Greetings!

One of the joys of hosting PTE over the past 35 years is the opportunity to present multiple genres over a two hour period and make the flow, or non-flow, of the program interesting. This week we have creative improv, brushing on both jazz and classical realms. Then we move one to contemporary composition, electroacoustics & experimental ambient. And that's only in Phase One...

Enjoy!

Joel

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12-14-24 PTE Playlist

• Third Meditation / Fifth Meditation - Joseph Benzola - Stained Glass Meditation - Amanita Music (2024)
• https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/stained-glass-meditation

• Partita No. 1 for Alto Saxophone and Contra​-​Alto Guitar/ Carl Clements - Partitas, Book 1 - Greydisc Records (2024)
• https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/partitas-book-1

• the wind said especially now... - Kevin Kastning / Phil Grenadier - In Visible Ascent - Greydisc Records (2024)
• https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/in-visible-ascent

• Brace Yourselves! (An Impact for Clarinet and Piano) - composer: Nathan Hudson / story: Ben Loory - Music for Falling & Flying - Neuma Records (2024)
• https://nathanhudson.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-falling-and-flying

• Red Blood Cells - Peter Gena - Beethoven in Soho and Other Works - New World Records (2024)
• https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/peter-gena-beethoven-in-soho-and-other-works

• Black Pill Accelerationist - The Problem Belief - Learning Curves - digital album (2024)
• https://theproblembelief.bandcamp.com/album/learning-curves

• The Subtle Art of the Schizophrenic Mind - zisurru - One - digital release (2020)
• https://zisurru.bandcamp.com/album/one

• Sky's Acetylene - composer: David Fulmer / New York Philharmonic, conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky - Sky's Acetylene - New Focus Recordings (2021)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/skys-acetylene

• Old Schmeckled Hen - Solilians - Klezmische Deluxe Bring Them Home Now - I Heart Noise (2024)
• https://solilians.bandcamp.com/album/klezmische-deluxe-bring-them-home-now

• Red Haired Laser Boy - EZRA - Earth to EZRA - Cantaloupe Music (2024)
• https://ezraquartet.bandcamp.com/album/earth-to-ezra

• Super Shiny Floors - Xqui & Dogs Versus Shadows - Dwell Time - Subexotic Records (2024)
• https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dwell-time

• Shopping Centre - Carlisle City Council - The Lanes Re​-​Development - Subexotic Records (2024)
• https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/the-lanes-re-development

• Salford Shopping City - David A. Jaycock - Music For Space-Age Shopping - Subexotic Records (2024)
• https://davidajaycock.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-space-age-shopping

• Battery Park, diagonally... (excerpt) - Makhun - digital release (2024)
• https://makhun.bandcamp.com/album/battery-park-diagonally

Greetings!

As usual, I'm offering up a veritible cornucopia of interesting music, from brand new items to older classics and not so classic. I had no planned thematic agenda, but assembled the sets so that they made sense to me. I hope they do the same for you.

Enjoy!

Joel

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12-7-24 PTE Playlist

• Salting Black Ice / Cold Ovens / Snow and a Dovecote - Delta Saxophone Quartet / mezzo soprano: Frances Gregory / piano, composer: Paul Honey / poetry: Gregory Warren Wilson - Songs of Ice and Snow - FMR Records (2024)
• https://deltasaxophonequartet1.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-ice-and-snow

• Arndale (Part 1) / Arndale (Part 2) / Arndale (Part 3) GM Bus 184 - david a jaycock - Music for Space Age Shopping - Subexotic Records (2024)
• https://davidajaycock.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-space-age-shopping

• Adhesion (excerpt) - Freight Cell (Fletina) - Adhesion - fletinamusic (2024)
• https://freightcell.bandcamp.com/album/adhesion

• Mvmt.1 /Mvmt.2/Mvmt.3 - DVXNS - Cuarteto Latinoamericano / composer: Dan Roman - DVXNS - Neuma Records (2024)
• https://danroman.bandcamp.com/album/dvxns

• In paradisium (Black lipstick) - piano and sound collage: Joe Frawley - Speak of This To No One - Clinical Archives (2010)
• https://archive.org/details/ca405_jf

• Avanti La Tre - Piero Milesi - Within Himself (Music for Films, Installations, Water & Fireworks) - Cuneiform Records (2000)
• https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/within-himself-music-for-films-installations-water-and-fireworks-1987-1999

• 3 - ~2 / rp7 - chebi - RO PAX (2024)
• https://ro-pax.bandcamp.com/album/cheby-2-rp7

• Photogrammes - ORCHESTRE DE L'AGORA / conductor: Nicolas Ellis / composer: Alexandre David - Photogrammes - COLLECTION QB (2024)
• https://collectionqb.bandcamp.com/album/alexandre-david-photogrammes

• Line 752 - Chronochromie - Epoch - digital release (2023)
• https://chronochromie.bandcamp.com/album/epoch

