Avi C. Engel

abstract ink drawing on handmade textured paper, evoking a hooded character with glowing eyes, and lots of organic root-like shapes coming off them

in the wilderness

brushpen, indigo ink, fine-liners, & watercolour marker on Himalayan Lokta paper

#art #artbyhumans #drawnbyhand #wilderness #forest #originalart

Propellant. — ethanmarcotte.com We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.

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We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of “AI” from the machine of death and war. If you’re upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it.

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

It's just one story, one illustration of all the terrible things that have happened. It's been a week since the very great noise/drone artist Siavash Amini posted this, from where he lives Tehran. There has been no update since. It could be for any number of reasons. We just don't know.

Luz, by Avi C. Engel from the album Mote

pare my voice down to the marrow
sing in me o muse, I'm hollow
river of lava cuts through lands of snow
on the banks a host of revenant souls

aviengel.bandcamp.com/track/luz

#music #art #poetry #lava #rivers

abstract ink drawing on textured handmade paper

Various inks + fine-liners on Himalayan Lokta paper

#art #inkart #artbyhumans #abstractart #handmade

Ball & Socket, by Elijah Minnelli 4 track album

Elijah Minnelli has been one of my favourite music discoveries from the past couple of years. New EP is 🔥

accidentalmeetings.bandcamp.com/album/ball-s...

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:

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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