8-9-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!

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

Enjoy!

Joel

8-9-25 PTE Playlist

• Short Step - Mwendo Dawa Trio - Melodic Hope - lj Records (2025)


• https://www.lj-records.se/mwendo.html 

• Jamie Muir - Joseph Benzola / Composer, Solo DrumKat - The newest entry to the Portraits of the Dead series - Amanita Music (2025)


• https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/jamie-muir 
  
  

• Kombucha - Tommy Crane / David Binney - The Isle - Elastic Recordings / Mythology Records (2025)


• https://davidbinney.bandcamp.com/album/the-isle

• Vector #4 - Thomas Poken - Vectors - August 2025 pre-release -


• https://thomaspoken.bandcamp.com/album/vectors 

• Bathymetry 5 – Groundswell - Matt McBane w/ Sandbox Percussion - Cantaloupe Music (2022)


• https://mattmcbane.bandcamp.com/album/bathymetry 

• Projekctile - Joel Krutt - Projekction 2004 - Projekction (2004)


• https://soundcloud.com/the-envelope-pusher/projekction 

• af wilden til at sàlva - will sōderberg - let the machines sing... [2] of desire to salvage - Machine Records (2025)


• https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-machines-sing-2-of-desire-to-salvage 

• Zones of Privacy - Yann Novak - Continuity - Room40 (2025)


• https://www.yannnovak.com/recording/continuity/ 

• The Pigs Have Left the Sty - Rich Wh - A Degree of Disorder - Burnt Seed Records (2025)


• https://rich-white.bandcamp.com/album/a-degree-of-disorder 

• Fantasy for Piano & String Orchestra - Stanley Grill, composer / Zagreb Sinfonietta, Miran Vaupotić, conductor / Viktor Čižić, piano - digital release (2025)


• https://stanleygrill.bandcamp.com/track/fantasy-for-piano-and-string-orchestra 

• Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra - Carl Vollrath, composer / Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Miran Vaupotić, conductor / Ookjin You, solo piano - Navona Records (2025)


• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6755/ 

• Wireless Fantasy (1960) - Vladimir Ussachevsky - Electronic And Acoustic Works 1957-1972 - New World Records (2007)


• https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/vladimir-ussachevsky-electronic-and-acoustic-works-1957-1972?_pos=2&_sid=16960325f&_ss=r&variant=39644906782799 

• Quiet Rhythms No. 20 - William Susman - Quiet Rhythms Live at Spectrum NYC - Belarca (2023)


• https://susmanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-rhythms-live-at-spectrum-nyc 

• Summer Paintings - Simon Heartfield - Intervals - Limbic Productions (2025)


• https://simonheartfield.bandcamp.com/album/intervals 

• Harmonic Rain - Morgan Szymanksi and Tommy Perman - Songs for the Mist Forest - Blackford Hill (2025)


• https://blackfordhill.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-mist-forest 

• Rain - Masahiko Togashi with Don Cherry & Charlie Haden - Song of Soil - Wewantsounds (2022)


• https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/masahiko-togashi-with-don-cherry-charlie-haden-song-of-soil-cd-edition