bill Laswell, mix translation - Panthalassa - The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974 - Columbia (1998)
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/bill-laswell-re-shaping-music-miles-davis
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1h 59min
January 04, 202612-27-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
Let's see... brand new music from Jon Porras, Uterocele, John Oliver, Lingyuan Yang, Ian Smit and the pairing of Bryan Day w/ Ernesto Diaz-Infante. You'll also get a taste of recent releases from Ye Gods, Avant Orchid Zone & Fletina rounded out by older tracks from Gary Husband, Robert Wyatt & Bill Laswell's mix-translation of Miles Davis. Not too shabby, if I should say so myself.
Enjoy & Have A Happy New Year!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

12-27-25 PTE Playlist

Intro
Fields - Jon Porras - Achlys - Shelter Press (2025)
https://jonporras.bandcamp.com/album/achlys

Phase One
Radiology Report, p. 1 / Urinary Flow / Radiology Report p. 2 / Tube With Contrast Medium / Radiology Report p. 3 - Ureterocele - Tube With Contrast Medium - digital release (2025)
https://ureterocele.bandcamp.com/album/tube-with-contrast-medium
Out of Tune - John Oliver - Out of Tune. Out of Time. - John Oliver Music (2025)
https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-tune-out-of-time
Bloodstain - Lingyuan Yang, guitar/ Shinya Lin, piano / Asher Herzog, drums - Cursed Month - Chaospace Records (2025)
https://lingyuanyang.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-month
The Fashion Police - The Gary Husband Group - Postcards from the Past - Moonjune Records (2025)
https://garyhusband.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-the-past
Oil Can Sweets - Ian Smit - ¿QUÉ? - self-release (2025)
https://petitoquraineysmittorn.bandcamp.com/album/qu
spin (excerpt) - Andrea Parkins / Eliad Wagner - Drag Drop Spin & Crawl - Superpang (2025)
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/drag-drop-spin-crawl

Phase Two
Capillary Luau - Bryan Day & Ernesto Diaz-Infante - Utility Spirits - scatterArchive (2025)
https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/utility-spirits
Kochari - Ye Gods - The Arcane & Paranormal Earth - self-release (2025)
https://yegods.bandcamp.com/album/the-arcane-paranormal-earth
Vapour Area / Goner - Avant Orchid Zone - Sanctuary Hearts EP - self-release (2025)
https://avantorchidzone.bandcamp.com/album/sanctuary-hearts-ep
Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom - Virgin (1974)
https://rockbottom.differenteverytime.com/
Session 2.3 - Fletina - Objects & Materials II - digital release (2025)
https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/objects-materials-ii
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December 22, 202512-20-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
Happy Holidays, Y'all. Lots of new things. Acoustic & electronics, songs, noise & even Tangerine Dream (then and now).
Enjoy!
Joel

12-20-25 PTE Playlist
Blink II - Arid Landscapes - Arid Landscapes - self-release (2025)
https://aridlandscapes.bandcamp.com/album/arid-landscapes
Iceberg Star Chart - Gayle Young & Robert Wheeler - From Grimsby To Milan - Farpoint Recordings (2025)
https://farpoint.bandcamp.com/album/from-grimbsy-to-milan
Terrestrial - Cathode Ray Tube - TRIP FM: Music for Modification - Triplicate Records (2025)
https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-modification
Over There - Jeannine Wagar - Into The Night - Neuma Records (2025)
https://jeanninewagar.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-night
Movements of a Visionary 2024 - Tangerine Dream - 50 Years of Phaedra: At The Barbican - Kscope (2025)
https://www.tangerinedreammusic.com/en/music/detail.asp?id=274&tit=50+Years+of+Phaedra%3A+At+The+Barbican
Unraveling The Linear - Sylvan Winds / composer: Svjetlana Bukvich - Resonant Worlds - Albany Records (2025)
https://www.albanyrecords.com/catalog/troy2014/
coral - Avi C. Engel - A Little Light - Elephant Shrew Editions (2025)
https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/a-little-light
W - Ice Cathedral - Carla Kihlstedt & Present Music - 26 Little Deaths - Cantaloupe Music (2025)
https://carlakihlstedt.bandcamp.com/album/26-little-deaths
Men & Maggots - David Wallraf - Battleship Potemkin - digital release (2025)
https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/album/--7
07 - Nick Storring - Humbucking Music - FALT (2025)
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/humbucker-music
Trance 1 - Icebreaker / composer: Michael Gordon - Trance - Cantaloupe Music (1995/2004)
https://michaelgordonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/trance
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December 20, 202512-13-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
All over the place this week! Starting on more of a jazz note, meandering all over the place to more ambient/atmospheric things from the folks at Projekt Records and focusing on new releases in Phase Two.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

