Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg (below, left – photo by Priscella Vega) announced Avi Buffalo’s breakup via Facebook, posting a message to fans alongside the video for the band’s song “Won’t Be Around No More.”

After roughly nine years of making music together, Avi Buffalo, the Long Beach indie/psychedelic/folk rock project fronted by singer/guitarist Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg has called it quits.

After completing two successful albums for record label SubPop, Zahner-Isenberg took to Facebook to announce he will stop making music under the name Avi Buffalo concurrent with the end of his contract with the label.

“I have very much appreciated touching good people with this music, having a cool avenue through the world to perform it, getting to meet you whether it was in the USA, Canada or Europe, and working with some awesome musicians,” he said in a statement on Facebook.

When he started the Avi Buffalo project at 15 years old, he never expected it to be as successful as it was, the now 24-year-old Zahner-Isenberg said, citing the toll the project had taken on him over the years.

“In fact, the Avi Buffalo project went too far, and I don’t think this project was meant for even the minute exposure on a ‘professional’ scale that it got, as it ended up causing a lot more pain and drained my creative energy,” he said. “It makes me wake up sick, confused, depressed, out of touch with myself and irrelevant to current music’s existence. I know ya’ll wouldn’t want me to stay like that.”

Zahner-Isenberg reassured fans on the Facebook post that he will seek “other more exciting and meaningful creative endeavors.”

These new projects, however, will likely not include touring, which Zahner-Isenberg said “sucks” and just “isn’t worth it.”

“It completely detracts from what I have always wanted to do as a musician since I started at age 12 which is: play with a lot of different people all the time instead of concentrating on one band, work and write in the studio with people and also to experience things like romantic relationships and live in one place at a time such as Los Angeles or New York or anywhere else with a large and exciting concentration of beautiful artists to work with and learn from every day,” he said.

Zahner-Isenberg said he’s already producing new projects, like the debut album of Kevin Litrow’s (Dance Disaster Movement and 60 Watt Kid) solo project, Litronix. He said he’s producing the album on Long Beach label Porch Party Records with J.P. Bendzinski, who’s produced albums for Wild Pack of Canaries and Crystal Antlers, among many others, and he expects the album to be finished soon.

The Long Beach local said he may return to touring in the future, but he doesn’t imagine it happening anytime soon.

“Perhaps also after a while of working on other people’s stuff I could come up with something else of my own again, put it out on a label, tour, etc.,” he said. “It’s just gotta feel free if that happens. I will probably honestly be 40 or 50 when that happens and extremely fat.”