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

Greetings!

Among the business to attend to during this week's program, we honor the memory and music of steel guitarist extraordinaire and Baltimore denizen, Susan Alcorn who passed on January 31. I was lucky enough to have seen her perform live at Baltimore's Red Room in 2023.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

3-1-25 PTE Playlist

• Loop II & Solo - Robert Fripp - Houston Hall Philadelphia United States: 2-20-1981 - DGM digital (1981)
• https://www.dgmlive.com/tour-dates/1693

R.I.P. Susan Alcorn

• Brack Water Waltz (ft. Susan Alcorn) - Astroturf Noise (Sam Day Harmet: Mandolin/fx, Sana Nagano: Violin/fx, Zachary Swanson: Bass) - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-freezing

• Thollem / Susan Alcorn 2 - keyboards: Thollem McDonas / pedal steel guitar: Susan Alcorn - Thollem / Susan Alcorn - Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions - digital release (2021)
• https://susanalcorn1.bandcamp.com/album/thollem-susan-alcorn-thollems-astral-traveling-sessions

• Dream Crossed Twilight - Sirius Quartet / composer: Mark Edwards Wilson - Playing On The Edge 3 - Navona Records (2022)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6520

• New November - Simon Jermyn - Obsany - Elastic Recordings (2025)
• https://simonjermyn.bandcamp.com/album/obsany-elastic-recordings

• Time Dilation - Andre LaFosse - Entry Level: An Introduction to Andre LaFosse - 7d Media (2025)
• https://andrelafosse7d.bandcamp.com/album/entry-level-an-introduction-to-andre-lafosse

• Master of Inertia 3 - Peter Wullen - Master of Inertia - digital release (2025)
• https://peterwullen.bandcamp.com/album/master-of-inertia

• mysterious - P.U.M.A. - ITINERE - The Church of Noisy Goat (2025)
• https://thechurchofnoisygoat.bandcamp.com/album/itinere

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

• FIREFLIES for third-bridge acoustic guitar and electronics - Mike Frengel - Music For Guitar & Electronics - Ravona Records (2020)
• https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8035/

• First Chirality - Kevin Kastning / Carl Clements / Soheil Peyghambari - Triple Helix - greydisc (2025)
• https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/triple-helix

• Josephine's Fresh Cuts - Jack O' The Clock - Portraits - digital release (2025)
• https://jackotheclock.bandcamp.com/album/portraits

• Playing The Game - Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory - Capitol Records (1974)
• https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/The_Power_and_the_Glory

• Curious Corn - Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn - Snapper Music (1997)
• https://ozrics.com/discography/curious-corn/

Greetings!

What's New? Most of today's program, that's what. In addition, we remember King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir who recently passed and there's a bit of Sunn 0))) thrown in for good measure.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

2-22-25 PTE Playlist

• Alien Fig Yogurt Incident / origins #5 [pelso mix] - Geiger von Müller - Alien Fig Yogurt Incident (single, A & B sides) - digital release (2024)
• https://geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/alien-fig-yogurt-incident

• Roxa (Purple) I / Terra da Garoa (Land of Drizzle) - Nick Storring - Mirante (Lookout) - We Are Busy Bodies - (March 2025)
• https://nickstorring.bandcamp.com/album/mirante

• The Talking Drum / Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part II (Steven Wilson 2023 Stereo Mixes) - Larks Tongues in Aspic - Larks’ Tongues In Aspic - The Complete Recording Sessions - DGM (2023)
• https://www.dgmlive.com/news/a-tribute-to-jamie-from-bill-bruford

• Impression du dehors - Torche! - 8 NOTIONS OF RELAXATION - Circum-Disc (2025)
• https://circum-disc.bandcamp.com/album/8-notions-de-d-tente

• J'espère être absoute (I hope to be absolved) / Affalée sur le sol (Slumped on the ground) - composer: Nour Symon /words: Roxane Desjardins - je suis calme et enragé•e (I am calm and enraged) - Ambiances Magnétiques (March 2025)
• https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com/album/je-suis-calme-et-enrag-e

• White Out - John Oliver - John Oliver Live at Red Gate - John Oliver Music (2025)
• https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/john-oliver-live-at-red-gate

• Date Night - Jeff Myers - Goodnight - Neuma Records (2025)
• https://jeffmyers.bandcamp.com/album/goodnight-2

• Alice - Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions - Southern Lord (2009)
• https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/monoliths-dimensions

• 4AM - David Walraff - Insomnia - cassette/digital self-release (2025)
• https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/album/insomnia

• VII - IS-CAT - DRONE//AMBIENT - digital release (2024)
• https://is-cat.bandcamp.com/album/drone-ambient

Greetings!

