Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

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Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Host: Joel Krutt

  1. 4D AGO

    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

    1h 59m

  2. JUN 29

    6-28-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! This show took a while to assemble due to technical difficulties, requiring me to please stand by.  I now have a new computer on order and have managed to coerce this one to be a bit more cooperative for right now. On board, lots of new releases, an older Jah Wobble track and a couple of things I concocted in my basement lair. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    6-28-25 PTE Playlist   Changes - Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra | Andrew Sewell, conductor / composer: Andre Myers - Convergence -  Albany Records (2025) https://www.albanyrecords.com/catalog/troy2002/    Motion Control / KM1-Daybreak - Pneumatic Tubes - Runner's High - Belbury Music (2025 August pre-release) www.belburymusic.com     Nefilah (falling/downfall) - Descienda - Teshuvah (repentence/return to God) - digital release (2025) https://descienda.bandcamp.com/album/teshuvah    Dead - EKT - Canada Is Dying - digital release (2025) https://ektmusic.bandcamp.com/album/    Your VPN Hates You - Alienationist - Your Data Is Funnier Than You: Echoes - digital release (2025) https://alienationist.bandcamp.com/album/your-data-is-funnier-than-you-echoes    Om Namah Shiva - Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - The Sun Does Rise EP - Island Records (1994)    Sun - Electric Jinn - I Heart Noise: 2024 Sampler - I Heart Noise (2024) https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2024-sampler    Mantra I / Collins Avenue (stretch mix) - Joel Krutt - unreleased tracks https://soundcloud.com/the-envelope-pusher/tracks    Musique Climatique (1979) - Costin Miereanu - Poly-Art Recordings 1976-1982 - Auryfa / Metaphon (2025) https://miereanu.bandcamp.com/album/poly-art-recordings-1976-1982    Zealot - Brass Camel - Camel - digital album (2025) https://brasscamelband.bandcamp.com/album/camel    Fellini and the Second Beat - Ori Barel - Bronze, Beige, Morse - Unseen Worlds (2025) https://oribarel.bandcamp.com/album/bronze-beige-morse    Drifting Into Oblivion - Squid In Chains - Drifting - Earsay Music (2024) https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/drifting

    1h 59m

  3. JUN 16

    6-14-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! Let's see... a couple of new items from our friends at 577 Records, some carnivalesque music in Phase One, classic stuff from the ready to re-boot label Table of the Elements and a smathering of other goodies! Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    6-14-25 PTE Playlist   Pudding is niet te vergelijken! (Pudding Is Beyond Compare!) - Dubbelvia (Double Cream) - Double Wall Large Mouth - self-release (2025) https://monadnode.bandcamp.com/album/double-wall-large-mouth    Vogel - Eva Navoa - Novoa / Gress / Gray Trio, Vol. 2 - 577 Records (2025) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-gress-gray-trio-vol-2    Birds: 1 - 39 - Friendly Rich (Rich Marsella) - The Birds of Marsville - We Are Busy Bodys (August 2025, pre-release) https://friendlyrich.bandcamp.com/album/the-birds-of-marsville    Life - Sly & The Family Stone - Life - Epic (1968)    Happy Family - King Crimson - Lizard - DGM (1970) https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/lizard    Carry On Up The Vicarage (A Musical Tribute To Agatha Christie) - Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch! - Charisma (1978) https://www.hackettsongs.com/    Monkey & Bunny - The Residents and Renaldo & The Loaf - Not Available & selections from Title In Limbo - East Side Digital (1988)  https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=titleinlimbo    Olympus Mons - Alan Niblock, John Butcher & Mark Sanders - Tectonic Plates - 577 Records (2025) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/tectonic-plates    100 Guitars - Rhys Chatham - A Field Guide to Table of the Elements, Southeast Edition - Table of the Elements (2006) https://tableoftheelements.bandcamp.com/album/a-field-guide-to-table-of-the-elements-southeast-edition    Encore - Tony Conrad w/ Faust - A Field Guide to Table of the Elements, Southeast Edition - Table of the Elements (2006) https://tableoftheelements.bandcamp.com/album/a-field-guide-to-table-of-the-elements-southeast-edition    drag - Andrea Parkins / Eliad Wagner - Drag Drop Spin & Crawl - Superpang (2025) https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/drag-drop-spin-crawl    wakeups - The Beverage Station - Little Grey Cells - Gold Bolus (2025) https://thebeveragestation.bandcamp.com/album/little-grey-cells    String Thing - Felicity Mangan - String Figures - Elevator Bath (August 2025, pre-release) https://felicitymangan.bandcamp.com/album/string-figures

