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@cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social just released my album "Seedhead" on cassette! It turned out beautifully: cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead Musical guests include Lori Goldston (Nirvana, Earth), Jeff Bird (Cowboy Junkies), and Naomi McCarroll-Butler (Beverly Glenn-Copeland). #art

limited edition Seedhead cassette by Avi Engel in disassembled form - you can see the tape shell, interior, and cover. Cover features a spiralling botanical ink drawing (white on black) interior features text and a portrait of Avi by Tanja-Tiziana, tape shell features a close up of tree bark

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 01/10/2026

Tomorrow is #bandcampfriday, also the day that @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social is releasing my album Seedhead on cassette. Cover features one of my ink illustrations 🌱 Tape: cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead Digital & CD: aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead #newmusic #art #cassettes

cassette packaging for Seedhead by Avi Engel, with a view of the front, spine, and tape shell

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 02/09/2026

some slithering stars various inks on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #originalart #artbyhumans

ink drawing on textured paper featuring sinuous black ink sprites with yellow eyes, aqua smudges and splatters in the background

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 23/08/2026

Seedhead has been out for a little over a week: aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead CD and digital available, cassette coming soon from @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social RIYL birds, caves, the imperfect wobble of human-made music, warm gnarled sounds, genre-ambiguity Images by Geoffrey Boulangé

medium face-on close-up of avi engel against a white background, their face and shoulders overlaid with an image of tree bark

medium 3/4 view close-up of avi engel against a white background, their face and shoulders overlaid with an image that might be snow, clouds, or rapids

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 20/08/2026

A still from Geoffrey Boulangé's wonderful video for my song Petrified Forest. To watch: youtu.be/4xC5vngm5Cs #art #nature #deepecology #film #naturephotography #surreal #newmusic

medium close-up of Avi Engel singing, with a forest superimposed on their torso, and a larger-than-life dragonfly perched on a branch in the left side of the frame

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 17/08/2026

Thanks to @thetonearm.com for this interview! www.thetonearm.com/a-tolerance-...

Avi Engel in an overgrown garden wearing shades and a black cloak and holding a fluffy guinea pig

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 14/08/2026

Out now: aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead "chills like a film-noir soundtrack and warms with a hopeful message of organic renewal." @popmatters.com "Awestruck and alive." @louderthanwar.bsky.social L’univers d’Avi Engel est accueillant, un véritable safe space sonore." Esprits Critiques

Cover photo of Avi Engel's album Seedhead, featuring an aerial view of Avi lying down eyes closed on a painted labyrinth with album and artist name in chalk lettering

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 12/08/2026

Seedhead reviewed in @popmatters.com! Thanks to John Alan Urquhart for spending time with the album and writing this piece. www.popmatters.com/avi-engel-se...

Screenshot of online magazing PopMatters, featuring a photo of Avi Engel and text that reads "Avi Engel's poetic soundscapes repay close listening: Avi Engel's Seedhead highlights their principles: fierce independence, painstaking attention to detail, and a commitment to a unique vision"

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 08/08/2026

Tomorrow afternoon 📡 RSVP: aviengel.bandcamp.com/merch/seedhe... #listeningparty #art #newmusic #deepecology #experimentalmusic

poster with a minimalist ink drawing of a spiral branching into a leafless tree, with text that reads "seedhead by avi engel/listening party/sunday august 9th/2pm EDT/aviengel.com/free"

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 06/08/2026

Sunday! RSVP: aviengel.bandcamp.com/merch/seedhe... #art #music

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 02/08/2026

Some charismatic graffiti spotted on Woodbine Avenue.

Graffiti of a cartoon head with 4 giant triangular teeth

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 01/08/2026

Coming up next weekend! to RSVP: aviengel.bandcamp.com/merch/seedhe... #listeningparty #newmusic #experimentalmusic #art #poster

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 31/07/2026

Something about this "whale" depicted in a map from 1621 really speaks to me right now.

