Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

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  1. 1D AGO

    2-7-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - PIANO!

    Greetings! Sports-truncated show.  Pianos! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky / Twitter: @envpusher1     1-10-26 PTE Playlist   All The Things You Are - Bill Evans - The Solo Sessions: Volume 2 - Milestone (1963/1992) https://billevansofficial.com/    Dispatch From The Interzone - Joseph Benzola - Amanita Music single (2026) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/dispatch-from-the-interzone    Poivrottes (x3 pianos) - Euan Dalgarno - Poivrottes (x3 pianos) - self-released single (2025) https://euandalgarno.bandcamp.com/track/poivrottes-x3-pianos    MODUL 13 - Nik Bärtsch - Hishiryo (Piano Solo) - Ronin Rhythm Records (2002) https://nikbaertsch.bandcamp.com/album/hishiryo-piano-solo    Piano Study #5 (for just Fender Rhodes) - piano: Andrew C. Smith / composer: Larry Polansky - Indexical (2017) https://indexical.bandcamp.com/album/larry-polansky-piano-study-5   Symbi Oasis - Thollem McDonas - Infinite-Sum Game - ESP-Disk (2024) https://thollem-esp.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-sum-game    Metamorphosis Nos. 3 & 5 - piano: Bruce Brubaker / composer: Philip Glass - Glass Cage - Arabesque Records https://arabesquerecords.com/z6744-glass-cage/

    59 min

  2. FEB 15

    1-3-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

    Greetings! Only the first half of this show was aired due to a sports pre-emption, but here's the whole thing in it's glorious completeness! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky:    1-3-26 PTE Playlist   Parallels for tuned triangles, hi-hats & 4-channel 1-bit electronics / percussion: Meehan/Perkins Duo, composer/electronics/programming: Tristan Perich - Parallels - Physical Editions (2015)  https://tristanperich.bandcamp.com/album/parallels    Under Dali's Wing / These Castle Children - The Muffins - - Cuneiform Records (1996) https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/185    Dancer Portraits Nos. 1-6 - Andrew Staniland - The Laws of Nature - Leaf Music (2025) https://andrewstaniland.bandcamp.com/album/the-laws-of-nature    In The Name(less) for Quadrachord and Marimba Lumina - Paul Dresher - Cage Machine - New Albion (2004) http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-paul-dresher-cage-machine-na125cd    He Loved Him Madly - Miles Davis / Bill Laswell, mix translation - Panthalassa - The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974 - Columbia (1998) https://www.soundonsound.com/people/bill-laswell-re-shaping-music-miles-davis

    1h 59m

  3. JAN 4

    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

    1h 59m

  4. 12/22/2025

    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

    1h 59m

  5. 12/20/2025

    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

    1h 59m

  6. 12/11/2025

    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

    1h 59m

  7. 11/19/2025

    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

    1h 59m

  8. 11/19/2025

    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)

    1h 59m
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