Avi C. Engel - Ladybird, What's Wrong? by Cruel Nature Records published on 2024-01-29T16:51:58Z Taken from the album "Too Many Souls" released by: Cruel Nature Records https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/too-many-souls Somnimage: https://somnimage.bandcamp.com/album/too-many-souls Avi C. Engel: https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/too-many-souls Avi C. Engel is an independent non-binary artist and musician based in Toronto. Their most recent album, Too Many Souls, features voice, acoustic guitar, gudok (a 3-string Slavic bowed instrument), percussion, and melodica. Genre-agnostic, handmade music that is playful, sorrowful, and ecstatic. Plucked and bowed stringed instruments and organic ramshackle wooden percussion build sensory worlds that coalesce with Engel's sung-poetry. In the words of Byron Coley: "There's a very dark centre to the music, recalling the gothier moves of 4AD artists, but the clarity of Engel's vision creates something far less commercial sounding than that infers. Deep woods, gloam, mists...these are all elements evoked by Engel's music. Hard to believe they've been doing music this good for that long without more notice." (The Wire, Sept 2023) "I'm not writing the same song over and over so much as writing one long continuous song that will end when I die." (Engel) Genre Folk & Singer-Songwriter