film, video and music artist
Songs written by Gary Popovich
Guitars, keyboard, bass, percussion: Dexter Nash
Vocals: Gary Popovich, Sara May
Recorded by Dexter Nash
Produced by Dexter Nash, Gary Popovich
New album, released on October 21, 2024. For more info click HERE OR ON THE MUSIC AND MUSIC VIDEOS link on the menu above.
“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. Information on his film and video work is HERE AND AT THE FILMS AND VIDEOS LINK ON THE TOP MENU.
In 2022 Popovich completed an online video and music project called The Schmeki Noamson Project, 26 videos and an album of 9 songs. Charles Street Video Gallery exhibited five videos from The Schmeki Noamson Project from September 24 to October 7, 2022; on September 24 and 25 Popovich, as Schmeki Noamson, played live with his band during the Geary Art Crawl in Toronto. Recently Popovich has been playing live, both solo and with his band; he has a new record just released called Adoration, and a new short film to be released soon called Apocalypse of Schmeki.
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