JOZEF VAN WISSEM announces US, UK and mainland European dates throughout this winter.

JOZEF VAN WISSEM - Lute player announces international live dates - To perform across mainland Europe, the UK and the US this winter

Photo credit: Kris Dewitte "A very contemporary music, one that forcefully bends ancient traditions to the wavelengths of the anthropocene." - The Quietus “Shadows and shade are embraced with ethereal results… Beguiling throughout.” - Prog Magazine “His most direct, spellbinding work.” - Uncut Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem has announced extensive tour dates throughout the winter, taking in shows across mainland Europe, the UK and North America - dates below. “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’ released at the start of 2024. 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.   What Van Wissem manages to do so interestingly and eloquently on this latest 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 re-contextualised 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.”   Listen to 'The Night Dwells in the Day' in full: https://jozefvanwissem.bandcamp.com/album/the-night-dwells-in-the-day Jozef Van Wissem live dates:  EU Oct 11th: Vakhtang Salaridze Concert Hall, Tiblisi Oct 13th: Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall, Yerevan Oct 19th: Karmen Camina, Strasbourg Oct 20th: La Chapelle- Vista, Montpellier Oct 21st: Temple Protestant, Toulon Oct 23rd: Biennale, Aix En Provence Oct 25th: Mps Studio, Villingen Nov 12th: Neue Zukunft, Berlin Nov 13th: Drizzly Grizzly, Gdansk Nov 14th: Spektrum, Gdansk Nov 15th: Kino Nowe Horizonty, Wroclaw Nov 19th: Kino Muranow, Warsaw Nov 21st: De Doelen, Rotterdam Nov 22nd: The Black Lab, Lille Nov 23rd: Kultura Liege, Liege Nov 24th: Stapeltor, Duisburg Nov 25th: Zirka, Munich US Dec 4th: Music Box Theatre, Chicago Dec 6th: Bowery Electric, New York City Dec 7th: Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro Dec 8th: Philamoca, Philadelphia Dec 14th: Texas Theatre, Dallas Dec 16th: Lost Angeles, Los Angeles Dec 18th: Coolidge Corner, Boston Jan 11th: Slow Club, Freiburg Jan 12th: Le Singe, Biel UK Jan 14th: Colchester Arts Center, Colchester Jan 15th: The 100 Club, London Jan 16th: Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow   Links: https://www.jozefvanwissem.com/ https://jozefvanwissem.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jozefvanwissem/ https://www.youtube.com/user/jozefboys   http://www.incunabulumrecords.com/