Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center
Host: Joel Krutt
34+ years of bringing you the finest in the outer realms of contemporary music; from the worlds of classical, experimental, rock, jazz, ambient, electroacoustic, world music, spoken word, etc., etc., etc...…with a healthy dollop of new/classic progressive rock and jazz/rock fusion.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 115 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2025
2-8-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - - Mad Libs: acoustic instrument & non-instrument
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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 tod…
2-1-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
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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
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1-25-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
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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 On…
1-18-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - R.I.P. Zakir Hussain
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On this week's program, we pay tribute to the pre-eminent tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain, who passed away on December 15th of last year. He was appreciated both in the field of …
1-11-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Greetings!
A bout of upper respiratory ailment and I am forced to turn to my standby gambit of playing long pieces so my on-air mic time is kept to a minimum. Voila!
Enjoy!
Joel
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1-4-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - The Most Interesting Releases of 2024, Part 2
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For your listening pleasure, the 1/4 edition of Pushing The Envelope, bringing you the second of two programs presenting tracks from the releases I found most interesting in 2024!
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12-28-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Solstice
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The winter solstice, or hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere. For that hemi…
12-21-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Interesting Releases of 2024, Part 1
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I've never been a huge fan of end of year "best of" lists, but more appropriately for Pushing The Envelope, this is the first batch of 2024 releases that made my cochlea's hair cells ting…