Greetings!

So, during my recent jaunt to Europe, I found a killer used CD/vinyl store in Budapest and was tempted to dispose of my clothes and just fill my suitcase up with CDs. The track from George Harrison's "Electronic Sound" is a sampling from the stack I did procure, with other items likely to show up in the coming weeks.

I'm also happy to highlight electric guitarist Garrett Gleason's "Myths & Hymns", incredibly imaginative take on Adam Guettel's beautiful song cyle.

Enjoy!

Joel

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11-16-24 PTE Playlist

• Question Song (feat. Madeleine Ertel/trumpet) / Aplomb (feat. Chris Donnelly/piano) - Dan Fortin - Cannon - Elastic Recordings (2024)
• https://danfortin.bandcamp.com/album/cannon-elastic-recordings

• Saturn Returns/Icarus - Adam Guettel - Hymns & Myths - Nonesuch (1999)
• https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/myths-and-hymns

• Saturn Returns/Icarus - Garrett Gleason - Myths & Hymns - Big Round Records (2023)
• https://www.bigroundrecords.com/catalog/br8984

• Ohm Shanti - Bill Laswell (bass, percussion, keyboards, sounds) - Asana 4: Ohm Shanti - Meta Records (2006)
• https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/asana-4-ohm-shanti

• Dawn Chorus (in memory of Terry Boblet) - Dubious Candy - Women Take Back The Drone (compilation) - digital release (2022)
• https://womentakebackthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/various-women-take-back-the-drone

• Сенке Праскозорја (Shadows of the Breaking Dawn) - Depression Embrace - Comp25: Sampler1 - Owlripper Records (2023)
• https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp25-sampler1-on001-050

• Soundpieces from Scratch (for solo clarinet, 12 pre-recorded clarinets, synthesizer) - Gary Dranch, clarinet; Frank McCarty, pre-recorded clarinet; Gary Mitro, live sound engineer / composer: Frank McCarty - The Dawn of the Bicameral Clarinetist (An Anthology of American Solo Clarinet Works from 1968-1979) - Navona Records (2024)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6693/

• Under The Mersey Wall - George Harrison - Electronic Sound - Zapple (1969)
• https://www.georgeharrison.com/releases/electric-sound/

• Adancime ("depth") - Thy Veils - Live at Garana Jazz Festival - digital release (2024)
• https://thyveils.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-garana-jazz-festival

Greetings!

Well, I'm off on vacation and between work and packing, not a lot of time to assemble the varied type of program you've grown to know and love. That being said, in lieu of playing another re-run, I've chosen a pair of fascinating long-form works from Markus Reuter & Kate Soper.

Enjoy!

Joel

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11-2-24 PTE Playlist

• String Quartet No. 1 'Heartland' - Matangi Quartet / composer: Markus Reuter - Solaire Records (2019)
• https://iapetus.bandcamp.com/album/string-quartet-no-1-heartland

• Twelfth Dance / Fifth Dance - Edward Givens - Memento Mori, Memento Vivere: 16 Dances - digital release (2024)
• https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/memento-mori-memento-vivere-16-dances

• The Hunt: opera in one act (2023) - book & music: Kate Soper / voice & violin: Hirona Amamiya / voice & ukelele: Christiana Cole / voice & ukelele: Brett Umlauf - The Hunt - New Focus Recordings (2024)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-hunt

• Eyelid Movie - Trem77 - Eyelid Movie EP - Grape Mod Records (2024)
• https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/eyelid-movie-ep

Greetings!

This is the first in a pair of programs that will feature extended pieces, primarily because I am preparing, then will be travelling to Europe and felt this would be a good opportunity to present some longer compositions together a smattering of other interesting items.

Enjoy!

