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1. Episode 13: By What Signs Will I Come to Understand30.10.2025 (01:56:11)

   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 where the snake eats its own tail, and recursive logic extrapolates toward its ultimate goal: ecstatic ghost hum production.Beginner’s mind is the key to keeping the Kaoss Pad unlimited.The universe explodes into so many layers of simulation— and then: Whitney Houston confetti, powered by a nuanced critique of the colonialist anthropological instinct.We close our trip to the Canadas in the ultimate hall of Kierkegaardian expensive cassette mirrors, to look at some paintings somewhere near Niagara Falls. Back to Brooklyn for delicate shredding and something new with guitar.You can do it still!We visit Japan for the hollow sound, where the dishwasher brings the responsible vocal shred. Something short shows us the bubbles we live in.And: New York hates you.Finally, a convincing case that live music is better than recorded music can ever be.Episode warning:Do not listen while driving or operating heavy machinery.We want problems. We don’t want peace.We listend to:1. Ian Crause – Phaethon's Call2. Christof Migone – ooooo (demo)3. Michael Snow – Si Nopo Da (By What Signs Will I Come to Understand)4. Chris Wind ft. Jurgen Rodriguez – Paintings 75. Chuck Roth – Twister6. Hako Yamasaki – Wandering7. Milan Grygar – Akustická kresba A158. DEATHBYSHEEP – DEATHBYSHEEP PRESENTS- BLUNTED POSSE SAMPLER MIX 2022-2023 PART 2 (excerpt)9. Josephine Foster – All I Wanted Was The Moon (live at MeetFactory, Prague, May 16., 2024)Shout Outs:Le Laps one of many Marie-Douce St Jacques' awesome endeavours. Rest in epic strangeness, Brian CatlingHollow — B. CatlingMichael Snow! thank you!Chris Wind's excellent websiteMarie Brassard’s film Le TrainMicroclimat Films — The TrainAnother Mark Loeser shout.Penelope Spheeris — The Decline of Western Civilization (Parts I-III)Part IPart IIPart III

2. Episode 12: Amerikraut Trucker Funk w. Larry "Fuzz-O" Dolman30.09.2025 (02:30:26)

   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 the Robert Wyatt hump by mineralizeing Leon. Fishing with a sausage, an apple and a sandwich lands a Ukrainian architect tipping the Zulawski meter into the red. The vibe shift clause is invoked leading us back to the trucker funk, down the deep history of the ugliest edits to the perfect bpm. Jeff Mills shows up, as he does, to complicate the narrative. After that, we hit the tornado coffee shop bringing the go-go back. We close on the hopeful resilient shimmering pickled herring of 1989.As usual we get 1/91st of the way to the 6000 cassettes in the kiosk,It is what it is. There’s no changing it.  Finally, we ask the eternal quesiton: Was RollerDerby 1.95 or 2.95 per issue?We listend to:1. Shutaro Noguchi and the Roadhouse Band – Olympic 3.52. Bill Orcutt – The Four Louies II3. Robert Wyatt – Biko4. Ihor Tsymbrovsky – Bilya Morya (By The Sea)5. Ron Hardy –  Live at the Music Box, 1985 (excerpt)6. Jeff Mills – Memory Reset 97. Reaction Band –  Coffee Shop8. Оселедець – Хто поблагословив незрячі очіShout outs:Gridface's Ron Hardy archivesArthur Magazine's Jay Babcott's substackRoller Derby's Lisa Carver's patreon

3. Episode 11: Beauty stabs at the perfect gradient.30.08.2025 (02:03:27)

   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 foremost player bowing instead of plucking. How rawness affects the opening of ears. Fractal sand that egress the vibes to create the oyster and the pearl. Then, a short sailing trip back to the gradient. What about tomorrow?  We got up in the morning and we had to eat again. It’s a disaster by god. Too short soulful collage from a small little country.  Better. Richer. More complex sonic youth cover closing the gradient in perfect tone but still getting hurt by songs with drums recorded miles away. Beauty kills. Beauty is the murderer.What we learned: To speak better: Talk less. Make music more.We listend to:1. Henryk Górecki feat. Beth Gibbons, Krzysztof Penderecki – Symphony No. 3 Final Movement2. Cassandra Miller – I cannot love without trembling3. Hwang Byungki feat. Hong Sin Cha – The Labyrinth (Excerpt)4. Tom Johnson – Combinations for String Quartet III5. Gary Marks – Sailing6. Ziad Rahbani feat. Jospeh Saqr – Esmaa Ya Reda7. Collage –  Halb Sirp (Bad Sickle)8. Silvia Tarozzi – La sostanza dell’affetto9. Marnie – Songs Hurt MeShout outs:Watch Beth Gibbons singing Górecki with Krzysztof Penderecki conductingDomenico Caliri guitarist on the Silvia Tarozzi track (she is also listed so it could be her!)

