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Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
Joel Krutt
20 episodes
6 days ago
Host: Joel Krutt 36 years of bringing you the finest in the outer realms of contemporary music; from the worlds of classical, experimental, rock, jazz, ambient, electroacoustic, world music, spoken word, etc., etc., etc...…with a healthy dollop of new/classic progressive rock and jazz/rock fusion.
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Host: Joel Krutt 36 years of bringing you the finest in the outer realms of contemporary music; from the worlds of classical, experimental, rock, jazz, ambient, electroacoustic, world music, spoken word, etc., etc., etc...…with a healthy dollop of new/classic progressive rock and jazz/rock fusion.
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Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
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: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com 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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1 week ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
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 
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
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: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com 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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3 weeks ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
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: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com 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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1 month ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
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: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com 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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1 month ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
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: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com  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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2 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
10-25-25 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 Smith, 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: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com 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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2 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
10-11-25 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: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com 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 & EEGThe 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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2 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
10-4-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! Let's see...we've got electronica, microtones, trombone and voice with a big chunk of gamelan and gamelan influenced music.  Hot Dog! Listen & Enjoy! Joel   e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social      10-4-25 PTE Playlist   Chased / Blues - Mikoo - It Floats - Sofa Music (2025)   https://sofamusic.bandcamp.com/album/it-floats    Phloam - The Aphex Twin - Classics - R & S Records (1995) https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/classics    Apophenia - Max Kutner - Apophenia EP  - digital release (2025) https://maxkutner.bandcamp.com/album/apophenia-ep    Advance - Horse Lords & Arnold Dryblatt - FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field - RVNG Intl. (2025) https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys-vol-18-extended-field    Big What - Oren Bloedow Band - Avant Knitting: Knitting Factory Tours 1993 - Knitting Factory Works (1993)    Wayonout - Kathy Kennedy - Vowel Jams - Orchard of Pomegranites (2025) https://kathykennedy.bandcamp.com/album/vowel-jams    Reverie - Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill - Dreaming in Gamelan - self-release (2025) https://brennanmcneill.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-gamelan    Green Crystal - Susie Hodder-Williams & Chris Caldwell - Coracle of Life (Inspired by the sculptures of Andre Wallace) - FMR Records (2018) https://musicontheedge.bandcamp.com/album/coracle-of-life    Cycloidal Gamelan Piece - Lavrenty Mganga - Ars Minmal - self-release (2000) https://lavrentymganga.narod.ru/eng/ars_minimal.htm    Gamelan Sepuluh - Barend Tromp - Odd Time Concepts - 7d Media (2025) https://barendtromp7d.bandcamp.com/album/odd-time-concepts    Gending Sekar Gadung (excerpt) - Gamelan Salunding, Tenganan - Bali: Gamelan & Kecak - Nonesuch Explorer Series (1989) https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/bali-gamelan-kecak    No Timing, First Variation - Yea Big and Greg Saunier - No Timing - Personal Archives (2025) https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/no-timing 
