Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Joel Krutt
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  1. Jun 8

    5-30-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! Scattered  throughout today's program are takes in both word and music of "Blue in Green", the classic Miles Davis/Bill Evans tune. (Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Davis!)  That didn't start out being intentional until i noticed that the opening Laurie Altman piece was later followed by the similarly titled Morten Qvenild track.  I was then motivated to find a couple of more unusual covers of "Blue in Green", notably by Dave Fiuczynski's Screaming Headless Torsos & the classic lineup of Oregon.  These keep company with a plethora of new and less recent musics from multiple genres. Listen & Enjoy!! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com  prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/        5-30-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Poem: Blue in Green / Blue in Green (after Miles Davis) - Laurie Altman, spoken word; Clipper Erickson, piano; Isabel Pfefferkorn, vocal - Briefly - Navona Records (2026) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6835/    Phase One portrait RE - Ensemble Dal Niente / composer: Igor Santos - portrait RE / Flux / Pacific Time - New Focus Recordings (2025) https://dalniente.bandcamp.com/album/portrait-re-flux-pacific-time    every - Nicholas Remondino/ prepared drums - Ocra Rossa: Falling Stick Is A Necessary Gesture, Every Sonic Action Being Perfectly Voluntary And With Its Own Dignity - Shhpuma (2023) https://shhpuma.bandcamp.com/album/ocra-rossa    only ghosts - Ryan Scott, snare drum / Christina Volpini, composer - 21st-Century Canadian Snare Drum - Collection QB (2026) https://collectionqb.bandcamp.com/album/21st-century-canadian-snare-drum    Out of Blue Comes Green - Morten Qvenild - Lokalt Piano - Susanna Sonata (2026) https://mortenqvenild.bandcamp.com/album/lokalt-piano    Earthrise - Steve Hillage - Open Featuring Studio Herald - Caroline (1979/1990) http://stevehillage.com/    Phase Two God's Name / Being Watched / The Energy - Stereo Minus One - The Acid Tape (Original Soundtrack) - Machine Records (2026) https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/the-acid-tape-original-soundtrack    Penalty Stroke - trang trai traicay - store in cool and dry places - Fruit Exports (2026) https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/store-in-cool-and-dry-places    Blue in Green - Screaming Headless Torsos - Live!! - Fuzelicious Morsels (2002) https://www.davidfiuczynski.com/screaming-headless-torsos    Rest In Pleasure - Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D + Evolution - Concord Records (2016) https://esperanzaspalding.bandcamp.com/album/emily-s-d-evolution    Warning Bell / They Are Waiting In The Van - Emily Bezar - Vista - digital self-release (2026) https://www.emilybezar.com/    Blue in Green - Oregon - Live at the Free Music Store - WBAI-FM  NYC  9-2-1972

    1h 59m

  2. May 28

    5-23-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Happy 80th Birthday, Robert Fripp!!

    Greetings! Phase One focuses primarily on new releases and a wonderful piece for electric guitar & piano by Canadian composer, Tim Brady.  In contrast, for most of Phase Two we celebrate Robert Fripp's 80th birthday with classic works featuring Mr. Fripp with prestigious collaborators! Listen & Enjoy! Joel   e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/      5-23-26 PTE Playlist: Happy 80th Birthday, Robert Fripp!!   Intro Anima - Akusmi - Terra Incognita - Tonal Union (2026) https://akusmi.bandcamp.com/album/terra-incognita   Phase One The Frumious Bandersnatch - David Occhipinti - Looking Glass - Elastic Recordings (2026) https://davidocchipinti.bandcamp.com/album/looking-glass-elastic-recordings    bladders, bloody bladders - Totoabas (Petr Vrba and Zdeněk Závodný) - Winter Spawning - Circum-Disc (2026) https://circum-disc.bandcamp.com/album/winter-spawning    Aerial - Frédéric L'Epée - Contre courant - Cuneiform Records (2026) https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/contre-courant    Frame 1 - Resonanace for electric guitar, electronics & piano - Tim Brady, guitar/composer / Pamela Reimer, piano - Paying Guitar: Symphony #1 - Ambiances Magnetiques (2004) https://actuellecd.com/en/album/1251-tim-brady-playing-guitar-symphony-1     The Sun - Windy & Carl - Conscioussness - Kranky (2001) https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/consciousness    Phase Two For My Father - Prelude: Orison / Fugue: Upastuti - piano: Sarah Rothenberg / composer: Vijay Iyer - In Darkness And Light - DACAMERA Editions (2026) https://dacameraeditions.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-and-light    Happy 80th Birthday, Robert Fripp!!  https://dgmlive.com/  Hope - The Robert Fripp String Quintet - The Robert Fripp String Quartet - Discipline Records (1993) Firepower - David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day - Virgin (1993) I Advance Masked - Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advanced Masked - A&M Records (1982) Swastika Girls - Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting - Opal/Inner Knot (1973/2008)

