CD Esoterik

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
3. Patrik Fitzgerald – Working Hu-Man's Casino
4. David Rosenboom – Section II. (symmetrical harmonies in chaotic orbits)
5. Gerhard Ruhm – Pencil Music Nr. 1
6. Gerhard Ruhm – Pencil Music Nr. 2
7. Gerhard Ruhm – Pencil Music Nr. 3
8. David Van Tieghem feat. Adele Bertei – "Working Girls" opening theme
9. Billy Bruner – T-U-L-S-A Song
10. Momoyo & Lizard – Sa・Ka・Na (サ・カ・ナ)
11. Paul Bley/Masahiko Togashi – Offhand (excerpt)

Shout out:

NPNP – Harmony In a Vacuum (Halocline Trance) out now!

Billy Bruner
T-U-L-S-A Song

T-U-L-S-A
Tulsa
Come on along
It's okay

I can hardly believe
That underneath this oak try
All of the tribes, they met in peace

That's unmistakably Tulsa
No better place in the world to live
That's unmistakably Tulsa
Where we live

Where the people can be so friendly
And the weather, so unpredictable
It's a place called 'America's Most Livable City'

We started out small
Now we're standing tall and free
Where this stuff called 'black gold'
Floated us all that way

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 – Lecture pour bande magnétique (1974) part I

2. Otto Willberg – Reap What Thou Sow

3. Joan La Barbara – Voice Piece: One Note Internal Resonance Investigation

4. Fred Moten, Brandon López, Gerald Cleaver – 1A

5. Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II w/ Clifford Thornton – Song For Lauren

6. Kyle Gann – Andromeda Memories

7. Thick Pigeon – Jess + Bart

8. Makers – Don't Challenge Me

9. Michael Finnissy – Gesualdo: Libro Sesto: I

Z. Outro theme

Endless gratitude:

Chris Wrench

Zïlon

Pierre Martel

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 listened to:

A. Intro theme

1. Kavain Wayne Space & XT – Side A

2. Amalgam – Roller Coaster Part 1

3. Number One du Senegal – Fatu Sarr Waasanaan

4. Chaba Fadila – Ouelite

5. SnPLO – Lastday cookie

6. keiyaA – Do Yourself a Favor

7. Gavin J Sheehan – Flibbyflobbyflu [CD Esoterik Exclusive]

8. Kevin Harrison & Steven Parker – Cavalcade

Z. Outro theme

Shout outs:

The essay in question: George E. Lewis, Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives, 2002
Excellent music archive project Unknown Province
The DIY cassette/mail-art torch burns bright thanks to presses précaires

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 – My Heart Is A Mountain

2. Alan Sorrenti – Angelo

3. Cem Karaca – Emrah

4. Isak Sundström – The Tarnished Angels

5. Animal Charm – Moving Day

6. Bill Dixon – When Winter Comes

7. Fitz Gore & The Talismen – Requiem For Julian Cannonball Adderley

8. Marshall Allen ft. Neneh Cherry – New Dawn
9. John Cage – In a Landscape

Z. Outro theme

Shout outs:

Colin Vernon as well as the 62 Rache E. Anticapitalist Ass Pirates for the emergency February healer

Marielle Groven mariellegroven.ca thanks for loaning the pod your incredible track
Alexandre St-Onge passing on knowledge
Thank you Vincent Williams (1933 – 2016) for The Voice

Animal Charm
Animal Charm
Animal Charm

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 Bozambo dawn .

Above all else: Godard.

We listened to:

A. Intro theme
1. Christina Kubisch – Night Flights
2. Peter Rose – The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough (Witness – excerpt)
3. Jean-Luc Godard - King Lear (excerpt)
4. "Blue" Gene Tyranny – A Letter From Home
5. Tibor Szemző – Tractatus
6. Roy Ayers Quartet – If I Were A Carpenter
7. Bozambo – Viva Bozambo
8. Offering – Love In The Darkness
Z. Outro theme

Shout outs:
BBB / NOW TIME - https://boot-boyz.biz/
Alex St.Onge https://www.alexandrest-onge.com/
Peter Rose

Special thanks:
Thank you Christof Migone of https://squint.press/
Thank you, Roy Ayers (1940 – 2025)