Avi Buffalo

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Avi Buffalo
Long Beach, California
GenresIndie
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Guitar, Piano, Voice
Years active2006-Present
LabelsSub Pop

Avi Buffalo (born Avigdor Benyamin Zahner-Isenberg, November 5, 1990) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer.

Career

Avi Buffalo's self-titled debut album was released on April 27, 2010, and was given positive reviews by

SXSW the same year, and opened for Modest Mouse in July. In 2010, the band toured Europe and North America. In June 2011 a second single was released on Sub Pop
, "How Come? and Good I'm Wishing", and he had already began writing for a second album.

Avi began recording a follow-up to his self-titled album in 2012, and in 2013 began producing other artists and side projects in addition to his own material. Avi Buffalo's second album At Best Cuckold was released on 8 September 2014 in Europe, and on 9 September in the US.[3] Avi and a live band toured the US and Europe in support of this album in Autumn of 2014 for a brief amount of time before Avi decided to return to performing, writing and producing new music.[4]

In 2015, he said he was putting an end to the band Avi Buffalo.[5] In 2019, he released the electronic album Glow Cast on Eternal Sound with Ari Prado.[6]

On July 27, 2020, Avi Buffalo was accused of raping a former bandmate.[7][8][9] In response to the accusations, Sub Pop stopped selling his albums from stores and digital services.[10]

Discography

Albums

  • 2007: Avi Buffalo - Home Recording era begins and varying CD-R bootlegs circulated by Avi Buffalo
  • 2010: Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo (Sub Pop Records)
  • 2014: Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold (Sub Pop Records)
  • 2019: Ari Prado & Avi Buffalo - Glow Cast on Eternal Sound (Ari Prado Music)

EPs and singles

  • 2010: "What's In It For/Jessica" (7" release)[11]
  • 2011: "How Come/Good I'm Wishing" (7" release)
  • 2018: "Panegyric"
  • 2019: "Skeleton Painting"

Other credits

  • 2010: Sevendys - Guitarist
  • 2015: Bobby Rae - The Now and Then Clubhouse (as producer, mixer and masterer)
  • 2015: Litronix - Pump The Gas (as producer, engineer and musician)

References

  1. ^ "Person Details for Avigdor Benyamin Zahner, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Avi Buffalo album reviews at Metacritic". Metacritic.com. April 29, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  3. ^ "Avi Buffalo". Subpop.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  4. ^ "Avi Buffalo - This post is actually void. Of course I'll..." Facebook.com. 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  5. ^ "Avi Buffalo puts an end to group". The Guardian. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Meet Avi Buffalo". Voyagela.com. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Avi Buffalo Accused Of Rape By Former Bandmate". Stereogum. 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  8. ^ "Avi Buffalo accused of rape, emotional abuse by former bandmate". Consequence of Sound. 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  9. ^ "Avi Buffalo Accused of Rape by Former Bandmate Rebecca Coleman". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  10. ^ "Avi Buffalo Accused of Rape by Former Bandmate, Music Pulled by Sub Pop". Pitchfork. 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  11. ^ "Avi Buffalo - What's In It For / Jessica (Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved August 21, 2014.

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