Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center Joel Krutt

Greetings!
By the time you hear this, I'll have already returned from my 2 week jaunt to the wilds of Alaska, but I couldn't resist the episode's title focused on compositions for cello and derived, NOT from the 2012 film I've never seen, OR Phil Collins' second solo album from 1982, BUT the 1930 classic Marx Brothers film, "Animal Crackers"!  
That being said, I digress.  Enjoy a panoply of cello stylings from the finest cellists and composers of our times.
Joel
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6-1-24 PTE Playlist: "Cello, I Must Be Going!"
 
Orange and yellow II - cellos:  Dan Barrett / Stanislav Orlavsky / composer: Dominique Lemaître - De l’espace trouver la fin et le milieu (of space finding the end and the middle): Dan Barrett plays Dominique Lemaître - New Focus Recordings (2020)
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/de-lespace-trouver-la-fin-et-le-milieu-dan-barrett-plays-dominique-lemaitre/ 
 
Cello and Orchestra - cello: Robert Cohen / New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas / composer: Morton Feldman - Coptic Light - Argo (1998)
 
Miles Per Hour / Bones - Lung - Let It Be Gone - Romanus Records (2022)
https://lunglunglung.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-be-gone 
 
Nomos Alpha - cello: Pierre Strauch / composer: Iannis Xenakis - Various Works - Erato (1992)
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/686273/686433  
 
Night Music - cello: Eric Kutz / composer: Robert Gibson - Flux and Fire - Innova (2018)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/robert-gibson/flux-and-fire 
 
Descent Into Shame - Cellista - Élégie - Soundtrack to the Stage Poem (for static trapeze, silent film, and cello) - digital album (2024)
https://cellista.bandcamp.com/track/descent-into-shame 
 
Hellhound - cello: Maya Beiser / composer: David T. Little - tranceclassical - Innova (2016)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/maya-beiser/tranceclassical 
 
Batzal - Erik Friedlander - Grains of Paradise - Tzadik (2001)
https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7154 
 
BABEL(maya)—f(f(1)): I. PortRait_8,**NYC10 BABEL(maya)—f(f(1)): V. PortRaitS_10&11,**NYC2012 - Pat Muchmore - BABEL: fragments - Innova (2016)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/pat-muchmore/babel-fragments 
 
Not Alone - cello & electronics: Seth Parker Woods / composer: George Lewis - The Recombinant Trilogy - New Focus Recordings (2021)
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-recombinant-trilogy 

Greetings!
New music, kid's stories and lot's of drums!!  That's only Phase One!!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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5-25-24 PTE Playlist
Dust and the Middle - Catharine Cary - AIR CAKE and other summery occupations - Orchard of Pomegranates (2024)   
https://catharinecary.wordpress.com/air-cake-and-other-summery-occupations/ 
 
Moonlight - Kojiro Umezaki & Hub New Music / composer: SunYoung Park - a distance, intertwined - in a circle records (2024)
https://hubnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-distance-intertwined 
 
Impulse Control Concerto for Drum Set & Wind Ensemble, Parts I & II / Lee Hinkle, drum set soloist; Penn State University Wind Ensemble | Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin, conductor / composer: Evan Ziporyn - MODERN AMERICAN PERCUSSION CONCERTI - Ravello Records (2024)
https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8101/ 
 
2077 / Crypto Punks - Devin Gray - Most Definitely - Rataplan Records (2024)
https://rataplanrecordsnyc.bandcamp.com/album/most-definitely 
 
Four Twenty Six - Dave Schoepke- Drums On Low - self-release (2019)
https://daveschoepke.bandcamp.com/album/drums-on-low 
 
Cloudcutter - Dave Schoepke - Sun Will Follow - djummi records (2024)
https://daveschoepke.bandcamp.com/album/sun-will-follow 
 
Beelzebub - Bruford - Feels Good To Me - Polydor (1977)
https://billbruford.com/ 
 
Simulacrum - Ken Wohlrob - Simulacrum (digital single) - Obsidian Sky Records  (2024)
https://obsidianskyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/simulacrum 
 
In Brightness - Thy Veils - Neoradiance - digital release (2019)
https://thyveils.bandcamp.com/album/neoradiant 
 
It's You 2 - Edge of Decipher - Each Other's Breath - Machina ad Noctem (2024)
https://machinaadnoctem.bandcamp.com/album/each-other-s-breath 
 
Old Naval Base - Fletina - The Rendering - digital release (2024)
https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/the-rendering 
 
Spacer w angielskim ogrodzie (a walk in an English garden) - woo: Christine Wodrascka: piano / Paulina Owczarek: alto saxophone / Peter Orins: drums - hoo-hah - Circum-Disc (2024)
https://www.circum-disc.com/ 
 
