Dayin - Meditations On Forgetting CS out now on Mahorka

Meditations On Forgetting, my new album as Dayin was released today on the legendary Bulgarian label Mahorka.

Order at Bandcamp.

"Meditations on Forgetting" is the second Dayin release on Mahorka, after the extended cassette reissue "Warm Like Crystal Throats" in 2023. It was inspired by the unexpected and unstoppable process of memory loss. "Meditations on Forgetting" was created to honor the souls slipping away from the world they built from themselves. A transition that is equally scary and intriguing. One can only hope there are other, more beautiful and worthy realms beyond.

Artwork by Silvana Ilieva

Born Erased opening four shows for Crowfish in February

This February I'm opening four shows around Bulgaria as Born Erased for one of my favorite local bands Crowfish who not only recently reunited but released a brand new EP. All shows are with 4?, another amazing Bulgarian band that hasn't played live for quite some time. Hope to see you somewhere! I'll be playing pretty much different sets everywhere.

07/02 Mixtape 5, Sofia

08/02 Download, Plovdiv w/ Nedy Miladinov on drums

21/02 Block 14, Ruse

22/02 Rubik, Varna

Waning End "Moving Houses" CS out on Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere

Head diving into 2025 with a new record created in collaboration with one of my favorite musicians and released on one of my favorite labels. 

Order on cassette or digital at Bandcamp.

Amongst the dust and sealed windows a key is laid bare to unlock the forgotten and reanimate reality. A garden of solitary reminiscence opens up as a gleaming tunnel, confronting visions of a derelict Eden. 

Moving Houses is the debut collaborative effort of Niels Geybels & Angel Simitchiev under the name Waning End. It was created in an intuitive and impulsive exchange of sounds, ideas, and recollections. The process spanned within just a few months but was inspired by a lifelong fascination with nostalgia, with the urge to retrace what we leave behind or find along the way. Waning End was a means to revisit places that are no longer 'ours' but that made us who we are today. 

On the surface, Moving Houses builds a world where abandonment and emptiness reign supreme but the closer you listen the more you recognize the echoes of your own looping memories, saturated images, and fading presences of (not so) distant moments in time. Waning End embraces the past and orchestrates its fragile debris in a glacially paced, densely textural musical experience that welcomes you not only as a spectator but as a participant.

Artwork by Niels Geybels 

Mastered by Marius Costache

Expectations July 2024

 Playing Exit Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia) and Hills of Rock (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) in July with Expectations. 

Photo by Stella Gocheva

Dayin "Aching Halo" EP & "Wings Filled With Water" (video)

I'm happy to share a new Dayin digital-only EP, a follower of last year's Mahorka cassette reissue of my previous self-released material. Below you'll find both the Bandcamp link (no other streaming options for this one) and a video I put together for the closing track.

Aching Halo is available on Bandcamp as a name-your-price download.

"When marshes become deserts the ruins of our hands will blossom again."

Thanks for still listening and caring.

Кадзе (premiere June 13, 2024)

After contributing sound design to Metheor Collective's "Дарума" back in 2021, I'm happy to share "Кадзе". Its somewhat spiritual successor premieres on June 13 at Sofia's Lumiere Cinema. Find your tickets here.

Born Erased "I Am The End Of The World" CS

The debut album of my new music endeavor Born Erased has been just released. "I Am The End Of The World" dropped on November 17 via my beloved and freshly restarted tape label BLWBCK. Find more info about the album below. It's streaming everywhere but consider scoring a cassette while they last.

Order on tape & digital.

I Am The End of The World is the first offering of Born Erased, a new endeavor by Bulgarian musician Angel Simitchiev, who first appeared on BLWBCK in 2013 with his now-defunct alias Mytrip. As both the project name and album title suggest, the music is meant to evoke bleaker, darker, and even dystopian visions. These are parts of a narrative that is simultaneously deeply personal and universal. Muted anger, despise, and hatred for the world collide with hope for freedom, even if it comes at the cost of the total eradication of the reality we are forced to live in. 

I Am The End of The World took nearly three years to be completed. The backbone of the record was written in a breath but then slowly structured and expanded upon. In this album, Simitchiev juxtaposes his nearly two decades' worth of ambient research with his long involvement in hardcore punk. Severely deformed guitars, cavernous synths, and drastically manipulated recordings of heavy machinery are organically intertwined to become the core of the album. A big part of why it is so impactful is that the gates were open for several guest musicians who added even more depth and character to a record already highly dense with sound. Moss Harvest (tape manipulation and textures) and V0LAND (cello) are found on two of the more straightforward ambient tracks in the album. Shattering, almost doom-influenced live drums on three of the tracks have been performed by Boris Malevanov (Nocktern, Heptagram) which brings this otherwise fragile and drifting genre to its most extreme form.

© Silvana Ilieva

Written & recorded by Angel Simitchiev between 2020-2023 

Noise and textures on track 1 by Moss Harvest 

Drums on tracks 2, 5, and 7 by Boris Malevanov 

Cello on track 3 by Symeon Yovev (V0LAND)

Drums recorded by Mihail Slavov (Wind City Studio)

Mixed & mastered by Marius Costache (Studio 148)

Artwork by Silvana Ilieva (silvanailieva.com)

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