12-13-25 PTE Playlist
Intro
Meandering - Haeun Joo - Just Gravity - 577 Records (2025)
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/just-gravity

Phase One
Banff (intro) / Banff - The Patrick Smith Words Trio - Words Underlined - Lit Soc Records (2025)
https://litsocrecords.bandcamp.com/album/words-underlined
I was almost there - Noemi Buchi - Exuvie - -OUS (2025)
https://noemibuchi.bandcamp.com/album/exuvie
Biological Effects - Bob Lord - The Six Observables - digital release (2023)
https://boblordmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-six-observables
Everything & Nothing - Bryan Beller - scenes from the flood - Onion Boy Records (2019)
https://bryanbeller.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-flood
Watermelon In Easter Hay - Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage - Zappa Records (1979)
https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/joes-garage-acts-i-ii-iii/#/
Longing Cries - Peter Phippen, flutes / Ivar Lunde, Jr., synths, ambient textures, frame drum / Paulina Fae, voices, piano - The Phantom Moon - Projekt Records (2025)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-phantom-moon
Shadow Current - Steve Roach & SoRIAH - Curandero - Projekt Records (2025)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/curandero
Pond Life - Michael Brook - Hybrid - Editions EG (1985)
https://www.michaelbrookmusic.com/

Phase Two
what came before me is going after me - Zihua Tan | No Hay Banda - what came before me is going after me - No Hay Discos (2025)
https://zihuatan.bandcamp.com/track/what-came-before-me-is-going-after-me
Tyrannus Rex - Charles Amirkhanian - Ratchet Attach It - Other Minds Records (2025)
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ratchet-attach-it
How To Peel A Steel Apple (excerpt) - Fletina - How To Peel A Steel Apple - digital release (2025)
https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-peel-a-steel-apple
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1h 59min
December 11, 202512-6-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
It's always a unique sonic experience when Kevin Kastning releases new music and I'm happy to open this week's program with his two latest, paired with long-time compadres, Sandor Szabo &
Carl Clements. In addition, we honor the memory and music of the late Jack DeJohnette, followed by a number of new things, including a notable release from percussionist/composer Pauline Roberts.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

12-6-25 PTE Playlist

Phase One
And carries outward - Kevin Kastning & Sandor Szabo - To capture the light - Greydisc Records (2025)
https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/to-capture-the-light
Now A Path, Now A Journey - Kevin Kastning & Carl Clements - Though Seldom Revealed - Greydisc Records (2025)
https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/though-seldom-revealed

RIP Jack Dejohnette
Free Above Sea - Jack Dejohnette - Oneness - ECM (1997)
https://www.jackdejohnette.com/oneness
Oneness - Gateway - Homecoming - ECM (1995)
https://ecmrecords.com/product/homecoming-gateway
Peace for Five - Kenny Wheeler - Deer Wan - ECM (1978)
https://ecmrecords.com/product/deer-wan-kenny-wheeler/
A Chuckle In The Dark - The Galley Project - Insignificant (2025)
https://thegalleyproject.bandcamp.com/album/insignificant
From Within - Anekdoten - From Within - KScope (1999)
https://anekdoten.bandcamp.com/album/from-within

Phase Two
Inca Roads / The Black Page #1 / The Black Page #2 - The Furious Bongos - La Petite Tour-Ette - self-release (2024)
http://thefuriousbongos.com
18 de Diciembre - Pauline Roberts - composer/vibraphone/voice - Nuevas Músicas para Vibráfono y Electrónica -self-release (2025)
https://paulineroberts.bandcamp.com/album/nuevas-m-sicas-para-vibr-fono-y-electr-nica
Canción - Pauline Roberts - vibraphone & voice / Facundo Negri - composer & electronics - Nuevas Músicas para Vibráfono y Electrónica -self-release (2025)
https://paulineroberts.bandcamp.com/album/nuevas-m-sicas-para-vibr-fono-y-electr-nica
Interlude - Drew Schlesinger & David Torn - Soul of the Machine: A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman - Projekt Records (2025)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/soul-of-the-machine
The Shaded Realm #1- Conducive - The Shaded Realm - digital release (2025)
https://conducivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-shaded-realm
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1h 59min
November 19, 202511-15-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
Limited production time means longer pieces, so we return to Tim Brady's excellent current release for the title track, the Nakedeye Ensemble's take on a classic Frederic Rzewski piece and Pamela Z's new composition, "Simultaneous" in it's entirety.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