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2 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
9-27-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! This week we have more prog and prog adjacent music prior to an upcoming jaunt to New Jersey to attend ProgStock.  In addition, we start the program with two new releases featuring Canadian artists and labels. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social  Podbean (to check out prior programs & playlists): https://envelope.podbean.com/      9-27-25 PTE Playlist   Shiver - Valley Voice - Stars, Engines - Elastic Recordings (October 2025 pre-release) https://harrisonargatoff.bandcamp.com/album/stars-engines    Halalaia - Kathy Kennedy - Vowel Jams - Orchard of Pomegranites (2025)  https://kathykennedy.bandcamp.com/album/vowel-jams    Species of Glory Trees - Andre LaFosse - Then Again - 7d Media (2025) https://andrelafosse7d.bandcamp.com/album/then-again    Cyclical Behavior - Morris Kolontyrsky - Origination - Projekt Records (2025) https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/origination    For Alvira, Part I - Paul J. Botelho: voice / Jeff Kaiser: trumpet - Dome - digital release (2024) https://jeffkaiser.bandcamp.com/album/dome    Chenrezi Pure Land Prayer - vocals: Lama Gyurma / piano, keyboards: Jean-Philippe Rykiel -Rain of Blessings: Vajra Chants - Realworld Records (2000) https://realworldrecords.com/releases/rain-of-blessings/    The Archaeoptimist - Spocks Beard - The Archaeoptimist - Madfish Records (November 2025 pre-release) https://madfishmusic.bandcamp.com/album/archaeoptimist    Love Terror Adrenaline/Break Through (2025 Remix) - Bryan Beller - digital release (2025) https://bryanbeller.bandcamp.com/track/love-terror-adrenaline-break-through-2025-remix    Celery - Mike Keneally w/ Steve Vai - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat - Exowax Recordings (2023) https://mikekeneallymusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat    Resistance (is it's Own Reward) - Trinary System - digital single (2025) https://trinarysystem.bandcamp.com/track/resistance-is-its-own-reward    Insignificant - The Galley Project - Insignificant - digital release (2025) https://thegalleyproject.bandcamp.com/album/insignificant    Observations in Orbit - Marek Kwiatkowski - On Planet Quinta - digital release (2025) https://marekkwiatkowski.bandcamp.com/album/na-planecie-kwinta   
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3 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
9-20-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! This week we wish happy 90th birthday to Arvo Pärt after which there are some recent releases & a dollop of new and classic prog!! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social      9-20-25 PTE Playlist   Fratres for violin, string orchestra & percussion - violin: Gidon Kremer / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie / composer: Arvo Pärt - From My Home - Teldec (1997) https://www.arvopart.ee/en/arvo-part/work/391/    A chorus like distant screaming - The Rhythm Method, composer: Carrie Frey - Seaglass: Works for String Quartet - Gold Bolus (2025) https://carriefrey.bandcamp.com/album/seaglass-works-for-string-quartet    iasso - Euan Dalgarno - uoying - Frosti (2025) https://frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/uoying    The Runaway / An Inmates Lullaby - Gentle Giant - In A Glass House - DRT Entertainment (1973/2005) https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/In_a_Glass_House    Seurat cha-cha - David Occhipinti - Camera Lucida - Elastic Recordings (2025) https://davidocchipinti.bandcamp.com/album/camera-lucida-elastic-recordings    Scene V (ZJW Remix) - Insect Life - Insect Life - 577 Records (2025) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/insect-life    Fall Away - Dave Bainbridge - On The Edge (of what could be) - Open Sky Records (2025) https://open-sky-records.myshopify.com/products/dave-bainbridge-on-the-edge-of-what-could-be-cd?variant=50915723444537    Solar Playground - Deep Energy Orchestra feat. Adam Holzman, Trey Gunn & Joe Deninzon - The Science of Sound - 7d Media (2025) https://deepenergyorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-science-of-sound    Digging For My Spirit - Ritual Howls - Ruin - Felte (2025) https://ritualhowls.bandcamp.com/album/ruin    Crumblepenny - Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding - Kscope (2023) https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/lotus-unfolding    Freeworld - Phreeworld - Crossing The Sound - Friends In The Garden (1998)   New Age Synthesis (Unzipping The Zype) - Steve Hillage - Open - Virgin (1978) 
