Greetings listener! What's your pleasure?

New Orleans-influenced horn music? There's Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake ensemble for you.

Maybe you're in the mood for experimental guitar? Take your pick from classic Bill Frisell or new releases featuring Ian Smith, Trey Gunn or Canadian guitarist/composer, Tim Brady.

For those who can't make up there minds, we've got an assortment of new and classic tracks from multiple genres.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

10-25-25 PTE Playlist

• Turf Patrol - Lürgid - Zoology - Burnt Seed Records (2023)
• https://lurgid.bandcamp.com/album/zoolology

• Nezalezhnist (root is the Ukranian word for independence)/ Son of Mr. Green Genes - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble - Serpentine - Cuneiform Records (2025)
• https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/serpentine

• Northern Wind Brings Redemption (The Shackleton Version) - Saagara - 3 The Shackleton Versions - Glitterbeat Records (2025)
• https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/3-the-shackleton-versions

• Bee Still - Ian Smit - ¿QUÉ? - self-release (December 2025 pre-release)
• https://iansmit.bandcamp.com/

• Trosper - Bill Frisell - Trosper - Fantagraphics (2001) out of print

• The Wind That Ended History - Trey Gunn & David Forlano - Select Habits of Invertebrates - 7d Media (2023)
• https://treygunn.bandcamp.com/album/select-habits-of-invertebrates

• The Nostalgia Factory - Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life... - Snapper (2007)
• https://porcupinetree.com/recordings/on-the-sunday-of-life/

• Really, Really Solo Electric Guitar Music - Tim Brady - For Electric Guitar - People Places Records (November 2025, pre-release)
• https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/

• A Shadow Dance, To An Ancient Rhyme - John Reidar Holmes -These Are The Days of Burning Books - digital release (2025)
• https://johnreidarholmes.bandcamp.com/album/these-are-the-days-of-burning-books

• Rotation - Jérémie Ternoy Trio- Survol à basse altitude (“Low-Altitude Flight”) - Circum-Disc (November 2025 pre-release)
• https://www.circum-disc.com/

• Roji- sukashi - Midori Komachi - Chashistu : Audiotory Tea Room - MSCTY_EDN (2025)
• https://midorikomachi.bandcamp.com/album/chashitsu-auditory-tea-room

• Not In Our Dictionary - Usufruct - Windfall - Vaux Flores Industrial (2017)
• https://thecoldvacuumofspace.bandcamp.com/album/windfall

• On The Edge of the Galaxy - Solar Phasing - The Serenity Path - digital release (2025)
• https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/album/the-serenity-path

Greetings!

Tune in for a week packed with highlights, including a new track from my friend Joe Benzola, the latest from Jessica Pavone (who I had the pleasure of driving for her High Zero Festival appearance in Baltimore), and a classic electronic track by Carl Stone. Stone, who recently played Baltimore's Red Room, was one of the first new artists I played when I started hosting PTE in 1989. You'll also hear lots of current releases and new acquisitions!

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

10-11-25 PTE Playlist

• When Water is Scooped in the Hands.... - Joseph Benzola - digital single (2025)
• https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/when-water-is-scooped-in-the-hands

• What Worked That Way And It Worked Good / What Happens Has Become Now - Jessica Pavone - What Happens Has Become Now - Relative Pitch Records (2024)
• https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/what-happens-has-become-now

• In Secret Dreams / The Comfort - Skinner box - the Playhouse - bobok ltd (1990)
• https://skinnerbox2.bandcamp.com/album/the-playhouse

• w/ Susan Alcorn 2 - Thollem w/ Susan Alcorn - Five Astral Traveling Session Duos - Astral Spirits (2021)
• https://thollem.bandcamp.com/album/five-astral-traveling-session

• Duo Improvisation II - Thollem / Hafez Modirzadeh - Five Astral Traveling Session Duos - Astral Spirits (2021)
• https://thollem.bandcamp.com/album/five-astral-traveling-session

• In my name you shall perish! A choleric, silently screamed. (2025 Demaster) - Yhorm - The Hermit - Menschenfeind Propaganda (2025)
• https://yhorm.bandcamp.com/album/der-eremit

• Shing Kee (1986) - Carl Stone - Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties - Unseen Worlds (2016)
• https://carlstone.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-music-from-the-seventies-and-eighties

