Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

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  • 8-5-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
    Greetings!
    Today's program starts with a backlog of newer psychedelic/prog kinds of things, followed by a dive into mostly newer acousmatic and experimental contemporary composition items.
    Enjoy!
    Joel
    ex-Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
     
    8-5-23 PTE Playlist
     
    Foucault's Pendulum (1st Movement) - Robert Svilpa - Foucault's Pendulum - Melodic Revolution Records (2022)
    https://robertsvilpamusic.bandcamp.com/album/foucaults-pendulum 
     
    It's Beautiful / Wink of the Third Eye / It Has No Eyes But Sight / Twirl - The Fraternal Order of the All (Andrew Gold) - Greetings From Planet Love - Esoteric Records (1997/2023)
    https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/andrew-gold-the-fraternal-order-of-the-all-greetings-from-planet-love-cd-edition/ 
     
    Painted By The Sun - Todd Cochran - From the Vault: Notes for the Future - Blue Buddha Productions (2023)
    https://bluebuddha.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-vault-notes-for-the-future 
     
    Echoes - feat. Frank Dimino (Angel) - Meddle Reimagined – A Tribute to Pink Floyd - Cleopatra Records (2023)
    https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/meddle-reimagined-a-tribute-to-pink-floyd-cd/ 
     
    Stay for the Ending - District 97 - Stay for the Ending - Spirit of the Unicorn Records (October 2023 pre-release)
    https://district97.net/news/stay-ending-available-pre-order 
     
    Grow Dark - Held By Trees - Eventide - Sound Canyon (2023)
    https://mellotone.net/products/copy-of-held-by-trees-eventide 
     
    Reverie - Leah Reid - Musicworks #145 - Musicworks (2023)
    https://www.musicworks.ca/winners-2022-musicworks-electronic-music-composition-contest 
     
    Save Changes Before Quitting for electronic tape - Stephen Rush - Murders In The Rue Morgue: The Music of Stephen Rush - MMC Recordings (1997)
    https://stephenjrushmusic.com/?p=2539 
     
    Chreiai - David Dunn - At The Margin of The Sensate - Neuma Records (2023)
    https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-margin-of-the-sensate 
     
    Describe Yourself - violin: Christopher Whitely / voice/composer: Leslie Ting - Describe Yourself - Redshift Records (2023)
    https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/describe-yourself 
     
    Not Being Mirrored - Parallel Worlds - Shade - DiN (2009)
    https://din7d.bandcamp.com/album/shade-din32
    1 hr 59 min
  • 7-29-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
    Greetings!
    A bunch of new stuff, older personal acquisitions and a couple of things I thought fit in nicely in-between. And there you have it.
    Enjoy!
    Joel
    the company previously known as Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
     
     
    7-29-23 PTE Playlist
     
    Bad Karma / Two​-​Three​-​Seven Folds on the Five​-​Eight​-​Nine (Paranoia Mix) - Stereo Minus One - Everything Is So Beautiful, I Need To Lie Down - Machine Records (2023)
    https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-beautiful-i-need-to-lie-down 
     
    Preludes & Debka - Cassatt String Quartet featuring Colin Williams, trombone / composer: Gerald Cohen - Voyagers - Innova (2023)
    https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-cohen/voyagers 
     
    Metamorphosis - I. Side by Side / II. Tango del Currie /  III. Mystics / IV. Down in the Basement - Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet / composer: Fred Stride - Metamorphosis - Redshift Records (September 1st, 2023 release on Redshift Records)
    https://redshiftrecords.org/ 
     
    Anat Loop - Tod Dockstader - From The Archives - Starkland (2016)
    https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/album/tod-dockstader-from-the-archives 
     
    The Frozen Facade (for I.M. Pei) / The Weston Link - The Metamorph - The Man on the 99th Floor - Werra Foxma (2023)
    https://themetamorph.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-on-the-99th-floor-2 
     
    Seatbelt Seatbelt - Charles Amirkhanian - Lexical Music - Other Minds (1980/2017)
    https://www.otherminds.org/recording/lexical-music/ 
     
    Avian Reduction - Joel Krutt - Melt: Minnesota Remixed - Wandering Ear (2007) OOP
    https://disquiet.com/2007/02/01/heartland-remix-mp3s/ 
     
    Interstellar Resorption #5 - Geiger von Mueller - Slide Sonatas II - digital release (2023)
    https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/slide-sonatas-ii 
     
    Crazy Jane - Crazy Jane (baritone: Patrick Mason / guitar: David Starobin / percussion: Daniel Druckman) / composer: Ronald Roxbury - Crazy Jane - Bridge Records (2011)
    https://bridgerecords.com/products/9290 
     
    To Keep My Loneliness Warm: I. Insomnia / II. Odd Behavior - Loadbang / composer: Andy Kozak - Quiver - New Focus Recordings (2022)
    https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/loadbang-quiver/ 
     
    100 Years - Happy Rhodes - Many Worlds are Born Tonight - 7D Media (1998/2017)
    https://happyrhodes7d.bandcamp.com/album/many-worlds-are-born-tonight 
     
