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Jozef van Wissem
12+ albums
instrumentaldark folkacousticlutepsychedelic
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In 2013 composer/lutenist Jozef van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for best score at the Cannes Film Festival for Only Lovers Left Alive, a vampire film by Jim Jarmusch. He is both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist, and thus no stranger to dichotomy, according to the New York Times. Van Wissem collaborates with Jim Jarmusch and Zola Jesus. He made three records with Jarmusch and played both in Europe and in United States as a duo. He does live scores to silent films, scored several award winning soundtracks and is also acting in film. He makes music which is hypnotic, in a way that is just as challenging as more confrontational music. Van Wissem has been pushing the lute's agenda out of the academy and into more accessible circles (Pitchfork). He has performed over 1000 solo lute shows at concert venues around the world, including prestigious rock festivals like All Tomorrow's Parties and Primavera Sound, playing his all black, one-of-a-kind baroque lute custom build for him. "You do not need to understand [his] compositional idiom to be mesmerised by his hall-of-mirrors instrumentals" (MOJO), "his compositions are mystic and set in hypnotic darkness" (NPR's All Things Considered). Wire Magazine described one of his albums as a masterpiece. http://www.jozefvanwissem.com User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Our Hearts Condemn Us
33,4472In Templum Dei
27,4303The Taste of Blood
23,9784Only Lovers Left Alive
21,0965Streets of Tangier
14,4646Sola Gratia (Part 1)
14,0847Apology
12,1648This Is Your Wilderness
11,0529Sola Gratia (Part 2)
10,43010The Purified Eye Of The Soul Is Placed In The Circle Of The Eternal Sun
5,174albums
Only Lovers Left Alive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
New Lute Music for Film
When Shall This Bright Day Begin
We Adore You, You Have No Name
It Is Time For You To Return
Ex Mortis
Stations of the Cross
Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back
Nihil Obstat
Apokastasis
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Night Dwells in the Day