STEVE VON TILL

Physically enveloping, forebodingly beautiful, and drawing on the animistic spirit of

the natural world, Steve Von Till announces his seventh solo LP arriving on May 16th

via Neurot Recordings.

Ploughing a different furrow, Alone in a World of Wounds is an album of sweeping

gothic tinged Americana, tripped out drones, beautiful world weary vocal melodies

and slowly unfurling cello arrangements. Initially inspired by the harmonic resonance

of piano and synths and his long standing love of ambient music, Alone in a World of

Wounds follows 2021’s No Wilderness Deep Enough in reflective ambience. Opening

up his voice in ways he has never done before, the album's genesis came via intuitive

improvisations.

"The complex overtones of upright piano and synthesisers really inspired me to sing

out more, to seek out the implied harmonies, and to find unique approaches within the

limitations of my voice." says Von Till

‘It is the transcendent nature of music, the cathartic healing process where I can leave

everything behind and become one with sound. When you allow yourself to go

beyond the ordinary you might be fortunate enough to find a moment where you are

creating in alignment with the flow of the river of the universe.’

The search for deeper connection, living with the sorrow of our separation from the

natural world, and relying on gut level intuition to get closer to the primal creative

state are all key to Von Till’s creative process.

Recorded mostly at his barn studio at home in Idaho and mixed at Circular Ruin in

Brooklyn, NY, with storied producer Randall Dunn ( Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sunn O))),

Earth, Jim Jarmusch), Alone in a World of Wounds also boasts cover artwork from

Spokane, WA based alternative process photographer Brian Deemy - who works with

colloidal wet plate ‘tintype’ aesthetics, which compliment Von Till’s uniquely ancient

yet grounded aesthetic, and one that perfectly matches his desire to reimagine the

connection between the human and the more than human world.

‘I often wonder where the psychological break was that caused the fatal delusion that

we have dominion over the natural world, how it is reduced to existing solely for our

benefit. Whenever that disconnect was - I believe it to be the root of most of our

problems as a society, in relationships, and even within ourselves and our own minds.

It always comes back to the fact that we must have a conscious shift back to

understanding that we’re all part of a living animate earth: and that we need to think

of the rivers and the mountains and the weather as part of us and us as part of the

world. We are wild things but we’ve forgotten. Without this shift in consciousness

we’re screwed. That’s the overarching theme. And when I look back on my life it’s

becoming more explicit and more clear that this is always what I’ve been singing

about’

Présenté par POINT EPHEMERE.

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