CD Esoterik

I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake.

Speaker 5: I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake.

Speaker 6: I just thought I'd call before I throw myself into the icy lake. Before I throw myself into I before I throw

Ana planeta: just I'd

Speaker 5: myself into the icy lake.

We listened to:
1. Porter Ricks – Prismatic Error
2. DAT Oven – Icy Lake (original Arena mix)
3. Mama Monkeys – Last Night at Pasalymany's
4. Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing (excerpt)
5. id m theft able – Leaving the keyboard that plays itself down by the river between 2:30 and 3:30 AM August 3rd 2017 (excerpt)
6. YlangYlang – Cold Division
7. Julie Tippetts – Behind The Eyes (For A Friend, R)
8. Lata Mangeshkar – Main Teri Dushman, Dushman Tu Mera
9. John Duncan / Bernhard Günter – Home, Unspeakable

Shout outs:
Junior Vasquez dropping Icy Lake at Arena closing party
The Donkeys
Mark Loeser's Rivers and Mountains DVD
RIP Pasalymany's
The Vampires
Tam
Anti-Capitalist Ass Pirates' Ambient Tuesdis
Tyler Knight
Juanito
Oscar
Anita
Janet
RIP Johnny
War M by Christof Migone
Connor Bennett and Olivier Dumont and the YlangYlang Band
Sam Wenc at Lobby Art Editions
Nagina
James Schidlowski's speaker istallation
From the greatest Fall record
Radiance box set by Stephane Mathieu
Luteness by Sam Shalabi
Chris Wrench always

I don't know, maybe, 

like, do normal, like, 

like, I can't help it, like, 

I like drawing connections,

I'm fascinated by that, and, 

and hopefully it isn’t 

all just one big, like, name drop 

pile, and hopefully it’s 

just more about interesting 

you know. 

One of my favourite 

name drops today was Justin,

i was able to bring Justin Bieber 

into the conversation.

I hope Justin Bieber listens 

to Hank 

and goes to the Yeti 

and Pepi's Pizza as well. 

That food and that music will 

blow your mind. 

Kitchener, Ontario.  

And Ann's husband, John, 

called me on it recently,

because I was going, wait, 

what's the context here? 

And I'm like, yeah, I guess… 

do people's brains just… maybe… 

do people's brains 

actually mostly have, like, 

Like, do people's brains

have a thing where… 

do normal… like, other people’s 

human brains 

have a thing where 

they can actually, 

like, filter and make it, 

like…less, like, 

da-da-da-da-da-da-da? Is that what it is?

Do people do what, like… 

And, and, you know, 

I love drawing these

multi-disciplinary, multi-media connections, as it's obvious, 

I'm  sure that they're connecting 

for me up here,

but I want to make sure they're connecting 

for me for all of you. You know, 

video, video.

If it wasn't for Moses Znaimer,

and Marshall McLuhan, 

there'd be no videodrome.  

I've had to work on gaining awareness.

I'm doing what it takes to survive, 

and you know, and some things 

I don't want to talk about but,

come on, 

you know,  

At first, I was, like, 

a few months ago, 

I was going, I'm gaining

self-awareness. 

I went, yeah,  but that's still self,  so 

let's get out of that…. gained some 

awareness, awareness of… 

so the people

that are around you are…

make sure that 

they’re okay. 

Make sure that

the people around you 

are okay, 

and that, 

you know, that, you know, 

you're not, 

you know, 

yeah, just make sure.

Hey guys, I'm just gonna go get some water.