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3 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
9-6-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! Lots of current releases.  So much music, so little time. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    9-6-25 PTE Playlist   1071-5 - Kevin Kastining & Mark Wingfield - The WNYC Sessions - Greydisc Records (2025) https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/the-wnyc-sessions    you fear closing your eyes for darkness, but would you want a night so bright you cannot see the stars? - missing scenes - dream or memory? - Varia Records (2025) https://missingscenes.bandcamp.com/album/dream-or-memory-     The Sleepwalkers - Peter Wullen - Dew Point - digital release (2025) https://peterwullen.bandcamp.com/album/dew-point    Spam Likely - Jessica Pavone, Lukas Koenig & Matt Mottel - Spam Likely - 577 Records (2022) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/spam-likely    Collective Chok (Music for Homemade Instruments) - David Simons - Prismatic Hearing - Tzadik (2004) https://davidjsimons.xyz/recordings.html    Light Harvest - Swansither - Ronsack - Subexotic Records (2025) https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/ronsack    How weird he must think the world is - Dory Haley, soprano / Cassandra Miller, composer - I love evil - Redshift Records (2025) https://redshiftrecords.org/    Kinetic - Kaikō - Treen - Sauajazz Records (2025) https://treen.bandcamp.com/album/kaik   Glister (Overland mix) - Trem77 - Blacklight Sunset (EP) - digital release (2025) https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/blacklight-sunset    Teleportation - Amosphère - Cosmogonical Ears - Hallow Ground (2025) https://hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/amosph-re-cosmogonical-ears 
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3 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
9-13-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! This week's audio stew consists of some more recent thrift store goodies, new releases & a couple of tracks buried on my hard drive. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social      9-13-25 PTE Playlist   Rain Spell (1982) - The London Sinfonietta, cond. Oliver Knussen / composer: Toru Takemitsu - Riverun, Water-ways, etc. - Virgin Classics (1991)    Piwal 5 - composer: Putu Septa / gamelan ensemble: Nata Swara - Piwal - Other Minds Records (2025) https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/piwal   Descending Moonshine Dervishes - Terry Riley / Don Cherry / Karl Berger - Köln – February 23, 1975 - unofficial release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6449e2LsUI    Wand Arise - Wet Tuna - In the Running 3 - Wet Tuna / DUNZA (split single) - I Heart Noise (2025) https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn010-in-the-running-3-wet-tuna-dunza    Habibon - SANAM - Sametou Sawtan (I Heard A Voice) - Constellation Records (2025) https://sanambeirut.bandcamp.com/album/sametou-sawtan    g00d4_u - Ran Slavin - Neon Swans - Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings (2025) https://ranslavin.bandcamp.com/album/neon-swans    Evening Star - Evan Ziporyn & ContaQt - Art Decade - Cantaloupe Music (2025) https://contaqtnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/art-decade    Hope - Robert Fripp String Quartet - The Bridge Between - Discipline Records (1993) https://www.dgmlive.com/robert-fripp/robert-fripp-string-quartet    Mega Cicada - Pathos Trio / composer: Ian Chang - Polarity - Imaginary Animals Music (2025) https://pathos-trio.bandcamp.com/album/polarity    Jeux Deux (Two Games) for Hyperpiano & orchestra (2005) - Odense Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann, cond. / Michael Chertock, Hyperpiano - ...but not simpler... - Bridge Records (2011) https://bridgerecords.com/products/9346?_pos=1&_sid=4c7917fe5&_ss=r    Foundation - Chris Relkneus aka Aesthetic Mobilization  - First Steps - TonCollage - digital release (2021) https://relkneus.bandcamp.com/album/first-steps-toncollage     
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4 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Happy (belated) International Strange Music Day !
