Spring Colors Challenge - Day 6: Persian Indigo*
Calgary electronic artist Avi's Equinox EP is a brief but impactful affair that tells a personal story of struggle and resolution in five tracks that each average about 2 minutes in length. Despite their transient duration, each track feels like its own self-contained world and manifests a depth that is conspicuous despite their duration. Clapping loops are consumed in cross-chatter as dire synth dip and dirge over the turbulence of disarmingly warm digital beats, cocooning and yoking Avi's plaintive voice as he pursues the flickering light at the top of the theater to prove that his sense of self is more than an empty projection on a static abyss. I like to think he succeeds in demonstrating the proof and merit of his existence by the end, despite the mournful anguish expressed on the closing track, "Mudslide." You may have your own interpretation. Such is life.