    1h 59m

  4. JUN 10

    6-7-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - I Heart Noise Fest 2025

    Greetings! Just back from Providence, Rhode Island where I experienced the I Heart Noise Fest 2025 in all it's noisy ambient, drone, experimental, rocked out, spacey glory. Today's program will serve to present the featured artists in the order they played that evening. Kudos to Ilya S. who put the whole thing together! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social  PTE Podbean Page: https://envelope.podbean.com/    6-7-25 PTE Playlist: I Heart Noise Festival 2025   In The Black / The Unknown Rabbit - Petridisch - A Fixed Point (Remastered) - self-release (2021) https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/a-fixed-point-remastered    Extrait - Petridisch - Extrait -  Mahorka / Fish Prints (2023) https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/extrait    Killer B - Skyjelly - Spirit Guide - I Heart Noise (2024) https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/skyjelly-spirit-guide-deluxe-edition    Acosta - Skyjelly - Blank Panthers - self-release (2016) https://skyjelly.bandcamp.com/album/blank-panthers    L'Chaim Part 1 - Shalom Aleichem / L'Chaim Part 2 - Yismechu - Solilians - Shin - digital release (2016) https://solilians.bandcamp.com/album/shin    Noshville / Shema - Solilians - Klezmische Deluxe - Bring Them Home Now - I Heart Noise (2024) https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/klezmische-deluxe-bring-them-home-now    Gravity Drains - Samara Lubelski - Bill Nace Duo - 43/80 - Three Lobed Recordings (2024) https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/43-80    Godzilla of Snow - Windy & Carl -  Godzilla Of Snow / Witch & A Cauldron - self-release (2016) https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/godzilla-of-snow-witch-a-cauldron    Crossing Over - Windy & Carl - Allegiance and Conviction - Kranky (2020) https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/allegiance-and-conviction    Consciousness / The Sun - Windy & Carl - Consciousness - Kranky (2001) https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/consciousness

