Jozef van Wissem
| Jozef van Wissem | |
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van Wissem performing at the Mills Gallery in 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Born |
1962 (age 52–53) Maastricht, Netherlands |
| Genres | Classical, minimal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Lute |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels |
The Spring Press Amish Records Sacred Bones Records Important Records Incunabulum Records BVHaast Records Persephone Records |
| Website |
www |
Jozef van Wissem (born 1962) is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player[1] based in Brooklyn.[2] In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the score of Only Lovers Left Alive at the Cannes Film Festival. An incessantly touring musician, van Wissem studied lute in New York with Patrick O'Brien. He was commissioned by London's National Gallery to compose a sound piece to Hans Holbein’s painting The Ambassadors. van Wissem wrote the music score for the video game, The Sims Medieval.[3]
Career
Jozef van Wissem's solo albums, It Is All That Is Made (2009) and Ex Patris (2010), were both released on Important Records.[4][5] He released The Joy That Never Ends, an album with Jim Jarmusch on the label in 2011.[6] He also wrote a score for the video game The Sims Medieval.[3]
Concerning the Entrance into Eternity, his first collaborative album with Jim Jarmusch, was released on Important Records in early 2012.[7] The Mystery of Heaven, his second collaborative album with Jarmusch, was released on Sacred Bones Records later that year.[8] "The More She Burns the More Beautifully She Glows", a track off the album, featured a guest appearance from Tilda Swinton.[9] Van Wissem scored Jarmusch's 2013 film Only Lovers Left Alive .[10]
Style and influences
According to NPR's All Songs Considered, "his compositions are heavy and set in hypnotic darkness".[11]
Discography
Solo albums
- Retrograde: A Classical Deconstruction (2000, Persephone)
- Narcissus Drowning (2002, Persephone)
- Simulacrum (2003, BVHaast)
- Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2005, BVHaast)
- A Rose by Any Other Name: Anonymous Lute Solos of the Golden Age (2006, Incunabulum)
- Stations of the Cross (2007, Incunabulum)
- A Priori (2008, Incunabulum)
- It Is All That Is Made (2009, Important Records)
- Ex Patris (2010, Important Records)
- The Joy That Never Ends (2011, Important Records)
- Arcana Coelestia (2012, The Spring Press)
- Nihil Obstat (2013, Important Records)
- It Is Time For You To Return (2014, Crammed Discs)
Collaborative albums
- Diplopia (2003, BVHaast) with Gary Lucas
- Proletarian Drift (2004, BVHaast) with Tetuzi Akiyama
- The Universe of Absence (2004, BVHaast) with Gary Lucas
- Das Platinzeitalter (2007, Incunabulum) with Maurizio Bianchi
- Hymn for a Fallen Angel (2007, Incunabulum) with Tetuzi Akiyama
- All Things Are from Him, Through Him and in Him (2008, Audiomer) as Brethren of the Free Spirit
- The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb (2008, Important Records) as Brethren of the Free Spirit
- Suite the Hen's Teeth (2010, Incunabulum) with Smegma
- Downland (2010, Incunabulum) with United Bible Studies
- A Prayer for Light (2010, Incunabulum) with Heresy of the Free Spirit
- Concerning the Entrance into Eternity (2012, Important Records) with Jim Jarmusch
- The Mystery of Heaven (2012, Sacred Bones Records) with Jim Jarmusch
- Apokatastasis (2012, Incunabulum) featuring Jim Jarmusch
Compilation appearances
- "The Mirror of Eternal Light" on The Garden of Forking Paths (2007, Important Records)
- "This Is How We Sing" on New Music for Old Instruments (2012, Incunabulum) with Jon Mueller and Robbie Lee
References
- ↑ Dollar, Steve (May 6, 2011). "Gods, Monsters and Guitars". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ↑ Meyer, Bill (September 29, 2008). "Jozef Van Wissem - A Priori". Dusted Magazine.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Meyer, Bill (May 4, 2012). "Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch - Concerning the Entrance into Eternity". Dusted Magazine.
- ↑ Spicer, Justin (May 29, 2009). "Agitated Atmosphere: Jozef Van Wissem - It Is All That Is Made". KEXP-FM.
- ↑ Martin-McCormick, Daniel (November 12, 2010). "Jozef Van Wissem - Ex Patris". Dusted Magazine.
- ↑ Meyer, Bill (June 10, 2011). "Jozef Van Wissem - The Joy That Never Ends". Dusted Magazine.
- ↑ Masters, Marc (February 22, 2012). "Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity". Pitchfork Media.
- ↑ Kivel, Adam (November 15, 2012). "Album Review: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch – The Mystery of Heaven". Consequence of Sound.
- ↑ Strohm, Adam (November 13, 2012). "Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch - The Mystery of Heaven". Dusted Magazine.
- ↑ Cronk, Jordan (May 25, 2013). "Cannes Film Festival 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive Review". Slant Magazine.
- ↑ Gotrich, Lars (February 1, 2013). "Song Premiere: Jozef Van Wissem, 'Where You Lived And What You Lived For". NPR..
External links
- Official website
- Jozef van Wissem at AllMusic
- Jozef van Wissem discography at Discogs
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