    1h 59m

  3. May 22

    5-16-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! All kinds of neat stuff this week, with my faves being the new releases from Edward Givens, "biomes, vol. 1-4" and Stereo Minus One's, "The Acid Tape (Original Soundtrack)". Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Check out prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/      5-16-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Mimic - Nick Fraser - Areas - Elastic Recordings (2026) https://nickfraserthedrummer.bandcamp.com/album/areas-2    Phase One Four Saints, Part 1 / Secret Angels Beneath the West Side Highway Overpass - Bipolar Explorer - Last Lights - Slugg Records (2026) https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/last-lights    Orient- Occident - Iannis Xenakis - Electronic Music - EMF (1997)    Crash - Chaos Face - Doom Ride - Subharmonic (1994) https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/doom-ride    Pope-A-Dope - Onilu  - Jakuta's Dance - 577 Records (2026) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/jakutas-dance     Unorthodox - Stefania de Kenessey - In Her Words - Neuma Records (2022) https://stefaniadekenessey.bandcamp.com/album/in-her-words    Phase Two Eat Drugs / Thinking Relationship / Holding Onto Asphalt - Stereo Minus One - The Acid Tape (Original Soundtrack) - Machine Records (2026) https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/the-acid-tape-original-soundtrack    Solis Overture - ensemble: Wild Rumpus / composer: Per Bloland - Shadows of the Electric Moon - New Focus Recordings (2025) https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-of-the-electric-moon    Steppes - Edward Givens - biomes, vol. 1 - digital self-release (2026) https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/biomes-vol-1    Cat People (Putting Out The Fire) - David Bowie - Cat People (OST) - MCA (1982)   Pasodoble - Juan Belda & The Bit Band - Moscas en la playa (Flies on the beach) - Astronomy Recording Music (2022/2026) https://astronomyrecordingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moscas-en-la-playa    September the Ninth - Soupsongs Live: The Music of Robert Wyatt - Jazzprint (2000)

    1h 59m

  4. May 15

    5-9-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - FIRE & SMOKE!

