Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

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Happy belated International Strange Music Day!!  The brainchild of composer/musician Patrick Grant, he of Tilted Axes fame, it took place on 8-24 and in true PTE style, a day (or so) late,…

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Phase One has us delving into the realm of Dub in it's many incarnations, followed by many new releases in Phase Two.

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Joel

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For a majority of the 8/16 edition of PTE, I would like to share in the bounty of my Bandcamp Friday booty for August! From avant-big band pop and microtonal music to impaired kidney funct…

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This week we have everything from neo-classical orchestral music to outright noise.  Multi-genre avant-garde as it should be!

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Joel

8-9-25 PTE Playlist

• Short Step - Mwendo Dawa…

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This week we're airing "Intortus," the winner of the 2024 Musicworks electronic music composition contest, created by composer Rocío Cano Valiño. In addition, you'll hear the unique cornuc…

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In this week's musical assortment: new/new, old/new, new/old, old/old.  Your job, figure out which is which.

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Joel

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7/5 PTE: We've got a mostly prog Phase Two with some fine new releases including a 10 disc mega box set of live performances from Caravan and a wonderful 2 disc extravaganza from Iona co-f…

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This show took a while to assemble due to technical difficulties, requiring me to please stand by.  I now have a new computer on order and have managed to coerce this one to be a bit more …

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Let's see... a couple of new items from our friends at 577 Records, some carnivalesque music in Phase One, classic stuff from the ready to re-boot label Table of the Elements and a smather…

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Just back from Providence, Rhode Island where I experienced the I Heart Noise Fest 2025 in all it's noisy ambient, drone, experimental, rocked out, spacey glory. Today's program will serve…

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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 …

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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".

Lis…

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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…

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To sum things up, "So Much Music, So Little Time!"

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Joel

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

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

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Joel

e-mail: [email protected]

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpus…

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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 (pla…

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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…

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

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: [email protected]

Blue Sky:  https://bsky.app/profil…

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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 …

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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 meas…