• Amygdala - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Terry Pender / mandolin & EEG
• The Wheel - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. William Hooker / drums & EEG
• Dopamine - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Dan Trueman / Hardanger fiddle & EEG
• Bible School Vacation - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Margaret Lancaster / flute & EEG The Brainwave Music Project - Mulatta (2017) https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/the-brainwave-music-project⦁ Amygdala - Brad Garton & Dave Soldier, feat. Terry Pender / mandolin & EE
• The Brainwave Music Project - Mulatta (2017)
• https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/the-brainwave-music-project

• Rabbit heart thumping - Bitsy Knox & Roger 3000 - The Ears of Animals - moli del tro records (2025)
• https://molideltro.bandcamp.com/album/the-ears-of-animals

• Loaf Cakes Are For Surfers - Dave Ruder - Lil Ol Davy Ru Ru - Gold Bolus Recordings (2025)
• https://daveruder.bandcamp.com/album/lil-ol-davy-ru-ru

• iasso (Simon Heartfield remix) - Euan Dalgarno - Uoying Remixed - Not Yet Remembered Records (2025)
• https://notyetremembered.bandcamp.com/album/uoying-remixed

• :Murdum: (excerpt) - Boreal Path - Boreal Covenant - Personal Archives (2025)
• https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/boreal-covenant

Greetings!

Let's see...we've got electronica, microtones, trombone and voice with a big chunk of gamelan and gamelan influenced music. Hot Dog!

Listen & Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

10-4-25 PTE Playlist

• Chased / Blues - Mikoo - It Floats - Sofa Music (2025)
• https://sofamusic.bandcamp.com/album/it-floats

• Phloam - The Aphex Twin - Classics - R & S Records (1995)
• https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/classics

• Apophenia - Max Kutner - Apophenia EP - digital release (2025)
• https://maxkutner.bandcamp.com/album/apophenia-ep

• Advance - Horse Lords & Arnold Dryblatt - FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field - RVNG Intl. (2025)
• https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys-vol-18-extended-field

• Big What - Oren Bloedow Band - Avant Knitting: Knitting Factory Tours 1993 - Knitting Factory Works (1993)

• Wayonout - Kathy Kennedy - Vowel Jams - Orchard of Pomegranites (2025)
• https://kathykennedy.bandcamp.com/album/vowel-jams

• Reverie - Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill - Dreaming in Gamelan - self-release (2025)
• https://brennanmcneill.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-gamelan

• Green Crystal - Susie Hodder-Williams & Chris Caldwell - Coracle of Life (Inspired by the sculptures of Andre Wallace) - FMR Records (2018)
• https://musicontheedge.bandcamp.com/album/coracle-of-life

• Cycloidal Gamelan Piece - Lavrenty Mganga - Ars Minmal - self-release (2000)
• https://lavrentymganga.narod.ru/eng/ars_minimal.htm

• Gamelan Sepuluh - Barend Tromp - Odd Time Concepts - 7d Media (2025)
• https://barendtromp7d.bandcamp.com/album/odd-time-concepts

• Gending Sekar Gadung (excerpt) - Gamelan Salunding, Tenganan - Bali: Gamelan & Kecak - Nonesuch Explorer Series (1989)
• https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/bali-gamelan-kecak

• No Timing, First Variation - Yea Big and Greg Saunier - No Timing - Personal Archives (2025)
• https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/no-timing

Greetings!

This week we have more prog and prog adjacent music prior to an upcoming jaunt to New Jersey to attend ProgStock. In addition, we start the program with two new releases featuring Canadian artists and labels.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

Podbean (to check out prior programs & playlists): https://envelope.podbean.com/

9-27-25 PTE Playlist

• Shiver - Valley Voice - Stars, Engines - Elastic Recordings (October 2025 pre-release)
• https://harrisonargatoff.bandcamp.com/album/stars-engines

• Halalaia - Kathy Kennedy - Vowel Jams - Orchard of Pomegranites (2025)
• https://kathykennedy.bandcamp.com/album/vowel-jams

• Species of Glory Trees - Andre LaFosse - Then Again - 7d Media (2025)
• https://andrelafosse7d.bandcamp.com/album/then-again

• Cyclical Behavior - Morris Kolontyrsky - Origination - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/origination

• For Alvira, Part I - Paul J. Botelho: voice / Jeff Kaiser: trumpet - Dome - digital release (2024)
• https://jeffkaiser.bandcamp.com/album/dome

• Chenrezi Pure Land Prayer - vocals: Lama Gyurma / piano, keyboards: Jean-Philippe Rykiel -Rain of Blessings: Vajra Chants - Realworld Records (2000)
• https://realworldrecords.com/releases/rain-of-blessings/

