No Wilderness Deep Enough Steve Von Till
Album info
Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
07.08.2020
Album including Album cover
- 1 Dreams of Trees 06:27
- 2 The Old Straight Track 05:10
- 3 Indifferent Eyes 07:03
- 4 Trail the Silent Hours 04:12
- 5 Shadows on the Run 07:20
- 6 Wild Iron 07:03
Info for No Wilderness Deep Enough
Over the course of recent time, an aching, growing void has developed where our normal way of life has resided. Uncertainty abounds, and Steve Von Till's No Wilderness Deep Enough provides a voice of existential wisdom and experience to offer comfort and perspective in an era of uncharted territory. These six pieces of music shape a hallucinatory landscape of sound that plumbs the depths of the natural world's mysteries and uncertainties—questions that have vexed humanity since the dawn of time asked anew amidst a backdrop that's as haunting as it is holistic.
Von Till’s fifth solo album 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.
Von Till has charted an extraordinary musical path over the last several decades, from his main duties as singer and guitarist of the boundary-breaking Neurosis to the psychedelic music of his Harvestman project and the unique folks songs he's released under his own name. But No Wilderness Deep Enough is truly like nothing you've 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.
With a foundation of simple melancholy piano chord progressions embellished with mellotron, cello, french horn and electronic treatments Von Till's scorched ache spreads across the terrain of No Wilderness Deep Enough like a brushfire, adding a tactile level to his sonic creation as well as an inviting level of friction to the burning beauty painted across the album's framework.
"Fans of NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS and STEVE VON TILL’s previous work, across his entire back catalogue, will likely find a lot to like here. Thanks to the intricate details dotted across each track thanks to the lonely cello and french horn and the simple progressing piano, Steve paints beautiful canvases with his music. Despite this, there remains a lingering sense of a one note delivery, leaving the often wonderful lyrical work lacking the impact it could have. The true enjoyment for this album comes with how you experience it. If you can, find the time to sit and tune this No Wilderness Too Deep up loud on your sound system and let it envelope you. It will be a definite time well spent." (Eddie Sims, distortedsoundmag.com)
Steve Von Till
Steve Von Till
is most widely recognized as vocalist & guitarist in heavy post-psychedelic punk legends Neurosis.
But, the breadth of his talents and interests reaching far beyond that band's thunderous intensity have been well established over the course of related projects like the experimental offshoot Tribes of Neurot, psych-drone band Harvestman, & acoustic guitar based solo releases.
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