Toy Room - Q&A - Circle - Paris Concert - ECM (1971) 
https://ecmrecords.com/product/paris-concert-circle/ 
 

Greetings!
So much music, so little time!
Enjoy!
Joel
 
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5-18-24 PTE Playlist
 
Elevation - Trem77 - Topography EP -  digital release (2024)
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/topography-ep 
 
Churchill Downs Chamber Concerto - composer: Irwin Bazelon - Music of Irwin Bazelon - CRI American Masters/New World Records (1992)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/music-of-irwin-bazelon 
 
Monument for Graettinger - Clazz Ensemble / composer: Louis Andriessen - Den Bosch Clazz ensemble playing live at the Dutch Classical Music Meeting - Amsterdam - October 17th 2011 -
http://louisandriessen.blogspot.com/2011/12/family-revisited-review-and-concert.html 
 
Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom - Virgin (1974)
https://musicaficionado.blog/2019/07/26/rock-bottom-by-robert-wyatt/ 
 
Kerouac, Gysin, & Burroughs - Joseph Benzola - Portraits of the Dead Complete: 1995​-​2022 - Amanita Music (2024)
https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/portraits-of-the-dead-complete-1995-2022 
 
Throwing Salt - Forrest Fang - The Lost Seasons of Amorphia - Projekt Records (2022)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-seasons-of-amorphia 
 
On A Boat - Denman Maroney Quintet - The Air​-​Conditioned Nightmare - Neuma Records (2024)
https://denmanfmaroney.bandcamp.com/album/the-air-conditioned-nightmare-2 
 
Mundial Imaginalis  - Colin Fisher - Suns of the Heart - We Are Busy Bodies (2024)
https://colinalexanderfisher.bandcamp.com/album/suns-of-the-heart 
 
Blue Moon Frequency #5 (extended version) - slide guitar: Geiger Von Mueller  - digital single (2024)
https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/blue-moon-frequency-5 
 
The Hall - Manuel Carbone - The Mosgrove Facility - Falt (2024)
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/the-mosgrove-facility 
 
Hissed and Gone - Cat Temper - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2024-sampler 
 
Amoureux Solitaires - Petridisch with Leah Callahan - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2024-sampler 
 
Sonar - Renee Zon - 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024)
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2024-sampler 

Greetings!
 
I thought I'd mention that when you look at each week's program playlist, in addition to the track release info, there's almost always a link that will take you to where you can obtain more info on the artist/release and where you might choose to support the livelihoods of said artists by procuring their music for your very own collection.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 
 
5-4-24 PTE Playlist
SD FAHCBARUL! - Brakat - Codici Morti - digital release (2023)
https://brakatmusik.bandcamp.com/album/codici-morti 
 
Black Earth - Ukranian born pianist: Inna Faliks  /composer: Fazil Say - Manuscripts Don't Burn - Sono Luminus (2024)
https://www.sonoluminus.com/store/manuscripts-dont-burn 
 
quatre.b -  de type inconnu ("of unknown type") (Sylvain Pohu: electric guitar + electronics / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: bass guitar + electronics) - onze​.​correspondances - Elli Records (2024)
https://ellirecords.bandcamp.com/album/onze-correspondances 
 
Drum Buffer Rope - Ternoy / Cruz / Orins - The Theory of Constraints - Circum-Disc (2024 pre-release)
https://circum-disc.bandcamp.com/ 
 
8_16 - Valley Lines - 13_16 - Machine Records (2024)
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/13-16 
 
Failure Cascade - Lamniformes - The Lonely Atom - people | places | records (2024)
https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lonely-atom 
 
Gardiens de l​’​hassium (Guardians of Hassium) 270 - En Fer - GROS ROCK - self-release (2023)
https://ironapproved.bandcamp.com/album/gros-rock 
 
Peking O - Can - Tago Mago - Mute/Spoon (1971)
https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/tago-mago 
 
Mirror(s) - flute/composer: Gina Izzo ( l a d y y b i r d d) -  Tomorrow's Yesterday - Innova (2023) 
https://ginaizzo.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-yesterday 
 
String Quartet ('musica celestis') (1990) - The Lark Quartet / composer: Aaron Jay Kernis - Argo (1992)
https://aaronjaykernis.com/work/string-quartet-musica-celestis/ 
 
O Choruscans Lux Stellarum - Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records - Puremagnetik (2024)
https://larum.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-hildegard-von-bingen-live-at-public-records 
 
Waltz - John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser - Farahser - Elastic Recordings (May 2024 pre-release)
https://elasticrecordings.bandcamp.com/ 
 
Forever In Blue - Chris Russell - Noir - Projekt Records (2024)
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/noir 
 
 

