Esoion is a bubbling sonic stockpot of varied female vocalising and mood-setting-to-seared noise-scaping. It’s a decidedly volatile and shifting work, which at points feels like it’s going to boil over & engulf itself, but never does. Over the release's forty-or-so-minute runtime, it remains engaging and creative.

The album comes as either CDR, C45, or digital download- I’m reviewing the last of these- so I’m unable to comment on the artwork or the release's presentation. It was released by Italian label Industrial Ölocaust Recordings

The project brings together Annalized-aka Annalisa Pascai Saiu  Sardinia-born, now living in Turin Italy based transdisciplinary artist. poet, performer, vocalist, visual artist, noisemaker, and improviser. And Noiose-  Italian drummer/ noise maker Emilio Bernè. The pair have been working and touring together for some years, and as far as I can gather Esoion utilizers both live & possibly studio recordings to create its often-dense sonic weave.

As its digital version it’s presented as one long track- though on the tape and CDR, it’s split into two fairly similar length twenty-minute tracks. So the singletrack here slides in at forty-one minutes and twenty-one seconds.

The track opens with a low-key running feedback grit, and a mix of Annalisa doing playful sort of vocalizing/talking in Italian, and other background chatter. By the third minute, we find more pronounced feedback rings ‘n’  jarring tonally crunch hits- with this Annalisa's vocals moving from playful, to more demented and troubling mixing together emotional baying charts, wailings, barren harmonizing, and rough throaty chatter.

By around the 11^th minute, things have turned very nasty indeed- with Annalisa's vocals rapidly shifting between rapid gravel speaking, throaty wails, mid to high-pitch chatter, and emotional warbles and bays.  Underneath Emilo flows a jagged structure of noise hits, shudders, feedback pulls, and stabbing tonal glitches - which at points nicely build up both the tension and emotional disquiet of Annalisa shifting vocalizing/ vocal sounds.

At around the twenty-five-minute mark, Annalisa's vocals disappear- to be replaced by thicker runs of smashing, tonal reeling, and light forking noisescape- which is akin to rolling your ears in beaded glass. Annalisa suddenly reappears at her deepest most primal and rough- gurgling out roars, groans, and grunts- truly terrifying stuff.

In its last ten or so minutes we find a blend of textural roll & glitch, with more seesawing vocalising/ wavering chanting…with the noise stopping, leaving a slightly breathless Annalisa and a rather shell-shocked audience handclaps

Esoion is a true sonic trial by fire- pulling you from the playful, onto the building/ moody, though dense and demonically demented, onto the overloaded- near boiling over.