SJ Esau is the music project of Sam Wisternoff, an experimental pop musician from Bristol, England.
Spending his later teenage years in indie rock band, The Pudding, Wisternoff released the first SJ Esau album, Queezy Beliefs, in 1999 on his Enormous Corpse label which was followed by various CDR albums and limited edition releases for labels such as Static Caravan Recordings, Twisted Nerve Records and Fooltribe.
In 2007, Anticon Records re-released the album Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse.
[2] In the following years, Wisternoff released various SJ Esau EPs as well as taking part in a variety of collaborative projects such as Jeremy Smoking Jacket with Rose Kemp and Hesomagari with Yoshino Shigihara from the band, Zun Zun Egui.
In 2010, Wisternoff started a music video production and audio mastering company entitled Ill Spectre Productions, producing music videos for bands such as Gravenhurst, Thought Forms and Get the Blessing.