4-6-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center

Greetings!

As you might have noticed, glancing through this week's playlist, Leon Alvarado's track planted the seed of music related to elephants, both real & fictional.  In addition, the usual mix of new, old and in-between.

Enjoy!

Joel

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4-6-24 PTE Playlist

 

• Carbon Monoxide - Glenn Branca Ensemble - Ensemble: Live at Primavera Sound Music Festival 2011 in Barcelona, Spain - Free Music Archive (2011)
• https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glenn_Branca/Live_at_Primevera_Sound_2011-_Glenn_Branca 

 

• Where Songs Go At Night (for flute, oboe, clarinet, tenor saxophone, horn, and bassoon) - ensemble: Bandwidth / composer: Anna Weesner - Where Songs Go At Night - Neuma Records (2024)
• https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/bandwidth-where-songs-go-at-night 

 

• Sprawl Twilight - Temporal Waves - Temporal Waves - people | places | records (2024)
• https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/temporal-waves 

 

• Dance of the Pink Elephants - Leon Alvarado - Brain Damage - Melodic Revolution Records EP (2024)
• https://leonalvarado.bandcamp.com/album/brain-damage 

 

• Medley Five (Technicolor Pachyderms): Pink Elephants on Parade/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Sun Ra And His Arkestra & Harry Nilsson - Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - A&M Records (1988)
• https://haltribute.com/discography/ 

 

• Elephant Talk - King Crimson - CIRKUS: The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson LIVE, Vol. One - Neon Heat Disease (1984-1986) - Virgin/DGM (1999)
• https://www.dgmlive.com/ 

 

• Music by Humans About Elephants > Big Elephant Saddle - mahout (elephant caretaker) musicians - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)
• https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra 

 

• Elephants With Humans > Somneuk & Four Elephants - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)
• https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra 

 

• Natural Elephant Sounds > Elephant Field Recordings - Thai Elephant Orchestra - Mulatta Records (2002)
• https://davesoldier.bandcamp.com/album/thai-elephant-orchestra 

 

• dance of the fungi - Sam Wilson — guitar/ compositions; Jen Yakamovich — drums; Geordie Hart — upright bass - Wintertides - self-release (2024)
• https://samwilsonmusiq.bandcamp.com/album/wintertides 

 

• Paradoxon - Gerald Gradwohl - ...Or What? - self-release (May 2024 pre-release)
• https://www.gradwohl.at/ 

 

• Sea of Hopeless Angels  - Markus Reuter & Stefano Castagna - Sea of Hopeless Angels - Flatiron Recordings (2024)
• https://markusreuterflatiron.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-hopeless-angels 

 

• Seaward Galaxy - Vaster Than Empires / Erica Dicker, violin - baritone violin, Allen Otte - percussion, amplified sound boards, shortwave radio, Paul Schuette - synthesizers, guitar - Three Days - New Focus Recordings (2021)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/three-days 

 

• Wer aber vom Kapitalismus nicht reden will, der sollte auch vom Faschismus schweigen (But if you don't want to talk about capitalism, you should also keep quiet about fascism) - David Wallraf and monad node - Un culte sans r​ê​ve et sans merci (A cult without dreams and without mercy) - self-release (2024)
• https://monadnode.bandcamp.com/album/un-culte-sans-r-ve-et-sans-merci 
  

 

• The Machines - Caught In Joy - Astral Arcadia - digital release (2024)
• https://caughtinjoy.bandcamp.com/album/astral-arcadia