Avi C. Engel

It's become fringe to actually purchase music. I encourage you to be more fringe, if you want music to survive as an art form & for people not born into wealthy/well-connected families to also pursue their calling as artists

Abstract ink drawing featuring a downward facing creature - suggestion of birds, flowers, and petals are evoked but remain amorphous

Downstream, blue

(brushpen, cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

#zendrawing #inkart #artbyhumans

Great review of Mote in @africanpaper.bsky.social
africanpaper.com/2025/10/11/a...

Short haired fawn and cream coloured guinea pig snuggling in my flannel shirt

Mouse the guinea pig 💖

#guineapig #cavy #meerschweinchen

Bundt cake sprinkled with rosepetals and pistachios

Baked a vegan pistachio rosewater cake yesterday for my partner's birthday. Turned out not at all as I expected, but still nice ⚘

Avi C. Engel: Mote - Spectrum Culture The Toronto-based artist’s latest is cosmic in outlook but oddly calming in its delivery.

"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...

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

Small piece of sky (with eyes) wanders the garden

#art #inkart #artbyhumans

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

Bog meditation

(brush pen + cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

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

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

Small piece of sky (with eyes) wanders the garden

#art #inkart #artbyhumans

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

Thank you!! 🖤

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

Avi C. Engel: Mote - Spectrum Culture The Toronto-based artist’s latest is cosmic in outlook but oddly calming in its delivery.

"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...

Rip Van Winkle, by Avi C Engel from the album FC8 - Mote

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

Orange lichens on a fallen branch, dead leaves all around

Tiny landscapes
of life and decay
quell disquiet

Jack of diamonds playing card laying on a sidewalk

Jack of Diamonds

The A.M. by Peter Hemminger on Apple Music Playlist · 176 Songs

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

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

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...

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...

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

To Keep the Ghost at Bay, by Avi C. Engel from the album Hatching Under the Stars

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...

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

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

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

Five Figments, by Avi C. Engel 5 track album

"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

Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film), by Avi C. Engel 9 track album

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

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

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

@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 🖤

YouTube video by WBZO_RJsRadio Jeff Buckley -- Ulalume

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

youtu.be/ipeTTE7kd9s?...

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.

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 🙃🎉