Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Greetings! Pick a genre, any genre! That about sums it up. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     10-24-26 PTE Playlist Intro Context Collapse - Yann Novack - Continuity - Room 40 (2026) https://yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/discontinuity     Phase One Molecular Red / Panic, Subtext & Power Cuts / Devas...

Greetings!  Many current releases this week with a Phase One focus on the I Heart Noise label's 10th anniversary sampler (Congrats Ilya!) and Joseph Benzola's new single skewing Phase Two primarily towards piano centered pieces. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhusl@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     10-17-26 PTE Playlist Intro A Shadow C...

Greetings! Welcome to the UCONN sports truncated edition of this week's program.  It may be shorter, but as they say, "It's quality, not quantity!"  Many new tracks w/ a few classic items. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     10-3-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Rashomon - Max Kutner - The Illustrated Interior -...

Greetings! This week's program came together as stream of consciousness. A melding of sound and concepts to hopefully create a cohesive whole.   Listen and enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     10-3-26 PTE Playlist Intro An Ocean Divided - Mia Zabelka, Joshua Trinidad, Icostech - Aftershock Vol.3 - DL Subcontinental R...

Greetings! This week's program features brand new and classic Carl Stone, followed by Spanish prog, Mexican experimental electronics, all seasoned with Bryan Ferry & Ray Manzarek. And that's just Phase One! Phase Two features new music from Petridisch, cellists, India Gailey & Leah Plave, trumpet & no-input mixer chaos from Mark Kirsenmann and the first-place winner of the 2025 Musicwo...

Greetings! A sport truncated PTE, featuring a pair of memorials, some fine new & classic progressive rock and closing out with Swedish jazz. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     9-5-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Simplicity - Tim Curry (RIP) - Simplicity - A&M Records (1981)   Pretender - Dally Proton /...

Greetings! Much recent music plus more classic thrift store acquisitions! Listen & enjoy! Joel   e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     8-29-26 PTE Playlist   Circadian Rhythms - Adam Hill - Dance Card - self-release (2026) https://misteradamhill.bandcamp.com/album/dance-card     Fall In Love With Your Mind - Leah Callahan - O...

Greetings! The focus for this week is self-explanatory.  Raw field recordings, processed field recordings, compositions containing field recordings and composed pieces consisting only of field recordings.  Since my own sonic handiwork is often in this area, I've included both raw recordings I've made and pieces assembled that have been included in a couple of compilations. Listen & Enjoy! Joel...

Greeting! Lots of new things with a Phase Two focus, sampling unique collaborations and solo work from guitarist Kevin Kastning's recent releases. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/       8-8-26 PTE Playlist   Champion - inc inc inc - Thorny Tailed Seal - self-release (2026) https://incincinc.bandcamp.com/...

Greetings! This week's focus is on a trio of extended compositions from Robyn Jacob, Louis Andriessen & Michael Gordon peppered with Sanskrit chant, fusion, electronics & drone. Listen & enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/       7-18-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Brain Dance - DDSM5 - Lattice - digital self-releas...

Greetings! This week's PTE leans into the worlds of ambient, drone & noise w/ side-tracks of new/classic Berlin electronic and contemporary composition. Listen & Enjoy! e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com  prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     7-11-26 PTE Playlist Intro Magnificent Walk - Kyriakos Plsds - Turn Dystopia Into Eutopia (compilation) - noise-bel...

Greetings! Since today's program falls right on July 4th, I've decided to return to an older PTE tradition of playing only progressive rock; new, classic and in-between. Enjoy! Joel   7-4-26 PTE Playlist: Prog On The 4th of July   Eternal Hand - Gong - Bright Spirit - KScope (2026) https://gongband.bandcamp.com/album/bright-spirit-4     Dissembler - Jane Getter Premonition - Anomalia - Esoteric An...

Greetings! A focus on Alabama based composer, William Price starts out today's PTE, followed by music spanning varied genres and time, highlighting many recent releases. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     6-27-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Trope No. 1 Surface Tension / Trope No. 2 Saturation Point / Trope No...

