Avi C. Engel

I wholeheartedly agree!

Ah, the good old days. Busting out the feather-duster once a week to freshen up the disks.

KALX radio Americana/Folk chart - 1 Wednesday – Bleeds (Dead Oceans) 2 Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways) 3 Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love (Freedom To Spend) 4 Katsy Pline – Live at Three Teardrops (S/R) 5 Mitski – The Land: The Live Album (Dead Oceans) 6 Neko Case – Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti-) 7 Big Thief – Double Infinity (4AD) 8 Willie Nelson – Working Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy) 9 Phipps Pt. – Songs We No Longer Sing (S/R) 10 Mavis Staples – Sad And Beautiful World (Anti-) 11 Molly Tuttle – So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Nonesuch) 12 Avi C. Engel – Mote (Fenny Compton) 13 Lisa O’Neill – The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right (Rough Trade) 14 Alex G – Headlights (RCA) 15 Joan Baez – Farewell, Angelina (Craft) 16 Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override (dBpm) 17 Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat) 18 Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista) 19 Waylon Jennings – Songbird (Thirty Tigers/Son of Jessi) 20 Murry Hammond – Trail Songs of the Deep (Fluff and Gravy) 21 Haley Heynderickx and Matt Garcia Conover – What of Our Nature (Fat Possum) 22 Funkwrench Blues – Mischief in the Musitorium (Need to Know) 23 Todd Snider – High, Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless)

album cover of Avi C Engel's "Mote" featuring a nebula-like sea creature

My album "Mote" is charting on KALX radio in Berkeley CA

Pretty sure my music is not Americana 🙃 but what are genres anyway? I'll take it.

@woodfordhalse.bandcamp.com have 9 Mote cds left: fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote

#art #music #genrequeer #psychfolk

maltese-cross style cassette package featuring an ink drawing of a sinuous dancing creature on the cover. cassette itself features a photo of a cow in shadow on one side and a dove on the other. cassette packaging is unwrapped and tracklisting and liner notes are both visible

Three "A Little Light" tapes are left:

aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/a-litt...

Thanks to @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social for releasing this album 🖤

Bandcamp Friday repost 🙏

If you’re participating in Bandcamp Friday today, please do so in a way that’s safe and sensible.

O Human Child, by Avi C. Engel from the album Their Invisible Hands

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

aviengel.bandcamp.com/track/o-huma...

#yeats #poem #dronemusic #art

wriggling ink organism on textured handmade paper

germinate

#art #loktapaper #inkart #brushpen #natureinspired

Anything Might Happen, by Avi C. Engel from the album Mote

anything might happen
anything at all
slither like an eel
coo like a turtledove

aviengel.bandcamp.com/track/anythi...

#psychfolk #avantfolk #trance #acoustic #surreal #art

High Alien Priest, by Avi C. Engel from the album Their Invisible Hands

high alien priest in a convertible car
red rimmed eyes
pulls up at a crumbling dive bar
mouth like a bruise, a poisonous flower
says
"I've only got a couple of hours-
about enough time for a drink
and a game of cards"

aviengel.bandcamp.com/track/high-a...

#avantfolk #cigarboxguitar #scifi #surreal

minimalist ink drawing of a bare-branched tree emerging from a large circular spiral

Seedling

#ink #art #brushwork #drawing

Avi C. Engel they/them artist & musician I'm not writing the same song over and over so much as writing one long continuous song that will end when I die.

My 14-year-old laptop is showing real signs of decrepitude. I hope I can finish the album I'm currently mixing without any disasters, but then I will need to upgrade. Bandcamp purchases & Patreon support are both deeply appreciated & help me to keep the music flowing.
aviengel.bandcamp.com

That is music to my ears 🙂

Guinea Pigs Were Made To Hear Adele’s Music for a Week — Scientists Found Alarming Ear Damage The guinea pigs were split into two groups; one listened to compressed music, and the other to uncompressed music.

Mixing my new album with as little saturation&compression as possible reminds me of learning to cook without garlic & onions (I have alium intolerance 😭). The palate adjusts! The ear adjusts! Soundscapes start to feel more alive.

It also benefits my familiars:

www.greenmatters.com/pn/guinea-pi...

Ladybird, What's Wrong?, by Avi C. Engel from the album Too Many Souls

golden buzzard fly
across a curling paper sky
cold light of truth so blinding
we can't see

aviengel.bandcamp.com/track/ladybi...

Lake ontario, water merging with skyline

Aqua

ink and watercolour drawing on handmade textured paper

As fire draws near

Ink drawing on handmade Tibetan paper, aka Himalayan Lokta paper

#art #inkart #visualart #freehand

black ink drawing on textured handmade paper. depicts a face surrounded by waving reed-like forms, & bare trees where hair would be

Watcher in the Weeds

Ink drawing on handmade Tibetan paper, aka Himalayan Lokta paper

#art #handdrawn #wetlands #trees #artbyhumans #biophilia #inkart #freehand

Avi C Engel (@aviengel) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform This is a portfolio + attempt to escape from Meta

Expanding portfolio of Lokta paper ink art:

cara.app/aviengel

Aerial view of a mason jar full of looseleaf tea: passionflower, rose petal, lavendar, skullcap and lemon balm

Made my own tea blend 💪

Spent at least 2 hours hitting a wooden stomp-box plugged into a delay pedal (to get a spacey organic-sounding rhythm track for an 8 minute song) & it definitely altered my consciousness in some kind of way.

Thanks so much :) I have a little bottle of indigo ink that is spectacularly blue!

You're welcome! Your description of that sign made me nostalgic for the weirder Toronto that I really miss.

Alternating between watching Ozu and Pennebaker films recently - a surprisingly nice combination

You are not imagining it! I remember that sign 😆

black and indigo ink drawing on handmade texured paper. depicts a number of faces + eyes in a playful and odd folk-art sort of style. lots of negative space and ambiguous forms

Ink drawing on handmade Tibetan paper, aka Himalayan Lokta paper

11 new dance, same old trance

#art #makeart #handdrawn #drawanyway #artpractice

ink drawing on textured handmade paper - depicts a floating face bordered with flowing/morphing beings of ambiguous identity

Ink drawing on handmade Tibetan paper, aka Himalayan Lokta paper

10 - re-enter the dream

#art #inkflow #handmadepaper #artbyhumans #handdrawn

Lawn marker ornament in the snow casting a shadow

winter reflection

Desk covered in many ink drawings

Art desk chaos

#artprocess #ink

ink drawing on handmade paper -- silly beast with two faces purses a flying insect-like creature

Drawing on handmade Tibetan paper

09 in a mood

#inkart #illustration #doodles #cartoons #artbyhumans