Joel

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10-26-24 PTE Playlist

• The Forest of Old-Timey Plagues - Takamaa - Brothers, Sisters​.​.​. It was just the Wind​.​.​. - digital release (2024)
• https://takamaa.bandcamp.com/album/brothers-sisters-it-was-just-the-wind

• Ghost Geography (for solo piano & e-bow drone) - piano: Wesley Shen / composer: Emilie Cecilia LeBel - landscapes of memory - Redshift Music (2024)
• https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/landscapes-of-memory

• Monochromatic Bloodstains - Morbid Beauty's remix of "The Grey Area" by Envelope Muse - Mis-Conception-S (ReWorked 2008-2023) - Owlripper Records (2024)
• https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/on076-envelope-muse-remixed

• untitled 2 (perturbance) - How Much - 083024​.​vacantdreams - Fish Prints (2024)
• https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-2-perturbance

• K.A. (Kohntarkosz Anteria) - Magma - K.A. - Seventh Records (2004)
• https://seventhrecordsmagma.bandcamp.com/album/k-a-k-hntark-sz-anteria

• Forty Reasons - Chad Wackerman - Forty Reasons - CMP (1991)
• https://www.silvascreenusa.com/forty-reasons-the-view-chad-wackerman

Greetings!

Welcome to the UCONN sports truncated edition of PTE! It's quite amazing how much great music you can squeeze into 59 minutes and 30 seconds!

Enjoy!

Joel

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10-19-24 PTE Playlist

• Triton - John Oliver, electronics / Douglas Schmidt, Bandoneon - Doug and John Live at Eternal Equinox - John Oliver Music (2024) (a subscriber exclusive release)
• https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/

• Music for Three Vibraphones - Patrick O'Hearn - Slow Time - self-release (2005)
• https://www.patrickohearn.com/

• false chime - tttc - milky smell armpits - Fruit Exports (2024)
• https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/milky-smell-armpits

• Gumboot Time - Stefan Smulovitz — Bow & Brush: 12 Scores of Nadina Tandy - Redshift Records (November 2024 pre-release)
• https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/

• Crossroads - The Noonan Trio - Inherit a Memory - Neuma Records (2024)
• https://brewedbynoon.bandcamp.com/album/inherit-a-memory

• Survival - Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release - Sundazed Music / Modern Harmonic (1979/2021)
• https://annettepeacock.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfect-release

• Peking O - Can - Tago Mago - Mute/Spoon (1971)
• https://www.spoonrecords.com/

Greetings!

Some new things from the folks at Neuma Records & Projekt Records morphs into a bunch of used goodies I found in a store in Ellicott City, MD. Someone was getting rid of their collection of prog and prog-metal, so I scarfed up a handful of Spock's Beard releases along with most of what comprises Phase Two.

Enjoy!

Joel

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10-12-24 PTE Playlist

• Fantasía Flamenca - Elisabet Curbelo - Resonance Unbound - Neuma Records (2024)
• https://elisabetcurbelo.bandcamp.com/album/resonance-unbound

• Little Otto's Laboratory - David Merrill - Golden Oranges of Mars - Neuma Records (2024)
• https://davidmerrill.bandcamp.com/album/golden-oranges-of-mars

• One Day - Steve Roach - One Day of Forever - Projekt Records (2024)
• https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-of-forever

• The Passage - black tape for a blue girl - As one aflame laid bare by desire (2024 remaster) - Projekt (1999/2024)
• https://blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/album/as-one-aflame-laid-bare-by-desire-2024-remaster

• Miin Triuwa (I Am True) - Under The Surface - Miin Triuwa - Jazz In Motion Records (2022)
• https://triounderthesurface.com/

• Argento's Glove - Pope John Paul Van Damme (AKA Cardiff's Tom Wallace) - DisInfamy - Machine Records (2024)
• https://popejohnpaulvandamme.bandcamp.com/album/disinfamy

• Wherever You Stand - Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard - InsideOut Music (2006)
• https://www.spocksbeard.com/discography/spocksbeard/

• Joint Ventures - Anders Johansson (drums) / Jens Johansson (keyboards / Allan Holdsworth (guitar) - Heavy Machinery - Shrapnel Records (1997)

• Empire - The Winery Dogs - Hot Streak - Loud & Proud Records (2015)
• http://www.thewinerydogs.com/

• My New World - Transatlantic - Live In America - Inside Out Music (2001)
• https://www.transatlanticweb.com/discography.php?p=talivecd

• Even Less - Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream - KScope (1999)
• https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/stupid-dream-remastered

• Estonia - Marillion - This Strange Engine - Eaglerock Entertainment (1997)
• https://www.marillion.com/

• A Threefold Curse - David Wallraf - نه (no) - Brachliegen Tapes ☽ (2024 pre-release)
• https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com/album/no

Greetings!

