Erica Eso

Kingston, NY-based composer / vocalist / producer Weston Minissali makes music under the moniker Erica Eso. Minissali has participated in New York’s music scene for more than a decade as a member of projects like avant-rock post-pop band <a href="spotify:artist:4nixdElsJ1Ce1wgl5WwGHz" data-name="Cloud Becomes Your Hand">Cloud Becomes Your Hand</a> and chimeric musique concrète experimentalists <a href="spotify:artist:61HS3MyDgjgyybtkVxB6FU" data-name="VaVatican">VaVatican</a>. Minissali’s work as Erica Eso injects strategies associated with the electronic avant-garde, including microtonal note voicings and advanced synthesis, into ornate compositions shaped in the idiom of art pop and focused on the keyboard as a primary instrument. Since forming in 2015, Erica Eso has shifted through diverse personnel configurations for live performances and their studio recordings released with NNA Tapes and Ramp Local, before settling into a quintet.

For the newest Erica Eso material, Minissali approaches composition as a solo process, honing in on the granular details of his own songwriting and electronic production. Bolstered by the experience gained over the years he&#39;s spent experimenting in his elaborate self-constructed home studio, Minissali seeks to tie his artistic practice holistically into his daily life, cutting away inessentials and focusing inward both in sound and in lived experience.