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Viking's Choice: Skull-Melting Feedback, Free-Jazz Psych, Experimental Lute

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Viking's Choice: Skull-Melting Feedback, Free-Jazz Psych, Experimental Lute

February 4, 2020 • You can absolutely judge an album by its cover, especially when it involves a possessed Toad King surrounded by dead toad soldiers. Plus new music from Sunwatchers, Jozef Van Wissem.

The Lute Becomes Instrument Of Ominous Darkness

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The Lute Becomes Instrument Of Ominous Darkness

February 1, 2013 • For what seems like his 20th album in the last decade, Nihil Obstat, Van Wissem plays a one-of-a-kind black lute. In this 11-minute track, a lilting melody turns sinister in the hands of the experimental Dutch composer.

First Listen: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, 'The Mystery Of Heaven'

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First Listen: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, 'The Mystery Of Heaven'

November 4, 2012 • Van Wissem plays the lute with his heart equally in the 17th and 21st century. Jarmusch is a filmmaker whose work frequently blurs the line between movies and music. Together, they make a rich, appropriately cinematic sound on The Mystery of Heaven.

Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, 'The Mystery Of Heaven'

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Song Premiere: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, 'Etimasia'

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Song Premiere: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, 'Etimasia'

September 26, 2012 • Hear a new song from Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch's forthcoming album, The Mystery of Heaven.

Song Premiere: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, 'Etimasia'

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Jozef van Wissem: Transcendental Lute

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Jozef van Wissem: Transcendental Lute

WNYC

April 22, 2010 • Jozef van Wissem would like to open our ears to the gorgeous sonorities of the lute. Simultaneously austere and lush, van Wissem's music draws inspiration from minimalism in an hour-long session from WNYC's Spinning On Air.

Jozef van Wissem: Transcendental Lute

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