Using fictional characters as alter egos is nothing new among musicians. From Gorillaz to the late MF DOOM, many have adopted fictional personas, sometimes fully fleshed-out characters, to perform live or create within the studio. Once, Ghost Bath, a North Dakotan black metal project, even claimed to hail from China. Guido Zen, aka Abul Mogard, belongs to this tradition, too. For years, he released ambient drone material under the guise of a retired Serbian factory worker, a man with formal musical training who, in the silence that followed retirement, found himself longing for the clunk and clatter of the factory floor, and so began sculpting his own electronic soundworld.
But Mogard’s productions are far removed from what we associate with electronic…

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