7-19-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!

In this week's musical assortment: new/new, old/new, new/old, old/old.  Your job, figure out which is which.

Enjoy!

Joel

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7-19-25 PTE Playlist

 

• Satan's Mysterious Feeling - Roy Haynes -  Hip Ensemble - WeWantSounds (1971)
• https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/roy-haynes-hip-ensemble-lp-gatefold-sleeve-and-2-page-insert-black-vinyl 

 

• Midas - Karl Evangelista's Apura - Bukas - 577 Records (August 2025 pre-release)
• https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/bukas 

 

• Crysanthemum Bang - SPLaTTeRCell (David Torn) - OAH - CeLLDiViSioN (2000)
• https://davidtornmusic.com/ 

 

• A Palace of Pearls (on a blade of grass) - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (w/ David Torn & Chris Botti) - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Papa Bear Records (1998)
• https://papabear.com/store/blue_cd.htmlhttps://papabear.com/store/blue_cd.html 

 

• Let There Be Sparrows, then (for chamber orchestra) - composer: Sarah Bassingthwaighte / London Symphony Orchestra, cond. -  Orchestrating The Wild - Aria Classics (2025)
• https://www.ariaclassics.com/orchestratingthewild 

 

• Spring Snow - Lingyuan Yang - Cursed Month - Chaospace Records (2025)
• https://lingyuanyang.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-month 

 

• Basement / Washing Machine - Fletina - Mahorka (2025)
• https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/environments-mechanisms 

 

• Scott Somebody - flute: Emily Duncan / composer: Randall Woolf - Woolf At The Door - Neuma Records (2025)
• https://emilyduncanflute.bandcamp.com/album/woolf-at-the-door 

 

• John Somebody (complete) - Scott Johnson - John Somebody - Tzadik (2004)
• https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8009 

 

• The Illusion of Guidance - Bang On A Can All-Stars / composer: Scott Johnson - Live FM Broadcast - 9-17-2003  Biennale, Venezia

 

• London Fix 3 (excerpt) - Tom Hamilton - Muse Eek (2003)
• https://muse-eek.com/tom-hamilton-london-fix/