We listened to:
1. The World Provider – Everything
2. John Cassavetes & Bo Harwood – No One Around to Hear it
3. Les Rita Mitsouko – C'est Comme Ça (TV performance on La Classe, 1987)
4. Harry "The Crown" Hosono – "Sayonara",The Japanes Farewell Song
5. Lucien Francoeur – Bubble Gum
6. Sun City Girls – Napoleon and Josephine
7. Mark Applebaum – Epigram 175
8. Northern Haze – Sinnaktuq

Shout outs:
Robert Dayton robertdayton.com
Canned Hamm https://cannedhamm.bandcamp.com/
July 4th Toilet https://julyfourthtoilet.bandcamp.com/
Julien Cope’s July 4th Toilet album of the month review : https://www.headheritage.co.uk/julian-cope/address-drudion/2009-06

Cold Glitter ) https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/02/28/Cold-Glitter-Glam-Rock-Lives-On/

Bobby Conn the double-A-side: https://forcedexposure.com/CATALOG/TR.594LP.html

Hank: https://hankthepopgroup.bandcamp.com 

We Are Time (Chandra Oppenheim's label): https://wearetime.bandcamp.com/music

Ann Magnuson  https://annmagnuson.bandcamp.com/album/dream-girl

Endless Cookie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless_Cookie

Welcome Space Brothers https://www.documentary.org/node/41502 — 

Jodi Wille: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Wille

Truth & Soul: A Robert Downey, Sr. Reader https://www.kierlajanisse.com/?p=1900

Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums https://firesigntheatre.com/store/braddock-firesign

The Birthday Experience  https://readnormies.substack.com/p/sometimes-robert-dayton-thinks-hes

Whammy! Analog Media whammyanalog.com

Bob Baker Marionette Theater (Bob Baker Day) bobbakermarionettetheater.com

The Yeti Cafe, Kitchener https://www.theyeticafe.com/

Pepi's Pizza, Kitchener, since 1959, 87 Water St N  https://pepispizza.com/

Major Entertainer  https://majorentertainer.bandcamp.com/

Groceries! https://groceries.band/ 

Glen Meadmore https://delighteddischarge.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/christian-cowpunk-and-the-queercore-explosion-glen-meadmore-talks-toxic/

Mantra  https://www.elizabethpurchell.com/film-programming

Buffet Infinity  https://edmonton.taproot.news/pulse/2025/08/07,  https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/buffet-infinity/

Three Day Stubble https://threedaystubble.bandcamp.com

Theremin Man  https://thereminman.bandcamp.com/music

The Great Octopus https://thegreatoctopus.bandcamp.com/

Pe...

Store Time

It’s just like burden, comma burden,
comma burden.

It’s sending me to bed
so it’s good.

I don’t understand what we, like,
what happened.
What,
like what happened in the world.

I think all of those facets
are present. You know?
Sure.

But why lean into the worst of
all of them.

Like, I’m like
shit,
Dude, like
I really
really like uneven people.

So how does that happen?

You call
You say,
“Hey you wanna be a
Part of this?”

But,
you just missed that phone call.

All the people who were
trying to
seriously look into it
Just got their funding cut
because of this, like you know, I…
I don’t know how to qualify

But it’s like, it’s just like
screamingly loud,
And everything’s louder than everything else.
And it kinda, it was a perfect,
We all just descended, like,
Into the madness.

It’s pretty astoundingly weird timing,
And it means freedom, but
also will and liberty. And
when you have the enormous
hegemon, next door
to you and the enormous
hegemon is trying to crush
you

it brings such a resilient joy
to the heart,
even though it means total shit,
to face.

The clarity of the injustice
is just like Fuck you.
Like it’s so obvious.

They just came
They hung out there,
and they sang
And then they danced and
danced.

And they danced.
And left. Just the
spontaneous eruption of
something so crystallized.
Yeah,
It’s it’s it’s
joy
In the face of
hell. Like,
It’s the most important
thing

The hegemony
of vision over the world,
Over the sensing world
is, you know,
when you dislodge it,
like yeah
yeah, a completely new
world opens up. A hymn
to all the freedom struggles
out there.
The song
Is a powerful instrument.

A headline filled with
possibility,

Joy, I would say,
because I understand
everything through
pulse
Read a room,
read a situation,
read a, like
existence.

This is part of the living book.

The part about being persecuted
and surviving through faith
And love. Always
A threat to
any country lived in.

God is too big
to be symbolized,
God is too present
to be symbolized, and God is
infinite
inside of each one of us.
So we need
Bread.
Salt.
Water.

That’s all it takes
to invite someone in.
It just goes in and turns the faucet on.

But this is it.

