5-9-26 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - FIRE & SMOKE!

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 (2025)
https://lingyuanyang.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-month 

Phase One

Smoke,  I - VIII - New Music Detroit / composer: Marc Mellits - Smoke: Music of Marc Mellits - Innova (2018)
https://innova.mu/album/smoke-music-of-marc-mellits/ 

Data Fire - Kristina Warrent - Tusk - Gold Bolus Recordings (2026)
https://kmwarren.bandcamp.com/album/tusk 

Blabber & Smoke - Capt. Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid - Reprise (1972)

Fumée - Geoffrey Gordon, composer - Fumée - Neuma Records (2026)
https://geoffreygordon.bandcamp.com/album/fum-e 

Birds of Fire - HR (Hessian Radio) -Big Band feat. Billy Cobham, arranged & directed by Colin Towns - Meeting of the Spirits: A Celebration of the Mahavishnu Orchestra - In + Out Records (2006)
https://www.hr-bigband.de/media/cds/meeting-of-the-spirits-feat-billy-cobham--colin-towns,cd-meeting-spirits-cobham-towns-100.html 

Phase Two

States of Intermeshing: smoke - Corie Rose Soumah - Musicworks 153 (2026)
https://www.musicworks.ca/winter-2025-spring-2026 

Fireflies (feat. Trey Gunn on Warr Touch guitar, U. Rajesh on mandolin & Ganesh Kumar on konnakol (vocal percussion) - Deep Energy Orchestra - The Science of Sound - 7d Media (2026)
https://deepenergyorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-science-of-sound 

Black Smoke Curls - Anatomist - Black Smoke Curls - Machine Records (2022)
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-smoke-curls 

Prelude-Nightmare / Fire Poem / Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Polydor (1968)
https://www.thegodofhellfire.com/ 

Smoker - Christian Marclay - Records 1981-1989 - Atavistic Records (1997) 

Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets - Island (1974) 

Smoke Break - Stuart Hamm - The Diary of Patrick Xavier - Ubik Music (2018)
https://stuhamm.com/ 

Fire - Francisco Mela featuring Leo Genovese and William Parker - Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 3 - 577 Records (2025)
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/music-frees-our-souls-vol-3