STEVE VON TILL'S A DEEP VOICELESS WILDERNESS AND SPOKEN WORD RELEASE, HARVESTMAN: 23 UNTITLED POEMS ARE OUT TODAY VIA NEUROT RECORDINGS
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STEVE VON TILL’S AMBIENT NEW ALBUM: A DEEP VOICELESS WILDERNESS
AND SPOKEN WORD RELEASE, HARVESTMAN: 23 UNTITLED POEMS
OUT TODAY VIA NEUROT RECORDINGS
Steve Von Till's latest offering in this new chapter of his solo work arrives today with the release of A Deep Voiceless Wilderness, his first ambient music release, achingly beautiful and with neo-classical learnings. The album is a hallucinatory and elegant rumination on our disconnect from the natural world, each other, and ultimately ourselves. Also arriving today is Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems, a spoken word release with a difference, delivering an intimate and captivating reading of the collection with sound enhancements.
REVISIT "CALLED FROM THE WIND" FROM A DEEP VOICELESS WILDERNESS
AND IMMERSE ONESELF INTO THE SPOKEN WORD PIECE "VI-XII" FROM HARVESTMAN 23 UNTITLED POEMS
For some listeners, A Deep Voiceless Wilderness may recall the work of modern composers like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Brian Eno or Gavin Bryars. For Von Till, it’s about surrendering to the spirit of place—and to the original intent behind his 2020 solo album, No Wilderness Deep Enough. That album marked a significant first for Von Till: It was his first solo record without a guitar in hand. Instead, Von Till intoned powerful and thought-provoking lyrics over piano, cello, mellotron and analog synthesizers. A Deep Voiceless Wilderness is that same album without Von Till’s words.
“This is how I originally heard this piece of music,” he says. “Without the voice as an anchor or earthbound narrative, these pieces have a broader wingspan. They become something else entirely and unfold in a more expansive way. The depth of the synths, juxtaposed with the strings and French horn, have space to develop and allow the listener to imagine their own story.”
(cover art for A Deep Voiceless Wilderness, hi res version here)
TRACK LIST:
2. We'll Always Have the Sea
3. The Emptiness Swallows Us All
4. Shelter in Surrender
5. Nightshade High Country
Order A Deep Voiceless Wilderness on all formats here: https://smarturl.it/stv-advw
Also a first for Von Till was Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics, his first book of poetry. Published by the University of South Dakota’s AstrophilPress, the book established Von Till as a formidable and thoughtful author of verse—a fact that Neurosis fans knew all along, but the wider world was only just becoming aware of.
“There is a depth of hope, acceptance and loss that permeates these poems,” Joseph Haeger said in his review for The Inlander. “Like any great piece of art, Harvestman contains multitudes, and that’s exactly what I was hoping for when I cracked it open. Von Till has already established himself as a great musician, and he’s about to put his stake into the ground proving himself to be a damn good writer.”
About this reimagining of Harvestman, Von Till says, “Being a constant sound-seeker, I thought it would be more interesting to have some textures and treatments to break up the intimate voice recordings,” Von Till says of his decision to add some atmosphere to the spoken-word version of Harvestman. “The background sounds used on some of the tracks were pieces related to No Wilderness Deep Enough that were either not used or repurposed to interweave further connections between my artistic output at this time of my life.”
(cover art for Harvestman...hi-res version here)
TRACK LIST:
I-V
XIII-XVIII
XIX-XXIII
Order Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems on all formats here: https://smarturl.it/svt-23poems
"Steve Von Till succeeds masterfully here in producing an ambitiously creative work that stands up to comparisons with the luminaries of the ambient and contemporary classical music worlds." - 8/10 GHOST CULT
"Taken as a pair, you have a snapshot of the workings of the artist’s heart and mind that shows a very different aspect from Neurosis." - VANGUARD ONLINE
"The music is light and airy, simple yet deep and stirring with each rise and fall of the sweeping strings giving A Deep Voiceless Wilderness a feel like a soaring bird viewing a lofty mountain range...a beautiful experience to surrender yourself to." - THE SLEEPING SHAMAN
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