Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Greetings!

A lot of synchronicity occurred in the construction of this particular show.  It started with the book pictured below which was rescued from a local thrift store. It consists, as the title indicates, of a collection of program notes for performances of compositions with the tuba as a solo classical instrument.  As I started going through it, I found that while there were some interesting pieces documented, the copyright date was 1994.  This, in turn, inspired a dive down another internet rabbit hold to find more current tuba based music.  In addition as I was digging, I found that May 6th, the day before the broadcast, was International Tuba Day.  Whoda thunk?

My resulting research turned up three doctoral dissertations which focused on various aspects of tuba repertoire, a solo tuba discography & a resource for composers concerning the capabilities of tuba, including the use of extended techniques.

⦁ Investigating "experimentalism" : a case study of the tuba and its repertoire - Andrew Brian Larson - DMA diss., Louisiana State University, 2013

With these resources, it's your turn to deep dive into contemporary tuba music.

Enjoy!

Joel

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Twitter: @envpusher1

Playlist: 5/7/22 Pushing The Envelope: Celebrating International Tuba Day 

• T.U.B.A. Canon / Bourbon Regurgitation - tubas: Brian Gallion / Joseph Skillen - 2ba 2unes - Mark Records

• Concerto for Tuba & Orchestra - tuba: Velvet Freeman / Bowling Green Philharmonia / composer: John Williams - New Music from Bowling Green - Albany Records (2004)

• Second Hand Paint - Leo Bachmann - Palette of Sounds - Unit Records (2001)

• Low - tuba: Jay Rozen / piano: Joseph Kubera / composer: Howard Skempton -  Naked Singularity; Killer Tuba Songs V. 2 - Composers Concordance Records (2015)

• Idiot Bastard Son - Jay Rozen / composer: Frank Zappa -  Naked Singularity; Killer Tuba Songs V. 2 - Composers Concordance Records (2015)

• Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie (Any Mo') - Taj Mahal, feat. Howard Johnson - The Real Thing - Columbia/Legacy (1971)

• Silicate - ORE (Sam Underwood) - Belatedly - digital release (2017)

• Music For Two Big Instruments - tuba: Alan Baer / piano: Brad Haag / composer: Alex Shapiro - Notes from the Kelp - Innova (2007)

• Western Sky - Tom Heasley - Where The Earth Meets The Sky - Hypnos (2001)

• Eclipse - violin: L Subranamiam / tuba: Øystein Baadsvik / vocal: Kavita Krishnamurti  - Journey: music for Indian violin & tuba - BIS (2018)

• Serenade No. 12 for Solo Tuba, Opus 88 - tuba: David Zerkel / composer: Vincent Persichetti - American Music For Tuba: Something Old Something New - Mark Records (2006)

• Incurzion for Tuba & Synthesizer - tuba: Ben Miles / composer: Curtis Olsen - Contraptions - Blue Griffin (2012)

Greetings, Friends.

Having received my second COVID booster on Wednesday and having my typical reaction, which is essentially like having COVID come and tap you on the shoulder and say, "Remember me?" (I had it last January. Feh.) I took a steady stream of Tylenol on Thursday so I could wrap up this weeks program and get the files in to WHUS.  So not the most "sparkling" vocal presentation, but functional.

Enjoy and stay safe!

Joel

e-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @envpusher1

4/30 Pushing The Envelope Playlist

• For Frey - piano: Kate Ledger / composer: Matthew Lee Knowles - FOR [PART ONE: ACCRETION] - digital self-release (2022)

• Come - Randi Pontoppidan and Sissel Vera Pettersen - Inner Lift - Chant Records (2021)

• The Different Dimension - Jason Wayne Sneed and Toshinori Kondo - Guardians Of The Most Cosmic Shrine - Chant Records (2022)

• Bushwick - Graham Haynes vs Submerged - Echolocation - Burning Ambulance Music (2021)

• He Loved Him Madly - Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969–1974 - Sony (1998)

• Alma - flute: Sarah Frisof / piano: Daniel Pesca / composer: Tania Leon - Beauty Crying Forth: Flute Music By Women Across Time - Furious Artisans (2020)

• Timberline - Relâche / composer: Lois V. Vierk - Outcome Inevitable - OO Discs (1994)

• Tread On The Trail - Delta Saxophone Quartet / composer: Terry Riley - Minimal Tendencies - Clarinet Classics (1998)

• Daymoon Maidment - Shalmaneser - Vierhehbigkeit - Doubtful Palace Music / Aural Films (2021)

Greetings!

