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Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
By Joel KruttMusic
Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center episodes
- 3-14-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
Today's program opens highlighting the ambient space music of Robert Scott Thompson, followed by a veritable potpourri of new and classic tracks, ranging from Alec Wilder & Ozric Tentalces to b.mez (a Birdsongs of the Mesozooic spin-off) and Frank Zappa!
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: [email protected]
Prior Programs & Playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/
3-14-26 PTE Playlist
Intro
- Paradigm as Supergenre (Dark Hedges Mix) - Robert Scott Thompson - As First Star Wakes, She Wanders There - Somewhere Cold Records (2021)
- https://robertscottthompsonswc.bandcamp.com/album/as-first-star-wakes-she-wanders-there
Phase One
- Ice and Ember / Serenum - Robert Scott Thompson - Ice and Ember - Aucourant Records digital release (2026)
- https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/ice-and-ember
- Film Still / The Sea - Felicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou - Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems - Shelter Press (2026)
- https://feliciaatkinson.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-vol-3-water-poems
- Ledge - b.mez - Under Circuitous Skies - Cuneiform Records (2026)
- https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/under-circuitous-skies
- Big Foot (with intro) - Eric Johnson / Mike Stern / w Leni Stern: n'goni & vocal - Eclectic - Heads Up International (2014)
- https://concord.com/concord-albums/eclectic/
- Invisible - Spock's Beard - The Archaeoptimist - Madfish Music (2025)
- https://madfishmusic.bandcamp.com/album/archaeoptimist
Phase Two
- Dissolve: I. Evenly / II. Slowly (2018) - PRISM Quartet / composer: Emily Cooley - XAS digital release (2026)
- https://prismquartet.bandcamp.com/album/dissolve
- Jack, This Is My Husband / Scherzo for String Quartet / It's Silk - Feel It - Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Richard Audon Clark, cond. / composer: Alec Wilder - Neurotic Goldfish - Kleos Classics (2001)
- https://www.alecwildermusicandlife.com/biography/
- Part I: The Pterodactyls Have Landed - Sean Noonan & The London Symphony Orchestra - The Drummer of Tedworth - Neuma Records (2026)
- https://brewedbynoon.bandcamp.com/album/the-drummer-of-tedworth
- The Black Page, Parts 1 & 2 - Zappa Plays Zappa feat. Terry Bozzio & Steve Vai - Zappa Plays Zappa - Razor & Tie (2008)
- Cheepnis - Percussion / Cheepnis - Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Roxy - The Movie (The Soundtrack) - Zappa Records (2015)
- https://www.zappa.com/movie/roxy-the-movie/#/
- Sultana Detrii (live) - Ozric Tentacles - Pyramidion - Snapper Music (2001)
- https://ozrics.com/
1 hr 59 min - 2/21/26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
Mostly new goodies for your listening pleasure, aurally illustrating the word "multi-genre".
Listen & Enjoy!
Joel
2-21-26 PTE Playlist
Intro
- What Lies Just Beyond? - Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Many Worlds - Watch That Ends The Night Records (2026)
- https://manyworldshfx.bandcamp.com/album/many-worlds
Phase One
- Realities Blossom - Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Many Worlds (2026) Watch That Ends The Night Records
- https://manyworldshfx.bandcamp.com/album/many-worlds
- dve - David / David - Blame Haro - 577 Records (2026)
- https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blame-haro
- Immutable traveler - tangent mek - Immutable traveler - Carton Records (2026)
- https://cartonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/immutable-traveler
- Bear - Toninato & Thiessen - Dream of Heat - Ambiances Magnetiques (2026)
- https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com/album/dream-of-heat
- I suppose - Noeumi Buechi - Exuvie - -ous (2026)
- https://noemibuchi.bandcamp.com/album/exuvie
- Evor (ft. Coagulant) - Fletina - Terrow - digital release (2026)
- https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/terrow
- Monologue - Bi Kyo Ran - Who Ma (Live Vol. 2) - Belle Antique (1993)
- https://marquee.co.jp/belle_antique/belle-254296/
Phase Two
- Firepinks / Jewelweed - piano: Emily Manzo / composer: Mary Halvorson - Time In Water - Gold Bolus Recordings (2026)
- https://emilymanzo.bandcamp.com/album/time-in-water
- newDay - Bello Benischauer - The Feel Good Project - Burnt Seed Records (2026)
- https://existhemuens.bandcamp.com/album/the-feel-good-project
- mart1 - Burnet207 - mart - Khyron Label (2026)
- https://khyron.bandcamp.com/album/mart
- Bland träden - Fauna - Taiga Trans - Glitterbeat Records (2026)
- https://faunagbg.bandcamp.com/track/bland-tr-den
- Kinu No Michi - Yoshiko Sai - Mikkou - WeWantSounds (1976/2026)
- https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/yoshiko-sai-mikkou-cd-edition
- Sitar & Bongos Duo 1 - David First, sitar & composition / Danny Tunick, bongos - Sitar Music of North Brooklyn (Same Animal, Different Cages vol. 4) - self-release (2018)
- https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/sitar-music-of-north-brooklyn-same-animal-different-cages-vol-4
1 hr 59 min - 2-7-26 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/
1 hr - 1-3-26 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
1 hr 59 min - 12-27-25 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
1 hr 59 min - 12-20-25 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
1 hr 59 min - 12-13-25 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
1 hr 59 min - 12-6-25 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
1 hr 59 min - 11-15-25 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
1 hr 59 min - 11-8-25 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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