I treated this episode of PTE as if I were filling in required words needed to complete a Mad Libs, a word game that might be categorized as a phrasal template game. In order to create today's playlist, the compositions required the inclusion of an acoustic instrument & a non-instrument such as electronics, tape, digital delay, computer, etc.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

2-8-25 PTE Playlist: - Mad Libs: acoustic instrument & non-instrument

• Kagemusha: for pipa and electronics - Ningxin Zhang - Musicworks #148 - Musicworks (2024)
• https://www.musicworks.ca/winners-2023-musicworks-electronic-music-composition

• Dialogue I for voice and live electronics (2021) - improvisation by Kate Soper & Sam Pluta - The Understanding of All Things - New Focus Recordings (2022)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-understanding-of-all-things

• Toccata for percussion and tape - percussion: Beverley Johnston / composer: Gary Kulesha - Alternate Currents - Centredisques (1992)
• https://beverleyjohnston.com/

• Talkback IV for piano and computer - piano: Kathleen Suppove / composer-electronics: Guy Barash - Eye To Ivory - Starkland (2019)
• https://starkland.org/catalog/st233/

• Coeur d'Orr for clarinet and two-channel tape, sculptor Eric Orr - clarinet: Daniel Goode / tape - composer: Harold Budd - Frog Peak Music (2002)
• https://frogpeak.org/fpartists/fpgoode.html

• Lonesome Dove - a true story, micro-opera for tenor saxophonist, watcher & portable darkness - tenor saxophone: Geoff Landman / watcher: Umber Qureshi / composer: Richard Cameron-Wolfe - Passionate Geometries - New Focus Recordings (2024)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/passionate-geometries

• Another Shore for celesta and digital delay - celesta and digital delay: Philip Schroeder - Cold Blue Two (an original anthology) - Cold Blue Music (2012)
• https://coldbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/cold-blue-two-an-original-anthology

• Heroin arranged by David Lang for cello, voice & electronics - cello: Maya Beiser / composer: Lou Reed - tranceclassical - Innova (2016)
• https://www.innova.mu/albums/maya-beiser/tranceclassical

• Violin Phase (1967) for violin and pre-recorded tape - violin: Shem Guibbory / composer: Steve Reich - From The Kitchen Archives No. 2: Steve Reich & Musicians, Live 1977 - Orange Mountain Music (2005)
• https://stevereich.com/composition/violin-phase/

• Music for Player Piano (and computer) - James Tenney - Selected Works 1961-1969 - New World Records (2003)
• https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/james-tenney/products/james-tenney-selected-works-1961-1969

• Lowland Side (excerpt) - M.C. Schmidt - Batu Malablab Suite for Prepared Piano, Flute and Electronics - digital release (2014)
• https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/batu-malablab-suite-for-prepared-piano-flute-and-electronics

Greetings!

This week is a real hodgepodge of new releases, new acquisitions for me and some older things i dragged out of mothballs both on the shelf and from the hard drive.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social

2-1-25 PTE Playlist

• Insomnio - Jon Nelson & Metalofonico / composer: Jon Nelson - Metalofonico: New Music For Brass & Percussion - New Focus Recordings (2024)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/metalofonico

• There Is No Division - Simon Heartfield - The State of Social Movement - Machine Records (2025 April pre-release)
• https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-state-of-social-movement-2

• Naturall Occuring Brushstrokes - missing scenes - dream or memory? - digital release (2025)
• https://missingscenes.bandcamp.com/album/dream-or-memory

• Lullaby for Piano and Electronics - David Handler - Life Like Violence - Cantaloupe Music (2025 May pre-release)
• https://davidhandler.bandcamp.com/album/life-like-violence

• Track 6 (Your Eyes Are Like A Cup Of Tea (Reprise With Flute)) - The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka - Brian Jones presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka - Point Music / Phillips (1971/1995)
• https://www.joujouka.org/brian-jones-in-morocco-ugly-things-feature-on-the-rolling-stones-guitarists-recordings-in-joujouka/