Progressive rock, music recorded in reverberent spaces and other assorted bric a brac... a brief summary of this week's program.

Enjoy!

Joel

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10-5-24 PTE Playlist

• The Equilibrium of Time - Leon Alvarado - The Changing Tide - Melodic Revolution Records (2024)
• https://leonalvarado.bandcamp.com/album/the-changing-tide

• Counties & Countries - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True - Frontiers Music Srl (2024)
• https://www.frontiers.it/artist/2200

• Bowie / Meta Indefinita - Focus - Focus 12 - Spirit Of Unicorn Music (2024)
• https://focustheband.co.uk/

• Destined To Fly - Marcus Nand - The Traveler - Cleopatra Records (2024)
• https://marcusnand.bandcamp.com/album/the-traveler

• Coda - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Coda - WeWantSounds (1983/2024)
• https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ryuichi-sakamoto-coda-lp-black-2p-insert-and-obi-strip

• Expansions - Curved Air - The Rarities Series - Spirit of Unicorn Music (2024)
• https://www.curvedair.com/discography/albums/curved-space-digital-and-digital-infinity/

• Melanie - The Hayley Griffiths Band - Melanie - Posh & Rock (2023)
• https://www.hayleygriffiths.com/

• For Alvira, Part I - voice: Paul J. Bothelho / trumpet: Jeff Kaiser - Dome - Technophony (2024)
• https://jeffkaiser.com/music/projects/dome-jeff-kaiser-and-paul-j-botelho/

• A Tension Span - Switch Ensemble / composer: J.P.A. Falzone - A Curving Abacus - New World Records (2024)
• https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/recent-release-3/products/j-p-a-falzone-a-curving-abacus

• running song - Đăng Khoa -an atom's den (plus) - Fruit Exports (2024)
• https://trangtraitraicay.bandcamp.com/album/an-atoms-den-plus

• For The Birds (From The Birds) - Jim Cole & Spectral Voices (Alan Dow & Sharen Baker) - Sky - Spectral Spiral Music (2000)
• https://spectralvoices.com/jim-cole-spectral-voices/

Greetings!

PTE closes out the month of September by celebrating National Piano Month with a taste of numerous musical genres featuring the instrument that Andrés Segovia described as, " a monster that screams when you touch its teeth" or as author Maria Cristina noted, “The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.”

That being said, I'm particularly fond of Thelonius Monk's observation, “The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.”

Enjoy!

Joel

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9-28-24 PTE Playlist: Celebrating National Piano Month

• Battle for Britain / Loneliest Guy / Disco King - Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations for Piano - Reference Recordings (2011)
• https://referencerecordings.com/recording/the-bowie-variations-garson/

• Book Four: Twelfth Station / Thirteenth Station / Fourteenth Station - composer: Ian Wilson / piano: Matthew Schellhorn - Stations - Diatribe Recordings (2017)
• https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/stations

• Sewing In Thin Air - composer: Yi-Ting Lu / piano: Lam Wong - An Unopened Seashell - New Focus Recordings (2024)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/an-unopened-seashell

• Concierto De Aranjuez/Spain - Chick Corea / Hiromi - Duet - Stretch Records (2008)
• https://chickcorea.com/discography/duet-2/

• That Day (2020) - In Memory of George Floyd - piano: Clipper Erickson / composer: Laurie Altman - From Somewhere - Navona Records (2024)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6635/