    1h 59m

  5. MAY 27

    5-24-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! Today's program is a bit of a world tour, starting in Shropshire, UK, then moving along to distant climes including Princeton, New Jersey, Hamburg, Germany, Norway &  Quebec, Canada. Good luck with your passports!   Listen & Enjoy! https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2hs7g-18adbc6  Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social      5-24-25 PTE Playlist   Ronsack - Swansither - Ronsack - Subexotic Records (2025) https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/ronsack    Just More Idle Chatter - Paul Lansky - Inner Voices: Music from the Winham Laboratory at Princeton University - Centaur (1990) https://centaurrecords.com/    Wasting - Brad Garton, Paul Lansky, Andrew Milburn / Text-Reading: Richard Kostelanetz - Inner Voices: Music from the Winham Laboratory at Princeton University - Centaur (1990) https://centaurrecords.com/    C'ant See The Rebel -  R. Schappert - C'ant see the Rebel - r-ecords (2025) https://rolandschappert.bandcamp.com/album/c-ant-see-the-rebel    Moth Molecules - Kristine Tjøgersen, Cikada Ensemble - Night Lives - Aurora Records (2025) https://www.aurorarecords.no/en/nightlives    1.4 MS Stubnitz ⁞ Hamburg ⁞ 25.04.2024 - David Wallraf - Amnesia - self-release (2025) https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/album/amnesia    Amrita Flux - Sacred System - Asana 2: moving meditation - Meta Records (2000) https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/asana-2    Quickening & Enlivening - composers: Matthew Evan Taylor; Rajna Swaminathan; Ganavya Doraiswamy; Utsav Lal; RAJAS; Metropolis Ensemble / ensemble: Rajna Swaminathan; Utsav Lal; Matthew Evan Taylor; Ganavya; RAJAS; Metropolis Ensemble | Andrew Cyr, conductor / Life Returns - Navona Records (2025)  https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6735    Life Returns! - composers: Matthew Evan Taylor; Rajna Swaminathan; Ganavya Doraiswamy; Dave Adewumi; Mark Dover / ensemble: Matthew Evan Taylor; Rajna Swaminathan; Ganavya; RAJAS, Metropolis Ensemble | Andrew Cyr, conductor; RAJAS / Life Returns - Navona Records (2025) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6735    Elle qui est-elle - Joane Hétu - Elle a sont mot à dire - AMBIANCES MAGNÉTIQUES (2025) https://ambiancesmagnetiques.com/    Edge of Town - Held By Trees - Hinterland - Tweed Jacket Music (2025) https://heldbytrees.bandcamp.com/album/hinterland     McLaughlin - EZRA - Froggy's Demise - Adhyâropa Records (2025) https://ezraquartet.bandcamp.com/album/froggys-demise    Sister Andrea - Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity: Mahavishnu Orchestra Live - Columbia (1973)

    1h 59m

  6. MAY 22

    5-10-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! Today's program starts with tracks from my latest Bandcamp Friday haul, wanders around a bit and towards the end celebrates the 50th birthday of the Tangerine Dream classic, "Phaedra". Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    5-10-25 PTE Playlist   Fading Light on Wonderview — In Memoriam David Lynch - Robert Scott Thompson - We Live Within A Dream : Tributes to David Lynch (compilation) - Aural Films (2025) https://auralfilms1.bandcamp.com/album/we-live-within-a-dream-tributes-to-david-lynch   The Petridisch Tapes (Unbroken) - Petridisch - The Petridisch Tapes - self-release (2021) https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/the-petridisch-tapes    Luminiferous Aether 6 - Jeff Carey - Luminiferous Aether - digital release (2025) https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/album/luminiferous-aether    Close To You - John Hollenbeck - Songs We Like A Lot -  Flexatonic Records (2020) https://johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com/album/songs-we-like-a-lot    No-One In The World - W.F.O. - Excursions In Ambience: the second orbit - Astralwerks (1993)    Adfala (excerpt) - The Owl - Welcome to Owlripper - Owlripper Recordings (2021) https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-owlripper    The Retreat - Owen Underhill & Quatuor Bozzini - Songs & Quartets - Collection QB (2025) https://quatuorbozzini.ca/    Lament - Jeannine Wagar - Into The Night - Neuma Records (2025) https://jeanninewagar.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-night    II / I - Eduardo Elia - Desvíos - 577 Records (June 2025 pre-release) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/desv-os    Phaedra - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra - Virgin (1974) https://www.tangerinedreammusic.com/    All That is the Case - Natural Artefacts - Signs & Symbols -  LJ Records (2024)   www.lj-records.se