11-15-25 PTE Playlist (The Long Ones)
Sky (vinyl edition) - Tim Didymus & Foster Neville - Ulla - Subexotic Records (2025)
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ulla
For Electric Guitar, sections 1-3 - guitar/composer: Tim Brady - For Electric Guitar - People Places Records (2025)
https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-electric-guitar
Come Together - NakedEye Ensemble - Storylines Crossing - Starkland (2018)
https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/nakedeye-ensemble-storylines-crossing
Outro - 58 Seconds To Go - Age O.P.F. - 5 1/4 - digital release (2020)
https://ageopf.bandcamp.com/album/5-1-4
Simultaneous - Pamela G. - Simultaneous - Other Minds Records (2025)
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/simultaneous
March - Feinstruktur - 2025 - digital release (2025)
https://feinstruktur.bandcamp.com/album/2025
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November 19, 202511-8-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
This week's program was constructed, to some degree, with a kind of "stream of consciousness". Comparisons of the same piece, pieces w/ words, spacey ambience, contemporary composition, kalimbas & fusion. Why not?
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

11-8-25 PTE Playlist
Mote - Avi C. Engel - Mote - Fenny Compton (2025)
https://fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote
Overthrow Them All - Caer Sgàil (aka Jude Kerr) - It's The People We Choose - Error Prone Records (2025)
https://errorpronerecords.bandcamp.com/album/it-s-the-people-we-choose
Overthrow Them All (Overthrown Mix) - Chosen Persons - FishPrints (2025)
https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/chosen-persons
Wearing Words - Emily Wittbrodt - Wearing Words - Futura Resistenza (2025)
https://futuraresistenza.bandcamp.com/album/wearing-words
Y - The Problem of the Tower and the Clouds (arr. Mark Orton) - Carla Kihlstedt / Present Music - 26 Little Deaths - Cantaloupe Music (2925)
https://carlakihlstedt.bandcamp.com/album/26-little-deaths
Prognostication of the Paladin - Christian Michael Filardo - Thinning Veil Compilation - Ingrown Records (2025)
https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/thinning-veil-compilation
Within The Boundless - Pietro Zollo - The Future is Now - Projekt Records (2025)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-now
Oceanic & Atmospheric - PGR (Kim Cascone) - the chemical bride - Silent Records (1992)
https://silentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-chemical-bride
The End of History - Cub/cub (Josh Hughes) - Nothing New Under The Sun - Subexotic Records (2022)
https://cubcub.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-new-under-the-sun
On the Street Where I Live: The Never-ending Ambulances / Help Somebody! / Gas Nign (Street Tune) / Desperate Measures - Percussia / composer: Alexis Lamb - Murmuration - Neuma Records (2025)
https://percussia.bandcamp.com/album/murmuration
steel is rolling far away - Andy Nechaevsky - silent night, almost no bombs - digital release (2024)
https://andynechaevsky.bandcamp.com/album/silent-night-almost-no-bombs
Morisca - Andy Nachaevsky - Del Sur - digital release (2025)
https://andynechaevsky.bandcamp.com/album/del-sur
Larks' Tongues In Aspic, part 1 - King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic - DGM (1973)
https://www.dgmlive.com/key-albums/larks-tongues-in-aspic
Going Home / Love, Devotion & Surrender - Santana - Welcome - Columbia/Legacy (1973)
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/santana-welcome-santana-by-jeff-winbush
A Love Supreme - Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011 - Eagle Records (2015)
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November 02, 202510-25-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings listener! What's your pleasure?
New Orleans-influenced horn music? There's Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake ensemble for you.
Maybe you're in the mood for experimental guitar? Take your pick from classic Bill Frisell or new releases featuring Ian Smit, Trey Gunn or Canadian guitarist/composer, Tim Brady.
For those who can't make up there minds, we've got an assortment of new and classic tracks from multiple genres.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

