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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 14h

Bog meditation

(brush pen + cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

#artbyhumans #bog #marsh #zendrawing #psychedelic #folkart #handdrawn

Ink drawing in deep blue of an organic form with lots of undulating texture. There is an eye at the centre, two bird-like crearures rising up on the left, and some sort of head rising up on the right

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 1d

Small piece of sky (with eyes) wanders the garden

#art #inkart #artbyhumans

Colourful ink drawing of a creature walking through a flowerbed. There is a lot of texture surrounding the creature but its body is mostly negative space

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Huge Shark @hugeshark.bsky.social · 1d

I reviewed the latest from @aviengel.bsky.social for @spectrumculture.bsky.social — and I recommend a listen!

Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 1d

"Music that burrows itself slowly down into your bones and nestles there"

Mote reviewed by Valerie Polichar in @spectrumculture.bsky.social ✨

spectrumculture.com/2025/10/05/a...

Avi C. Engel: Mote - Spectrum Culture

The Toronto-based artist’s latest is cosmic in outlook but oddly calming in its delivery.

spectrumculture.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!! 🖤

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 1d

a touching review someone just left for one of my albums:
"Your music is like the waves of the sea. It calms me down."

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 1d

"Music that burrows itself slowly down into your bones and nestles there"

Mote reviewed by Valerie Polichar in @spectrumculture.bsky.social ✨

spectrumculture.com/2025/10/05/a...

Avi C. Engel: Mote - Spectrum Culture

The Toronto-based artist’s latest is cosmic in outlook but oddly calming in its delivery.

spectrumculture.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 13d

highlands
lowlands
land of dreams
of nearly was
and could have been

roe deer, foxes
run and play
where shells of human worlds decay

fennycompton.bandcamp.com/track/rip-va...

#poetry #ripvanwinkle #psychfolk #art

Rip Van Winkle, by Avi C Engel

from the album FC8 - Mote

fennycompton.bandcamp.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 2d

Tiny landscapes
of life and decay
quell disquiet

Orange lichens on a fallen branch, dead leaves all around

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 2d

Jack of Diamonds

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The AM @theam.ca · 3d

Tortoise, The Hylozoists, Rachel Kitchlew, Meiko Kaji, Hermitess, Radiohead, Snakeskin, Dania, POSTNAMERS, Avi C. Engel...

Apple Music playlist: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...

The A.M. by Peter Hemminger on Apple Music

Playlist · 176 Songs

music.apple.com

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AnxiousMagazine.pl @anxious-magazine.bsky.social · 2d

Review: Avi C. Engel – Mote // Piotr Wójcik

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐣𝐚: Avi C. Engel – Mote

Od pierwszego Nyx, które zapowiada swoimi dźwiękami, że będzie mroczniej niż na Sanguinariach, czy na wydanym kilka miesięcy temu Five Figments, który gdzieś mi w międzyczasie umknął i nadrobiłem go d...

anxiousmagazine.pl

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent review of my new album Mote in Anxious Musick Magazine, thanks to Piotr Wójcik
(in Polish)
anxiousmagazine.pl/recenzje/avi...

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐣𝐚: Avi C. Engel – Mote

Od pierwszego Nyx, które zapowiada swoimi dźwiękami, że będzie mroczniej niż na Sanguinariach, czy na wydanym kilka miesięcy temu Five Figments, który gdzieś mi w międzyczasie umknął i nadrobiłem go d...

anxiousmagazine.pl

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been trying
to be brave
to keep the ghost
at bay

I tried to feed you
starve you
sing for you
locked you out on the coldest night

but here you are again
hollow eye sockets filling with light

aviengel.bandcamp.com/track/to-kee...

To Keep the Ghost at Bay, by Avi C. Engel

from the album Hatching Under the Stars

aviengel.bandcamp.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 7d

Most fun interview I've done in a long time 🎶

Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 14d

THE DEVIL'S MOUTH podcast 🖤
www.mixcloud.com/thedevilsmouth/the-devils-mouth-vol-160-ten-rounds-with-avi-c-engel/
I got to pick 10 songs that are close to my heart & chat about them. John Tavener, The Staple Singers, Kip Tyler, Judee Sill, CAN, Skip James, and Gillian Welch all make appearances.

