Intuitive American Esoteric is the name of a limited three-volume, multi-label series of LP records by Nautical Almanac

Nautical Almanac (band)

Nautical Almanac are a noise music group based out of Baltimore Maryland with a rotating membership based around Carly Ptak and Twig Harper. -History:...

 member Twig Harper, released between 2005 and 2006. Each album features a standard cut recording on side A and a handmade lathe-cut

Lathe

A lathe is a machine tool which rotates the workpiece on its axis to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation.Lathes are used in woodturning,...

 recording featuring numerous locked grooves on side B. Regarding the first two records in the series, Harper commented:

"I released "Intuitive American Esoteric" vol 1 +2 on LP, one side was mastered normally the other side were examples of lathe cuts. For volume 1 I cut the lathe master plate real scratchy and distant. On vol 2 the lathe side was experiments of sine waves cut on top of each other, at various depths and frequency."