Greetings!

All over the place this week! Starting on more of a jazz note, meandering all over the place to more ambient/atmospheric things from the folks at Projekt Records and focusing on new releases in Phase Two.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

12-13-25 PTE Playlist

Intro

• Meandering - Haeun Joo - Just Gravity - 577 Records (2025)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/just-gravity

Phase One

• Banff (intro) / Banff - The Patrick Smith Words Trio - Words Underlined - Lit Soc Records (2025)
• https://litsocrecords.bandcamp.com/album/words-underlined

• I was almost there - Noemi Buchi - Exuvie - -OUS (2025)
• https://noemibuchi.bandcamp.com/album/exuvie

• Biological Effects - Bob Lord - The Six Observables - digital release (2023)
• https://boblordmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-six-observables

• Everything & Nothing - Bryan Beller - scenes from the flood - Onion Boy Records (2019)
• https://bryanbeller.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-flood

• Watermelon In Easter Hay - Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage - Zappa Records (1979)
• https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/joes-garage-acts-i-ii-iii/#/

• Longing Cries - Peter Phippen, flutes / Ivar Lunde, Jr., synths, ambient textures, frame drum / Paulina Fae, voices, piano - The Phantom Moon - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-phantom-moon

• Shadow Current - Steve Roach & SoRIAH - Curandero - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/curandero

• Pond Life - Michael Brook - Hybrid - Editions EG (1985)
• https://www.michaelbrookmusic.com/

Phase Two

• what came before me is going after me - Zihua Tan | No Hay Banda - what came before me is going after me - No Hay Discos (2025)
• https://zihuatan.bandcamp.com/track/what-came-before-me-is-going-after-me

• Tyrannus Rex - Charles Amirkhanian - Ratchet Attach It - Other Minds Records (2025)
• https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ratchet-attach-it

• How To Peel A Steel Apple (excerpt) - Fletina - How To Peel A Steel Apple - digital release (2025)
• https://fletina.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-peel-a-steel-apple

Greetings!

It's always a unique sonic experience when Kevin Kastning releases new music and I'm happy to open this week's program with his two latest, paired with long-time compadres, Sandor Szabo & Carl Clements. In addition, we honor the memory and music of the late Jack DeJohnette, followed by a number of new things, including a notable release from percussionist/composer Pauline Roberts.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

12-6-25 PTE Playlist

Phase One

• And carries outward - Kevin Kastning & Sandor Szabo - To capture the light - Greydisc Records (2025)
• https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/to-capture-the-light

• Now A Path, Now A Journey - Kevin Kastning & Carl Clements - Though Seldom Revealed - Greydisc Records (2025)
• https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/though-seldom-revealed

RIP Jack Dejohnette

• Free Above Sea - Jack Dejohnette - Oneness - ECM (1997)
• https://www.jackdejohnette.com/oneness

• Oneness - Gateway - Homecoming - ECM (1995)
• https://ecmrecords.com/product/homecoming-gateway

• Peace for Five - Kenny Wheeler - Deer Wan - ECM (1978)
• https://ecmrecords.com/product/deer-wan-kenny-wheeler/

• A Chuckle In The Dark - The Galley Project - Insignificant (2025)
• https://thegalleyproject.bandcamp.com/album/insignificant

• From Within - Anekdoten - From Within - KScope (1999)
• https://anekdoten.bandcamp.com/album/from-within

Phase Two

• Inca Roads / The Black Page #1 / The Black Page #2 - The Furious Bongos - La Petite Tour-Ette - self-release (2024)
• http://thefuriousbongos.com

• 18 de Diciembre - Pauline Roberts - composer/vibraphone/voice - Nuevas Músicas para Vibráfono y Electrónica -self-release (2025)
• https://paulineroberts.bandcamp.com/album/nuevas-m-sicas-para-vibr-fono-y-electr-nica

• Canción - Pauline Roberts - vibraphone & voice / Facundo Negri - composer & electronics - Nuevas Músicas para Vibráfono y Electrónica -self-release (2025)
• https://paulineroberts.bandcamp.com/album/nuevas-m-sicas-para-vibr-fono-y-electr-nica

• Interlude - Drew Schlesinger & David Torn - Soul of the Machine: A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/soul-of-the-machine

• The Shaded Realm #1- Conducive - The Shaded Realm - digital release (2025)
• https://conducivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-shaded-realm

Greetings!