4. Episode 10: Le son sauvage w. Anne-F Jacques30.07.2025 (02:26:49)

   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 creates rainbows in Poland. Boiling speakers bring the montreal rains.We discover that China is a big place and there is a lot of good stuff happening there right now. Rotterdam however is boring as hell. And so is the internet as a means for discovering culture. Can things just be allowed to be things? Contraptions! The power of patience. The heart of the speaker. We meditate. we destroy. What’s going to happen next?Episode lesson: Teenage suburban metal bands are essential in creating the material conditions for experimental music We listend to:A. Intro theme1. Glorias Navales – Carta a Maureen Tucker - 01 Lado A (excerpt)2. Joris De Laet – Envelopes3. ake 阿科 – mismatch 不合4. Ellen Fullman – The Gardner (Excerpt)5. Zhao Cong – home recording 16. Atsushi Tominaga – 0137. Leandro Barzabal & Céleste Gatier – Sans titre 18. Eliane Radigue, Ensemble Dedalus – Occam – Hepta IZ. Outro themeShout outs:https://metaphon.be/ for all your tape music needsShawn at Bar L'Hémisphère Gauche for keeping the neigbourhood tightWrK records Japan for the colour photocopiesZhao Cong for the toys

5. Episode 9. Prinzendorf Impressions: Süßes Erden Mysterien Theater30.06.2025 (02:45:38)

   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 therapistNitsch at Bayeuruth Mekas with colour commentary Kubelka at dawnLoud sneezes and the red wine tastes like blood for weeks. Gardens of stone. Gardens of delicacies.Indissoluble binomials. The ascendant power of poetic translation of song.Justin finally plays a short track. Sensational! Special bonus lathe cut: anarchists impressions: “Empire!”Tip of the week: Homemade Magma t shirts get you gigsWe listend to:A. Intro theme1. Hermann Nitsch – Orgien Mysterien Theater 25.Aktion – Untitled IV2. Mariolina Zitta & Patricia Meyer – Il Giardino Delle Stelle3. Wolf Vostell – Il Giardino Delle Delizie – Fluxus Opera (excerpt)4. Walter Maioli & Nirodh Fortini – Suoni ottenuti soffiando dentro due gambi di taraxacum (do e fa) registrati in un prato con sottofondo di suoni d_insetti (brano n.3). Suoni successivamente rallentati di velocità5. Denis Wize – Celestial Cungo Dub6. Jerome Rothenberg – Horse Songs7. Marion Brown played by Paul Bley – Sweet Earth Flying (Pt. 1)8. Sensational & Unbuilt – Erques9. Eric Schmid – Giorgio Agamben (excerpt)Z. Outro themeShout outs:Blake Hargreaves Mystical Knights of the Taiga Spa, WienServer FarmsRosi BraidottiSpecial thanks / Rest in powerCortical Foundation / Gary Todd

6. Episode 8: The good things, you put too much of it w. Olivier Borzeix30.05.2025 (02:12:01)

   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. James Tenney, erotic film star, tortures violinist's fingers.The internet connection changes quality. You can’t stop it. Chrome kills as a source of band names.Content warning: Balloons!!Overall moral lesson:Don’t just sing when flexitone virtuosity can abound. We listend to:A. Intro theme1. Henry Flynt – Violin Strobe2. Uncredited – Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant3. James Tenney – Koan4. Judy Dunaway – Live 2016 (Twister Balloon) (watch the amazing footage here)5. Karen Krog – Images in Glass6. Karen Krog – Meaning of Love7. Kengo Iuchi – 九月の空に忌8. Abstract Nympho – Silver MachineZ. Outro themeShout outs:Dream House in Mexico:https://casadellago.unam.mx/nuevo/evento/dreamhouRIP: Marianne ZazeelaNeighbour LoulouMark Loeser, AGAIN!Emerald Cloud CobraThanks Angie for the episode artworkMatts GuffstasonAll the good record stores that don't just move units

7. Episode 7: Baader-Meinhoff blues 30.04.2025 (01:51:01)

   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/screaming babies, Byron Coley being shy, pis le meilleur fucking disque jamais fait icitte au Québec.We listened to:A. Intro theme1. Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis – Lumière Écarlate2. Richard Pinhas Heldon – Le Voyageur (Ouais MArchais Mieux qu'en 68)3. Rato Mobio Venance - Min Mmi4. Jean-François Pauvros – Mon homme5. George Clinton – Bangladesh6. John Downland – Unquiet Thoughts7. Whine – Gauntlet8. L'Infonie – Mantra9. Scream Baby Scream – UntitledZ. Outro themeShout outs:There, whom Leon keeps calling Them, and DimeTyler Knight and Francis Amireault dream rhythm sectionThe Wall of StockhausenMark Loeser Again!Greg & Brian, keep your eyes peeled for the new Pump Up the Volume location!And because this podcast is an astral collapse generator, this episode is published on Brian and Leon's  birthday, happy birthday Brian!

