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esoteric tapioca

music for the intensely self-involved

About Me

Esoteric Tapioca is whatever is around to make noise with, and me. Most people I know have flaws, so when I listen to something slightly flawed it helps me relate to it on a more realistic level. I skip around a lot when I listen to music, so having a lot of very short songs suits me fine. My influences are my father, mother, and six siblings.
One day, I want to own a small house, with a recording studio in the attic, and a yard big enough to have a garden and a dog.
I moved to Chicago at the end of January, 2008 from Waterbury, CT, where I was born.
This is what my dear friend Jill had to say about E.T.:
"Mark is the artist also known as ESOTERIC TAPIOCA, and I think if you gave Esoteric Tapioca a chance, as I have given Esoteric Tapioca a chance, the consequence will be expanded ear buds that will never regard MTV as a fulfilling alternative again. It will be a sociological endeavor that will lead you to question your own generation, and the norms it sets to stretch you into its desired shape, for its desired purpose! For the sake of your own free will, man! Do as my mannequin head and I suggest! After indulging in at least three to four minutes of Esoteric Tapioca, you will become more aware of the sounds in your surroundings. You will hear sounds you’ve never heard, which you will then be able to trace back to their roots, to uncover objects you have NEVER SEEN! Increased perceptive abilities. Discovery.
With all of this new sensory data that will be entering your association cortex, you will be forced to come to terms with things that never angered or upset you before. Chipping away at gathered layers of protective ignorance, plunging to new depths, uncovering new elements in life, and understanding who this person is you’ve always known as "you" like never before! This may sound overwhelming, but trust me, once you come to terms with the higher awareness that Esoteric Tapioca will release in you, you will be a better, happier, more blissful person.
And thinner, with more sex appeal.
Esoteric Tapioca specializes in the highest quality of weirdness. Esoteric Tapioca is the caviar, the grey poupon, the roast duck, and the vintage wine of lo-fi. While listening to Esoteric Tapioca, you might even find yourself desiring to pick up an instrument. Might I suggest dusting off that old clarinet you abandoned after never making it above the ninth chair in the high school band? Keep in mind that musicians can have their cake and eat it too....they can act like total fucking weirdos and still be taken seriously. Unless they like little boys and have strange skin disorders that makes them white."
I will play for a packed stadium or your great grandmother. Libraries and churches, Masonic Lodges and Methlabs. Makes no difference. Just ask!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/7/2004
Band Website: myspace.com/esoterictapioca
Band Members:
Mark Zebedee Ciarleglio

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Influences: {{{Sunset}}}, 764-hero, ambulance ltd, apse, at the drive in, band of horses, beck, ben folds, ben qweller, blackstar, bob marley, bon iver, brmc, broken social scene, bruhder, built to spill, calexico, cakebakebetty, cat power, centromatic, chad van gaalen, chris knox, clark, daniel higgs, dark dark dark, david bowie, destroyer, devendra banhart, dungen, edith frost, elliott smith, enon, feist, fleet foxes, flowers forever, g love, gershwin, grails, grandaddy, grizzly bear, guided by voices, halo benders, hyle, interpol, iron and wine, jack, james taylor, JEFF the brotherhood, joanna newsom, john frusciante, john vanderslice, jon brion, jonathan fire eater, J5, karate, keyke, langhorne slim, lazywayout, leonard cohen, little wings, long distance relationship, lou barlow, mates of state, medeski martin and wood, meshuggah, mice parade, minicyn, minmae, modern lovers, modest mouse, my morning jacket, neil young, nick cave, nick drake, of montreal, olivia tremor control, oranger, orion rigel domisse, oucho sparks, overcast, pavement, phantom planet, pinback, pixies, portishead, psychedelic horseshit, queen, radiohead, red house painters, reflection eternal, rilo kiley, robert polard, roland kirk, root shoot leaf, ryan adams, saltwater heels, satie, seabear. silver jews, six organs of admittance, snapcase, sonic youth, stephen malkmus, stevie wonder, tears for fears, television, the apples in stereo, the arcade fire, the beastie boys, the beatles, the beta band, the black hole of calcutta, the breeders, the cure, the dresden dolls, the kinks, the konki duet, the make up, the microphones, the modern lovers, the national, the octopus project, the orange curtains, the shins, the strokes, the walkmen, the white stripes, the velvet underground, this defect sequence, tim trainer, times new viking, t-rex, unicorns, uniform, vetiver, weezer, ween, why?, wilderness, woods family creeps, yo la tengo, and other bands of varied genres.

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Sounds Like: music
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Leave With Me

I have become a master of wayward romance.
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:58:00 PST

a good touch

a song about my supposed addiction to emotional masochism.
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:22:00 PST

Head to Feet

I don't believe in evolution
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Fri, 16 May 2008 02:57:00 PST

Don’t Sell Me Jesus

Featuring dual-wielded lead guitars both by my brother, Matt.
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:28:00 PST

Angels and Demons


Posted by esoteric tapioca on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:48:00 PST

one track mind

I dunno
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:36:00 PST

he will never do

not as creepy as it seems, really.okay a little creepy maybe
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:43:00 PST

ought

nother song with drums and massive vocal overlaying.getting better at drums, sort of.
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:18:00 PST

calendar

I am playing drums in this song, so please take this into account before you tell me how shitty my drummer is.  This is probably the 5th time I have ever played drums.  I am also playing ele...
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:03:00 PST

disclaimers

Documents my move to the windy city and the feelings that occurred immediately preceeding and following my arrival.
Posted by esoteric tapioca on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:31:00 PST