    Greetings! I've assembled another themed show for your listening pleasure, this time: Fire & Smoke, including all the assorted genres you've come to know and love on PTE. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Prior programs & playlists:  https://envelope.podbean.com/      5-9-26 PTE Playlist: Fire + Smoke! Intro Ritual Fire - Lingyuan Yang - Cursed Month - Chaospace Records (2025) https://lingyuanyang.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-month    Phase One Smoke,  I - VIII - New Music Detroit / composer: Marc Mellits - Smoke: Music of Marc Mellits - Innova (2018) https://innova.mu/album/smoke-music-of-marc-mellits/    Data Fire - Kristina Warrent - Tusk - Gold Bolus Recordings (2026) https://kmwarren.bandcamp.com/album/tusk    Blabber & Smoke - Capt. Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid - Reprise (1972)   Fumée - Geoffrey Gordon, composer - Fumée - Neuma Records (2026) https://geoffreygordon.bandcamp.com/album/fum-e    Birds of Fire - HR (Hessian Radio) -Big Band feat. Billy Cobham, arranged & directed by Colin Towns - Meeting of the Spirits: A Celebration of the Mahavishnu Orchestra - In + Out Records (2006) https://www.hr-bigband.de/media/cds/meeting-of-the-spirits-feat-billy-cobham--colin-towns,cd-meeting-spirits-cobham-towns-100.html    Phase Two States of Intermeshing: smoke - Corie Rose Soumah - Musicworks 153 (2026) https://www.musicworks.ca/winter-2025-spring-2026    Fireflies (feat. Trey Gunn on Warr Touch guitar, U. Rajesh on mandolin & Ganesh Kumar on konnakol (vocal percussion) - Deep Energy Orchestra - The Science of Sound - 7d Media (2026) https://deepenergyorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-science-of-sound    Black Smoke Curls - Anatomist - Black Smoke Curls - Machine Records (2022) https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-smoke-curls    Prelude-Nightmare / Fire Poem / Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Polydor (1968) https://www.thegodofhellfire.com/    Smoker - Christian Marclay - Records 1981-1989 - Atavistic Records (1997)    Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets - Island (1974)    Smoke Break - Stuart Hamm - The Diary of Patrick Xavier - Ubik Music (2018) https://stuhamm.com/    Fire - Francisco Mela featuring Leo Genovese and William Parker - Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 3 - 577 Records (2025) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/music-frees-our-souls-vol-3

    1h 59m

  5. May 9

    5-2-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! The agenda for Phase One includes new releases and a couple current acquisitions of my own. In Phase Two, we honor the memory & music of just intonation composer Michael Harrison, followed Viet Cuong's imaginative composition, "Re(new)al", a percussion quartet concerto which address the topic of renewable energy. I recently had the privilege of seeing the Columbia Symphony perform this piece here in my hometown of Columbia, MD. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com To check out past programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/    5-2-26 PTE Playlist Intro Elevation Dub - Trem 77 - Aepochs - digital release (2026) https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/aepochs    Phase One Elephant Promenade I feat. Jonathan Kay, esraj  / Elephant Promenade II feat. Jonathan Kay, esraj & Zaynab Wilson, cajon - Amrita - digital release (2026) https://amrita.bandcamp.com/album/amrita    Open Road - Soft Machine - Thirteen - Moonjune Records (2026) https://softmachine-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/thirteen    Pile - Nathan Moore / Eddie Prévost / Ray Russell - Stacked - Cuneiform Records (2026) https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stacked    Smiling Cats - Walter Thompson, Sam Day Harmet, Billy Martin - WaSaBi Trio - 577 Records (2026) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/wasabi-trio    curtain - Myra Melford - life carries me this way - Firehouse 12 Records (2013) https://myramelford.bandcamp.com/album/life-carries-me-this-way    ERAT VERBUM John - Alvin Curran - State of the Union 2.001, Disc 1 - Electronic Music Foundation (2001)   Phase Two Evening Light (Raga Yaman) - Michael Harrison & Ini Filip -  Evening Light: Raga Cycle I - Cantaloupe Music (2026) https://michaelharrison.bandcamp.com/album/evening-light-raga-cycle-i    Re(new)al, Concerto for Percussion Quartet - Albany Symphony, cond. David Allan Miller &  featuring the ensemble, Sandbox Percussion / composer: Viet Cuong - Renewal - Albany Records (2025) https://www.albanyrecords.com/catalog/troy2018/    No Masters - David Wallraf -  نه (no) - Brachliegen Tapes (2024) https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com/album/no    part 1: sinai - Daniel Biro w/ Gareth Davis - a still, thin sound - Sargasso (2009) https://danielbiro.bandcamp.com/album/a-still-thin-sound-2020-remaster

