Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Greetings!

So much music, so little time!

Enjoy!

Joel

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5-18-24 PTE Playlist

• Elevation - Trem77 - Topography EP -  digital release (2024)

• Churchill Downs Chamber Concerto - composer: Irwin Bazelon - Music of Irwin Bazelon - CRI American Masters/New World Records (1992)

• Monument for Graettinger - Clazz Ensemble / composer: Louis Andriessen - Den Bosch Clazz ensemble playing live at the Dutch Classical Music Meeting - Amsterdam - October 17th 2011 -

• Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom - Virgin (1974)

• Kerouac, Gysin, & Burroughs - Joseph Benzola - Portraits of the Dead Complete: 1995​-​2022 - Amanita Music (2024)

• Throwing Salt - Forrest Fang - The Lost Seasons of Amorphia - Projekt Records (2022)

• On A Boat - Denman Maroney Quintet - The Air​-​Conditioned Nightmare - Neuma Records (2024)

• Mundial Imaginalis  - Colin Fisher - Suns of the Heart - We Are Busy Bodies (2024)

• Blue Moon Frequency #5 (extended version) - slide guitar: Geiger Von Mueller  - digital single (2024)

• The Hall - Manuel Carbone - The Mosgrove Facility - Falt (2024)

• Hissed and Gone - Cat Temper - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)

• Amoureux Solitaires - Petridisch with Leah Callahan - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)

• Sonar - Renee Zon - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)

Greetings!

I thought I'd mention that when you look at each week's program playlist, in addition to the track release info, there's almost always a link that will take you to where you can obtain more info on the artist/release and where you might choose to support the livelihoods of said artists by procuring their music for your very own collection.

Enjoy!

Joel

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5-4-24 PTE Playlist

• SD FAHCBARUL! - Brakat - Codici Morti - digital release (2023)

• Black Earth - Ukranian born pianist: Inna Faliks  /composer: Fazil Say - Manuscripts Don't Burn - Sono Luminus (2024)

• quatre.b -  de type inconnu ("of unknown type") (Sylvain Pohu: electric guitar + electronics / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: bass guitar + electronics) - onze​.​correspondances - Elli Records (2024)

• Drum Buffer Rope - Ternoy / Cruz / Orins - The Theory of Constraints - Circum-Disc (2024 pre-release)

• 8_16 - Valley Lines - 13_16 - Machine Records (2024)

• Failure Cascade - Lamniformes - The Lonely Atom - people | places | records (2024)

• Gardiens de l​’​hassium (Guardians of Hassium) 270 - En Fer - GROS ROCK - self-release (2023)

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

• Mirror(s) - flute/composer: Gina Izzo ( l a d y y b i r d d) -  Tomorrow's Yesterday - Innova (2023) 

• String Quartet ('musica celestis') (1990) - The Lark Quartet / composer: Aaron Jay Kernis - Argo (1992)

• O Choruscans Lux Stellarum - Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records - Puremagnetik (2024)

• Waltz - John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser - Farahser - Elastic Recordings (May 2024 pre-release)

• Forever In Blue - Chris Russell - Noir - Projekt Records (2024)

Greetings!

Using Teiku's new self-titled 577 Record release as a springboard (in which the ensemble interprets Ukrainian Passover melodies in the jazz tradition of Creative Music), I wondered if I could cobble a Passover oriented set with music I had in my own collection.  The fruits of such an endeavor inhabits Phase One.

In Phase Two, I wanted to focus on the incredible musicianship of guitarist/pianist Kevin Kastning and his improvisational pairings with diverse musicians from around the globe.

Enjoy!

Joel

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4-27-24 PTE Playlist - TWOFER

A side: Chag Pesach Sameach! (Happy Passover!) / B side: The Music of Kevin Kastning

• Eyliyohu Hanovi (Elijah the Prophet) - The Klezmatics - Brother Moses Smote The Water: Live in Berlin - Piranha Musik (2004)

• Elijah Rock - The Klezmatics w/ Joshua Nelson - Brother Moses Smote The Water: Live in Berlin - Piranha Musik (2004)

• The Magic Winecup: A Syrian Passover Tale - storyteller: Vered Hankin / musical score: Bruce Ditmas - The Day The Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic - Kessem Productions (2000)

• Adir Hu - Jewlia Eisenbert / vocal ensemble: Charming Hostess - Trilectic - Tzadik (2001)

• Adir Hu Intro / Adir Hu - Teiku - Teiku - 577 Records (2024)

• Manishtana (What Has Changed?) - Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Soul - Tzadik (1999)

• Passover: Movement III - ensemble: thingNY / composer: Rick Burkhardt - Passover - Innova (2022)

• Passover - Carolee Carmello / composer: William Finn - Elegies: A Song Cycle - Fynsworth Alley (2003) Passover - Carolee Carmello / composer: William Finn - Elegies: A Song Cycle - Fynsworth Alley (2003)

• Dam Tzefardea - Rabbi Chaim B. Alevsky - PESACH’S GREATEST HITS - Tools for Torah (2006)

• Paisach in Portugal - Don Byron - Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz - Nonesuch (1993)

Greetings!