• Etudes No. 1 & 3 - Petridisch - Piano Etudes - digital release (2022)
• https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/piano-etudes

• Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind (2013) - piano: Kathleen Supové / composer - electronics: Annie Gosfield - The Debussy Effect - New Focus Recordings (2016)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-debussy-effect

• N + R (Love Is Friends) - Cecil Taylor - Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! - MPS (1981)

• Wichita Sutra Vortex - piano/composer: Philip Glass - Solo Piano - CBS Records (1989)
• https://philipglass.com/

• Portraits of the Dead: Billy Strayhorn - Joseph Benzola - Portraits of the Dead Complete: 1995​-​2022 - Amanita Music (2022)
• https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/portraits-of-the-dead-complete-1995-2022

• What Next? - Joel Krutt - What Next? - self-release (2003)
• https://soundcloud.com/joelkru/sets/what-next

• Incantatie IV: Sections 78-120 - The Piano Ensemble (Irene Russo, Fred Oldenberg, Sandra & Jeroen van Veen) / composer: Simeon Ten Holt - Complete Multiple Piano Works - Brilliant Classics (2005)
• https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/t/ten-holt-complete-multiple-piano-works/

Greetings!

Quite a bit of international representation on today's program; from Japan (Norio Maeda) to Viet Nam (Keith Beber & Mai Giang Trần), from Brooklyn (Devin Gray) to a plethora of Canadian artists (India Gailey, Eldritch Priest & Kamra).

Enjoy!

Joel

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9-21-24 PTE Playlist

• Mountainweeps: I. glacial light fluttering in the wind / II. naked of an ancient watery sheath / III. leaking fauna and stones - India Gailey: composer/solo cello - Butterfly Lightning Shakes the Earth - Redshift Music (October 2024 pre-release)
• https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-lightning-shakes-the-earth

• Tsugaru Jongara Bushi - Norio Maeda & All Stars - Rock Communication Yagibushi - Wewantsounds (1970/2024)
• https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/norio-maeda-rock-communication-yagibushi-cd-edition-with-8p-booklet

• Uncle Meat / King Kong (Medley) - Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Beat The Boots I: 2. The Ark - FOO-EEE Records (1968/1991)
• https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/beat-boots-i-2-ark/#/

• Official Fascimile - Neverending Audit - High Notes - Ingrown Records (2024)
• https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/high-notes

• Lugosi - Monster of East Felton - Gasp - Monster of East Felton Records (2024)
• https://monsterofeastfelton.bandcamp.com/album/gasp

• Iris - guitar: Eldritch Priest / composer: Wayne Shorter - Dormitive Virtue - Halocline Trance (October 2024 pre-release)
• https://eldritchpriest.bandcamp.com/album/dormitive-virtue

• Trosper - Bill Frisell - Trosper - Fantagraphics Books (2001)

• Raveen - Keith Beber & Mai Giang Trần - Kara EP - Fruit Exports (2024)
• https://keithbeber.bandcamp.com/album/kara-ep

• Fuego - Eva Navoa (Fender Rhodes) w/ Daniel Carter (wind instruments) & Francisco Mela (drums) - Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (2024)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-carter-mela-trio-vol-1

• Melt All The Guns II - Devin Gray feat. Ralph Alessi (trumpet) & Myslaure Augustin (piano) - Melt All The Guns II - Rataplan Records (2024)
• https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/melt-all-the-guns-ii

• An Enormous Aunt - Craig Chin / Barbara Gogan / Max Kutner / Tamara Yadao - An Enormous Aunt - Mother Brain Records (2024)
• https://motherbrainrecordskc.bandcamp.com/album/an-enormous-aunt

• Sun Burns - Kamra - Shift Circuit - People Places Records (2024)
• https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shift-circuit

• Breakable - Graham Fitkin - Veneer - self-release (2016)
• https://fitkin.com/product/veneer/

• Drip Drumming - John Oliver - Rubble Drum - John Oliver Music (2024)
• https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/rubble-drum