    1h 59m

  6. May 3

    4-25-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! We start with a couple of prog adjacent new releases from our friends at Cuneiform Records followed by organ and organ-ish pieces.  The balance of the program roams all over the place.  Check it out and see what you think.  Listen and Enjoy!  Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/    4-25-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Nova Express - NeBeLNeST- Saalfelden 2007 - Cuneiform Records (2026) https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/saalfelden-2007    Phase One The Lords of Creation - Mike Johnson - The Gardens of Loss - Cuneiform Records (2026) http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/mike_johnson.html    String of Garlands - Guy Klucevsek - Hope Dies Last - Starkland (2023) https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/guy-klucevsek-hope-dies-last    Rejser - Emil Mark - Mellemtid - Tonal Union (2026) https://emilmark.bandcamp.com/album/mellemtid    Gesangvoll: Variations on a Theme by Beethoven - Karel Martinek, organ; Jan Kučera, oboe / composer: John Rommereim - Into The Still Hollow - Navona Records (2025) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6710/    Three Pieces for Electronic  Organ - Hans Kox - Anthology Of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Volume 1 (1955-1966) - Basta Music (2008) https://bastamusicstore.com/collections/dutch-electronic-music/products/anthology-of-dutch-electronic-tape-music-volume-1-1955-1966-digital-download?variant=1106618504   Ahwak - Assa’d Khoury - Electronic Touches Belly Dance - We Want Sounds (2026) https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-touches-belly-dance    Antimatter (Reversed Version) - Billy Yfantis - Reversed Universe - digital release (2026) https://billyyfantis.bandcamp.com/album/reversed-universe    Flowering Dandelion for violin and electronics - Sarah Plum, violin / composer-electronics: Kyong Mee Choi - Personal Noise - Blue Griffin (2022) https://www.bluegriffin.com/cd-catalog/p/personalnoisesarahplum    Phase Two Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock - David Russell, cello & vocals / composer: Eric Chasalow - ...arching, reaching, breathless - New Focus Recordings (2026) https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/eric-chasalow-arching-reaching-breathless/    A • I N T O X I Q U É S • P A R • L A • L V N E - Céleste Gatier - ERMITAGE DE LA FUMÉE VIOLETTE (Hermitage of the Violet Smoke) - MMLI (2023) https://mmli.bandcamp.com/album/ermitage-de-la-fum-e-violette    Solo - Beller - Matthias Muche - Trombone Alone - Col Legno (2026) https://www.col-legno.com/en/home    I Am! - Alison Cotton - The Gods Laugh - Glitterbeat Records (June 2026 pre-release single) https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com/album/the-gods-laugh    Stillness / Bounce Bounce - Hilary Hahn, violin / Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka), prepared piano - Silfra - Deutsche Grammophon (2012) https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/hilary-hahn-hauschka-silfra-11321    Two of You - I Am The Mackerel - Network Relay: Open Channel (compilation) - digital release (2026) https://experimentalmusicnetwork.bandcamp.com/album/network-relay-open-channel

