The Night Dwells in the Day Jozef Van Wissem SKU: INC033 Barcode: 646680699389 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Incunabulum Records Released Date: 19th January 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem’s new album The Night Dwells in the Day out 19th January 2024. “It’s like a part of my body,” says Jozef Van Wissem of the relationship he has to his chosen instrument, the lute. “The complexity of it is what keeps me going because you can always find something new.” The ability to constantly extract something different and explore fresh terrain is evident throughout Van Wissem’s sprawling back catalogue and up to his latest album, ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’. 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. 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”. The genesis for his latest album began during lockdown in Warsaw, where Van Wissem splits his time between Rotterdam. “The Call of the Deathbird” was the first song he wrote from the album and is the first to be shared, along with an accompanying video today. Over a hypnotic yet beautifully fluid and plucked melody – captures scenes of deserted streets, death and the intense isolation that gripped us all. One of the relatively rare tracks that Van Wissem sings on – along with some stirring and enveloping guest vocals from Hilary Woods (who will tour with Van Wissem later this year – details below) – his towering voice circles above the music much like the swooping deathbird he sings of. Normally Van Wissem writes all the music for one album within a confined period but this one song from a few years ago stuck around and took on a new lease of life and so joined a bunch of freshly written songs for the album. While one song written during, and about, the pandemic came to be the album’s centerpiece, the rest of the album grapples with the world as it moved on and all the dualism and dichotomies that followed. “It has to do with darkness and light,” Van Wissem says of the album. “The title can mean different things to people but sometimes people say that if I play a happy piece of music that it still sounds sad. So this is why I came up with that title.” Artist Jozef Van Wissem Genre Leftfield / Experimental Label Incunabulum Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings The Devil is a Fair Angel and the Serpent a Subtle Beast The Call of the Deathbird With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise In Exile Here We Wander Slowly The Rays of Daylight Fade May The Bright Gate Welcome You The Day of the Lord Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Leftfield / Experimental View Product Quick View Terry Riley Persian Surgery Dervishes Leftfield / Experimental | Shandar | 180g, 2LP Released 14th June 2017 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Terry Riley Persian Surgery Dervishes £36.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Shandar SKU: SSH004DLP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 14th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View OXN CYRM Leftfield / Experimental | UMR | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th April 2024 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders OXN CYRM £24.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: UMR SKU: 5857546 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gazelle Twin Pastoral – Indies Only Leftfield / Experimental | Anti-Ghost Moon Ray | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st September 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gazelle Twin Pastoral – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Anti-Ghost Moon Ray SKU: AGMR036LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Helen Money and Will Thomas Trace Leftfield / Experimental | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 12th May 2023 £31.00 - £32.00 Select options Helen Money and Will Thomas Trace £31.00 - £32.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Thrill Jockey Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th May 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Mid-Air Thief Gongjoong Doduk Leftfield / Experimental | Topshelf | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th July 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mid-Air Thief Gongjoong Doduk £24.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Topshelf SKU: LPTSR222C Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Terry Riley In C Leftfield / Experimental | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 4th January 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Terry Riley In C £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVCL039 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 4th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View On Man On Man Leftfield / Experimental | Houndstooth | 1LP Released 15th July 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Man On Man £21.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Houndstooth SKU: HTH154 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th July 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kuedo Infinite Window Leftfield / Experimental | Brainfeeder | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 29th July 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kuedo Infinite Window £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Brainfeeder SKU: BF125 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th July 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Brunhild Ferrari Extérieur-jour Leftfield / Experimental | Streamline | 1LP Released 26th January 2024 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Brunhild Ferrari Extérieur-jour £26.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Streamline SKU: ST1042 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Prefuse 73 Rivington Não Rio Leftfield / Experimental | Temporary Residence | 1LP Released 11th May 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Prefuse 73 Rivington Não Rio £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Temporary Residence SKU: TRR239LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Leftfield / Experimental Start again
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