    Round Trips - violin: Yaz Lancaster / composer: Andrew Noseworthy - Ameth Yst - People Places Records (2023)
    https://yaz-j.bandcamp.com/album/amethyst 
     
    Oohuku - Sam Rosenthal - Round Trip - Projekt Records (1984)
    https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/round-trip-1984
    1 hr 59 min
  • 7-15-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center -”What’s In a Name? ... with apologies to William Shakespeare”
    Greetings!
    "What's in a name?"  According to the Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: "What someone or something is called or labeled is arbitrary compared to their or its intrinsic qualities. A reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet bemoans Romeo's last name of Montague, her family's sworn enemies."
    Today's selections were chosen primarily based upon their titles. I suspect that naming pieces of music is meant to communicate some type of message from the composer.  Whether it's meant to be narrative, technically descriptive, relay emotion or humor, be provocative, employ a total non-sequitur or present any combination of the above, the title is often the first piece of information related about any given piece of music. ("Have you heard_________?")   Let's see how arbitrary the titles of today's playlist turn out to be.
    Enjoy!
    Joel
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
     
     
    7-15-23 PTE Playlist: "What's In a Name?" (… with apologies to William Shakespeare)
     
    Twitching Gait for chamber ensemble - flute: Petri Alanko / clarinet: Heikki Nikula / Pasi Pirinen / violin: Jari Valo / cello: Risto Poutanen / composer: Juhani Nuorvala - What's a Nice Chord Like You Doing in a Piece Like This - BIS (2000) 
    https://bis.se/composer/nuorvala-juhani/whats-a-nice-chord-like-you-doing-in-a-piece-like-this-chamber-m
     
    Suck It And See - Sirius Quartet / composer: Bernard Hughes - Playing On The Edge, Vol. 3 - Navona Records (2023)
    https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6520/ 
     
    Omaggio a Jerry Lee Lewis - Richard Trythall - CMCD: Six Classics - ReR (2004)
    https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=4ad4d06ebcf4b681b7ea218e39c3ffca&Screen=PROD&Category_Code=RL&Initial=&CatListingoffset=24&Product_Code=ReRCMCD-RE&Store_Code=RM&Initial= 
     
    Flying Spoons - Swansither - States - Subexotic Records (2022)
    https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/states  
     
    Spigot (Draw The Pirate) - Mike Keneally - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat - Exowax Recordings (2023)
    https://www.keneally.com/music/discography-mike-keneally/the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat/ 
     
    "The Wide Screen Erupts... 200 Motels promotional radio spot / I'm Stealing The Towels / Dental Hygiene Dilemma - Frank Zappa w/ The Mothers of Invention & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - Ryko/MGM (1971/1997)
    https://www.zappa.com/releases/200-motels/#/ 
     
    Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus - Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo - Zappa Records (1972)
    https://www.zappa.com/releases/grand-wazoo/#/ 
     
    The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) / Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Reprise (1970) 
    http://www.beefheart.com/trout-mask-replica-discography/ 
     
    Sun / Zoom / Spark - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot - Reprise (1972/1990)
    http://www.beefheart.com/clear-spot-discography/ 
     
    Zen Archer - Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star...Live! - Purple Pyramid (2020)
    http://cleorecs.com/home/playlist/todd-rundgren-a-wizard-a-true-star-live/ 
     
    Maggot Brain - P-Funk All Stars - Live At The Beverly Theater In Hollywood - Westbound Records (1990)
    https://georgeclinton.com/audio/p-funk-all-stars-live-at-the-beverly-theater-in-hollywood/ 
     
    I Hope They Let Us Hunt Like Men In The Next Life, part 2 - Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully - Difficult Art & Music (2023)
    https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-they-let-us-hunt-like-men-in-the-next-life 
     
    because a circle is not enough - violin/composer: Malcom Goldstein - because a circle is not enough: music for bowed string instruments - New World Records (2022)
    https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/malcolm-goldstein-because-a-circle-is-not-enough-music-for-bowed-string-instruments 
     
    A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies (for Maybeck) - pianos, voice, brandy snifter: Charlemagne Palestine - Cold Blue Music (2007)
    https://coldbluemusic.com/cb0025/
    1 hr 59 min
  • 7-8-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
    Greetings!
    No solid rhyme or reason this week, just lots of interesting newer releases.
    Enjoy!
    Joel
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
     
     
    7-8-23 PTE Playlist
     
    Her Voice Has Life - Heavy Cloud - Echo - digital release (2023)
    https://hardreturn.bandcamp.com/album/echo 
     
    Zone - Taylor Joshua Rankin - Sun Will Grow - digital release (2023)
    https://taylorjoshuarankin.bandcamp.com/album/sun-will-grow 
     
    Metamorphosis - MOLLY - Picturesque - Sonic Cathedral (2023)
    https://wearemolly.bandcamp.com/album/picturesque 
     
    Starless (Live in Tokyo, 8-12-21) - King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson At 50 A Film By Toby Amies): Music From The Soundtrack And Beyond - Discipline Global Mobile (2022)
    https://www.dgmlive.com/ 
     