Greetings! Happy belated International Strange Music Day!!  The brainchild of composer/musician Patrick Grant, he of Tilted Axes fame, it took place on 8-24 and in true PTE style, a day (or so) late, but defiinitely not a dollar short as we present a plethora of interesting pieces for you to consider. Enjoy, Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social      8-30-25 PTE Playlist: Happy (belated) International Strange Music Day !   QB1234 - Patrick Grant - musique du quai Branly (2023 remaster) - Peppergreen Media (2023) https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/album/musique-du-quai-branly-2023-remaster    STRANGE CHANGES v1: "People, Places, and Things" by Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars for International Strange Music Day, August 24, 2020 - Peppergreen Media (2020) https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/track/strange-changes-2    The Blimp / The Old Fart At Play - Capt. Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Reprise (1969) https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-trout-mask-replica/    where the zeitgeist converges with the metaphysical tapestry of existence - Von Helfenstein - Metaphysics Workouts volumes 1​-​3 - Burnt Seed Records (2024) https://vonhelfenstein.bandcamp.com/album/metaphysics-workouts-volumes-1-3    Latex - Matmos - quasi-objects - Matador Records (1998) https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/quasi-objects    Dad I'm In Jail - Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog? - Chrysalis (1988)   Bucephalus Bounding Ball - Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (EP) - Warp Records (1997) https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/come-to-daddy    The Festival of Death - The Residents - East Side Digital (1979/1987) https://meettheresidents.fandom.com/wiki/Eskimo    The Most Unwanted Song - Komar & Melamid / Dave Soldier - The People's Choice Music - Needlejuice Records (2019) https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/the-peoples-choice-music    Spiderrunes - The Paxton Group w/ Paula Clare - Cablegram-the Dundee Telegrams and Other Communications 1984-1986 - CD Tech (1989) https://paxto.bandcamp.com/album/cablegram-the-dundee-telegrams-and-other-communications-1984-1986    Sympathy for the Devil - Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil - Mute (1988) https://www.laibach.org/discography/sympathy-for-the-devil/    From Beyond The Clouds - Harmolodic Dreamer - Mutated Blossoms - digital release (2025)  https://alexkimnoise.bandcamp.com/album/mutated-blossoms    The Future Is Behind Us - Squid In Chains - Imagined Realities -  Earsay Music (2024) https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/imagined-realities    Femme Endings - Lauren Sarah Hayes -  Embrace - Superpang (2021) https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/album/embrace   
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4 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
8-23-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! Phase One has us delving into the realm of Dub in it's many incarnations, followed by many new releases in Phase Two. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    8-23-25 PTE Playlist   Human Self-Pollination - monad node - Hypnagogic Mockups - digital release (2025) https://monadnode.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogic-mockups    Outer Spaceways, Inc. / I'm Gone - Flying Vipers - Easy Star Records (2025) https://flyingvipers.bandcamp.com/album/off-world    Towers of Dub (original mix) - The Orb - U.F.OFF - The Best Of The Orb - Island Records (1998) https://theorb.com/    Dirtbox - Harmonic 313 - Dub Echoes (compilation) - Soul Jazz Records (2009) https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/dub-echoes-album-sonic-excursions-in-dub-and-beyond     Song for the Lost Cartographer - Audio Obscura - Acid Field Recordings In Dub - Subexotic (2024) https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/album/acid-field-recordings-in-dub    Last Jam of 2024 - Alien Touring and Deftly Demolition - Moisturizing The Dubularity 2024/2025 New Year's Dub - Voidstar Productions (2025) https://voidstarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/moisturizing-the-dubularity-2024-2025-new-years-dub    Deb Dub (excerpt) - Digital Dubs Vs. Dubiterian - Dub Echoes (compilation) - Soul Jazz Records (2009) https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/dub-echoes-album-sonic-excursions-in-dub-and-beyond     TITLE: Quiet (16) / Thorn (250) / Ultra (238) / Rogue (145) / Yearn (62) / Helix (32) - PRISM Quartet / composer: Adam Silverman - XAS (2025) https://prismquartet.bandcamp.com/album/title    Ecrire Un Phrase - Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides - Handmade Vol 3: Tailles (Sizes) - Unsounds Records (2025) https://unsounds.bandcamp.com/album/handmade-series-vol-03-tailles    Veculer - Nobuka - I Only Like Difficult Art (and music) - Disc One - Difficult Art & Music (2025) https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-only-like-difficult-art-and-music    Agoraphobia - NebulaCaro - Veil of Uncertainty - digital release (2025) https://nebulacaro.bandcamp.com/album/veil-of-uncertainty   
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4 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes 2 seconds

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
8-16-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Bandcamp Friday August!!