8. Episode 6: Astral Collapse w. Christof Migone30.03.2025 (02:42:21)

   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 theme1. Christina Kubisch – Night Flights2. 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 Home5. Tibor Szemző – Tractatus6. Roy Ayers Quartet – If I Were A Carpenter7. Bozambo – Viva Bozambo8. Offering – Love In The DarknessZ. Outro themeShout outs:BBB / NOW TIME - https://boot-boyz.biz/Alex St.Onge https://www.alexandrest-onge.com/Peter RoseSpecial thanks:Thank you Christof Migone of https://squint.press/Thank you, Roy Ayers (1940 – 2025)

9. Episode 5: …is the greatest electronic instrument28.02.2025 (02:10:57)

   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 theme1. Marielle Groven – My Heart Is A Mountain2. Alan Sorrenti – Angelo3. Cem Karaca – Emrah4. Isak Sundström – The Tarnished Angels5. Animal Charm – Moving Day6. Bill Dixon – When Winter Comes7. Fitz Gore & The Talismen – Requiem For Julian Cannonball Adderley8. Marshall Allen ft. Neneh Cherry – New Dawn9. John Cage – In a LandscapeZ. Outro themeShout outs:Colin Vernon as well as the 62 Rache E. Anticapitalist Ass Pirates for the emergency February healerMarielle Groven mariellegroven.ca thanks for loaning the pod your incredible trackAlexandre St-Onge passing on knowledgeThank you Vincent Williams (1933 – 2016) for The VoiceAnimal CharmAnimal CharmAnimal Charm

10. Episode 4: Low key responsible shredding w. special guest Alex Moskos30.01.2025 (02:05:08)

    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 theme1. Kavain Wayne Space & XT – Side A2. Amalgam – Roller Coaster Part 13. Number One du Senegal – Fatu Sarr Waasanaan4. Chaba Fadila – Ouelite5. SnPLO – Lastday cookie6. keiyaA – Do Yourself a Favor7. Gavin J Sheehan – Flibbyflobbyflu [CD Esoterik Exclusive]8. Kevin Harrison & Steven Parker – CavalcadeZ. Outro themeShout outs:The essay in question: George E. Lewis, Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives, 2002Excellent music archive project Unknown ProvinceThe DIY cassette/mail-art torch burns bright thanks to presses précaires

11. Episode 3: Store is open. Welcome.30.12.2024 (02:10:02)

    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 theme1. Ahmed Essyad – Lecture pour bande magnétique (1974) part I2. Otto Willberg – Reap What Thou Sow3. Joan La Barbara – Voice Piece: One Note Internal Resonance Investigation4. Fred Moten, Brandon López, Gerald Cleaver – 1A5. Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II w/ Clifford Thornton – Song For Lauren6. Kyle Gann – Andromeda Memories7. Thick Pigeon – Jess + Bart8. Makers – Don't Challenge Me9. Michael Finnissy – Gesualdo: Libro Sesto: IZ. Outro themeEndless gratitude:Chris WrenchZïlonPierre Martel

12. Episode 1: Unmistakably Esoterik30.11.2024 (01:40:07)

    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 Man2. Ayako Shinozaki⧸Takehisa Kosugi – Heterodyne3. Patrik Fitzgerald – Working Hu-Man's Casino4. David Rosenboom – Section II. (symmetrical harmonies in chaotic orbits)5. Gerhard Ruhm – Pencil Music Nr. 16. Gerhard Ruhm – Pencil Music Nr. 27. Gerhard Ruhm – Pencil Music Nr. 38. David Van Tieghem feat. Adele Bertei – "Working Girls" opening theme9. Billy Bruner – T-U-L-S-A Song10. 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 BrunerT-U-L-S-A SongT-U-L-S-ATulsaCome on alongIt's okayI can hardly believeThat underneath this oak tryAll of the tribes, they met in peaceThat's unmistakably TulsaNo better place in the world to liveThat's unmistakably TulsaWhere we liveWhere the people can be so friendlyAnd the weather, so unpredictableIt's a place called 'America's Most Livable City'We started out smallNow we're standing tall and freeWhere this stuff called 'black gold'Floated us all that way