5-3-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!

This week's program is best described as a veritable potpourri! Music that's brand new, fairly new (within the past year or so), new to my library following a recent visit to the Princeton Record Exchange (heaven on earth) and a couple of older things from the archive.

Enjoy!

Joel

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5-3-25 PTE Playlist

 

• handsinmyhead (an intoxication in three parts) - GREETINGS - A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland: Electro-Acoustic Music From The Island of Ireland - Heresy Records (2018)
• https://heresyrecords.com/a-map-of-the-kingdom-of-ireland-artists/#greetings 

 

• Phoenix - vocal ensemble: The Electric Phoenix / composer: Gerald Shapiro - Neuma: Electro Acoustic Music II - Neuma Records (1991)
• https://neumarecords.org/home/ols/products/electro-acoustic-music-ii 

 

• Harmonic Rain - Morgan Szymanski / Tommy Perman - Harmonic Rain  - Blackford Hill digital single (July 2025 pre-release)
• https://tommyperman.bandcamp.com/music 

 

• Fragile Fantasy #4 (Thunder_Cookies_Remix) - Ran Slavin - Thunder Cookies (Fragile Revisions) - Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings (2025)
• https://ranslavin.bandcamp.com/album/thunder-cookies-fragile-revisions 
  

 

• busy ready what, corroborators - Rashad Becker - The Incident - Clunk (2025)
• https://rashadbecker.bandcamp.com/album/the-incident 

 

• Hope For Enlightenment - Lama Gyurme & Jean-Philippe Rykiel - The Lama's Chant: Songs of Awakening - Sony Classical (1994) 

 

• Vocalise on "In A Silent Way" - The Bowed Piano Ensemble - Ice & Fire - Navona Records (2013)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv5937/ 

 

• Les Premières Bandes 6 - Ilya P.  (aka Ludovic Medery) - Tensoplast - Falt (2020)
• https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/tensoplast 

 

• Don't Glitsh On My Cascade - Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace - Superpang (2021)
• https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/album/embrace 

 

• Angel of Sunlight - Carlos Santana / Reconstruction & Mix Translation: Bill Laswell - Divine Light: Music from Illuminations & Love Devotion Surrender - Columbia/Legacy (2001) 

 

• Cycles - Duo AYA: Rachel Woolf - flute / Makana Jimbu - marimba / composer: Evan Williams - Cycles - Neuma Records (2025)
• https://duoaya.bandcamp.com/album/cycles 

 

• Dystopian Devil - Thebot - Ne Plus Ultra Soundtrack - Moolakii Club Audio Interface (2024)
• https://moolakiiclubaudiointerface.bandcamp.com/album/ne-plus-ultra-soundtrack 

 

• We're Cosmic - Oceanographer - 14 Years / 100 Releases Compilation - Ingrown Records (2025)
• https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/14-years-100-releases-compilation 

 

• Treasure of Stars - Dirk Serries - Treasure Of Stars (Streams Of Consciousness) - Projekt Records (2025)
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-of-stars-streams-of-consciousness