Among this week's musical wanderings, Phase 2 presents a sizeable chunk of prog created by Steve Hackett, including Genesis (after Peter Gabriel's departure) and his early solo works, in addition to his influence on the next generation of musicians including Tiger Moth Tales & the Spectral Mornings 2015 project.

Stay Safe & Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @envpusher1

4/23 Pushing The Envelope Playlist

• Chin Go Gae - Carl Stone - Music for Ukraine - We Jazz Records (2022)

• The Famous Box-Trick (2015) for bass flute and electronics - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Francesca Verunelli -  Density 2036: part iii (2015) - Corbett vs. Dempsey (2020)

• Swimming In The Dust - Audio Obscura vs Black Sonar - A Scream From Outer Space - Subexotic Records (2020)

• Avara - Ozone Player - Avara - self-release (2022)

• Mad Man Moon - Genesis - Atco (1976)

• A Visit to Chigwick - Tiger Moth Tales - Still Alive / A Visit To Rockfield - White Knight Records (2020)

• Icarus Ascending - Steve Hacket feat. Richie Havens - Please Don't Touch - Chrarisma Records (1978)

• Spectral Mornings 2015 (Classic Mix) - Christina Booth, David Longdon, Rob Reed, Nick Beggs, Nick D'Virgilio, Steve Hackett - Esoteric Antenna (2015)

• Tiger Moth - Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings - Chrysalis (1979)

• In Her Words - Stefania Kenessey - In Her Words - Neuma Records (2022)

• Inni - Jessica McMann - Musicworks #141 - Musicworks (2022)

• Subterranean - Museleon - Eidoleon - digital self-release  (2022)

• Mysterium - Held By Trees - Solace - Tweed Jacket Music (2022)

Greetings, Fair Listeners!

Welcome to this week's installment of Pushing The Envelope. I continue to listen to the many releases that came in when the program was shut down due to the pandemic and other aspects of real life, like moving from Connecticut to Maryland.  I've been feeding things from this pile along with brand new and even pre-released music that's been rolling in (like the Pluhm track).

I hope you enjoy breadth of scope I try to present and please feel free to get in touch.

Take care,

Joel

PTE e-mail: [email protected]

4/9/2 PTE Playlist

• Such is Now the Necessity - Loadband / composer: Paula Matthusen - Plays Well With Others - New Focus Recordings (2021)

• Letter From Woody: Pastures of Plenty / Hobo's Lullaby / The Growling Old Man & Woman / Love You Down To Your Feet / The Scribbling Will Remain - Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Jiří Petrdlík, conductor / composer: Andy Teirstein - RESTLESS NATION: THE MUSIC OF ANDY TEIRSTEIN - Navona Records (2022)

• Old Schmeckled Hen - Solilians - In the Running 2: Solilians - American Klezmische - I Heart Noise (2022)

• Dissolver - Hard Rubber Orchester / composer: Peggy Lee - Iguana - Redshift Records (2022)

• Loony & Blue - FS3 - Cats ‘n’ Strats - Cats ‘n’ Strats Records (2022)

• Cosmik Krautrock - Stephan Thelen feat. David Torn & Markus Reuter - Fractal Guitar 2 - Moonjune Records (2021)

• VII - Octarine Sky feat. Guthrie Govan - Close To Nearby - Uberwald Records (2021)

• Electric Birds - Phase Duo - Generative Glimpse - Chant Records (2022)

• Unsettle - Bent Duo: David Friend, piano / Bill Soloman, percussion / composer: Sarah Hennies - Spectral Malsconcities - New World Records (2020)

• Loro ci sono sempre stati (They’ve always been there.) - Pluhm - Canzoni Di Buio E Luce (Songs of Dark and Light) - SubExotic Records (2022)

Greetings!

