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)

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

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

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

Greetings!

This week's program included primarily new music with a smattering of newly accquired music.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

4-19-25 PTE Playlist

• They Went Away / Un Message - Tremosphere - saturated solace - Slugg Records (May 2025 pre-release)
• https://tremosphere.bandcamp.com/album/saturated-solace

• A Freedom Worth Dying For - Spite Cathedral - Unforgiven Thoughts - Sound+Matter (2025)
• https://spitecathedral.bandcamp.com/album/unforgiven-thoughts

• Over These Dark Ages - Trem 77 - Blacklight Sunset - Grape Mod Records (May 2025 digital pre-release)
• https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/blacklight-sunset

• Shimo (Avec Duty Free) - Tommy Crane's Dance Music for All Occasions - Reality Curated: Live at Ursa - Elastic Recordings (2025)
• https://tommycrane.bandcamp.com/album/reality-curated-live-at-ursa-elastic-recordings

• Three Wars - stef.in - Icterus II - Barnyard Records (2025)
• https://stefin.bandcamp.com/album/icterus-ii

• Cities - How Much - Washing the Clothes Go Round (compilation) - Fish Prints (2025)
• https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/washing-the-clothes-go-round

• transᅲ - Andreas Lutz - Aura Trans - Kasuga (2025)
• https://andreaslutz.bandcamp.com/album/aura-trans

• Send A Message From The Heart - Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory - InsideOut Music (2008)
• https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/whos-the-boss-in-the-factory

• SPQR - John Teves - The Vast Ocean of Being - self-release (2025)
• https://johnteves.bandcamp.com/album/the-vast-ocean-of-being

• Age of Lies (Digital Life Suite, pt. 5)/ AI Masters (Fall of Man) (Digital Life Suite, pt. 6) - Digital Life Project - self-release (2025)
• https://digitallifeproject.com/

• caves - pathetique - Turbulence - digital release (2025)
• https://pathetique.bandcamp.com/album/turbulence

• After Beethoven - Christopher DeLaurenti - Favorite Intermissions - GD Stereo (2006)
• https://gdstereo.com/recordings/gd019-favorite-intermissions-christopher-delaurenti

Greetings!

By the time I post this, I will have returned from Cruise To The Edge 2025. Some of my favorite performances included Karmakanic, Thank You, Scientist, The Aristocrats, Steve Hackett (playing a few of his own tunes, a chunk of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway & other Genesis favorites), Riverside, Big Big Train & Robert Fripp/David Singleton in conversation. Great Fun!!

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

3-29-25 PTE Playlist - Cruise To The Edge 2025

• Soul Diver - Thank You, Scientist - Plague Accommodations - Flying Jangus Records (2021)
• https://thankyouscientist.bandcamp.com/album/plague-accommodations

• Paintbox - Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture - Toff Records (1996)
• https://www.pendragon.mu/discography/the-masquerade-overture/

• Daddy Long Legs - Trifecta - The New Normal - Kscope (2024)
• https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-normal

• Hey, Where's My Drink Package? - The Aristocrats - Duck - BOING! Music (2024)
• https://the-aristocrats-band.bandcamp.com/album/duck

• Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett - Live Archive Nearfest - Camino Records (2003)
• https://www.hackettsongs.com

• Dream The Dead - Caligula's Horse - Caligula's Horse on Audiotree Live - Audiotree (2024)
• https://audiotree.bandcamp.com/album/caligulas-horse-on-audiotree-live

• Catherine Howard - Rick Wakeman - Yes & Friends (compilation) - Snapper Music (2003)
• https://www.rwcc.com/

• Burning Match - Marbin - Breaking The Cycle - Moonjune Records (2011)
• https://marbinmusic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-the-cycle

• Miramare - Big Big Train - The Likes of Us - InsideOut Music (2024)
• https://bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/album/the-likes-of-us-24-bit-hd-audio

• Duchess Desire - Kyros - Fear & Love (EP) - digital release (2024)
• https://kyrosmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fear-love

• Mothallah - TEMIC - Terror Management Theory - Season of Mist (2023)
• https://temic.bandcamp.com/album/terror-management-theory

• Guiding Light - IQ - The Seventh House - Giant Electric Pea (2000)
• https://iq-gep.bandcamp.com/album/the-seventh-house

• Molok Rising - Gazpacho - Molok - Kscope (2015)
• https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/molok

• Valles Marinares - Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet - Madfish (2020)
• https://www.rwcc.com/

Greetings!

New Petridisch, new Tremosphere, new Robert Scott Thompson, other new things, slightly older stuff, then a tangent focused on the work of Ricky Ian Gordan and Adam Guettel. (Oh, did I ever tell you I once co-hosted a show themed around musical theater & related goodies?)

