In the summer of 2020, Steve Von Till released his fifth solo album, “No Wilderness Deep Enough”, a swirling and iridescent blend of ambient, neo-classical, gothic Americana and rural psychedelia, that deepened his exploration into previously uncharted territory.
This was followed by the release of “A Deep Voiceless Wilderness” in April 2021 – the achingly beautiful counterpart ambient work without words.
This August, Steve Von Till shall be performing the lush ambient performance of “No Wilderness…” and previous work to the UK for the first time on the following selected dates.
UK Live Shows 2023:
1st August – Bristol, Fyfe Hall
4th August – London, St John on Bethnal Green
5th August – Birmingham, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
+ (mainland European dates to be announced soon)
In addition to performing songs from his latest album, and his previous work, “A Life Unto Itself”, Steve will also weave a few old tracks as well as spoken word readings from his first book 23 “Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics” into extended instrumental passages by his ensemble of musicians. His band for this tour consists of Dave French (of YOB and Brothers of the Sonic Cloth) on synths, guitars and percussion, Braden Diotte (touring member of Faust, EXO//ENDO, Pinback and Tarantula Hawk) on organ and modular synths, and PJ Van Assche (who performs on his own as Innerwoud) on double bass handling the string parts.
As a taste of what to expect, we invite you to watch this brilliant rendition of “The Old Straight Track” below.
Von Till’s fifth solo album, “No Wilderness Deep Enough” is a swirling and iridescent blend of ambient, neo-classical, and gothic Americana that swan-dives into the darkness of modern life, with the resulting emergence a sonic document of rural psychedelia that transcends the physical world—towards a greater spiritual acceptance that connects naturalism, spiritualism, and the corporeal form. “No Wilderness…” arrived alongside Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics, a book of poetry and collected lyrics from Von Till’s solo career as well as his Harvestman project. The book is a rich text that showcases his deeply felt ruminations on the myriad beginnings and endings of life itself, offering another medium of which to experience his singular artistic perspective.
Von Till’s charted an extraordinary musical path over the last several decades, from his main duties as singer and guitarist of Neurosis to the psychedelic music of his Harvestman project and the gothic Americana he’s released under his own name. But at the time of release, “No Wilderness Deep Enough” was truly like nothing we’d ever heard from him before — an album that’s devastatingly beautiful and overwhelming in its scope, reminiscent of the tragic ecstasy of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ recent work as well as the borderless ambient music pioneered by Brian Eno, late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s glacial compositions, and the electronic mutations of Coil. “A Deep Voiceless Wilderness” – the counterpart album to “No Wilderness Deep Enough” – took these elements even further by stripping away the words, leaving the beautifully rich and enveloping instrumentation of piano, cello, mellotron and analog synthesizers.
With “No Wilderness Deep Enough”, “A Deep Voiceless Wilderness”, and “Harvestman”, Von Till has achieved a sense of mass resonance through his restless artistic exploration — providing art that journeys into the heart of fear and uncertainty in a world where we’ve often known little else.
Weblinks:
www.vontill.org
www.facebook.com/SteveVonTill