Welcome to the latest installment of Pushing The Envelope.  A sizeable chunk of this week's program focuses on the work of Mike Garson, both as composer and pianist/keyboard player whose is particularly noted for his years playing live and in studio with David Bowie. 

For further insight into Mr. Garson's work, check out Clifford Slapper's book, "Bowie's Piano Man: The Life of Mike Garson" and for his own insight into his work with Bowie, the fascinating 2017 documentary, "David Bowie: The Last Five Years".

Joel

P.S. If you'd like to get in touch: here's the e-mail: [email protected]

4/2 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

• Selected Nowtudes - piano: Danny Holt / composer: Mike Garson - Piano Music of Mike Garson - Innova (2022)

• Tribute to David - Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations - Reference Recordings (2011)

• Heroes - Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations - Reference Recordings (2011)

• Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) - David Bowie feat. Mike Garson - Aladdin Sane - Parlophone (2015/1973)

• Life On Mars - David Bowie  feat.  Mike Garson - Net Aid: Wembley Stadium (1999)

• Life On Mars - Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross - Watchmen: Vol. 3 (Music from the HBO Series) - The Null Corporation (2019)

• Blackstar - Mya Beiser / Evan Ziporyn / Ambient Orchestra  - Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar - Islandia Music (2020)

• ecole polytechnique - Hildegard Westerkamp - Breaking News - Earsay Music (2021)

• Ni ici, ni là-bas - Juro Kim Feliz - Musicworks #141 - Musicworks (2022)

• Dawn Chorus (In memory of Terry Boblet) - Dubious Candy - Women Take Back The Drone (compilation) - digital release (2022)

• Witch Versus Men & Machines - Cyoakha Grace - Women Take Back The Drone (compilation) - digital release (2022)

Greetings!

Welcome to the latest installment of Pushing The Envelope.  As you will note, I was recovering from a fairly intense chest cold that my 4 year old grandson, he of the large germs, was kind enough to share with me.  I therefore opted to have some fun with some online text to speech voices and processing to present the show.  Enjoy!!

Joel

P.S. If you'd like to get in touch, here's the e-mail: [email protected]

3/19/22 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

• Planet (Live) - Solilians - In the Running 1 - Skyjelly / Solilians - I Heart Noise (2020)

• Seein It (Vinyl) - Skyjelly - Skyjelly / Solilians - I Heart Noise (2020)

• Poptones - Jah Wobble - Metal Box - Rebuilt In Dub - Cleopatra (2021)

• Unison - String Noise - A Lunch Between Order and Chaos - self-release (2021)

• Part 1 - Francisco Mela and Shinya Lin - Motions Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2022)

• Celestial Navigation - Richard Carr - Over The Ridge - Neuma Records (2021)

• Sirens of Kyiv / Crowd Life Underground - Squid In Chains (Douglas Schmidt / John Oliver / Francois Houle) - Sirens of Kyiv - John Oliver Music (2022)

• The Mask - Octarine Sky feat. Simon Phillips  & Guthrie Govan- Close To Nearby - Uberwald Records (2021)

• Fives - Lee Ritenour w/ Guthrie Govan & Tal Wilkenfeld - Lee Ritenour's 6 String Theory - Concord Records (2010)

• Alien Orifice - Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention - Zappa Records (1985)

• The Advent of Panurge - Gentle Giant - Octopus (Steven Wilson Mix) - Alucard (1972/2015)

• This Is The Way I Am - Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside - Rachel Flowers Music (2021)

• For A. E. On Their 30th Birthday - piano: Kate Ledger /composer: Matthew Lee Knowles - FOR [PART ONE: ACCRETION]" - digital release (2022)

• Fists - Perry Botkin, Jr. - Combines 3 - self-release (2003)

• La Muchacha De Los Suenos Dorados - Harold Budd / Ruben Garcia / Daniel Lentz - Music for Three Pianos - Gyroscope / All Saints Records (1992)

Greetings!

"Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" returns to the airwaves of WHUS, now in pre-recorded form, following a move from Connecticut to Maryland. It airs in it's same time-slot, Saturdays from 11am to 1pm EST, should you want to hear it fresh off the presses, or you can check it out at your leisure, here.

To get in touch, here's the new email: [email protected]

Enjoy!

Joel 

Playlist for "Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" 3/12/22

• \very/ specifically vague - Transient Canvas (bass clarinet: Amy Advocat/percussion:Matt Sharrock) / composer: Emily Koh - Right now, in a second - New Focus (2020)

• medi + aTion - baritone sax: Philipp Staudin / composer: Emily Koh - [word] plays - Innova (2021)

• Postnuclearwinterscenario - guitar: William Anderson / composer: JacobTV - GENIUS LOCI: Audacities & Properties - Ravello Records (2021)

• On The Sixth Attempt They Trod On It - Peter Banks’s Harmony In Diversity - The Best Of... -  The Peter Banks Musical Estate (2021)

• The Shadow Garden - Bill Nelson - Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks from the Echo Observatory - Cocteau Discs (2017)

• Hallogallo - Neu! - Neu! - Groenland Records (1972)

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

• Champegarpaen - Jean Yves Labat - M. Frog - Bearsville (1973) 

• The Rhythm of the Heat - Security Project - Contact - 7d Media (2017)

• Nights in White Satin / Moggio - The Ed Palermo Big Band - The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III: Run for Your Life - Sky Cat Records (2020)

• Dark Riders - Matrix - Matrix IX - RCA (1977)

• I'm a Mineralist - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports - Columbia (1981)

• Jagannath - Simon Phillips - Protocol V - Phantom Recordings (2022)

• Luciform for flute & electronics - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Mario Diaz de Leon - Density 2036 (2013-2015) - Corbett vs Dempsey (2020)

• Dover Beach (from "Jubilee", 1978) - Brian Eno - Film Music 1976-2020 - Opal Records (2020)

Greetings!

After leaving the airwaves and live broadcasting upon the advent of the pandemic, "Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" returns to the airwaves of WHUS, now in pre-recorded form, following a move from Connecticut to Maryland. It airs in it's same time-slot, Saturdays from 11am to 1pm EST, should you want to hear it fresh off the presses, or you can check it out at your leisure, here.

To get in touch, here's the new email: [email protected]

Enjoy!

Joel 

Playlist for "Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" 2/26/22

• Little Rotors (Requiem for Osmia) - Museleon - In Other Places Too - self-release (2020)

• Backmask - preston.outatime - Mirror Radius - Subexotic (2021)

• Four Parts Five:, part 2 - Gordon Beeferman - Four Parts Five - Innova (2015)

• Land of Dragons Suite - Anthony Phillips -Missing Links I-IV - Esoteric Recordings (2020)

• Theusz Hamtaahk (fragment) - Magma - Eskähl 2020 Bordeaux​-​Toulouse​-​Perpignan - Seventh Records (2021)

• Pigs (Three Different Ones) - James LaBrie / Al Di Meola, Joe Bouchard / Patrick Moraz / Billy Cobham - Animals Reimagined - A Tribute to Pink Floyd - Cleopatra (2021)

• The Endless Enigma - Keith Emerson Band & Rachel Flowers - Fanfare for the Uncommon Man: The Official Keith Emerson Tribute Concert - Cherry Red (2021)

• Take Me Away - Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside - Rachel Flowers Music (2021)

• Shipol - KALI Trio - LOOM - Ronin Rhythm Records (2021)

• Master Builder - Gong -  Live At The Gong Family Unconventional Gathering by Gong - A-Wave (2021)

Greetings!

After leaving the airwaves and live broadcasting upon the advent of the pandemic, "Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" returns to the airwaves of WHUS, now in pre-recorded form, following a move from Connecticut to Maryland. It airs in it's same time-slot, Saturdays from 11am to 1pm EST, should you want to hear it fresh off the presses, or you can check it out at your leisure, here.

To get in touch, here's the new email: [email protected]

Enjoy!

Joel 

Playlist for "Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" 2/26/22