This week's program certainly emphasizes "multi-genre", a concept that has always been the keystone to the programming of "Pushing The Envelope" over the past 35 years (this fall, to be technical). A quick glance at this week's playlist will make that quite apparent. Cybotron to String Noise playing Alvin Lucier to The Allman Brothers (R.I.P. Dickey Betts) in the same program... makes sense to me!

Enjoy!

Joel

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4-20-24 PTE Playlist

• Fragment 17 Phase One (Proximian Mythos Cycle) - Cybotron (Richard Davis) - Cyber Ghetto - Fantasy (1995) 

• Hpirep (Meson Peripheral Mix) - Phase4our - Language Barrier - Machine Records (2024)

• Halo (for one or more violiings) (2019) - String Noise: Conrad Harris / Pauline Kim Harris - composer: Alvin Lucier - STRING NOISE - Black Truffle Records (2020)

• Links No. 8 (Confessions -- Witness to 48 Things) - vibraphone: Berndt Thurner / flute: Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer, composer: Stuart Saunders Smith - The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays - New World Records (2009)

• Les Brers in A Minor - The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach - Capricorn (1972)

• Walking The Wheel - Hawkstrel - Chaos Rocks - Purple Pyramid Records (2024)

• Death of Trumpet - Kleinemaschinen - Nice​[​ish] Stereo - Borenail Records (2024)

• Dayenu - Teiku - Teiku - 577 Records (2024)

• The Infinite Cosmos Are Calling You You You (excerpt) - Federico Ughi (drums) feat. Leo Genovese (keyboards) and Brandon Lopez (bass)  - Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024)

Greetings!

This week's potpourri of music highlights new releases from the good folks at 7d Media (Michael Shrieve, Tu-Ner), my Bandcamp Friday purchase for April (David First's, "Sitar Music of North Brooklyn (Same Animal, Different Cages, Vol. 4") and a bunch of other new & classic items that should pique your interest.

Enjoy!

Joel

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4-13-24 PTE Playlist

• No. 20 (Once Raw: The Aging G) - Dun-Dun Band - Pita Parka Pt. 1 : Xam Egdub -Ansible Editions (2024)

• Sitar & Bongos Duo 1 - David First (overtone sitar) w/ Danny Tunick (bongos) - Sitar Music of North Brooklyn (Same Animal, Different Cages, Vol. 4) - Fabrica (2020)

• Nereid - Douglas Schmidt (bandoneon) & John Oliver (synthesizers, editing, mixing & mastering) - Celestial Wanderer - John Oliver Music (May 2024 pre-release)

• Carol's Dream - Roby Glod (alto & soprano sax)/Christian Ramond (double bass)/Klaus Kugel (drums & percussion) - No ToXiC - Nemu Records (2024)

• Camera Obscura - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jonathan Sheffer composer & conductor / Milly Forrest, soprano; Alexandria Moon, mezzo soprano; Glen Cunningham, tenor; James Quilligan Lyric, baritone / Text based upon a play by Robert Patrick - Four Ten-Minute Operas - Navona (2024)

• Earth Intruders - Björk - Volta - Atlantic (2007)

• absorbed by light - hojascirculares (Ara Cristina Hernandez) - void of course - digital release (2020)

• Endless Dream / Changes (LIVE CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK 19/06/94) - Yes - TALK - 30TH ANNIVERSARY, 4CD EXPANDED EDITION -  Spirit of Unicorn Music (1994/2024)

• The Call of Michael Olatunji - Michael Shrieve - Drums of Compassion - 7D Media (May 2024 pre-release)

• Attack of the Puppet People - Tu-Ner - For Lovers - 7D Media (May 2024 pre-release)

• Intent On Tuning In - Niacinamide - Comp24: Different Angles - Owlripper Records (2023)

• 2020.JPG - book on VHS - 2020 Jazz Punk Greats - digital release (2021)

Greetings!

As you might have noticed, glancing through this week's playlist, Leon Alvarado's track planted the seed of music related to elephants, both real & fictional.  In addition, the usual mix of new, old and in-between.

Enjoy!