    1h 59m

  7. Apr 17

    4-11-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! Let's see...we've got some contemporary gamelan followed by a bunch of blues-based experimental stuff, leading to some interesting vocal pieces, only to close out with a smorgasbord of new and old pieces.  There.  That'll about do it. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingthenevelopewhus@gmail.com Prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/       4-11-26 PTE Playlist   Phase One Stones Are The Flowers - Gamelan Yowana Sari / composer: Kyle Miller - Gamelan Yowana Sari - Cantaloupe Music (April 2026 pre-release) https://gamelanyowanasari.bandcamp.com/album/gamelan-yowana-sari    New Revisit - Geiger von Müller - Neocubist Blues - digital release (2026) https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/neocubist-blues    The Mill Pond Drowns Hope - John Fahey - The Mill Pond - Broker's Tip/Little Brother (2019) https://thejohnfahey.bandcamp.com/album/the-mill-pond   One Man's Meat (feat. David Johansen) - Gary Lucas / Gods & Monsters - Coming Clean - Mighty Quinn (2006) https://garylucas.com/www/disc/clean/cleanMAIN.shtml    Pachuco Cadaver - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Straight Records (1969)    Celestial Power - Henry Flynt - Graduation - Superior Viaduct (2013) https://henryflynt.bandcamp.com/album/graduation    Subpolar Clime - feldmark - Motu Maha - digital release (2026) https://hyenaedon.bandcamp.com/album/motu-maha    Phase Two last lullaby - David Lang feat. Katie Geissinger - last lullaby - Cantaloupe Music (2026) https://davidlangmusic.bandcamp.com/album/last-lullaby    MONO - Leonie Strecker - Chroma - Line Sound Art Editions (2026) https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/chroma    Summerette - Michael Scott Dawson - Guitar, Solo - We Are Busy Bodies (2026) https://michaelscottdawson.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-solo    Les machines de Léonard - Sam Vitoulis w/ Sergio Koval - Léonard - digital release (2004) https://samvitoulis.bandcamp.com/album/l-onard    Etam Kolhem Hazuyim "Their voices are predicted." (Live at the Middle East - 12-28-2025) - Solilians Slosha / Skyjelly - Challah II b/w Far Boundaries - I Heart Noise (2026) https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn013-solilians-slosha-skyjelly-challah-ii-b-w-far-boundaries    The Western Lands (A Dangerous Road Mix) - Material -- The Road To The Western Lands - Triloka (1997) https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/seven-souls-remixes

    1h 59m

  8. Apr 9

    3-28-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Cetner

    Greetings! Many new musics in store for you with a second phase nod to memory & music of Keith Emerson upon the 10th anniversary of his passing. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com To check out prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/    3-28-26 PTE Playlist   Intro New Distortion Properties - Ben Vida - Oblivion Seekers - Shelter Press (2026) https://benvida.bandcamp.com/album/oblivion-seekers    Phase One Downbeat - Kristina Warren - Tusk - Gold Bolus Recordings (2026) https://kmwarren.bandcamp.com/album/tusk    First Rays - Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel - Entering Elysium - Projekt Records (April 2026 pre-release)  https://www.projekt.com/    Passing Beneath The Sea's Floor - Shane Aspegren - Spiritual Cannibalism - Prohibited Records (2026) https://shane-aspegren.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-cannibalism    Olive Cotton - Sarah Plum, viola / composer: Osnat Netzer - an expanding distance of multiple voices - Blue Griffin Recordings (April 2026 pre-release) https://sarahplum.bandcamp.com/album/an-expanding-distance-of-multiple-voices     He Walks The Tide - Emily Bezar - Vista - Demivox Records (2026) https://emilybezar.bandcamp.com/album/vista    Phase Two Variations for Light Waves -  Linnéa Talp - Variations for Light Waves - thanatosis (2026) https://linneatalp.bandcamp.com/album/variations-for-light-waves    Organs form - Findings - Parallel mirrors - Eustress Tapes (2024) https://eustresstapes.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-mirrors    Mars: The Bringer of War - Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell:  “The Complete Collection” - Spirit of Unicorn Music (2024) https://www.cherryred.co.uk/emerson-lake-and-powell-the-complete-collection-3cd-box    Hammer It Out - Keith Emerson - Emerson Plays Emerson - Cherry Red (2017)    Keith Emerson - Joseph Benzola - Portraits of the Dead Complete: 1995-2022 - Amanita Music (2019) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/portraits-of-the-dead-complete-1995-2022    Mach kein Krach! - Martin Küchen - Chase the Demons Out - thanatosis (2026) https://martinkuchen.bandcamp.com/album/chase-the-demons-out   Seranade for Four Flutes (1960) - Flute Force / composer: Ingolf Dahl - Flute Force - CRI (1990) https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/flute-force?_pos=1&_sid=027a483c2&_ss=r&variant=32226756591695

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