2-1-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!

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

e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com

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2-1-25 PTE Playlist

 

• Insomnio - Jon Nelson & Metalofonico / composer: Jon Nelson - Metalofonico: New Music For Brass & Percussion - New Focus Recordings (2024)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/metalofonico 

 

• There Is No Division - Simon Heartfield - The State of Social Movement - Machine Records (2025 April pre-release)
• https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-state-of-social-movement-2 

 

• Naturall Occuring Brushstrokes - missing scenes - dream or memory? - digital release (2025)
• https://missingscenes.bandcamp.com/album/dream-or-memory 

 

• Lullaby for Piano and Electronics - David Handler - Life Like Violence - Cantaloupe Music (2025 May pre-release)
• https://davidhandler.bandcamp.com/album/life-like-violence 

 

• Track 6 (Your Eyes Are Like A Cup Of Tea (Reprise With Flute)) - The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka - Brian Jones presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka - Point Music / Phillips (1971/1995)
• https://www.joujouka.org/brian-jones-in-morocco-ugly-things-feature-on-the-rolling-stones-guitarists-recordings-in-joujouka/ 

 

• Alchemy II: Dreamland - Loop 2.4.3 (Thomas Kozumplik / Lorne Watson) - American Dreamland - Music Starts From Silence (2012)
• https://musicstartsfromsilence.bandcamp.com/album/american-dreamland 

 

• Trance - Bill Frisell / Victor Bruce Godsey / Brian Ales - American Blood - Safety In Numbers - Intuition (1995) 

 

• Soliloquy & Rondo - flute: Lyndsey Goodman / piano: Clare Longendyke / composer: Richard E. Brown - In The Company of Music - Navona Records (2024)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6656 
  

 

• Variations For Flute And Electronic Sound - Wendy Carlos - Electronic Sound (compilation) - Turnabout (1965)
• https://www.wendycarlos.com/ 

 

• Variations sur une Flûte mexicaine [Variations on a Mexican flute] (1949) - Pierre Schaeffer - Œuvres 1948-1952 - NA grm (2023)
• https://pierreschaeffer.bandcamp.com/album/uvres-1948-1952 
  

 

• Boiled Cadillac - Emily Hay, flute / Wayne Peet, piano / Brad Dutz, percussion - Like Minds - PfMentum (2005)
• https://emilyhay.com/ 

 

• Amores Montuños (Mountain Loves) - Duo Zuber: Patricia Zuber, flute / Greg Zuber, marimba / William Susman, composer - Blackbird Redux - belarca records (2018)
• https://belarca.com/releases/blackbird-redux.php 

 

• Lila for flute, bass flute and contrabass flute - flute: Claire Chase / composer: Dai Fujikura - Density 2036: part iii (2015) - Corbett vs. Dempsey (2020)
• https://clairechase.bandcamp.com/album/density-2036-part-iii-2015 

 

• Flute Drone (excerpt) - Mean Flow - Flute Drone - digital release (2016) 
• https://meanflow.bandcamp.com/album/flute-drone-2