10-25-25 PTE Playlist
Turf Patrol - Lürgid - Zoology - Burnt Seed Records (2023)
https://lurgid.bandcamp.com/album/zoolology
Nezalezhnist (root is the Ukranian word for independence)/ Son of Mr. Green Genes - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble - Serpentine - Cuneiform Records (2025)
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/serpentine
Northern Wind Brings Redemption (The Shackleton Version) - Saagara - 3 The Shackleton Versions - Glitterbeat Records (2025)
https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/3-the-shackleton-versions
Bee Still - Ian Smit - ¿QUÉ? - self-release (December 2025 pre-release)
https://iansmit.bandcamp.com/
Trosper - Bill Frisell - Trosper - Fantagraphics (2001) out of print
The Wind That Ended History - Trey Gunn & David Forlano - Select Habits of Invertebrates - 7d Media (2023)
https://treygunn.bandcamp.com/album/select-habits-of-invertebrates
The Nostalgia Factory - Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life... - Snapper (2007)
https://porcupinetree.com/recordings/on-the-sunday-of-life/
Really, Really Solo Electric Guitar Music - Tim Brady - For Electric Guitar - People Places Records (November 2025, pre-release)
https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/
A Shadow Dance, To An Ancient Rhyme - John Reidar Holmes -These Are The Days of Burning Books - digital release (2025)
https://johnreidarholmes.bandcamp.com/album/these-are-the-days-of-burning-books
Rotation - Jérémie Ternoy Trio- Survol à basse altitude (“Low-Altitude Flight”) - Circum-Disc (November 2025 pre-release)
https://www.circum-disc.com/
Roji- sukashi - Midori Komachi - Chashistu : Audiotory Tea Room - MSCTY_EDN (2025)
https://midorikomachi.bandcamp.com/album/chashitsu-auditory-tea-room
Not In Our Dictionary - Usufruct - Windfall - Vaux Flores Industrial (2017)
https://thecoldvacuumofspace.bandcamp.com/album/windfall
On The Edge of the Galaxy - Solar Phasing - The Serenity Path - digital release (2025)
https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/album/the-serenity-path
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October 20, 202510-11-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
Tune in for a week packed with highlights, including a new track from my friend Joe Benzola, the latest from Jessica Pavone (who I had the pleasure of driving for her High Zero Festival appearance in Baltimore), and a classic electronic track by Carl Stone. Stone, who recently played Baltimore's Red Room, was one of the first new artists I played when I started hosting PTE in 1989. You'll also hear lots of current releases and new acquisitions!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

10-11-25 PTE Playlist
When Water is Scooped in the Hands.... - Joseph Benzola - digital single (2025)
https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/when-water-is-scooped-in-the-hands
What Worked That Way And It Worked Good / What Happens Has Become Now - Jessica Pavone - What Happens Has Become Now - Relative Pitch Records (2024)
https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/what-happens-has-become-now
In Secret Dreams / The Comfort - Skinner box - the Playhouse - bobok ltd (1990)
https://skinnerbox2.bandcamp.com/album/the-playhouse
w/ Susan Alcorn 2 - Thollem w/ Susan Alcorn - Five Astral Traveling Session Duos - Astral Spirits (2021)
https://thollem.bandcamp.com/album/five-astral-traveling-session
Duo Improvisation II - Thollem / Hafez Modirzadeh - Five Astral Traveling Session Duos - Astral Spirits (2021)
https://thollem.bandcamp.com/album/five-astral-traveling-session
In my name you shall perish! A choleric, silently screamed. (2025 Demaster) - Yhorm - The Hermit - Menschenfeind Propaganda (2025)
https://yhorm.bandcamp.com/album/der-eremit
Shing Kee (1986) - Carl Stone - Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties - Unseen Worlds (2016)
https://carlstone.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-music-from-the-seventies-and-eighties
Amygdala - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Terry Pender / mandolin & EEG
The Wheel - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. William Hooker / drums & EEG
Dopamine - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Dan Trueman / Hardanger fiddle & EEG
Bible School Vacation - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Margaret Lancaster / flute & EEG
The Brainwave Music Project - Mulatta (2017) https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/the-brainwave-music-project⦁ Amygdala - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Terry Pender / mandolin & EE
The Brainwave Music Project - Mulatta (2017)
https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/the-brainwave-music-project
Rabbit heart thumping - Bitsy Knox & Roger 3000 - The Ears of Animals - moli del tro records (2025)
https://molideltro.bandcamp.com/album/the-ears-of-animals
Loaf Cakes Are For Surfers - Dave Ruder - Lil Ol Davy Ru Ru - Gold Bolus Recordings (2025)
https://daveruder.bandcamp.com/album/lil-ol-davy-ru-ru
iasso (Simon Heartfield remix) - Euan Dalgarno - Uoying Remixed - Not Yet Remembered Records (2025)
https://notyetremembered.bandcamp.com/album/uoying-remixed
:Murdum: (excerpt) - Boreal Path - Boreal Covenant - Personal Archives (2025)
https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/boreal-covenant
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