Hi everyone! We're happy to share with you today a remix for Icelandic band Bloodgroup that we have been working on in the past few weeks. The song is called "My arms" and was one of our favorite tunes from their last album "Dry land". Come and visit our official website to listen and download the remix for free! http://www.theesotericgender.com If you wish to listen to the original version, visit Bloodgroup's MySpace. http://www.myspace.com/bloodgroup We hope you like it! Best, Lisa and JC 2010-02-10 19:33:32 +0100 Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that we have posted a video on YouTube of our last rehearsal session. We're playing "They're here". Check out our YouTube channel and come back, there will be more to come soon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWqWGe4CXBc Best Lisa and JC 2010-02-07 22:24:35 +0100 Hi everyone! Just thought I'd share with you a few links to the various websites where you can find The Esoteric Gender. Music, videos, photos, blogs... some extra stuff to wait for the next updates! :-) - official website: http://www.theesotericgender.com - MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/theesotericgender - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theesotericgender - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tegtones - YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/theesotericgender - FlickR: http://www.flickr.com/theesotericgender - ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/theesotericgender - Last FM: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Esoteric+Gender Become our friends, add us to your fan pages, follow us! :-) Join our mailing list and get a free download of "Do not disturb", and soon a few other free tracks. And thanks again for your incredible support! Best, JC 2010-01-28 21:03:07 +0100 Hi everyone! We just found out today that Dave's Lounge feature a song by The Esoteric Gender for the second time... after "If it's not mine", it's "Throwaway girl" which has had the honor of becoming part of this podcast. Dave's Lounge offers a nice selection of triphop / downtempo electronica, all good for the ears :-) http://www.daveslounge.com Some more exciting news coming soon! :-) Best to you Lisa & JC 2010-01-21 22:54:00 +0100 Dear friends, Sellaband asked us which one of our songs should feature on the upcoming compilation album, which will be available on iTunes, AmazonMP3, eMusic, Napster, Spotify amongst others. Give us your opinion! We've created a poll on our official website: http://www.theesotericgender.com And on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/theesotericgender Best, Lisa and JC 2010-01-06 22:55:17 +0100 Wishing everyone at Sellaband: fellow artists, believers, management, partners and administrators a Happy New Year! Looking forward to 2010! Lisa and J.C 2010-01-01 01:48:58 +0100 We are now baking cookies as well as recording new songs! Thank you to the cookie monster! Big kisses to everyone who has recently voted for us and invested in us! xxxx Lisa Jamesdaughter 2009-12-18 18:25:02 +0100 Hi everyone, So here we are, winning the SEAT competition has brought quite a bit of attention towards our profile and that has made us very happy. Our support status has gone up quite a bit, so thank you very much to all our believers, let's hope many people will follow your example! Don't hesitate in talking to your friends about us. We're only a few steps away from being in the top 10 for the Christmas competition, and we would be extremely happy to feature on the Sellaband compilation! You might also have noticed that we have changed our budget to $30,000. When we first registered to Sellaband, we decided to see things big, and just to be safe we thought we should stick to the old system, which consisted in raising $50,000. Now that we have put together a more precise budget, it turns out we won't need that much. We still intend on releasing a good album and promoting it, and $30,000 sounds to us like a perfect amount to reach that goal. Us winning the SEAT competition has also brought us to being published in Icelandic National newspaper Fréttablaðið for a rather big feature article, and even a short mention on the front page, as being the first Icelandic band to really be a part of the Sellaband community and to have won this competition. The article is in our photos, and here's a translation of it: “A band of intellectuals who met in Iceland The intellectual band The Esoteric Gender just won an international competition held on the Internet. The band is composed of foreign students from the University of Iceland and a university lecturer. “It was a big surprise for us. We didn’t expect to win this at all,” says singer Lisa Jamesdaughter from Manchester. The band, who plays spell-binding electro-pop, won with their song Pretty Muted Blue. The competition is called SEAT and the Sellaband.com members can vote for one of the ten songs that are nominated each month. The bands that win are then sponsored towards their album budget. The website users can themselves sponsor the album and get in exchange part of the benefits taken from the sales. Lisa moved to Iceland in 2003 after having graduated as a sound engineer from Beatles’ Paul McCartney’s art school in Liverpool. She registered for a course in Creative Writing at the University of Iceland where she met Frenchman Jean-Christophe Salaün. Together, they formed the band The Esoteric Gender and shortly later joined drummer Thomas Brorsen Smidt, who studies a Master’s degree in gender studies. “Our first concert was in Café Rosenberg. We needed a big drum that was lent to us by Egill Ólafsson. I was told to go and knock on the door of this house but did not imagine he was actually living there. Suddenly this guy from the Stuðmenn opens the door, he was very friendly and lent us the drum,” says Lisa. One extra member joined the band later on, it was Gabriel Malenfant, from Quebec in Canada, who teaches philosophy at the University of Iceland. “He was our teacher at university and we found out that he was a guitarist as well. It’s quite funny that he would teach at University and now be part of our band.” It was later on that recording and sound engineer Tony Platt, whom Lisa met at McCartney’s school, encouraged them to take part in this Internet competition. He has recorded performers like The Who, Led