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Over the years he’s released countless solo albums stretching into double figures, there’s been collaborations with Jim Jarmusch and Tilda Swinton, award-winning computer game soundtracks, along with award-winning film soundtracks, from Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive to Pierre Creton’s 2023 film A Prince.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Incunabulum Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50417049567563,"sku":"2170440","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417049698635,"sku":"2170442","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_51_44b1fc4d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726714881"},{"product_id":"its-time-for-you-to-return","title":"Its Time For You To return","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New York-based Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem has been given wider exposure with the award-winning soundtrack he composed for Jim Jarmusch's film \"Only Lovers Left Alive\". As an avant-garde composer as well as a baroque lutenist, on this overtly melodic album he pushes the lute's agenda out of the academy and into more accessible circles. Unusually, as well as the music, Van Wissem has written and performed hypnotic vocals for some of the nine compositions and on one he is joined by Jim Jarmusch, on guitar, and Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. The album also features electronic programming on a couple of tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crammed Discs","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50445317275979,"sku":"382932","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3bc31b0a-bf5f-464b-9a85-8b747e4e8977_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727036274"},{"product_id":"nosferatu-the-call-of-the-deathbird","title":"Nosferatu, The Call of the Deathbird","description":"\u003cp\u003eJozef Van Wissem- Lute, Electronics, Beats, Electric Guitar, Found Bird Sounds. In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Jim Jarmusch’s\u003ci\u003e Only Lovers Left Alive\u003c\/i\u003e. In December 2017 Jozef van Wissem was invited to perform the madrigal depicted in Caravaggio’s painting \u003ci\u003eThe Lute Player \u003c\/i\u003e(1596) at the Hermitage museum of Saint Petersburg. In 2022 three of his works were used for in the soundtrack and trailer of Irma Vep (HBO). His completely unique musical world can be easily verified by his collaborations, especially that these relationships are also strengthening his own musical character. He worked together with Zola Jesus, Tilda Swinton, Jarboe as well as with his long-time collaborative partner, also his friend, Jim Jarmusch. “La Cinémathèque Française in Paris commissioned me to write and perform the score at the presentation of the restored version of Nosferatu. I was a bit overwhelmed by its success. It was sold out. I wasn’t going to repeat it. But people kept asking. In the beginning the soundtrack was more improvised and reactive to the images but after a few times the audience kind of showed me the way. To start with a few notes and building the score slowly to a dense slow metal ending. I found an old 7-inch single with recordings of extinct birds on a market, I electronically processed and added them to the score\". Manipulating the sounds of electric guitar in alternate tuning he manages to create the feeling of fear, equal to the experience of the victims of Count Orlok. “To me Nosferatu personifies this \u003ci\u003eDeath Bird of the Plague\u003c\/i\u003e. The Black Death depicted in the film offers a timeless parallel with contemporary society. 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The album harbors eight new compositions that will feel both familiar and fresh, with Van Wissem pushing his compositions subtly away from a rigid contemporary classical style into a more open sound with an almost experimental dark folk\/rock orientated emphasis. Van Wissem even quite literally opens up his work, as he invited renowned artist Zola Jesus for two collaborations. Listening to the album, this comes as no surprise. The musical touch of Zola Jesus on this album blends seamlessly with the sound horizon of Jozef Van Wissem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471179845963,"sku":"398950","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4a92f8d1-a952-4cf2-b43c-99b23a5059ad_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727394302"},{"product_id":"un-prince-original-soundtrack-recording","title":"Un Prince: Original Soundtrack Recording","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Dutch composer illustrates the initiatory story of the film (a young man discovers gardening and unusual sexual practices) and the scenes of a pictorial nature, in fixed shots, with captivating notes of the order of the procession, with a certain devoutness, like a ceremony. --Cinezik\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Incunabulum","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":52903458701643,"sku":"R2162-2226","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/INC038LP_CU.jpg?v=1752526954"},{"product_id":"this-is-my-blood","title":"This Is My Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003eBookending \u003cem\u003eThis Is My Blood\u003c\/em\u003e are two cinematic hypnotist slide lute pieces that evoke contemporary deserted landscapes. They were improvised and made for “ Maquina”, a film shot in the Colorado desert during a psychedelic trip by film maker Joaquim Pujol. The works on here, like the ecstatic second piece invite a return to long form listening. They explore contemporary darkness and contemplate personal loss. There is solely one vocal piece, “ Remission”. A worldwide concert tour of this material is slated for 2026\/2027. Since studying the lute in New York with Patrick O'Brien in the 1990s, Van Wissem has gone on to create works equally as rooted in classical Renaissance and Baroque forms of lute music, as contemporary sounds spanning drones, electronics and field recordings. Throw in some of his formative influences from the no wave and industrial scenes, alongside a dedicated approach to minimalism and this has resulted in Van Wissem producing distinct and singular work whose sound is often a marriage of opposites; meditative and intense, forward thinking but with a sense of the arcane. The Quietus has called him \"probably the most famous lutenist in the world”. Jozef Van Wissem is an avant-garde composer and lutenist who plays a unique all-black baroque lute. His timeless music is often described as hypnotic, minimal, and hauntingly atmospheric, merging beauty with a dark, meditative edge. His lyrics have a mythical Christian appeal, incorporating themes of love, faith, and the afterlife, often with a repetitive, mantra-like quality. Bridging classical traditions with modern sounds like drones, electronics, field recordings and voice. He collaborates with filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch, including the award-winning soundtrack for Only Lovers Left Alive, for which Van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award in 2013. He also scored the Sims Medieval Video game ( 2011), Uncle \u003cimg\u003eHoward ( 2016) Land (2018), Irma Vep (2022), Queens (2023) and Un Prince (2024). He did a world tour in duo with Jarmusch in 2025 and their 5th record “ The Day The Angels Cried” was released. Van Wissem tours extensively, performing in diverse venues from rock festivals to churches, and has worked with artists like Tilda Swinton and Zola Jesus. In 2019 he was commissioned by Cinematheque Francaise to score the silent horror film Nosferatu (1922). He released the soundtrack in 2022 on his own Incunabulum label. The New York Times wrote: Beginning with a solo played on the lute, his performance will incorporate electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. “My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes,” he said, culminating in “dense, slow death metal.” In 2024 Van Wissem did a sold out nationwide American tour with the film. 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