CD Esoterik

By: TEAM ESOTERIK
  • Summary

  • CD ESOTERIK was a record store from the early 2000's in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. After a short 15 year or so pause to rethink, we decided to finally re-open the store as a podcast. Formely on Ste. Catherine Street in a basement beside a comic book shop, now fully of the ether.
    2024 CD ESOTERIK
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Episodes
  • Episode 4: Low key responsible shredding w. special guest Alex Moskos
    Jan 30 2025

    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

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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • Episode 3 - Store is open. Welcome.
    Dec 30 2024

    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

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    2 hrs and 10 mins
  • Episode 1: Unmistakably Esoterik
    Nov 30 2024

    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

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    1 hr and 40 mins

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