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BIOGRAPHY
Von Wildenhaus hails from a Pacific Northwest that is mapped by Sun City Girls’ Seattle, Unwound’s Olympia, and John Fahey’s Takoma – not to mention all the weirdos of Whatcom County where they first met. After releasing several albums of noted instrumental guitar noir music in the early 2010s, guitarist Ben von Wildenhaus (a tour hardened veteran of the 90s/00s punk scene and film music composer) formed Von Wildenhaus with vocalist Billie Bloom, whose commanding voice and presence are held by a cast of gifted players, singers, and songwriters.
The band’s eclectic output has found admirers in Iggy Pop, Calvin Johnson, The Quietus, and The Stranger’s Dave Segal. 2020’s Everything In Flower contains an apocalyptic collection of moody and melodic lounge psychedelia. 2022’s World Best is a voyage through skeletal beats, snakey guitars, feral incantations, and grand departures into lofi synth and strings landscape, that features guests like Ilyas Ahmed, Dorian Wood, and the Diminished Men. 2024’s Von Universe and 2025’s Dark Von Universe collect over 2 hours of recordings from studios, living rooms, and basements across the northwest, (as well as live tracks from their UK tour), released episodically and spanning all the disparate vibes between Middle Eastern electro-pop, slacker post rock, torch balladry, and 60s British folk rock. The late Andru Creature, vibe conductor and founding VW member, used to call their music, “Easy Listening For Demons.” These days in his profound absence it might as well be called, “Devotional Hymns for Dumpster Angels.”
Short biography: Von Wildenhaus is an apocolyptic avant-pop band based in Seattle, WA, that creates a darkly melodic and sonorous blend of rock, easy listening, nonwestern musics, and eerie Americana. The band features the ethereal vocals of Billie Bloom, and the damaged guitar of composter and leader Ben von Wildenhaus.
One line biography: Von Wildenhaus is a guitar noir, avant-pop band based in Seattle, WA.
TESTIMONIALS
“He’s doing his own thing in his own way.” – IGGY POP, Iggy Confidential BBC Music 6
“A creative crevice from which no one wants to escape.” – CALVIN JOHNSON, K Records
PRESS
“Tacoma’s Von Wildenhaus are unpredictable eclecticists whose songs range from chamber-jazz torch songs sung by the alluring vocalist Billie Bloom to anthemic, Grandaddy-esque indie rock to Middle Eastern–inflected electronic pop to the most gorgeous song ever about ketamine.” – DAVE SEGAL, The Stranger
” Von Wildenhaus anti-prismatically recombines the worlds of
David Lynch, Marc Ribot, Jad Fair, and Luis Bacalov into an
oddly familiar new whole.” – TRISTAN BATH, The Quietus
“A tight confluence of mediative anti-shredding” – JESSICA HOPPER, Spin
“From country twang and psych-rock whirls to Eastern modes and pondering tones, there’s a delightfully fluid, dreamlike quality to this bizarre book of tunes.” – Elliot Sharp, Magnet
“Ben is a gifted lyricist, and guitar player with a penchant for weaving theatrics into songs and shows, where unorthodox eastern guitar patterns inform their western atomic era exotica. Live performances alter the reality of the places Von Wildenhaus holds court in.” – SEAN JEWELL, American Standard Time
ALBUMS
Dark Von Universe DIGITAL (2025, GLOBOS RECORD)
Von Universe LP (2024, GLOBOS RECORD)
Split 7″ with DEAD, “Dogs are Dreaming” b/w “Garbage Day” (2023, We Empty Rooms)
World Best CASSETTE (2022, GLOBOS RECORD)
Everything in Flower LP (2020, GLOBOS RECORD)
II LP (2015, GLOBOS RECORD)
How He Performs CASSETTE (2013, PSYCHIC MULE)
Great Melodies From Around LP (2011, RIOT BEAR RECORDING CO.)
BOOKING
UK & IE – Outsider Artists, Reuben Myles Tyghe, reuben@outsider-artists.co.uk
Portugal – Ricardo Fonseca, ricfonseca1@gmail.com
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PHOTOS
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