CD Esoterik

Live from Poland, Mark / Justin  / Jacob

So there's, like, this, uh, this radio station that I've never listened to. It was like high UV I'm listening to music really loudly, and it's why I'm shouting. "快點"  I mean, throwing a Cuica that far  in the mix. So there's something going on. There's something there. Drifting through the wind. All right. I'm into it. So everything's  going to work. Yeah, everything's lining up. So here we go:...

According to something I read, this is a party.  You don’t know what  you are missing. I think they have a word  for it : the time before  the internet. If I can add precision:  We missed the chance  to induce mass hallucination It’s like the selfie camera  turned around. It’s not your mirror  image. It doesn’t know  what it is doing, and  it has no intention to know  what it is doing. There’s som...

Oh! This is exactly  what I’ve be looking for  all my life. I don’t known if this is music. I don’t  know what it is.   There so many layers  of going deep  into the material. A way to live:  Escape capture. Apply pure spontaneous investigative logic to the material at hand. Restraint. A radical openness to  be in dialogue with the thing you observe.  A feedback piece A piece for wolf tones  A pie...

Where this starts, you are going to be so surprised where it ends. I’m just going to pecker my way into this one:  Cups Chairs Flatware Bucket Pop-top. You are over there. There’s just so many directions you can take from the cups.  So,  Sell everything and just buy three machines Its just so basic—commit to the bit You press a button and a sound comes out.  You press the button again and the soun...

We are joined by the magical and sylvan Catherine Debard, artist known as Tenses, Ylang Ylang, 1/2 of Mue, and many other great pieces of the Montréal tape underground. Fruits everywhere. Cushions. Luxury. A lot of drums. Quarantines are broken: Girls play guys music. Guys playing girls.   An awful YouTube doc on ‘unrecorded mysterious sounds’. What is Netflix missing? Definition hiding in unexpec...

A year end celebration with the larger circle. The theme: Terrifying in a beautiful instead of a dangerous way. We start the episode under the icecap. We celebrate life in a subaquatic hydrophone terror attack by ghosts who remind us of the life-giving force of death in a connected world.   It sounds joyful.  The Book of Revelation , written by stylophone, with no consonants, only vowels. Intentio...

This is not what I signed up for, this is exactly what I signed up for. Legendary experimental film maker and the perfect person to be on any podcast, Mark Loeser, shows up at all the usual tables, in a t-shirt that says Aztec camera.  Enthusiasm beats considered intellectualism every single minute. We learn through lost super 8 cartridges that fascination is the root of all suffering. Yet, anythi...

Another early Sunday. Leon asks the infernal 8-ball what’s up. Flipped over, it says: go both speeds at once. When we take its advice, the sun is driven poorly by the wild son. The earth scorches. The father smites the son. The cycle continues—through the Iraq War, maybe all the way to 2025. We move to frozen Canada and double down on the vowels. The CD Esoterik exclusive track hits the sweet spot...

In which we are joined by one of the OG inspirations for Esoterik, esteemed blogger, substacker, brilliant writer and legendary ear-having proprietor of Blastitude , Larry “Fuzz-O” Dolman. We discuss the economics of the 30-600 split, Utopias and Distopias. The openess of open access. Cassandra Miller vs Cassandra Wilson.  The 80% (corrected) EPA scale delivers short form long form. We get over th...

Violence is easy. Nostalgia, complexity, they all are easy to make a case for. The beautiful? It’s impossible to approach. Yet, we try, without intending to, because it’s Sunday morning and music speaks directly on Sunday morning, and absolute unmixed attention is prayer. Melody. That singer from orang, what’s her name? Simone Weil. So much control over something uncontrollable. The nations foremo...

Amazing sound artist, label runner, contextual one-time author, unlandlord and friend since Esoterik days Anne-F Jacques joins us for our tenth (TEN!) episode. We start with 2-3 notes and the inimitable pacing of Mo Tucker, then go pure timbre and tape when actually it’s lots of notes and no melody. Lots of space between notes makes the notes feel less note. Ellen Fullman ditches long strings and...

In this very special episode one of our hosts is transmogrified in Prinzendorf. Another is levitated multiple times, raised into the air!  We discuss the relationship between the thing-in-iteslf, knowing the thing as represented, and the thing-as-experienced.  A lot of blood. A lot of fruit. A lot of entrails. Plus:  Dandelion Magic! The best way to find a virtual therapist Nitsch at Bayeuruth  Me...

Transversal musician and Esoterik kin Olivier Borzeix, whose venn diagrams scantly overlap but go deep regardless, joins us in today's episode. Henry Flynt is identified as the central node of all astral collapse. Leroy Jenkins appreciates the sun city girls but he doesn’t understand them. Lamonte Young almost kills someone dear, but a small dose of possession does an internet affected body good....

In which we forgo discussing the state of the world but then play a whole ton of music that discusses it better than words do. Fuck dancing about architecture, make music to set the heart of the world on fire.  Special thanks to the persistent Felquiste energy for episode inspiration.  Godard actresses and actors. Deleuze reading Neitzche over prog. Renaissance double agents, crying babies/screami...

Renowned sound-artist, theorist, and professor Christof Migone joins us for the long haul down the Toronto–London xpressway . Everyone records with actual microphones. No spacesuits. No fishtanks. Just words and music. Confessions. Absolutions. Men who can’t see far enough. Young cousins wake suddenly, speaking perfect Polish . Moths swirling around a lightbulb. 100% nocturnal, until the electric...

Dead of winter emergency February party. This one is for anyone who’s ever had to move.   In our continuing recording adventures Leon spends the last part of the episode recording from inside a spacesuit from the depths of Death Valley.  Charming animals, melodramas, glacial paces, Eurovision finalists… Fire. White smoke. Black smoke. The end. We listened to: A. New intro theme 1. Marielle Groven...

In this fourth episode, we welcome legendary noise moistener, ex-esoteriker and genius-level ear-haver, Alex Moskos. Also, Jacob is calling in from a fishtank covered in a sock that he kind of dips in and out of. The usual "experimental" recording balanced by consistently dazzling music. The question remains: Is HMV open? Yes. Well we're open too, then. Finally, Keith Rowe legit shreds. We listene...

After the dogs ate episode 2 it became clear that in order to meet the demand we needed to rush out a third. Turns out time-pressure is the best creative constraint. Number 3 features lots of hard panning, heavy playing, non-complex complexity and mad side-chaining. The question remains: Is there life on the earth? Esoterik podcast says: "YES" We listened to: A. Intro theme 1. Ahmed Essyad – Lectu...

Inaugural episode! Years in the making, shitty recording, ham-fisted editing. Great great music, lots of laughs, lots of feelings. Sorting out technicals is brown carpet, but it'll be smoother next time, promise! We had a great time, we want you to have a great time. We listened to: 1. Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari – Bongo Man 2. Ayako Shinozaki⧸Takehisa Kosugi – Heterodyne...