Greetings! For a majority of the 8/16 edition of PTE, I would like to share in the bounty of my Bandcamp Friday booty for August! From avant-big band pop and microtonal music to impaired kidney function electronics and multiple Casio CZ-101s, it's all here! Listen & Enjoy! Joel   e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social  8-16-25 PTE Playlist   Cyborgs - Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio - The Freedom Suite, Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 2 - 577 Records (2025) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-freedom-suite-novoa-carter-mela-trio-vol-2    Knows Only God (God Only Knows) - John Hollenbeck - Songs You Like A Lot - Flexatonic (2020) https://johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com/album/songs-you-like-a-lot    Strange Over - David First / The World Casio Quartet - The Complete Gramavision Session (1989) - digital release (2020) https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-gramavision-session-1989    westinghouse enso - David Beardsley - odyssey bright flashes of light - digital release (2025) https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/odyssey-bright-flashes-of-light    Ureterocele - Left Renal Agenesis - digital release (2024) https://ureterocele.bandcamp.com/album/left-renal-agenesis    Collapsing 'Round Midnight - David First / The World Casio Quartet - The Complete Gramavision Session (1989) - digital release (2020) https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-gramavision-session-1989    How Deep Is Your Love? - - John Hollenbeck - Songs You Like A Lot - Flexatonic (2020) https://johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com/album/songs-you-like-a-lot    Hyperballad - Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra feat. Lauren Sevian, baritone sax - Enjoy! - Koch Records (2007) https://bjorkestra.com/album/this-is-belief/    How Will We Recognize Each Other part III - Chris Cochrane - unhinged -  Gold Bolus Records (2025)  https://chriscochrane.bandcamp.com/album/unhinged 
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4 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
8-9-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! This week we have everything from neo-classical orchestral music to outright noise.  Multi-genre avant-garde as it should be! Enjoy! Joel   8-9-25 PTE Playlist   Short Step - Mwendo Dawa Trio - Melodic Hope - lj Records (2025) https://www.lj-records.se/mwendo.html    Jamie Muir - Joseph Benzola / Composer, Solo DrumKat - The newest entry to the Portraits of the Dead series - Amanita Music (2025) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/jamie-muir    Kombucha - Tommy Crane / David Binney - The Isle - Elastic Recordings / Mythology Records (2025) https://davidbinney.bandcamp.com/album/the-isle   Vector #4 - Thomas Poken - Vectors - August 2025 pre-release - https://thomaspoken.bandcamp.com/album/vectors    Bathymetry 5 – Groundswell - Matt McBane w/ Sandbox Percussion - Cantaloupe Music (2022) https://mattmcbane.bandcamp.com/album/bathymetry    Projekctile - Joel Krutt - Projekction 2004 - Projekction (2004) https://soundcloud.com/the-envelope-pusher/projekction    af wilden til at sàlva - will sōderberg - let the machines sing... [2] of desire to salvage - Machine Records (2025) https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-machines-sing-2-of-desire-to-salvage    Zones of Privacy - Yann Novak - Continuity - Room40 (2025) https://www.yannnovak.com/recording/continuity/    The Pigs Have Left the Sty - Rich Wh - A Degree of Disorder - Burnt Seed Records (2025) https://rich-white.bandcamp.com/album/a-degree-of-disorder    Fantasy for Piano & String Orchestra - Stanley Grill, composer / Zagreb Sinfonietta, Miran Vaupotić, conductor / Viktor Čižić, piano - digital release (2025) https://stanleygrill.bandcamp.com/track/fantasy-for-piano-and-string-orchestra    Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra - Carl Vollrath, composer / Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Miran Vaupotić, conductor / Ookjin You, solo piano - Navona Records (2025) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6755/    Wireless Fantasy (1960) - Vladimir Ussachevsky - Electronic And Acoustic Works 1957-1972 - New World Records (2007) https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/vladimir-ussachevsky-electronic-and-acoustic-works-1957-1972?