We live
in a society that relies
on the written word. I mean
Yeah, if you can just fall back on books
to tell you what you are thinking…

Imagine singing with 40 people from your community every day.
Fuck we have
no social.

You can imagine this whole idea
of boats in the ocean
In the sea
in the fog and not sure
if they are going to
reach land
With all these foghorns.

It’s what you’re left with
after that, we’re just boats
drifting in the fog,
it’s pretty existentially real.

It’s just this kind of fever
dream of survival. It’s just so… ahh..
it’s just,
just, such a, a beautiful
mess,
and it’s just
like a mirror
and, and it just
kinda,
its refractions
are insane, and
none of it is working
It would always
be breaking
and we’d just be like
improvising with whatever
was left.

That was a wonderful
summer. We had some silence
Some not silence, it was great.

We listened to:
1. Octave One feat. Ann Saunderson – Blackwater (String Vocal)
2. Stevie Wonder – Race Babbling
3. Black Bananas – Turkey Burgers
4. Mark Loeser – Ukrainian Kids at Wawel Castle
5. Kyoko Kuroda & Masami Shinoda – Hymn To Freedom
6. U.S.C.C. Doukhobor Friendship Choir – Будем Радоваться Братья
7. Ingram Marshall – Fog Tropes
8. Gate – Caked
9. Annette Peacock & Paul Bley – M.J.

Shout outs:
Eddie’s Album (visualizer)
The Doukhobors
Journal of Albion Moonlight 

From James: 

Basically, it's a 6-channel system. When Eric played, he sometimes had 6 different things going, several, some stereo, sent to different channels.

When Hélène Prévost played, she only deals in mono, so I duplicated the sound onto every channel. She sometimes had several sound sources playing, but because every speaker is different, and continually randomly switching, and imparts its own color/timbre, it was as if she was spatializing each sound separately. A really cool illusion.

I had the pleasure of sitting right next to her (and Eric), in the center of the space, while they practised/explored the system for a couple of hours.

We listened to:
1. Art Jackson's Atrocity – Shaft In Afghanistan
2. M. Zalla – Produzione
3. Peter Gordon – God's a Man
4. Hsia Yu & Yan Jun – Five Short Poems
5. OOIOO – Don Ah
6. Rocks & Waves Song Circle – I (Rocks & Waves)
7. ai/ia/af – Ia 11
8. Jean Langlais – Suite brève, Op. 38 : Plainte

Shouts:
Matt Robidoux: https://mattrobidoux.com/
Stéphane Claude: https://aelab.com/
Gavin John Sheehan - https://cstm-jahb.bandcamp.com/
Blake Hargreaves-https://fluorescentfriends.substack.com/

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:

​

We need some energy,

Energy of the wildness of the summer.

Like an amphitheater kind of thing

This is, like,

you gotta put the sunscreen… I even have the sunscreen

in my pocket, actually. Look,

I got it right here.

It's great.
According to the cloud,
there we go. 

Maybe

it wasn't the most summer, but it's kind of 

summer. It's like summer lullaby 

summer. I don't know. You can 
feel the heat. You can 

feel

the 
heat.

​
Yeah.

Is it summertime in Poland?

How is the other side?

It's, uh, very similar to…

the other side. Take-backs

on experiences

you've had, or something 
like that. It's like dub 
effect like a different, uh,

time zone, time lapse, time

everything.

​

I realize that I have a coin in my pocket

And I just use it to understand the universe

​It was pre-Shazam. There was no way to know what it was.
I don't want TikTok’s. I want photographic

evidence.

​

You got?

you got a card to throw on this table?

Oh, man. I don't know. 

I don't — my card

is stumped, I have to say.

Oh, man, I wanted… I was trying 

to, like,

throw you 
a softball here

basement bargain bin, like, "I've gone crazy,

I sold this store" kinda… 
price 

range.

​

So I guess that'll be springtime.

Yeah, it's springtime, which is reasonable.

Spring, you know, grew.

It sounds like all these cultures put together

It's giving you a heart.

Maybe you can just

go to bed Munchkin, you are 

just stuff… 
happening. Warm 
summer,

end of the day.

