Jozef van Wissem

Jozef van Wissem

van Wissem performing at the Mills Gallery in 2009
Background information
Born 1962 (age 53–54)
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.jozefvanwissem.com

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

Collaborative albums

Compilation appearances

References

  1. ↑ Dollar, Steve (May 6, 2011). "Gods, Monsters and Guitars". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ Meyer, Bill (September 29, 2008). "Jozef Van Wissem - A Priori". Dusted Magazine.
  3. 1 2 Meyer, Bill (May 4, 2012). "Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch - Concerning the Entrance into Eternity". Dusted Magazine.
  4. ↑ Spicer, Justin (May 29, 2009). "Agitated Atmosphere: Jozef Van Wissem - It Is All That Is Made". KEXP-FM.
  5. ↑ Martin-McCormick, Daniel (November 12, 2010). "Jozef Van Wissem - Ex Patris". Dusted Magazine.
  6. ↑ Meyer, Bill (June 10, 2011). "Jozef Van Wissem - The Joy That Never Ends". Dusted Magazine.
  7. ↑ Masters, Marc (February 22, 2012). "Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity". Pitchfork Media.
  8. ↑ Kivel, Adam (November 15, 2012). "Album Review: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch – The Mystery of Heaven". Consequence of Sound.
  9. ↑ Strohm, Adam (November 13, 2012). "Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch - The Mystery of Heaven". Dusted Magazine.
  10. ↑ Cronk, Jordan (May 25, 2013). "Cannes Film Festival 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive Review". Slant Magazine.
  11. ↑ Gotrich, Lars (February 1, 2013). "Song Premiere: Jozef Van Wissem, 'Where You Lived And What You Lived For". NPR..

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