    Self Portrait / M.A.Y. In The Backyard - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ongaku Zukan (Musical Encyclopedia) - WeWantSounds (1984/2023)
    https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ryuichi-sakamoto-ongaku-zukan-lp-7-ep-edition-black-vinyl-with-gatefold-sleeve-2p-insert-and-obi-strip 
     
    Dark Star 3 - John Oliver - Messages From Beyond the Ether - John Oliver Music (2023)
    https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/ 
     
    SKETCHBOOK (for The Unbearable Lightness of Being) - Low female voice accompanying herself at the piano: Liz Pearse / computer musician: Paul Hembree / composer: Roger Reynolds / text: Milan Kundera - For A Reason - Neuma Records (2023)
    https://rogerreynolds.bandcamp.com/album/for-a-reason 
     
    break #1 / dureth / a different man / the wood and the vine - Quince Ensemble / composer: David Lang - love fail - Innova (2020)
    https://www.innova.mu/albums/quince-ensemble/david-lang-love-fail 
     
    Algonquin - Good Weather For An Airstrike & 94 Skies - Anxiety/Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
    https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope 
     
    Slaap - Henrik Meierkord & Sole Gipp Ossler - Anxiety/Hope - Ambient Echoes (2023)
    https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope 
     
    No-One In The World - W.F.O. - Excursions In Ambience: The Second Orbit - Astralwerks (1993)
    1 hr 59 min
  • 7-1-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
    Greetings!
     Welcome to another veritable potpourri of music, with phase one featuring new releases from the folks at 577 Records which segues through the Paul Flaherty release to focus on various assemblages featuring Jim Matus (who I once had the honor of seeing play in his Hartford, CT apartment), then over to an old friend, harmonic overtone singer & CT denizen, Jim Cole (who I took some overtone singing lessons from, back in the day).  The balance of the show highlights mostly newer independent releases.
    Enjoy!
    Joel
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
    Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/joelkru/ 
     
    7-1-23 PTE Playlist
     
    Lost In The Tin Labyrinth - violins/fx: Sana Nagano / Leonor Falcón - Peach & Tomato - 577 Records (2023)
    https://www.577records.com/5915 
     
    What It Melted On Is Also Gone - reeds: Paul Flaherty / guitars: Jim Matus / keyboards: Larry Derdeyn - Wednesday Weld - 577 Records (2023)
    https://www.577records.com/5880 
     
    Twelve Long Fire - Impulse Ensemble - Initiation - self-release (2010)
    http://www.jimmatus.com/impulse.html 
     
    History's Fractal Mountain / I'm a User / Pilentzee Pee - Paranoise - ISHQ - Ancient Records (2001)
    http://www.jimmatus.com/past-projects.html 
     
    Bislama - Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole - Bislama - Harmonic Resonance Recordings digital release (2000)
    https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com/album/bislama 
     
    Know Way (Way) - Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Sky (harmonic singing in a water tower) - Spectral Spiral Music (2000)
    https://spectralvoices.com/jim-cole-spectral-voices/ 
     
    Hope for Enlightenment - Lama Gyurmé & Jean Philippe Rykiel - The Lama's Chant: Songs of Awakening - Sony Classical (1994)
    http://jeanphilipperykiel.com/rencontres/lama-gyurme/ 
     
    FM - Patrick Corcoran - Comp22 - 42 Seconds #6 - Owlripper Records (2023)
    https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp22-42-seconds-6 
     
    The Great Mirage - Joel Harrison & Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage - AGS Recordings (2023)
    https://agsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mirage 
     
    Althin ärar nervositeten - tarotplane - Lysergic Forgeries - digital release (2021)
    https://tarotplane.bandcamp.com/album/lysergic-forgeries 
     
    Snap To Save Yourself - Archizer x Renjā - Reality Sinking - NO PROBLEMA | DIGITAL (2023)
    https://noproblemadigital.bandcamp.com/album/reality-sinking 
     
    Messages - Mike Benoit - Bleak & Convulsed - digital album (2021)
    https://mikebenoit.bandcamp.com/album/bleak-convulsed 
     
    Five Strings II - Ian Vine - Five Strings - self-release (2023)
    https://ianvine.bandcamp.com/album/five-strings 
     
    Needless Guise - Fletina - Here #15: Causal EP - Here Free Press (2023)
    https://herefreepress.bandcamp.com/album/here-15-fletina-causal-ep
    2 hr
  • 6-24-23 Pushing The Envelope - Music Decidedly Left of Center / LGBTQ+ Pride Special
    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
    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
    2 hr
  • 6-10-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
    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
    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 م​ر​ش​د ح​ق​ي​ق​ة - digital pre-release (2023)
    https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-guide 
     
    Song and Whispers - viola: Kimia Hesabi / composer: Gity Razaz - Nem​ā​no 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
    1 hr 59 min
  • 6-3-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - ”Multiples”
    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
     
    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/
    1 hr 59 min
  • 5-27-23 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
    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
    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
    1 hr 59 min

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