• Alchemy II: Dreamland - Loop 2.4.3 (Thomas Kozumplik / Lorne Watson) - American Dreamland - Music Starts From Silence (2012)
• https://musicstartsfromsilence.bandcamp.com/album/american-dreamland

• Trance - Bill Frisell / Victor Bruce Godsey / Brian Ales - American Blood - Safety In Numbers - Intuition (1995)

• Soliloquy & Rondo - flute: Lyndsey Goodman / piano: Clare Longendyke / composer: Richard E. Brown - In The Company of Music - Navona Records (2024)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6656

• Variations For Flute And Electronic Sound - Wendy Carlos - Electronic Sound (compilation) - Turnabout (1965)
• https://www.wendycarlos.com/

• Variations sur une Flûte mexicaine [Variations on a Mexican flute] (1949) - Pierre Schaeffer - Œuvres 1948-1952 - NA grm (2023)
• https://pierreschaeffer.bandcamp.com/album/uvres-1948-1952

• Boiled Cadillac - Emily Hay, flute / Wayne Peet, piano / Brad Dutz, percussion - Like Minds - PfMentum (2005)
• https://emilyhay.com/

• Amores Montuños (Mountain Loves) - Duo Zuber: Patricia Zuber, flute / Greg Zuber, marimba / William Susman, composer - Blackbird Redux - belarca records (2018)
• https://belarca.com/releases/blackbird-redux.php

• Lila for flute, bass flute and contrabass flute - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Dai Fujikura - Density 2036: part iii (2015) - Corbett vs. Dempsey (2020)
• https://clairechase.bandcamp.com/album/density-2036-part-iii-2015

• Flute Drone (excerpt) - Mean Flow - Flute Drone - digital release (2016)
• https://meanflow.bandcamp.com/album/flute-drone-2

Greetings!

This week's program has no particular theme, rhyme or reason outside of including some brand new things which reminded me tonally of not so new things which allowed me to fill up Phases One & Two.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1

1-25-25 PTE Playlist

• Perihelion - Forrest Fang - Perihelion - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/perihelion

• Reborn 02 - Marikhi (Sandro Mishelashvili) - Reborn - digital release (2024)
• https://marikhi.bandcamp.com/album/reborn

• Crawl Inside a Bell - Joseph White - (The Game is) Hypnosis - Gold Bolus Recordings (2025)
• https://joewhitenoise.bandcamp.com/album/the-game-is-hypnosis

• ⦁ limbo - Heavy Cloud ⦁ Collins Avenue - Joel Krutt ⦁ Der heilige Kotstein [The holy poop stone] (feat. der vegane Profistuhler / the vegan professional chair maker) - R​ö​tK​ö​t ⦁ Geese flapping in the kitchen - CIRM ⦁ Die geheimen Tennispl​ä​tze der Reichen (the secret tennis courts of the rich) - Monad Node
• 42 Seconds Vol. 7 - Owlripper Records (2024)
• https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/42-seconds-7

• Tank - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Rhino (1970)
• https://www.emersonlakepalmer.com/

• Through A Lens - Imaginary Kings - Dreams from an Empty House - digital release (2024)
• https://imaginarykings.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-from-an-empty-house

• Medenas Suite: I Felt The Shosh / Wind Games / Im falschen Orus (In the wrong Orus) / Verloren (Lost) / Sis Siddis - Avant Orchid Zone - Medena Dysrembara - digital release (2024)
• https://avantorchidzone.bandcamp.com/album/medena-dysrembara

• Chichen Itza - Dennis Egberth - The Dennis Egberth Dynasty - 577 Records (2025)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-dennis-egberth-dynasty

• Lessons of the Sky - soprano sax: Kyle Jones / piano: Timothy Jones / composer: Rodney Rogers - Dualities - Neuma Records (2024)
• https://kylejonessax.bandcamp.com/album/dualities

• Oumagatoki (Oumaga Time) - Yoshiko Sai - Mangkeyou - WeWantSounds (1975/2024)
• https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/yoshiko-sai-mangekyou-cd-edition

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

• touch the sky - David Beardsley - klang and the silver cord - digital release (2023)
• https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/klang-and-the-silver-cord

• Exploring Psychic Powers Live - Bicycle Deck - Telepathic Table Games - digital release (2025)
• https://bicycledeck.bandcamp.com/album/telepathic-table-games

• The Zen of Space - Zakir Hussain - The Elements: Space - Music Today (1995)
• https://zakirhussain.com/