Joel

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4-6-24 PTE Playlist

• Carbon Monoxide - Glenn Branca Ensemble - Ensemble: Live at Primavera Sound Music Festival 2011 in Barcelona, Spain - Free Music Archive (2011)

• Where Songs Go At Night (for flute, oboe, clarinet, tenor saxophone, horn, and bassoon) - ensemble: Bandwidth / composer: Anna Weesner - Where Songs Go At Night - Neuma Records (2024)

• Sprawl Twilight - Temporal Waves - Temporal Waves - people | places | records (2024)

• Dance of the Pink Elephants - Leon Alvarado - Brain Damage - Melodic Revolution Records EP (2024)

• Medley Five (Technicolor Pachyderms): Pink Elephants on Parade/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Sun Ra And His Arkestra & Harry Nilsson - Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - A&M Records (1988)

• Elephant Talk - King Crimson - CIRKUS: The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson LIVE, Vol. One - Neon Heat Disease (1984-1986) - Virgin/DGM (1999)

• Music by Humans About Elephants > Big Elephant Saddle - mahout (elephant caretaker) musicians - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)

• Elephants With Humans > Somneuk & Four Elephants - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)

• Natural Elephant Sounds > Elephant Field Recordings - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)

• dance of the fungi - Sam Wilson — guitar/ compositions; Jen Yakamovich — drums; Geordie Hart — upright bass - Wintertides - self-release (2024)

• Paradoxon - Gerald Gradwohl - ...Or What? - self-release (May 2024 pre-release)

• Sea of Hopeless Angels  - Markus Reuter & Stefano Castagna - Sea of Hopeless Angels - Flatiron Recordings (2024)

• Seaward Galaxy - Vaster Than Empires / Erica Dicker, violin - baritone violin, Allen Otte - percussion, amplified sound boards, shortwave radio, Paul Schuette - synthesizers, guitar - Three Days - New Focus Recordings (2021)

• Wer aber vom Kapitalismus nicht reden will, der sollte auch vom Faschismus schweigen (But if you don't want to talk about capitalism, you should also keep quiet about fascism) - David Wallraf and monad node - Un culte sans r​ê​ve et sans merci (A cult without dreams and without mercy) - self-release (2024)

• The Machines - Caught In Joy - Astral Arcadia - digital release (2024)

Greetings!

Welcome to another edition of Pushing The Envelope! Numerous current releases and some classic tracks delving into multiple musical genres, as we are wont to do here on PTE, are being presented for your listening pleasure. 

Enjoy!

Joel

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3-30-24 PTE Playlist

• Mia Slavenska - Ayumi Ishito feat. Kevin Shea and George Draguns - Roboquarians, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024)

• Yummy World - MC Maguire - Dystophilia - Neuma Records (2024)

• Server Room - Conducive - The Mosgrove Facility - Falt (2024)

• Locked In - Bloom's Taxonomy - Foley Age - digital release (2020)

• Metamorphosis Redux - Joseph Benzola w/ Benjamin Smith - Amanita Music digital single (2024) 

• The Talking Drum / Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part II - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (The Complete Recording Sessions) - DGM (2023)

• You Made Me Miss - Benjamin Croft - We Are Here To Help - Galactic Receiver (May 2024 pre-release)

• Dissipate - Jane Getter Premonition - Division World - Esoteric Recordings (2024)

• Symbol - Relkneus - First Steps - TonCollage - Aesthetic Mobilization digital release (2021)

• One and One (unedited master) - Miles Davis - The Complete On The Corner Sessions - Columbia Legacy (1972/2007)

Greetings!

I'm back from Cruise To The Edge and the first half of the program features bands that I really enjoyed, including Big Big Train, Marillion, Lonely Robot, Gryphon and more. The second half features new releases and new acquisitions that I hope with make your eardrums tingle with pleasure.

Enjoy!

Joel

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3-23-24 PTE Playlist

• Lucky Seven - Big Big Train - The Likes of Us - InsideOut Music (2024) 

• The Invisible Man - Marillion - Racket 60 - Live In Chile - Racket Records (2018)

• Humans Being - Lonely Robot - Please Come Home - InsideOut Music (2015)

• Blind Concert (original film edit) - Goblin - Suspiria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Cinema Hotel Studios (2007)

• N - Lifesigns - Cardington - Lifesigns Music (2022)

• Parting Shot / Get Out Of My Father's Car! - Gryphon - Get Out Of My Father's Car! - self-release (2020)

• Canto Ostinato: Sections 88​-​90 - Steinway Model O piano, Rhodes electric piano, and a Hammond M-101 organ: Erik Hall / composer: Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato - Western Vinyl (2023)

• Ficci​ó​n - Nu Quintet (Kim Lewis, flute/Michael Dwinell, oboe/Kathryn Vetter, clarinet/Tylor Thomas, bassoon/Blair Hamrick, horn) - composer:Gabriel Vicéns - Mural - Stradavarius (2024)

• Now My Clothes Has Your Smell And I Am The One Who Wants To Be Saved - Thorn1 - Theory Of Everything (compilation) - I Heart Noise (2012)

• John of Dust A - Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt - John of Dust - E2-E4 (2023)

• Nyanga - Simon Phillips feat. Ernest Tibbs, Otmaro Ruiz, Jacob Scesney & Alex Sill - Protocol V - Phantom Recordings (2022)

Greetings!