Snaggle toothed sea monster illustration from an erroneous map from 1621

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 23/07/2026

Seedhead cds have arrived! Pre-order: aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead I'll be starting mail-outs in early August. #newmusic #musicbyhumans #art

Cd edition of Seedhead by Avi Engel propped up with front cover on display beside a cream and black abyssinian guinea pig

cd edition of Seedhead by Avi Engel propped up with back cover/tracklisting on display beside a tan and cream smooth coated guinea pig

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 16/07/2026

Wrote to the Minister of the Environment, and you can too, her email is julie.dabrusin@parl.gc.ca

Dear Honourable Julie Aviva Dabrusin,

I am writing to you because I was revolted to see Carney's PR campaign video that launched yesterday, when the air quality in Ontario was the worst in the world. In this video, Carney dons a cowboy hat and speaks "as a former banker" about the benefits of the TMX pipeline.

People's homes are burning down on Collins First Nation, and Carney claims that "Canadians always look after each other." As the climate crisis accelerates and intensifies, building a new pipeline does not constitute "looking after" anyone in a meaningful and long-lasting way. It constitutes ecocide.

I want to add my voice to the growing chorus of Canadians who see climate change as a true emergency, and are desperate for meaningful action.

Avi Engel
Toronto, ON
aviengel.com

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 12/07/2026

primordial blues brush pen, fine-liners, indigo ink on Himalayan lokta paper www.patreon.com/aviengel/pos... #artbyhumans #art #drawnbyhand

original abstract ink drawing evoking botany and faces on textured handmade Tibetan paper

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 10/07/2026

One of my favourite photos of my dad.

Old photo of a young white dark-haired jewish man watching over 2 loaves of bread

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 09/07/2026

New album coming in mid-August, but you can pre-order it now: aviengel.com Tysm to all who have pre-ordered already 🖤🖤🖤 Photo from my music lair, featuring my new favourite tank top made by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Shirt reads: no gods no billionaires 🔥

Avi holds a four string electric guitar and wears a tank top that reads "no gods no billionaires"

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 07/07/2026

@mirlo.space knocked it out of the park with their recent post about Constellation Records joining the site 🙌

In his book "Muse-Sick", Ian Brennan notes that "the point of punk rock was not that anyone could be a star but that there should be no stars at all". It's no understatement that the vast majority of our music industry does not follow this maxim. Across the board, the emphasis is on superstars, scale and staunch individualism as bastions of achievement that we should emulate, whether we want to or not: opting into unfavourable terms, embracing monoliths of sound and technology that block out all other light from the universe.

Thankfully, not everyone wants to operate in this way, or believes it to be for the betterment of the music ecosystem. We don't believe in a one-size-fits-all scenario for musicians and labels, recognizing the difficulties that accompany such approaches when looking at groups of people from very different backgrounds and with variable needs. It's why we're open source and integrating the social web, and why we're constantly talking to other people about their own projects. We've been trying to reframe the dominant mode of the music industry, one of capitalist supremacy and winner takes all thinking, and entrusting communities with the tools to manage their own music scenes. One concept we kept coming back to was the idea of "constellations", because as much as Ian Brennan's words resonated with us, a sky without any stars at all would be just as bleak. Our stars are clusters of activity, not singular markers where one outshines another. Like this, we can take a step back and appreciate the entire web of light shining through the night sky."

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 05/07/2026

Fine-liners + brushpen on Himalayan lokta paper #art #drawing #inkart

abstract ink drawing of a dancing organic form on textured paper

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 30/06/2026

15 year anniversary today 🖤

Portrait of two middle-aged-ish non-binary people wearing shades and sunhats

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 14/06/2026

Woodland Medusa brush pen & fineliners on Himalayan lokta paper #art #medusa #artbyhumans #woodland #forest

ink drawing of a forest spirit with a medusa like head - except the creatures coming out of their head are both bird and snake like.