• The Archaeoptimist - Spocks Beard - The Archaeoptimist - Madfish Records (November 2025 pre-release)
• https://madfishmusic.bandcamp.com/album/archaeoptimist

• Love Terror Adrenaline/Break Through (2025 Remix) - Bryan Beller - digital release (2025)
• https://bryanbeller.bandcamp.com/track/love-terror-adrenaline-break-through-2025-remix

• Celery - Mike Keneally w/ Steve Vai - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat - Exowax Recordings (2023)
• https://mikekeneallymusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat

• Resistance (is it's Own Reward) - Trinary System - digital single (2025)
• https://trinarysystem.bandcamp.com/track/resistance-is-its-own-reward

• Insignificant - The Galley Project - Insignificant - digital release (2025)
• https://thegalleyproject.bandcamp.com/album/insignificant

• Observations in Orbit - Marek Kwiatkowski - On Planet Quinta - digital release (2025)
• https://marekkwiatkowski.bandcamp.com/album/na-planecie-kwinta

Greetings!

This week we wish happy 90th birthday to Arvo Pärt after which there are some recent releases & a dollop of new and classic prog!!

Listen & Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

9-20-25 PTE Playlist

• Fratres for violin, string orchestra & percussion - violin: Gidon Kremer / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie / composer: Arvo Pärt - From My Home - Teldec (1997)
• https://www.arvopart.ee/en/arvo-part/work/391/

• A chorus like distant screaming - The Rhythm Method, composer: Carrie Frey - Seaglass: Works for String Quartet - Gold Bolus (2025)
• https://carriefrey.bandcamp.com/album/seaglass-works-for-string-quartet

• iasso - Euan Dalgarno - uoying - Frosti (2025)
• https://frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/uoying

• The Runaway / An Inmates Lullaby - Gentle Giant - In A Glass House - DRT Entertainment (1973/2005)
• https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/In_a_Glass_House

• Seurat cha-cha - David Occhipinti - Camera Lucida - Elastic Recordings (2025)
• https://davidocchipinti.bandcamp.com/album/camera-lucida-elastic-recordings

• Scene V (ZJW Remix) - Insect Life - Insect Life - 577 Records (2025)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/insect-life

• Fall Away - Dave Bainbridge - On The Edge (of what could be) - Open Sky Records (2025)
• https://open-sky-records.myshopify.com/products/dave-bainbridge-on-the-edge-of-what-could-be-cd?variant=50915723444537

• Solar Playground - Deep Energy Orchestra feat. Adam Holzman, Trey Gunn & Joe Deninzon - The Science of Sound - 7d Media (2025)
• https://deepenergyorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-science-of-sound

• Digging For My Spirit - Ritual Howls - Ruin - Felte (2025)
• https://ritualhowls.bandcamp.com/album/ruin

• Crumblepenny - Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding - Kscope (2023)
• https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/lotus-unfolding

• Freeworld - Phreeworld - Crossing The Sound - Friends In The Garden (1998)

• New Age Synthesis (Unzipping The Zype) - Steve Hillage - Open - Virgin (1978)

Greetings!

Lots of current releases. So much music, so little time.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

9-6-25 PTE Playlist

• 1071-5 - Kevin Kastining & Mark Wingfield - The WNYC Sessions - Greydisc Records (2025)
• https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/the-wnyc-sessions

• you fear closing your eyes for darkness, but would you want a night so bright you cannot see the stars? - missing scenes - dream or memory? - Varia Records (2025)
• https://missingscenes.bandcamp.com/album/dream-or-memory-

• The Sleepwalkers - Peter Wullen - Dew Point - digital release (2025)
• https://peterwullen.bandcamp.com/album/dew-point

• Spam Likely - Jessica Pavone, Lukas Koenig & Matt Mottel - Spam Likely - 577 Records (2022)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/spam-likely

• Collective Chok (Music for Homemade Instruments) - David Simons - Prismatic Hearing - Tzadik (2004)
• https://davidjsimons.xyz/recordings.html

• Light Harvest - Swansither - Ronsack - Subexotic Records (2025)
• https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/ronsack

• How weird he must think the world is - Dory Haley, soprano / Cassandra Miller, composer - I love evil - Redshift Records (2025)
• https://redshiftrecords.org/

• Kinetic - Kaikō - Treen - Sauajazz Records (2025)
• https://treen.bandcamp.com/album/kaik

• Glister (Overland mix) - Trem77 - Blacklight Sunset (EP) - digital release (2025)
• https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/blacklight-sunset

• Teleportation - Amosphère - Cosmogonical Ears - Hallow Ground (2025)
• https://hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/amosph-re-cosmogonical-ears

Greetings!

