Instrumental psych-prog project delving (with Nick DiSalvo of Elder) releases new album »All Paths Diverge« on Stickman Records and Blues Funeral Recordings!
International instrumental psych-kraut-prog rock project delving (feat. Nick DiSalvo of Elder) is streaming sophomore album, »All Paths Diverge«, which was just released this Friday, August 23rd, 2024 via Stickman Records and Blues Funeral Recordings.
Tracklist:
01. Sentinel
02. Omnipresence
03. Chain Of Mind
04. New Meridian
05. Zodiak
06. The Ascetic
07. Vanish With Grace
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
delving, the instrumental psych-kraut-prog rock project of Elder frontman Nick DiSalvo, releases his sophomore solo album »All Paths Diverge« through Stickman Records (Europe) and Blues Funeral Recordings (USA) today. Don’t miss the band on their upcoming European tour this fall!
“DiSalvo is without a doubt a master in his own field.” — Rock Hard Magazine
“This is what it means to watch psychedelic rock become all that it can possibly be when it is well and truly unrestrained.” — Headbanger Reviews
“delving is something that all metal fans ought to consider for its grooves, the fun, and the technical goodness that comes from the proggy-goodness.” — Metal Epidemic
Stream new album »All Paths Diverge« at this location
+ watch the videos for »Zodiak« and »Omnipresence«
Photo by Leon de Backer
After a decade and a half as frontman of the seminal progressive psychedelic quartet Elder, DiSalvo founded delving as a secondary outlet to express musical ideas that didn’t fit in the paradigm of his main band. Exploring instrumental music with a heavy focus on psychedelic rock, krautrock, early electronic music as well as ambient sounds, delving still showcases the evocative melodies and unique songwriting which are his trademarks.
The debut album »Hirschbrunnen« was recorded in the pandemic years when touring was brought to a grinding halt, allowing time to finally pick up song fragments and ideas collected over the years and coalesce them into an album. Positive reception led to the foundation of a live band, which has crystalized in the lineup of Nick DiSalvo, guitarist Michael Risberg (Elder, Weite), bassist Ingwer Boysen (Weite, High Fighter) and drummer Uno Bruniusson (Maggot Heart, ex-Death Alley).
Unlike its pandemic predecessor, delving’s second full-length »All Paths Diverge« was composed in between time on tour and in studio with Elder. Culled once more from an ever-expanding songbook of ideas, the album’s seven lengthy tracks are a snapshot of DiSalvo’s current musical interests and love of sound exploration and remain evasive of genre confines. Intended as a subtle rebuff of the old adage “all roads lead to Rome”, the album title »All Paths Diverge« asserts that change is inevitable and nothing is set in stone.
Upcoming fall & winter shows:
19.10 – Antwerp, BE – Desertfest Belgium
20.11 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang
21.11 – Leuven, BE – SoJo
23.11 – London, UK – Oslo
24.11 – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
25.11 – Paris, FR – La Boule Noire
26.11 – Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje
27.11 – Bochum, DE – Die Trompete
28.11 – Siegen, DE – Vortex Surfer
29.11 – Leipzig, DE – Noel’s Ballroom
30.11 – Berlin, DE – Neue Zukunft
01.12 – Warsaw, PL – Voodoo
03.12 – Brno, CZ – Kabinet MUZ
04.12 – Vienna, AT – Arena
05.12 – Innsbruck, AT – PMK
06.12 – Munich, DE – Feierwerk
New album »All Paths Diverge« available on Stickman Records (Europe) and Blues Funeral Recordings (North America)
While delving is in essence a solo studio project from multi-instrumentalist DiSalvo, his music takes flight in rare live performances thanks to the stellar live band. In support of the upcoming record release, delving have announced a series of live dates for the fall and winter of 2024, including a much-awaited appearance at Desertfest Antwerp. Joining delving on tour are the equally genre-bending psychedelic beast of Iron Jinn from Amsterdam.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well