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

3-22-25 PTE Playlist

• They Went Away - Tremosphere - saturated solace - Slugg Records (May 2025 pre-release)
• https://tremosphere.bandcamp.com/album/saturated-solace

• This Earthly Round (REDUX) - Stephen Page, saxophone / Alexandre Maynegre-Torra, piano / Australian composer: Miriama Young - Earthly Round - Navona Records (2025)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6707/

• Our Again S - Petridisch - Apéritifs - fourth world (2025)
• https://fourthworld.bandcamp.com/album/ap-ritifs

• The Universe Spins on a Vector of Silence - Robert Scott Thompson - In Slow Ascent - Aucourant Records (2025)
• https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/in-slow-ascent

• Jaunpuri - Sophia Subbayya Vastek: just intonation piano / Nitin Mitta: tabla / Michael Harrison tanpura & composer - Histories - Innova (2017)
• https://innova.mu/album/histories/

• Janet Underneath The Roses - Ricky Ian Gordon - A Horse With Wings - Blue Griffin Records (2010)
• https://rickyiangordon.com/

• Once I Was - voice: Theresa McCarthy / piano - composer: Ricky Ian Gordon - Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon - Nonesuch (2001)
• https://rickyiangordon.com/

• Contemporary - voice: Adam Guettel / poem: W.S. Merwin - music: Ricky Ian Gordon - Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon - Nonesuch (2001)
• https://rickyiangordon.com/

• Saturn Returns - vocal/composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Nonesuch (2001)
• https://www.adamguettel.com/

• Pegasus - vocals: Billy Porter / Lynette DuPre / Audra McDonald / composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Nonesuch (2002)
• https://www.adamguettel.com/

• Come To Jesus - guitar: Garrett Gleason / composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Big Round Records (2023)
• https://www.bigroundrecords.com/catalog/BR8984/

• Prisms for Gene Davis - ensemble: Nata Swara / composer: Brian Baumbusch - Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet - New World Records (2023)
• https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/brian-baumbusch-chemistry-for-gamelan-and-string-quartet

• Duck Blind - Paul Dresher Ensemble w/ Rinde Eckert - Slow Fire - Minmax Music (1992)
• https://minmax.bandcamp.com/album/slow-fire

• Weeping Monolith - Gelbart - Liquids & Flesh - Egglike Records (April 2025)
• https://gelbart.bandcamp.com/album/liquids-flesh

• Hidden No More - Kekal - Quantum Resolution - digital release (2020)
• https://kekal.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-resolution

• March - feinstruktur - 2025 - digital release (2025)
• https://feinstruktur.bandcamp.com/album/2025

Greetings!

Many new things, then, a digression in Phase 2 focused on the influence of gamelan in Western music.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

3-15-25 PTE Playlist

• G's Sabbath - Double Bass: Roberto Cassani / Guitar: Graeme Stephen - Pictish Spaghetti - 577 Records (2025)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/pictish-spaghetti

• Lands End - composer: Luciano Chessa / piano: Claudio Sanna - Lands End - Col Legno (2025)
• https://col-legno.com/de/shop/15030-lands-end

• Pillows - electronics: Simon Grab / drums: David Meier - Porœs - OUS (2025)
• https://simongrab.bandcamp.com/album/por-s

• Strawberry Festival In Louisiana - Stereo Minus One - Dead Petals At The Other - Machine Records (2025)
• https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/dead-petals-at-the-other

• After The Flood - Jeff Greinke - Late Rain - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-rain

• Testing Area - Thomas Poken - digital single (2025)
• https://thomaspoken.bandcamp.com/album/testing-area

• Universe Emerging (10 minute) - Gallanitte - Universe Emerging - digital release (2025)
• https://gallanitte.bandcamp.com/album/universe-emerging

• Intro / Farfisa for Polly Peachum / Sure As Me - Petridisch - Horse Sense: Live at DUALITYFEST - self-release (2023)
• https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/horse-sense-live-at-dualityfest

• Parlando I/II/III - percussion: Christopher Clarino / composer: Igor Santos - Parlando - Neuma Records (2025)
• https://christopherclarino.bandcamp.com/album/parlando

• Estampes 1: Pagode - piano: Aldo Ciccolini / composer: Claude Debussy - L'Œuvre Pour Piano, Vol. I - EMI (1992)
• https://symposium.music.org/52/item/22-claude-debussys-gamelan.html

• "The Joy of the Blood of the Stars" from Turangalila Symphony - Orchestre De L'Opéra Bastille, cond. Myung-Whun Chung / composer: Olivier Messiaen - Mystic (The Musical Visions Of Olivier Messiaen) - Deutsche Grammaphon (1996)
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olivier-Messiaen#ref54011

• Sleeping Braid - Gamelan Son of Lion / composer: Barbara Benary - The Complete Gamelan in the New World - Locust Music (2004)
• https://www.soundohm.com/product/the-complete-gamelan-in-t

• Lamentation & Fantasia Gamelantronique - Discus - 1st - Mellow (1999)
• https://mellowlabelproductions.bandcamp.com/album/1st

• Poem for Bali - Wendy Carlos - Beauty In The Beast - Audion (1986)
• https://www.wendycarlos.com/+bitb.html