This week's audio stew consists of some more recent thrift store goodies, new releases & a couple of tracks buried on my hard drive.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

9-13-25 PTE Playlist

• Rain Spell (1982) - The London Sinfonietta, cond. Oliver Knussen / composer: Toru Takemitsu - Riverun, Water-ways, etc. - Virgin Classics (1991)

• Piwal 5 - composer: Putu Septa / gamelan ensemble: Nata Swara - Piwal - Other Minds Records (2025) https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/piwal

• Descending Moonshine Dervishes - Terry Riley / Don Cherry / Karl Berger - Köln – February 23, 1975 - unofficial release
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6449e2LsUI

• Wand Arise - Wet Tuna - In the Running 3 - Wet Tuna / DUNZA (split single) - I Heart Noise (2025)
• https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn010-in-the-running-3-wet-tuna-dunza

• Habibon - SANAM - Sametou Sawtan (I Heard A Voice) - Constellation Records (2025)
• https://sanambeirut.bandcamp.com/album/sametou-sawtan

• g00d4_u - Ran Slavin - Neon Swans - Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings (2025)
• https://ranslavin.bandcamp.com/album/neon-swans

• Evening Star - Evan Ziporyn & ContaQt - Art Decade - Cantaloupe Music (2025)
• https://contaqtnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/art-decade

• Hope - Robert Fripp String Quartet - The Bridge Between - Discipline Records (1993)
• https://www.dgmlive.com/robert-fripp/robert-fripp-string-quartet

• Mega Cicada - Pathos Trio / composer: Ian Chang - Polarity - Imaginary Animals Music (2025)
• https://pathos-trio.bandcamp.com/album/polarity

• Jeux Deux (Two Games) for Hyperpiano & orchestra (2005) - Odense Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann, cond. / Michael Chertock, Hyperpiano - ...but not simpler... - Bridge Records (2011)
• https://bridgerecords.com/products/9346?_pos=1&_sid=4c7917fe5&_ss=r

• Foundation - Chris Relkneus aka Aesthetic Mobilization - First Steps - TonCollage - digital release (2021)
• https://relkneus.bandcamp.com/album/first-steps-toncollage

Greetings!

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, but defiinitely not a dollar short as we present a plethora of interesting pieces for you to consider.

Enjoy,

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

8-30-25 PTE Playlist: Happy (belated) International Strange Music Day !

• QB1234 - Patrick Grant - musique du quai Branly (2023 remaster) - Peppergreen Media (2023)
• https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/album/musique-du-quai-branly-2023-remaster

• STRANGE CHANGES v1: "People, Places, and Things" by Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars for International Strange Music Day, August 24, 2020 - Peppergreen Media (2020)
• https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/track/strange-changes-2

• The Blimp / The Old Fart At Play - Capt. Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Reprise (1969)
• https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-trout-mask-replica/

• where the zeitgeist converges with the metaphysical tapestry of existence - Von Helfenstein - Metaphysics Workouts volumes 1​-​3 - Burnt Seed Records (2024)
• https://vonhelfenstein.bandcamp.com/album/metaphysics-workouts-volumes-1-3

• Latex - Matmos - quasi-objects - Matador Records (1998)
• https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/quasi-objects

• Dad I'm In Jail - Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog? - Chrysalis (1988)

• Bucephalus Bounding Ball - Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (EP) - Warp Records (1997)
• https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/come-to-daddy

• The Festival of Death - The Residents - East Side Digital (1979/1987)
• https://meettheresidents.fandom.com/wiki/Eskimo

• The Most Unwanted Song - Komar & Melamid / Dave Soldier - The People's Choice Music - Needlejuice Records (2019)
• https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/the-peoples-choice-music

• Spiderrunes - The Paxton Group w/ Paula Clare - Cablegram-the Dundee Telegrams and Other Communications 1984-1986 - CD Tech (1989)
• https://paxto.bandcamp.com/album/cablegram-the-dundee-telegrams-and-other-communications-1984-1986

• Sympathy for the Devil - Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil - Mute (1988)
• https://www.laibach.org/discography/sympathy-for-the-devil/

• From Beyond The Clouds - Harmolodic Dreamer - Mutated Blossoms - digital release (2025)
• https://alexkimnoise.bandcamp.com/album/mutated-blossoms

• The Future Is Behind Us - Squid In Chains - Imagined Realities - Earsay Music (2024)
• https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/imagined-realities

• Femme Endings - Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace - Superpang (2021)
• https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/album/embrace