JOZEF VAN WISSEM shares ghostly instrumental lute track "With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise". Album 'The Night Dwells In the Day' out Jan 19th.

JOZEF VAN WISSEM - Shares new track "With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise" - More European live dates announced - Album ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’ out January 19th on Incunabulum Records

Photo credit: Kris Dewitte “Shadows and shade are embraced with ethereal results… Beguiling throughout.” - Prog Magazine “His most direct, spellbinding work.” - Uncut "An evocative atmosphere, with the instrument rapidly stretching out ahead under an immense grey sky... Will keep you gripped to the very end." - Beats Per Minute Today, Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem shares a new track from his forthcoming album ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’, set for release on January 19th on Incunabulum Records. Along with the new track, he has also announced more mainland European live dates for the coming months - dates below. Following the recents single, "The Call of the Deathbird" featuring guest vocals from Hilary Woods, and the album's foreboding instrumental opening track "The Devil is a Fair Angel and the Serpent a Subtle Beast", today Van Wissem shares the ghostly "With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise". This latest single is a delicate and haunting track where desolate, spiralling lute refrains build to a shivering crescendo. "I wrote "With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise " as a theme for a silent film score I was working on at the time" Van Wissem explains. "The film " Der Müde Tod/ Destiny " is a 1921 German expressionist romance, directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover." Listen to "With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOEMaoOM6ko “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”.   What Van Wissem manages to do so interestingly and eloquently on this album, and with much of his work, is merge rich musical traditions and history with a contemporary sense of exploration and experimentation. The Renaissance and Baroque lute music he studies and plays is so old it’s written on tablature notation of the time that few musicians understand and know how to play. While he also plucks images, song titles and lyrics from dusty old books to give them a recontextualised lease of life by being integrated into the present-day. “I like to go to markets and find old lyrics that nobody uses and that are not online,” he says. “It's like this forgotten world somewhere and that really interests me.”   ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’ will be released on January 19th through Incunabulum records – pre-order here.   Jozef Van Wissem live dates:  20/01/2024 PT Leiria Teatro Miguel Franco 21/01/2024 PT Porto Novo Ático AGEAS 24/01/2024 PT Lisboa Teatro Ibérico 25/01/2024 PT Guarda Teatro Municipal da Guarda 26/01/2024 PT Portalegre Centro de Artes e Espectáculo 27/01/2024 PT Beja Teatro Pax Júlia 19/02/2024 LI Vilnius St. Catherine’s Church ^ 20/02/2024 LI Riga Vagonu Hall 21/02/2024 EE Tallinn Kino Soprus 06/03/2024 FR Marseille Le Molotov  07/03/2024 CH Basel Sudhaus *  08/03/2024 FR Paris Supersonic Store  09/03/2024 NL Rotterdam Kino Rotterdam *  21/03/2024 IT Roma INIT 22/03/2024 IT Torino Spazio211  23/03/2024 IT Rosignano Solvay Lunababana  30/03/2024 BL Sofia Dom Na Kinoto *  31/03/2024 GR Thessaloniki    Mylos Club 02/04/2024 GR Athens Anglican Church 13/04/2024 PL Warsaw Timeless Film Festival Warsaw - Polin Museum ° * livescoring Nosferatu by Murnau ^ livescoring Destiny by Fritz Lang ° world premiere The Fall of the House of Usher   ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’ track list: 1. The Devil is a Fair Angel and the Serpent a Subtle Beast - track stream 2. The Call of the Deathbird - official video 3. With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise - track stream 4. In Exile Here We Wander 5. Slowly The Rays of Daylight Fade 6. May The Bright Gate Welcome You 7. The Day of the Lord   Links: https://www.jozefvanwissem.com/ https://jozefvanwissem.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jozefvanwissem/ https://www.youtube.com/user/jozefboys   http://www.incunabulumrecords.com/