It's like tropical, um…

Munchkin…

Ewok

stuff.

​

Influence of the liners?

In the middle of the time of the service?

In the middle of the time of the service,

the mobile phone, the telephone. Help!

This is related too…

Just the sustained 

chord.The people with the,

you know,

the “good taste”.

And, like, inside the car,

I just thought it was like a comment on—

Electric vehicles. 
I mean, we've heard
a million versions of this kind of formula.

​

We'll do it as the barbershop quartet version.

It's like it's  "so yeah, but that that 
and this and maybe, like, 
yeah, I mean.…"

​

Okay.

You.

You.

You.

You.

it's relentless. It's really relentless.

I'm like, I can't. I can't even breathe like I'm just

小心。

快點。

救命。

All right.

There we go. Boy, 
what a relationship. 
It's just like a hand 
on the thermostat, like it's fucking 
too cold, it's too hot, it's too cold, it's 
too hot

It's so true. It's 
so true. It's
fantastic.

Thank you.

We survived.

We survived.

That's great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Holy, holy, ho.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The chest is full of helium.
Yeah, the gas is 
amazing. I couldn't even
get the joke out. Oh my 

God, 
thank you.

We listened to:
1. Miles Davis – Sivad
2. 801 – Third Uncle (live)
3. Carl Craig – Mind Of A Machine
4. Charles Earland – Leaving This Planet
5. Me & E – Whatcha Need
6. Mr. De' – Do It To It
7. Boredoms – Ant 10 (Lindstrøm Remix)
8. Fennesz – Don't talk (put your head on my shoulder)
10. Delkash – Be Kenaram Benshin

Shout outs:

MARK & SAMANTHA
MR DE, A DETROIT STORY

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 something wrong. 

Something you introduced me to, a bomb 

going off.

My heart is racing. My heart is so full.

It’s almost unhinged, the sheer 

recklessness. This strange thing

about the illusion of the modern world.

Of the permanence of things. Dead links 

on Wikipedia. The fact it hallucinates 

constantly is more ontologically 

correct, But I had forgotten all of those 

I had forgotten all of those

little sounds that were coming out at the end.

We are in 2026.

The 70’s in Japan were crazy.

It’s the exact same thing. You just feel like 

the stage is going to collapse. Everything is 

insane. The machines are at their apex.

I have a bit of experience,

and one small shitty box that anyone can get.

It's a kind of relaxed and 

not relaxed thing

at the same time.

Sorry, Kathy Clancy 

on timpani, sorry.  It's frames 

inside of frames. It never stops 

unfolding, that depth.

Just the minutia. Heat wave? 

Nah, 

Heat stroke. 

I gotta sit down.

This is music 

to fall in love 

We listened to:
1. Terry Riley – You're No Good
2. Fix –  Flash
3. Man Parrish – Hip Hop Bebop (Don't Stop)
4. Reaction Band – No More Bad News
5. The Fall – Reprise: Jane - Prof Mick - Ey Bastardo
6. Tony Messina – Noiseoid Suite
7. Robert Ashley – The Miracle of Cars
8. JA Seazar – Lion Cub/Song of Pilgrimage to Tokyo
10. Chaba Yamina – Yamrir

Shout outs:

RIP AGAIN AND SPECIAL THANKS AGAIN organ of corti/ gary Todd

DJ CYAN radio show

RTX TRANSMANIACON other best most hated album
ALLISON ANDERS on Mi Vida Loca
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEON!

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 piece with words

It’s so punk sounding. So raw, so organic. I can’t think of anything
French that sounds like that. I don’t know what
it is. It’s so much 
about the material of the real.

A store outing:

The space whistles. It felt daunting.

Then it’s the most natural thing 
in the world— 
We can not bridge it, because 
it is inside. 
It’s undeniable. 

A person who makes the one song 
their entire life. From birth 
to death they’ve 
been doing that, the needle 
that plays the universes song. 

If they want
to come for us, they can 
but we’re making this 
anyways. To have 
that as radical praxis. There’s obviously 
something at work there. 

It’s a resonating machine. 
A flat affect transmission. 

