July 12 & 13 premiering "Другият сън" by Съпромат & Космотехника

After collaborating with "Съпромат" collective on "Видение" a few years ago, glad to be working with them again this time in alliance with "Космотехника" another Sofia-based creative duo involved in some truly inspiring projects. 

"Другият сън" is a visual performance inspired by Vladimir Poleganov's book of the same name, one of the most fascinating pieces of contemporary Bulgarian literature. I had the absolute pleasure of doing the music and sound for this project that premieres on July 12 & 13 at Toplocentrala, Sofia. 

Find more info here.

Expectations Summer 2023

 A bunch of shows I'm playing with Expectations in the next months before we take a little break.

05/07 Sofia, Grindhouse w/ Piranha & Ignite (US)

27/07 Burgas, Port of Burgas w/ Architects, While She Sleeps, Heriot

16/09 Sofia, Wrong Fest 

Spring Shows 2023

Here's a bunch of shows I'm playing this Spring with various projects.

Tickets: https://epaygo.bg/4217486119

Tickets: https://epaygo.bg/3788820193

Tickets: https://epaygo.bg/4002610840

Dayin "When did you stop looking at the sky" CS

Order at Bandcamp.

My third full-length as Dayin is out today on Purlieu Recordings in Sweden. I recorded a big part of this record while touring with Expectations in September 2022, I finished it in Varna, Bulgaria, and invited Ivan Shentov (krāllār) and Daniel Donchov (Non-Photo Blue) to contribute a little something to some of the tracks. The result is available on tape limited to 60 copies and digital. 

Hope you enjoy it.

 

Three years lay between Dayin’s latest release “When Did You Stop Looking at the Sky'' and his 2019 Purlieu debut “Light Is Polluting the City”. While the project's music somewhat still lurks in similar harsher drone ambient territories, it also aims to create a calmer and introspective listening space. Inspired by personal memories and moments of contemplation, the new Dayin album doesn’t offer any sort of audio escapism, nor try to recreate visual snapshots through sounds. Instead, it sketches imaginary skyscapes and the species and spirits who inhabit them and make them alive.

The music of Dayin is raw, warm, minimalist, and dense all at the same time. Its melodic and harmonic layers exist in a vacuum of delay and are often crushed under waves of distortion. “When Did You Stop Looking at the Sky” was written as the musical equivalent of keeping your eyes open even if they start hurting because if you blink those sights that revealed themselves only for you might disappear. Stay awake at all costs.

Recorded by Angel Simitchiev in 2022
“Gasping for Air” featuring Non Photo Blue
“Sleeping Skin” & “Embrace Fatigue” featuring Ivan Shentov

Artwork by Linn Schrab

November Dayin shows in Bulgaria and Germany

Next week playing four shows in Bulgaria and Germany. I'm premiering a new Dayin full-length called 'When did you stop looking at the sky" due on Purlieu Recordings before the end of the year. Find all shows listed below.

Photo by Silvana Ilieva

08/11 Fabrika Avtonomia, Sofia, BG RSVP here

10/11 Pracht, Leipzig, DE RSVP here

11/11 Alte Feuerwasche Loschwitz, Dresden, DE RSVP here

12/11 Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Berlin, DE RSVP here

Ангел Симитчиев "Призив"

My new solo album "Призив" is up for streaming. It's a charity album with a very important cause. So feel free to give it a spin and read its backstory below. 

In early 2022 I was commissioned by "Velingrad Mineral Water" to travel to the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria and capture the sounds and spirits of this special mountain. The goal was to create an album that tries to convey the majesty of this remarkable place. I traveled light, with no fancy microphones or recorders and yet the field recordings become the backbone of this work. Most of the sounds I captured were left untouched, while others became part of the musical texture alongside synth and guitar work I recorded in between my travels to the Rhodopes. Even if it might not sound like it, I went out of my comfort zone quite a few times when producing this album.

The initiative has a simple mechanic, the more the album gets played the more it will be donated to "Rewiliding Rhodopes Foundation", a fantastic organization of dedicated experts who are working hard on preserving the wildlife of the region, repopulating endangered populations of herbivores, carnivores and scavengers to ensure a better future for the ecosystems in the region. 

More about the campaign find here: https://velingradvoda.bg/priziv

Photos by Silvana Ilieva.

Expectations - European Tour September 2022

It's been a while since I've done a proper band tour. Almost 10 years to be precise. The last time I did one was in 2013 and the last one I documented in this blog was in 2012. You can read a bunch of poorly edited past stories here. Meanwhile, starting on Sept 14 we'll be doing 10 shows in the following places. 

Find more info and event links at: https://expectationsband.com/ and if somebody reads this, well, maybe see you around.

Poster by bai_dracula.