Greetings!
Using Teiku's new self-titled 577 Record release as a springboard (in which the ensemble interprets Ukrainian Passover melodies in the jazz tradition of Creative Music), I wondered if I could cobble a Passover oriented set with music I had in my own collection.  The fruits of such an endeavor inhabits Phase One.
In Phase Two, I wanted to focus on the incredible musicianship of guitarist/pianist Kevin Kastning and his improvisational pairings with diverse musicians from around the globe.
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
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4-27-24 PTE Playlist - TWOFER
A side: Chag Pesach Sameach! (Happy Passover!) / B side: The Music of Kevin Kastning
 
Eyliyohu Hanovi (Elijah the Prophet) - The Klezmatics - Brother Moses Smote The Water: Live in Berlin - Piranha Musik (2004)
https://piranha-records.bandcamp.com/album/brother-moses-smote-the-water 
 
Elijah Rock - The Klezmatics w/ Joshua Nelson - Brother Moses Smote The Water: Live in Berlin - Piranha Musik (2004)
https://piranha-records.bandcamp.com/album/brother-moses-smote-the-water 
 
The Magic Winecup: A Syrian Passover Tale - storyteller: Vered Hankin / musical score: Bruce Ditmas - The Day The Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic - Kessem Productions (2000)
 
Adir Hu - Jewlia Eisenbert / vocal ensemble: Charming Hostess - Trilectic - Tzadik (2001)
https://www.tzadik.com/ 
 
Adir Hu Intro / Adir Hu - Teiku - Teiku - 577 Records (2024)
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/teiku 
 
Manishtana (What Has Changed?) - Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Soul - Tzadik (1999)
https://www.tzadik.com/ 
 
Passover: Movement III - ensemble: thingNY / composer: Rick Burkhardt - Passover - Innova (2022)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/thingny/passover 
 
Passover - Carolee Carmello / composer: William Finn - Elegies: A Song Cycle - Fynsworth Alley (2003) Passover - Carolee Carmello / composer: William Finn - Elegies: A Song Cycle - Fynsworth Alley (2003)
https://playbill.com/article/elegies-praised-william-finn-song-cycle-closes-off-broadway-march-30-com-112326 
 
Dam Tzefardea - Rabbi Chaim B. Alevsky - PESACH’S GREATEST HITS - Tools for Torah (2006)
https://toolsfortorah.com/CDs.htm 
 
Paisach in Portugal - Don Byron - Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz - Nonesuch (1993)
https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/plays-music-mickey-katz 

Greetings!
This week's program certainly emphasizes "multi-genre", a concept that has always been the keystone to the programming of "Pushing The Envelope" over the past 35 years (this fall, to be technical). A quick glance at this week's playlist will make that quite apparent. Cybotron to String Noise playing Alvin Lucier to The Allman Brothers (R.I.P. Dickey Betts) in the same program... makes sense to me!
Enjoy!
Joel
e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Twitter-like x thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1  
 
4-20-24 PTE Playlist
 
Fragment 17 Phase One (Proximian Mythos Cycle) - Cybotron (Richard Davis) - Cyber Ghetto - Fantasy (1995) 
 
Hpirep (Meson Peripheral Mix) - Phase4our - Language Barrier - Machine Records (2024)
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/language-barrier 
 
Halo (for one or more violiings) (2019) - String Noise: Conrad Harris / Pauline Kim Harris - composer: Alvin Lucier - STRING NOISE - Black Truffle Records (2020)
https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/string-noise 
 
Links No. 8 (Confessions -- Witness to 48 Things) - vibraphone: Berndt Thurner / flute: Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer, composer: Stuart Saunders Smith - The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays - New World Records (2009)
https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/stuart-saunders-smith-the-links-series-of-vibraphone-essays 
 
Les Brers in A Minor - The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach - Capricorn (1972)
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Brothers Band - The Fillmore Concerts - Polydor (1971/1992)
https://allmanbrothersband.com/forrest-richard-dickey-betts-december-12-1943-april-17-2024/ 
 
Walking The Wheel - Hawkstrel - Chaos Rocks - Purple Pyramid Records (2024)
https://hawkestrel.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-rocks 
 
Death of Trumpet - Kleinemaschinen - Nice​[​ish] Stereo - Borenail Records (2024)
https://kleinemaschinen.bandcamp.com/album/nice-ish-stereo 
 
Dayenu - Teiku - Teiku - 577 Records (2024)
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/teiku 
 
The Infinite Cosmos Are Calling You You You (excerpt) - Federico Ughi (drums) feat. Leo Genovese (keyboards) and Brandon Lopez (bass)  - Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024)
https://federicoughi.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-cosmos-calling-you-you-you-vol-1-feat-leo-genovese-and-brandon-lopez