Limited production time means longer pieces, so we return to Tim Brady's excellent current release for the title track, the Nakedeye Ensemble's take on a classic Frederic Rzewski piece and Pamela Z's new composition, "Simultaneous" in it's entirety.

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

11-15-25 PTE Playlist (The Long Ones)

• Sky (vinyl edition) - Tim Didymus & Foster Neville - Ulla - Subexotic Records (2025)
• https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ulla

• For Electric Guitar, sections 1-3 - guitar/composer: Tim Brady - For Electric Guitar - People Places Records (2025)
• https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-electric-guitar

• Come Together - NakedEye Ensemble - Storylines Crossing - Starkland (2018)
• https://starkland.bandcamp.com/album/nakedeye-ensemble-storylines-crossing

• Outro - 58 Seconds To Go - Age O.P.F. - 5 1/4 - digital release (2020)
• https://ageopf.bandcamp.com/album/5-1-4

• Simultaneous - Pamela G. - Simultaneous - Other Minds Records (2025)
• https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/simultaneous

• March - Feinstruktur - 2025 - digital release (2025)
• https://feinstruktur.bandcamp.com/album/2025

Greetings!

This week's program was constructed, to some degree, with a kind of "stream of consciousness". Comparisons of the same piece, pieces w/ words, spacey ambience, contemporary composition, kalimbas & fusion. Why not?

Enjoy!

Joel

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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

11-8-25 PTE Playlist

• Mote - Avi C. Engel - Mote - Fenny Compton (2025)
• https://fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote

• Overthrow Them All - Caer Sgàil (aka Jude Kerr) - It's The People We Choose - Error Prone Records (2025)
• https://errorpronerecords.bandcamp.com/album/it-s-the-people-we-choose

• Overthrow Them All (Overthrown Mix) - Chosen Persons - FishPrints (2025)
• https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/album/chosen-persons

• Wearing Words - Emily Wittbrodt - Wearing Words - Futura Resistenza (2025)
• https://futuraresistenza.bandcamp.com/album/wearing-words

• Y - The Problem of the Tower and the Clouds (arr. Mark Orton) - Carla Kihlstedt / Present Music - 26 Little Deaths - Cantaloupe Music (2925)
• https://carlakihlstedt.bandcamp.com/album/26-little-deaths

• Prognostication of the Paladin - Christian Michael Filardo - Thinning Veil Compilation - Ingrown Records (2025)
• https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/thinning-veil-compilation

• Within The Boundless - Pietro Zollo - The Future is Now - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-now

• Oceanic & Atmospheric - PGR (Kim Cascone) - the chemical bride - Silent Records (1992)
• https://silentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-chemical-bride

• The End of History - Cub/cub (Josh Hughes) - Nothing New Under The Sun - Subexotic Records (2022)
• https://cubcub.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-new-under-the-sun

• On the Street Where I Live: The Never-ending Ambulances / Help Somebody! / Gas Nign (Street Tune) / Desperate Measures - Percussia / composer: Alexis Lamb - Murmuration - Neuma Records (2025)
• https://percussia.bandcamp.com/album/murmuration

• steel is rolling far away - Andy Nechaevsky - silent night, almost no bombs - digital release (2024)
• https://andynechaevsky.bandcamp.com/album/silent-night-almost-no-bombs

• Morisca - Andy Nachaevsky - Del Sur - digital release (2025)
• https://andynechaevsky.bandcamp.com/album/del-sur

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic, part 1 - King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic - DGM (1973)
• https://www.dgmlive.com/key-albums/larks-tongues-in-aspic

• Going Home / Love, Devotion & Surrender - Santana - Welcome - Columbia/Legacy (1973)
• https://www.allaboutjazz.com/santana-welcome-santana-by-jeff-winbush

• A Love Supreme - Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011 - Eagle Records (2015)

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