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 31/05/2026

"trees in flight" brushpen, fine-liners, & watercolour ink on Himalayan lokta paper #art #ink #watercolour

ink drawing on textured handmade paper - it evokes tree branches and an abstract human-esque unfinished looking being at the centre

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 23/05/2026

20 downloads for my album Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) 🦋 b25s-5cjf al6e-bw8a reyb-wxb7 jxvf-x9pw 74gv-e8us xsu7-u2ml 4jla-elke 4fs8-uetu qd43-eurq bhpw-u5hz 5cf4-vfpg gpdh-gp73 tf4j-3na4 25cr-cmua 6v72-ucac uf5w-jh3w xa7e-k5c4 465f-yfsa 437v-bqhb qd57-xzpw aviengel.bandcamp.com/yum

album cover for "Nocturne (soundtrack for an invisible film) by Avi Engel, featuring a black and white moth and handwritten title + name, white background, minimalist design

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 13/05/2026

I'm on @subvert.fm 🙌 www.subvert.fm/aviengel

Photo of Avi with guitar in front of a gnarled tree with the text "Subvert is now live/Avi Engel is a co-owner of Subvert. Join us. Followed by url https://www.subvert.fm/aviengel

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 11/05/2026

👋 new (free) post every week on Patreon: www.patreon.com/aviengel

Selfie of Avi wearing a black shirt, window in the background

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 04/05/2026

Quincy & Pym catching some rays ☀️

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 03/05/2026

Brush pen & fine-liners on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #nature #gothic #weirdart

ink drawing on textured handmade paper, features an ambiguous root bodied being with a protruding bird

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 22/04/2026

One year since Pym had a surgery that we weren't sure he'd recover from, but ended up being life-saving. Grateful for every day with this small weird guy 😍 #guineapig #cavy

Tricolour abyssinian guinea pig peeks out from a pink fleece pocket

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 20/04/2026

in my happy place, at a menacing angle

Photo of Avi on a nature trail, they are shot from below & looking a bit severe

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 18/04/2026

Conjuror Brush pen, fine-liners, and various inks on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #artbyhumans #humanartist #inkart

ink drawing on handmade paper - features a central human-esque figure with animal and abstract forms emerging from them

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 17/04/2026

growing roots brush pen and fine-liners on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #ink #bugs #psychedelic #minimalist #artsky

minimalist ink drawing on textured paper of a human and bug-like critter with roots sprouting from their feet

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 07/04/2026

Visited some friends recently

White breasted nuthatch eating unsalted sunflower seeds from a human hand

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 06/04/2026

15 free downloads of my album "Mote" 5uty-63ts b5zy-kxul wrtz-kqaj smnk-693y pbak-kzhf kjvp-e79z k9b8-3e66 ktx3-cu8k zke5-x5u9 zy6f-vraz ztyx-gsug yzkj-ulau yyz8-ejrp 3ttt-3gcn azzy-hu4e site to redeem: aviengel.bandcamp.com/yum #art #chambermusic #bandcamp #cosmic #existential #acoustic #poetry

cover art of Mote by Avi Engel: photo of a nebula-like sea anemone creature, softly illuminated centre frame, image bordered by darkness

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 04/04/2026

The Mountain Moves Brush pen and fine-liners on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #ink #inkart #artsky #artbyhumans #mountains #forests #nature

black ink drawing on handmade paper that depicts a mountainside with a face, a bird flying into its mouth, and bare trees sprouting from its head. there is a lot of flowing texture

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 28/03/2026

seafoam conundrum brushpen, fine-liners, & watercolour on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #artbyhumans #inkart #artsky #wabisabi

abstract ink drawing on handmade Tibetan paper - a human face and a dog-like creature are discernible - lots of black ink texture + aqua flourishes as well

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 27/03/2026

The energy I bring to a task remains unchanged 👽

Picture of two kids playing a game with a magnetic horseshoe and a bowl full of objects that respond to magnets

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Avi Engel @aviengel.com · 23/03/2026

Flash sale! 4 CDs bearing my old name, now $8 each aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/where-a-city-once-drowned-the-bethlehem-tapes-vol-ii aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/dressed-in-borrowed-light aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/hatching-under-the-stars aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/their-invisible-hands #art

ink drawing of a mysterious abstract being called the formless mother of forms - she is standing on a textured surface and surrounded by small weird organic shapes, red painted border around the image

ink drawing of a haunted kiwi bird with a forest growing on its back and a crescent moon above, bordered by ink brambles

ink drawing of a dancing creature with more than one head, and roots for legs, background is purple watercolour

shadowy black and white photo of Avi as a kid beside a stump - they are in the side of the frame and a tree in shadow stands at the centre

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