delving is eigenlijk een studio project van Elder frontman Nick DiSalvio. Slechts zelden brengen ze hun muziek naar de live podia. Voor o.a. Desertfest Antwerp maken ze dit jaar een uitzondering. Het wordt alvast genieten van instrumentale psych/prog rock waarin kenmerkende elementen uit de jaren zeventig ruimschoots aanwezig zijn.
All Paths Diverge verschijnt op 23 augustus 2024 via Stickman Records.
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DiSalvo reveals:
"Omnipresence is a song I worked on sporadically over a few years, as opposed to others on the album which took shape spontaneously. It encapsulates as with any good delving track a myriad of seemingly incompatible elements and tries to meld them together: dreamy Mellotron sounds, driving synths, fuzz guitars, dubbed-out drums, a harpsichord? - elements that only over time can be subtly fused together to make a cohesive and coherent rock track. It’s a hazy and peaceful song to bliss out to and forget the world around you."
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.