• Uses Probe Form, w/ Shawn Persinger is Prester John - Doctor Nerve - LOUD - Punos Music (2019)
• https://www.punosmusic.com/doctornerve/loud/

• "Halloween Baptizm" Suite -Shawn Persinger is Prester John - Halloween Baptizm - Quixotic Music (2017)
• https://presterjohnmusic.com/halloween/

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part II (2023 Elemental Mix) - King Crimson - Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (The Complete Recording Sessions) - Discipline Global Mobile (2023)
• https://www.dgmlive.com/

• Rowl kreditz - CIRM (ts-erm) - 1​/​40MVoaT - digital release (2024)
• https://cirm.bandcamp.com/album/1-40mvoat

• Confessions - Zbigniew Seiffert - Solo Violin - Zbigniew Seiffert Foundation (1978)

Greetings!

Almost all new releases this week, save some classic Soft Machine & Vanilla Fudge. (Vanilla Fudge?!!)

Enjoy!

Joel

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11/30/24 PTE Playlist

• Monsignor - David Zucchi - Mandi - People Places Records (2024)
• https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mandi

• Spin 2 (1992/2018) - piano: Ju-Ping Song / composer: Lois V Vierk - Monad - Starkland (2024)
• https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/ju-ping-song-monad

• ekkor​ä​ä​g - taroplane - ekkor​ä​ä​g - digital track (2024)
• https://tarotplane.bandcamp.com/track/ekkor-g

• Days Eye / Bone Fire / Tarabos / D.I.S. - Soft Machine - 7 - Columbia (1973)
• https://softmachine.org/

• wurdz - Megadead (Benjamin Shaw) - Authentic Country Music - digital release (2021)
• https://megadud.bandcamp.com/album/authentic-country-music

• Chapter 1 — A Council of Apparitions: I. Zaloasymphnesis II. Castle Keep III. Two Worlds - piano: Miranda Wong / composer: Alfredo Santa Ana - Before the World Sleeps - Redshift Records (2024)
• https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-world-sleeps

• Stratoshmear / Avinu Malkenu (Our Father, Our King) - Solilians - Klezmische Deluxe - Bring Them Home Now - I Heart Noise (2024)
• https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/klezmische-deluxe-bring-them-home-now

• Eleanor Rigby (2024 stereo mix) - Vanilla Fudge - Where Is My Mind - The Atco Recordings 1967-1969 - Esoteric Recordings (2024)
• https://www.cherryred.co.uk/vanilla-fudge-where-is-my-mind-the-atco-recordings-1967-1969-9cd-box-set

• Remembering Beauty 9 - John Oliver - Remebering Beauty - John Oliver Music (2024)
• https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/remembering-beauty

• untitled 3 (the scattered disk) - How Much (Cosmo Fenn & Thor Maillet) - 083024​.​vacantdreams - Fish Prints (2024)
• https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/083024-vacantdreams

• Ennerscape #4 - Somnambule - M.A.D. IV compilation - Music Analysis Discussions Records (2023)
• https://musicanalysisdiscussionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-a-d-iv

Greetings!

Much new music with a few classic items (Steve Reich, Tangerine Dream) for your listening pleasure.

Enjoy!

Joel

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11-23-24 PTE Playlist

• Wild Things - Edward Givens - Terra - digital album (2024)
• https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/terra

• Strangle Rocket Fair - The Vegetarians - Space Age Pagliacci - self-release (2024)
• https://thevegetarians.bandcamp.com/album/space-age-pagliacci

• Coming of Age - Mile Marker Zero - Coming of Age - self-release (2024)
• https://mmzofficial.bandcamp.com/album/coming-of-age

• Four Organs - ensemble avantgarde / composer: Steve Reich - phase patterns/pendulum music/piano phase/four organs - Wergo (1999)
• https://stevereich.com/composition/four-organs/

• Water and Fish - Michael Sarian, Matthew Putman, Federico Ughi, and Ledian Mola - The Sea, The Space, and Egypt, Vol. 1 - 577 Records (January 2025 pre-release)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-sea-the-space-and-egypt-vol-1

• Chromosphere - Echo Vocation (Adrian Johnson) - digital single (2024)
• https://echovocation.bandcamp.com/track/chromosphere

• Mercury Queen - tttc - Sum / mer / cury - Ingrown Records (2024)
• https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/sum-mer-cury

• The shore is safer, but I love to fight the waves - Heavy Cloud - shore​)​lines - digital release (2024)
• https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/shore-lines

• Logos Part II - Tangerine Dream - Logos (Live 1982)/Tangerine Dream: The Virgin Years 1977-1983 - Virgin (2012)
• https://www.tangerinedreammusic.com/en/music/detail.asp?id=22&tit=Logos

• La Vie Commence aujourd'hui - Brûlez les meubles (Burn the furniture) - Folio 5 - Circum-Disc (December 2024 pre-release)
• https://www.circum-disc.com/

• In Twilight's Shadow - Steve Roach - One Day of Forever - Projekt Records (2024)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-of-forever

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