_pos=2&_sid=16960325f&_ss=r&variant=39644906782799    Quiet Rhythms No. 20 - William Susman - Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC - Belarca (2023) https://susmanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-rhythms-live-at-spectrum-nyc    Summer Paintings - Simon Heartfield - Intervals - Limbic Productions (2025) https://simonheartfield.bandcamp.com/album/intervals    Harmonic Rain - Morgan Szymanksi and Tommy Perman - Songs for the Mist Forest - Blackford Hill (2025) https://blackfordhill.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-mist-forest    Rain - Masahiko Togashi with Don Cherry & Charlie Haden - Song of Soil - Wewantsounds (2022) https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/masahiko-togashi-with-don-cherry-charlie-haden-song-of-soil-cd-edition 
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5 months ago
1 hour 58 minutes 58 seconds

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
7-26-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! This week we're airing "Intortus," the winner of the 2024 Musicworks electronic music composition contest, created by composer Rocío Cano Valiño. In addition, you'll hear the unique cornucopia of interesting music that has defined PTE for the past 35 years. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    7-26-25 PTE Playlist   different forms of phosphorus – english horn: Jacqueline Leclair / composer: Karola Obermüller - Music For English Horn Alone – New Focus Recordings (2020) https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-english-horn-alone    Kármán Line・Time Rival (Michael Southard) ・Catastrophist ・digital release (2024) https://timerival.bandcamp.com/album/catastrophist   7 / 8 / 9 – Petridisch – 358 – I Heart Noise (2017) https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn002-petridisch-358    Taped – Slikback – Attrition – Planet Mu (2025) https://slikback.bandcamp.com/album/attrition    Crawl Inside A Bell – Joseph White - (The Game is) Hypnosis – Gold Bolus (2025) https://joewhitenoise.bandcamp.com/album/the-game-is-hypnosis    there is no sun – Yttriphie - an extremely slow motion explosion – Projekt (2025) https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/an-extremely-slow-motion-explosion     snowscape (September. 2019 @MAIRO) - anterior palette snowshoes - Live: I. Japan- Fecking Bahamas (2021) https://feckingbahamas.bandcamp.com/album/live-i-japan     Trio for David Lynch - Hanrath, Leak, Seaborn - Director's Cult 1: David Lynch - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Mind - Director's Cult (2025) https://directorscult.bandcamp.com/album/directors-cult-1-david-lynch-dark-was-the-night-cold-was-the-mind    Intortus - Rocío Cano Valiño・Musicworks #151 ・Musicworks (2025) https://www.musicworks.ca/meet-winners-2024-musicworks-electronic-music-composition-contest    Wood Wide Web II - Duo Aya - Cycles - Neuma Records (2025) https://duoaya.bandcamp.com/album/cycles   Klavierklang - Composer: Hildegard Westerkamp / piano: Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa - Klavierklang - earsay music (2023) https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/klavierklang    Falling - double bass: Bertram Turetsky / composer: Tom Johnson - A Different View - Smithsonian / Folkways (1981) https://folkways.si.edu/bertram-turetzky/a-different-view/contemporary-electronic/music/album/smithsonian    Fists - Perry Botkin - Combines 3: Memories, Dreams & Other Abstractions - Perry Botkin Music (2000)   ReHeard - Phase4our - Language Barrier - Machine Records (2024) https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/language-barrier    
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5 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
7-19-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! In this week's musical assortment: new/new, old/new, new/old, old/old.  Your job, figure out which is which. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    7-19-25 PTE Playlist   Satan's Mysterious Feeling - Roy Haynes -  Hip Ensemble - WeWantSounds (1971) https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/roy-haynes-hip-ensemble-lp-gatefold-sleeve-and-2-page-insert-black-vinyl    Midas - Karl Evangelista's Apura - Bukas - 577 Records (August 2025 pre-release) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/bukas    Crysanthemum Bang - SPLaTTeRCell (David Torn) - OAH - CeLLDiViSioN (2000) https://davidtornmusic.com/    A Palace of Pearls (on a blade of grass) - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (w/ David Torn & Chris Botti) - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Papa Bear Records (1998) https://papabear.com/store/blue_cd.htmlhttps://papabear.com/store/blue_cd.html    Let There Be Sparrows, then (for chamber orchestra) - composer: Sarah Bassingthwaighte / London Symphony Orchestra, cond. -  Orchestrating The Wild - Aria Classics (2025) https://www.ariaclassics.com/orchestratingthewild    Spring Snow - Lingyuan Yang - Cursed Month - Chaospace Records (2025) https://lingyuanyang.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-month    Basement / Washing Machine - Fletina - Mahorka (2025) https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/environments-mechanisms    Scott Somebody - flute: Emily Duncan / composer: Randall Woolf - Woolf At The Door - Neuma Records (2025) https://emilyduncanflute.bandcamp.com/album/woolf-at-the-door    John Somebody (complete) - Scott Johnson - John Somebody - Tzadik (2004) https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8009    The Illusion of Guidance - Bang On A Can All-Stars / composer: Scott Johnson - Live FM Broadcast - 9-17-2003  Biennale, Venezia   London Fix 3 (excerpt) - Tom Hamilton - Muse Eek (2003) https://muse-eek.com/tom-hamilton-london-fix/     
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5 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
7-5-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings! 7/5 PTE: We've got a mostly prog Phase Two with some fine new releases including a 10 disc mega box set of live performances from Caravan and a wonderful 2 disc extravaganza from Iona co-founder, Dave Bainbridge. In contast, Phase One is all over the place genre-wise as you will soon hear. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social        7-5-25 PTE Playlist   Au temps por moi (my bad) - Antonin de Bemels - Au temps por moi (my bad) - Thin Consolation (2025) https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/au-temps-pour-moi    Rabbit Hole - Sadie Powers - Souvenir - Room40 (2025) https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/souvenir    I Got Stuck in Hushinish - Progressive Anarchists - Roaring City - self-release (2025) https://progressive-anarchists.bandcamp.com/album/roaring-city     Pixie People - Shrunk feat. Fabiana Striffler - Pixie People - 577 Records (July 2025 pre-release) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/pixie-people   Life Path 21 - Barend Tromp - Odd Time Concepts - 7d Media (2025) https://barendtromp7d.bandcamp.com/album/odd-time-concepts    Darlene's Wish - double violin: L. Shankar (Shenkar) with Abhijit Banerjee (tabla) - Full Moon - X Dot 25 Music (2025) https://xdot25.com/l-shankar    Ghosty - Time Rival - Mineral - digital release (2025) https://timerival.bandcamp.com/album/mineral    Entanglement - Joel Kerr - Spectral Dialogues - digital release (2025) https://joelkerr.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-dialogues    For Evermore / On the Slopes of Sliabh Mis (Slee-ev Meesh) - Dave Bainbridge - On The Edge (of what could be), CD 1 - OPEN SKY RECORDS / GONZO MULTIMEDIA (2025) https://www.musicglue.com/iona/products/dave-bainbridge-on-the-edge-of-what-could-be    Gray Apples Fall - Komara - Komara II - 7d Media (2025) https://komara.bandcamp.com/album/komara-ii    Nine Feet Underground - Caravan - The Shows Of Ours...Live, Disc 9: Stables Theatre, Wavendon 2001 - Madfish (August 2025 pre-release) https://officialcaravan.co.uk/blog/2025/06/12/caravan-the-shows-of-ours-live-22nd-august/    I Am Dimensionaut - Sound of Contact - Dimensionaut - Inside Out (2014) https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dimensonaut    Because It's Invisible 1 - Juice Machine - Because It's Invisible - FALT (2018) https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/because-its-invisible 
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6 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes

Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
Host: Joel Krutt 36 years of bringing you the finest in the outer realms of contemporary music; from the worlds of classical, experimental, rock, jazz, ambient, electroacoustic, world music, spoken word, etc., etc., etc...…with a healthy dollop of new/classic progressive rock and jazz/rock fusion.