film, video and music artist
New Release By Gary Popovich
Blablabla
a new music video, a three screen, two minute ten second, punk folk protest song
The song was inspired by a comment by activist Greta Thunberg; it was produced with Dexter Nash; live performances of the song took place across numerous landscapes in Canada and the United States; Annette Mangaard did the video recording, and I edited the video. The song is available on most streaming services. Blablabla is the first single from the forthcoming album called Halalalalula, which will be released in 2024.
Messiah Blues, video single from the album Schmashing Idols From 2021
“Forget Netflix or whatever you're streaming today and check out Schmeki. I especially recommend this to fans of psychedelic music or collectors of groovy Xian music. Go down the Schmeki rabbit hole”. — Alan Zweig
“Catchy and handsome...as if there was a secret he figured out, and now he's come back bearing the wound and the truth of that unwanted journey...a parade of masks and positions” — Mike Hoolboom
Dexter Nash: acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion
Gary Popovich: vocals, keyboard
Andrew Taylor: drums
Engineered and recorded by Dexter Nash
Produced by Dexter Nash, Gary Popovich
Songs written by Gary Popovich
available on all major platforms like Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, Deezer, Napster, etc. and here at BandCamp
still from Faultlines, 1999
Popovich’s work has screened at numerous international festivals such as Sydney, Nyon, Oberhausen, art galleries such as the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo, San Francisco Cinematheque, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Millennium Film Theatre in NY, on CBC Television, retrospectives at cinematheques and artist run centres across Canada. In Toronto where he lives and works he has premiered two films at Images Film and Video festival and six films at the Toronto International Film Festival. He has helped to promote independent and experimental film production through years of work at The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). He is a founding member of Pleasure Dome Exhibition Collective, and has sat on boards and juries in support of independent film production and exhibition.
still from Souvenir, 2014
“My family left Africa about 60,000 years ago. At some point, some major mass of my DNA was clustered in the Balkans, along either side of imperial faultlines and violent engagements. Both of those sides emigrated separately to Canada and found each other in the land of promise, with fields of snow. I was raised on the top floor of an r&b hotel in Niagara Falls where I played with tape recorders and projectors.” Gary Popovich
still from Antigone, 1990
Charles Street Video Gallery exhibited five of Schmeki’s music performance videos from September 24 to October 7. On September 24 and 25 Schmeki Noamson and his band played live during the Geary Art Crawl in Toronto, two 45 minute sets each day, songs from his first record, and several new songs from an upcoming album. Schmeki has disappeared; Popovich has taken over, and that new record will be released in October…the title of that album is, tentatively, called Halalalalula.