Greetings!  New x 4 (Lua Jungck, b.mez, murmer, Petridisch & Society of Composers), bouncing balls, Phase Two focus on Niblock, Hooker, Soldier & First's, "Paiva River Songs" and closing out with Squid In Chains.  Now if that's not variety! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs and playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     6-6-26 PTE Playlist  ...

Greetings! Scattered  throughout today's program are takes in both word and music of "Blue in Green", the classic Miles Davis/Bill Evans tune. (Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Davis!)  That didn't start out being intentional until i noticed that the opening Laurie Altman piece was later followed by the similarly titled Morten Qvenild track.  I was then motivated to find a couple of more unusual covers o...

Greetings! Phase One focuses primarily on new releases and a wonderful piece for electric guitar & piano by Canadian composer, Tim Brady.  In contrast, for most of Phase Two we celebrate Robert Fripp's 80th birthday with classic works featuring Mr. Fripp with prestigious collaborators! Listen & Enjoy! Joel   e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com prior programs & playlists: https://e...

Greetings! All kinds of neat stuff this week, with my faves being the new releases from Edward Givens, "biomes, vol. 1-4" and Stereo Minus One's, "The Acid Tape (Original Soundtrack)". Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Check out prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/       5-16-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Mimic - Nick Fraser - Areas - Elastic Reco...

Greetings! I've assembled another themed show for your listening pleasure, this time: Fire & Smoke, including all the assorted genres you've come to know and love on PTE. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Prior programs & playlists:  https://envelope.podbean.com/       5-9-26 PTE Playlist: Fire + Smoke! Intro Ritual Fire - Lingyuan Yang - Cursed Month - Chaospace Records...

Greetings! The agenda for Phase One includes new releases and a couple current acquisitions of my own. In Phase Two, we honor the memory & music of just intonation composer Michael Harrison, followed Viet Cuong's imaginative composition, "Re(new)al", a percussion quartet concerto which address the topic of renewable energy. I recently had the privilege of seeing the Columbia Symphony perform t...

Greetings! We start with a couple of prog adjacent new releases from our friends at Cuneiform Records followed by organ and organ-ish pieces.  The balance of the program roams all over the place.  Check it out and see what you think.  Listen and Enjoy!  Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     4-25-26 PTE Playlist   Intro Nova...

Greetings! Let's see...we've got some contemporary gamelan followed by a bunch of blues-based experimental stuff, leading to some interesting vocal pieces, only to close out with a smorgasbord of new and old pieces.  There.  That'll about do it. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingthenevelopewhus@gmail.com Prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/       4-11-26 PTE Playlist...

Greetings! Many new musics in store for you with a second phase nod to memory & music of Keith Emerson upon the 10th anniversary of his passing. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com To check out prior programs & playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/     3-28-26 PTE Playlist   Intro New Distortion Properties - Ben Vida - Oblivion Seekers - Shelter Press (2026) https://ben...

Greetings! Today's program opens highlighting the ambient space music of Robert Scott Thompson, followed by a veritable potpourri of new and classic tracks, ranging from Alec Wilder & Ozric Tentalces to b.mez (a Birdsongs of the Mesozooic spin-off) and Frank Zappa! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Prior Programs & Playlists: https://envelope.podbean.com/  ...

Greetings! Mostly new goodies for your listening pleasure, aurally illustrating the word "multi-genre". Listen & Enjoy! Joel   2-21-26 PTE Playlist   Intro What Lies Just Beyond? - Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Many Worlds - Watch That Ends The Night Records (2026) https://manyworldshfx.bandcamp.com/album/many-worlds Phase One Realities Blossom - Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Many Worlds...

Greetings! Sports-truncated show.  Pianos! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Bluesky / Twitter: @envpusher1     1-10-26 PTE Playlist   All The Things You Are - Bill Evans - The Solo Sessions: Volume 2 - Milestone (1963/1992) https://billevansofficial.com/     Dispatch From The Interzone - Joseph Benzola - Amanita Music single (2026) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.co...