This week's program focuses on bands that will be playing on the 2024 edition of Cruise To The Edge, a progressive rock experience at sea. The eighth CTTE voyage will set sail from Miami, Florida on March 8th with yours truly aboard, making our way to Cozumel, Mexico.  Headliners include Marillion, Steve Hacket, Flying Colors & Big Big Train, accompanied by returning acts Adrian Belew, Martin Barre, The Flower Kings, Haken, Protocol, Queensrÿche, Airbag, Baraka, Klone, and Wishbone Ash. There will be a number of newcomers as well including Gryphon, Lonely Robot, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin as well as Symphony X.   To say I'm psyched is an understatement, so I've crammed as many artists into today's show as I could.

Enjoy!

Joel

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3-2-24 PTE Playlist - Cruise To The Edge Special

• Thick As A Brick - Martin Barre - Order of Play - Purple Pyramid (2020)

• Atlantic Cable (Live) - Big Big Train - Ingenious Devices - English Electric Recordings (2023)

• Hope - Protocol - digital single (2023)

• Piano Medley - Jordan Rudess - The Road Home - Magna Carta (2007)

• Stardust We Are - Part III (re-recorded 1998 version) - The Flower Kings - Outer Music (1998)

• Pour My Love - Marillion - Racket 60: Live in Chile - Racket Records (2016)

• The Rail Song - Adrian Belew - The Acoustic Adrian Belew - Adrian Belew Presents (1993)

• Claudio Simonetti's Goblin - Suspira - Soundtrack - Prog Rock Version - 45Th Anniversary - Rustblade (2022)

• Inversion Layer - Jane Getter Premonition - ON Tour - digital album (2017)

• Sailor's Tale - Stick Men feat. Mel Collins - Roppongi - Live in Tokyo 2017, Show 2 - iapetus (2017) 

• Midnight Mushrumps, 2nd Movement - Gryphon - Gryphon Live at the Union Chapel, 2015 - Gryphon website

• A Day at the Beach, part 2 - Airbag - A Day at the Beach - Karisma Records (2020)

• Firth of Fifth - Steve Hackett - Watcher of the Skies - Guardian Records (1996)

• Voice In My Head - Lifesigns - Cardington - self-release (2017)

• Knights In The Dark Mist - Ryo Okomuto -The Ryo Okomuto Project Live In Osaka - digital release (2020)

Greetings!

Some new stuff (Audio Obscura, Letters from Mouse, Allison Burik, Osmanthus, Avi C. Engel), some old stuff (Finneus Gauge, Tangerine Dream), some new stuff made from old stuff (Joseph Benzola/John Balaban) together with just other stuff, serve to fill up the 1 hour & 59 minutes of this week's PTE.

Enjoy!

Joel

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2-24-24 PTE Playlist

• Cosm - Letters from Mouse (Steven Anderson) - Clota - Subexotic Records (2024)

• The Last Day of August Felt Like The First Day of August - Audio Obscura - Acid Field Recordings in Dub - Subexotic Records (April 2024 pre-release)

• Solstice I (Dreams & Memories) / Solstice II (Cycles) / Solstice III (The Promise) - Allison Burik - Realm - self-release (2024)

• Lava underground - Insub Meta Orchestra - archive #1 - INSUB Records (2012)

• Breadcrumb Dance - Avi C. Engel - Too Many Souls - digital self-release / Somnimage (2024)

• Diabaram - Ryuichi Sakamoto w/ Youssou N'dour - Beauty - Virgin (1989)

• Trivium - Darkslider - Abstract - The Next Complete Collection (So Far) - digital release (2024)

• Ca Dao ("cah zao" / folk songs) - Joseph Benzola and John Balaban - Ca Dao - Amanita Music (2024) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/ca-dao 

• Case By Case / Data Pollution / Subscription Fatigue - Devin Gray - Most Definitely - Rataplan Records (2023)

• Variegated Forms, I, II & III - Osmanthus - Between Seasons - digital release (2024)

• Indignant Swines - Guild Theory - digital single (2023)

• More Wants More - Finneus Gauge - More Wants More - Train Records (1997)

• Emergence - Anyone (Riz Story) - In Humanity - TogethermenT Records (2021)

• DD Danz - Acqua Fragile - Moving Fragments - MaRaCash Records (2023)

• Poisonous Worm / A Fly In The Queen's Soup - Auzel - Old - digital release/Vuzhmusic (2012)

• Drowning In Universes - Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate / Quantum Key - K-Scope (2018)