THE DEVIL'S MOUTH Vol. 160: ten rounds with Avi C. Engel

We’ve had them as Band of the Week before on our website, earlier in the year, based on their already fascinating catalogue of eerie, evocative, deeply atmospheric music, but then Avi C. Engel dropped...

www.mixcloud.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 6d

There are still a bunch of these ink-art chapbooks left. Each one comes with an album download as well:

aviengel.bandcamp.com/merch/too-ma...

(Working on pieces for a new zine atm)

#zine #originalart #materialculture #tinybook #monsters #zendrawing #formisemptiness #chapbook #bandcampfriday

my hand holding an ink art chapbook open - features black ink drawings on each page - one is a swamp creature with swans emerging from their head, the other is a little weird sprite playing with a yoyo

my hand holding the "Too Many Souls" ink art chapbook, flanked by 2 guitars

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 6d

"Five Figments" is an experimental EP that I released in June.

Instruments: four string electric guitar, gudok, chalumeau, percussion, voice.

Get into it here:
aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/five-f...

#bandcampfriday #forests #fungi #experimentalmusic #soundart #folkinstruments #independentartist

Five Figments, by Avi C. Engel

5 track album

aviengel.bandcamp.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 6d

It's Bandcamp Friday!
I released "Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film)" at the very beginning of 2025:

aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/noctur...

"Poor moth, I can’t help you,
I can only turn out the light."
-Ryszard Krynicki

#bandcampfriday #moths #lepidoptera #postambient #art #poetry

Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film), by Avi C. Engel

9 track album

aviengel.bandcamp.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 7d

Most fun interview I've done in a long time 🎶

Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 14d

THE DEVIL'S MOUTH podcast 🖤
www.mixcloud.com/thedevilsmouth/the-devils-mouth-vol-160-ten-rounds-with-avi-c-engel/
I got to pick 10 songs that are close to my heart & chat about them. John Tavener, The Staple Singers, Kip Tyler, Judee Sill, CAN, Skip James, and Gillian Welch all make appearances.

THE DEVIL'S MOUTH Vol. 160: ten rounds with Avi C. Engel

We’ve had them as Band of the Week before on our website, earlier in the year, based on their already fascinating catalogue of eerie, evocative, deeply atmospheric music, but then Avi C. Engel dropped...

www.mixcloud.com

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 7d

It works perfectly. I'm keeping the mix stark because I love the bird ambience so much! 🙏✨

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 8d

@lysguillorn.bsky.social recorded some time-stretched birdsong for a song off the album I'm currently working on, and it sounds so eerie and good 🖤

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 8d

In honour of the first day of October: Hal Willner & Jeff Buckley's rendition of Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe.

youtu.be/ipeTTE7kd9s?...

Jeff Buckley -- Ulalume

YouTube video by WBZO_RJsRadio

youtu.be

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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 9d

Once again reminding folks that the ethical replacement to using Spotify isn’t another streaming platform; it’s buying music from artists when you’re in the financial position to do so and pirating them when you’re unable to do so. Or simply ask an artist for the files, like actually.

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · Aug 11

Every time I hear that an artist has removed their work from Spotify, it makes me so happy! Sort of like hearing that someone has escaped from a cult 🙃🎉

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 11d

My partner & I got our covid boosters yesterday just by walking into a local pharmacy 💪💪

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Avi C. Engel @aviengel.bsky.social · 13d

highlands
lowlands
land of dreams
of nearly was
and could have been

roe deer, foxes
run and play
where shells of human worlds decay

fennycompton.bandcamp.com/track/rip-va...

#poetry #ripvanwinkle #psychfolk #art

Rip Van Winkle, by Avi C Engel

from the album FC8 - Mote

fennycompton.bandcamp.com

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