Zeppelin, Wings, AC/DC, Metallica and Bob Marley. The Esoteric Gender is thus quite an intellectual band. When asked whether their studies were mirrored in their music, Lisa answers they certainly have things to say. “Our newest song is about what kind of influence literature has upon us, and we sing also a lot about gender questions. Some texts can sometimes come across as quite feminist, but not always. I wrote a text for example about how women are capable of killing men emotionally,” she says and laughs. The band is based in Iceland and is considered to be Icelandic even though all members are foreign. “Reykjavik is a very practical place for us as a band and there is a good international community here. We see ourselves as an Icelandic band because we created it here and get a lot of inspiration from our environment,” says Lisa.” We were quite amused with being called "a band of intellectuals". :-) We are about to take a break from the band for the Christmas holidays, but we have many more surprises to come. In 2010 we will start putting up more videos online for you to discover what we sound like live :-) Best, JC 2009-12-16 00:48:58 +0100 Hi everyone, Our latest song "The author of me" is featured on this week's show on TalentCast! If you are registered on their website, take a second off to vote for us for "song of the week"! ;-) It will be highly appreciated! http://www.talentcast.nl/playlists.php And a big thank you to the TalentCast team for selecting us once again! Best, JC 2009-12-13 01:46:50 +0100 Thanks to SEAT and Sellaband, we have seen recently a new increase in our budget, which makes us very happy. We then decided that we might as well give a shot to the Sellaband Christmas competition! To help us win, invest in us before December 24th, and to thank you for your support, we will send an exclusive unreleased and unheard The Esoteric Gender remix on Christmas day to all of our believers who decided to support us before the due date! Thank you again for voting for us and helping us win the SEAT competition, and we look forward to more good news! Best, JC 2009-12-10 21:19:23 +0100 Hi everybody, If you're a "Sellaband regular", you may have noticed already that The Esoteric Gender has won the November edition of the SEAT Competition, leading our support status to take a big jump. We are really thrilled and want to thank all the people who voted for us! This is very exciting! More news will come soon, for now we are going to celebrate. We wish you happy holidays and a wonderful Christmas! Best, JC 2009-12-10 13:52:16 +0100 Dear friends, First of all, thank you for your support, we just reached our first %... it's only a start, of course, but we're very happy about that and that's thanks to you! Second, I'm very happy to announce the launch of our official website. This will be the place where you'll be sure to find all the necessary info about The Esoteric Gender. For now it's all very basic, but more and more surprises are coming along - videos, remixes, specials. We're going to make this a real adventure! Come and have a look at www.theesotericgender.com, explore the pages, listen to our music, read our blog and... come back ;-) I'll end by saying that you can still vote for us for the SEAT competition. You can vote everyday until December 9th, so if you have a spare two minutes, don't hesitate ;-) http://www.seat-world.com/#/coverflow_audio/music_52_freetracks We're very happy at how well this is all going. And remember one thing: spread the word ;-) Thank you! JC 2009-11-19 06:05:54 +0100 The Esoteric Gender, as a member of sellaband.com, has had the pleasure of being selected with 9 other bands to feature on the SEAT Club Website, where they are in for a music competition. http://www.seat-world.com/#/coverflow_audio/music_52_freetracks You can vote for us by scrolling through the band list until you reach us, clicking on the red button STEM, and then giving us a FIVE STARS grade. It's free, no need to register whatsoever, all it's going to take you is a few seconds! Invite your friends and help us spread the word! :-) If we win this competition, SEAT will give us a donation of $1000 dollars on our Sellaband account to help us raise a budget to create and release our first album with the help of professionals of the music industry. Thank you! The Esoteric Gender 2009-11-10 23:16:46 +0100 Hello all, Lisa and I have been quite productive and almost finished a brand new song. Just a few adjustments and we'll be able to put it online! We can't wait to share it :) Also, we will soon record a new version of "Do not disturb", closer to the live version we've been performing here in Reykjavik, Iceland. To celebrate this, we're offering anybody who signs up to our newsletter a free download of the current "Do not disturb" version, which will soon be an exclusive ;-) Just go to our MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/theesotericgender) and click on the "Free download" widget in the "About The Esoteric Gender" section! Our support status has now reached $410. It's still far from our target aim, but we're still happy, we've received a lot of positive feedback from Sellaband members and it means a lot to us. Thank you very much! I'll end this little blog to thank you for voting for us for "Song of the week" on TalentCast.nl! "They're here" is now the Song of the Week, and we're very excited about that, and very glad people liked it! It's a song we love doing live, full of energy ;-) hopefully we'll be able to post some videos of us performing us in a few weeks. Another round of thanks to the TalentCast team for constantly keeping us updated and for being so nice and supportive. Listening to the new playlist right now, it's got quite a few gems! Best to all of you ;-) JC 2009-11-08 18:00:34 +0100 Hi everyone, First of all we want to thank our first believers, it means the world to us that you decided to support us. We're really happy, it's a slow start but not too bad for a starting band. We are also featured on this week's TalentCast ( www.talentcast.nl ) playlist, with our song "They're here". If you're a member and like our song, don't hesitate and vote for us for the "Song of the week"! And thanks again to the TalentCast team who have showed us great support since our arrival here. We'll keep you updated, we might post new songs soon. All the best, JC 2009-11-01 00:10:42 +0100