    1h 59m

  7. MAY 16

    5-3-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! This week's program is best described as a veritable potpourri! Music that's brand new, fairly new (within the past year or so), new to my library following a recent visit to the Princeton Record Exchange (heaven on earth) and a couple of older things from the archive. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social      5-3-25 PTE Playlist   handsinmyhead (an intoxication in three parts) - GREETINGS - A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland: Electro-Acoustic Music From The Island of Ireland - Heresy Records (2018) https://heresyrecords.com/a-map-of-the-kingdom-of-ireland-artists/#greetings    Phoenix - vocal ensemble: The Electric Phoenix / composer: Gerald Shapiro - Neuma: Electro Acoustic Music II - Neuma Records (1991) https://neumarecords.org/home/ols/products/electro-acoustic-music-ii    Harmonic Rain - Morgan Szymanski / Tommy Perman - Harmonic Rain  - Blackford Hill digital single (July 2025 pre-release) https://tommyperman.bandcamp.com/music    Fragile Fantasy #4 (Thunder_Cookies_Remix) - Ran Slavin - Thunder Cookies (Fragile Revisions) - Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings (2025) https://ranslavin.bandcamp.com/album/thunder-cookies-fragile-revisions    busy ready what, corroborators - Rashad Becker - The Incident - Clunk (2025) https://rashadbecker.bandcamp.com/album/the-incident    Hope For Enlightenment - Lama Gyurme & Jean-Philippe Rykiel - The Lama's Chant: Songs of Awakening - Sony Classical (1994)    Vocalise on "In A Silent Way" - The Bowed Piano Ensemble - Ice & Fire - Navona Records (2013) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv5937/    Les Premières Bandes 6 - Ilya P.  (aka Ludovic Medery) - Tensoplast - Falt (2020) https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/tensoplast    Don't Glitsh On My Cascade - Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace - Superpang (2021) https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/album/embrace    Angel of Sunlight - Carlos Santana / Reconstruction & Mix Translation: Bill Laswell - Divine Light: Music from Illuminations & Love Devotion Surrender - Columbia/Legacy (2001)    Cycles - Duo AYA: Rachel Woolf - flute / Makana Jimbu - marimba / composer: Evan Williams - Cycles - Neuma Records (2025) https://duoaya.bandcamp.com/album/cycles    Dystopian Devil - Thebot - Ne Plus Ultra Soundtrack - Moolakii Club Audio Interface (2024) https://moolakiiclubaudiointerface.bandcamp.com/album/ne-plus-ultra-soundtrack    We're Cosmic - Oceanographer - 14 Years / 100 Releases Compilation - Ingrown Records (2025) https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/14-years-100-releases-compilation    Treasure of Stars - Dirk Serries - Treasure Of Stars (Streams Of Consciousness) - Projekt Records (2025) https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-of-stars-streams-of-consciousness

    1h 59m

  8. MAY 10

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

    Greetings! To sum things up, "So Much Music, So Little Time!" Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social  Podbean: https://envelope.podbean.com/    4-26-25 PTE Playlist   Empty A / Earth To T / On My Rock / In Their Rockpool - Tara Cunningham - Two, Three - Falt (2025) https://taracunningham.bandcamp.com/album/two-three   Sitting on a Stone Wall With Typewriter - Ryan Hooper - Studies Made On A Typewriter - self-release (2025) https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/studies-made-on-a-typewriter    Warp & Weft - Edward Givens - Idyll - digital release (2024) https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/idyll     Dorsal Streaming - David Lee Myers - Ether Music - Starkland (2017) https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/david-lee-myers-ether-music    Humbucker Music No. 1 - Nick Storring, ferromagnetic instruments and objects - Humbucker Music - Falt (2025) https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/humbucker-music    Whiles Cubes In A Drop Or Pellets Of Shape Fit - Sentimental Maneuvers - Delightfully Deceitful - circum-disc (2025) https://www.circum-disc.com/pr-manoeuvres-sentimentales-delightfully-deceitful/?ppwp=1    Train To Nowhere - John Oliver - Guitar Paint - John Oliver Music (2025) https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-paint    Louise - Fletina - Louise - Fletina Music (2025) https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/louise   Wepan - Jasper String Quartet & Natalie Zhu, piano / composer: Tina Davidson - Barefoot - New Focus Recordings (2024) https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/barefoot    A Dirge For Zuhal - The Black Cube - Skinbag - digital release (2025) https://theblackcube.bandcamp.com/album/skinbag

    1h 57m
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