It’s got all the ingredients.

I should do this 
every goddamn Sunday. 

We listened to:
1. Eliane Radigue – Opus 17: Number 17
2. Eliane Radigue for Charles Curtis – Naldjorlak (Paris, 2006)
3. Eliane Radigue for Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley – Songs Of Milarepa: Song Of The Path Guides

Shout outs:
Wall of Sound / Climax Golden Twins: An American Experimental Music Band

The live version of the actual first instrumental piece 

Eliane and the AI

https://www.markslutsky.com/archive/something-good-52-what-life-is-less-without/

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 sound goes out.

On and off. 

On and off.

I’d like to sometimes live in this world where just I live in an empty room

With just this bed

With this couch on the floor

And this table with like two machines

And I just like turn on the sound

turn off the sound.

And turn on the sound

turn off the sound.

And I have only three sounds to work with.

There’s this moiré kind of thing happening 

There’s a lot of crevices to explore

So this is kind of this idea.

This kind of thing like 

“Whoah… how far is this going to go?”

(Please wait for a couple of hours for someone to call you).

We are in a new timeline.

It’s a winning proposal

It’s very attractive

It’s great for when you have people over who don’t like music

That’s the goddam cups again.

We could go for an hour fading in and fading out like that

We listened to:
1. Michael Nyman Band – Nose-List Song
2. Ratgrave –  Icarus
3. Robert Hood – Self Powered
4. Limpe Fuchs, Mark Fell – Dessogia II
5. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Kamome No Suiheisen
6. Achim Wollscheid – Cups 1
7. Jane and Barton – You Are Over There (Part One)
8. O'Donel Levy – I Believe In Miracles
9. Alvin Lucier – So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) (excerpt)

Shout outs: 

Mark Loeser’s voice

Pied de biche - Medieval Punk https://pied-de-biche.bandcamp.com

Lyric and Robert Hood: https://www.billboard.com/music/features/robert-hood-lyric-hood-floorplan-father-daughter-touring-1235709568/

Black Truffle http://www.blacktrufflerecords.com

The queen is dead. Long live the queen. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/arts/music/eliane-radigue-dead.html

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 unexpected places:

Dense air, dead horses, radioactivity. 

Who’s going next down the waterslide? It all feels like momentum at the end.

The eternal music? Sing along with your appliances and the world is a better place. The harmonics change. It speeds up and slows itself down.

And where are we now physically? Colorado—trying to wrap ourselves around space. Yet things start bubbling in the back. It’s really jarring. 

We're starting fresh: A series of beer caps strung together at the end of a broom handle. A raw condensed emotion. There’s a lot of space. It might go off the rails. What ARE people doing today with their charming MIDI sound palette and their post-prog attitude?

You’ll get the point in 10 minutes. I don’t know what to say. “of which of which it's of then which is it not that’s."  It's almost a sports feeling. I think it’s the best feeling.  

James Schidlowsky invokes the greatest corrugaphone performance of all time. You get glazed over. It's like falling down the stairs but you get hooked on it. Stories are nice but sometimes you need microclimates… situations with stuff going on, just playing it out. It shouldn’t logically be able to end. 

It’s a glazing.

We listened to:
1. Adam Bohman – Burgundy Barrage
2. The Miracle – Choir Boys From Jupiter (excerpt)
3. Anne Tardos – Refrigerator Defrosting with Vocal Improvisation
4. Amelia Cuni – Melopea (excerpt)
5. Richard Earl – Intensest Weakness
6. Jean-Marie Mercimek – Le Camion
7. Clark Coolidge – Polaroid (excerpt)
8. Richard Youngs –  Zulaqrex I

Shouts:
Julien Champagne: https://julienchampagne.com/
Deadhorse bay: https://flybravely.substack.com/p/unearthing-history-at-brooklyns-dead

Eric Lanzilotta / Anomalous records mailorder: https://ribexibalba.com/mailorder.html

Wil Murray: https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Wil-Murray/C78FBB4F60501FC4/Artworks

Of polaroid: https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/coolidge/polaroid.html

James Schidlowsky: https://www.jamesschidlowsky.ca