Dark, meditative, minimalist lute playing mixed with drones and electronics. Like no other, Dutch American Jozef van Wissem knows how to combine different musical traditions and styles in an innovative, experimental way: from baroque to contemporary no wave, industrial and ambient. Van Wissem studied lute in the 1990s in New York with Patrick O'Brien. He then continued to live in Brooklyn. During
… the corona lockdown, however, he found himself in Warsaw. There he created the central piece The Call Of The Deathbird, which evokes an intense sense of isolation. It also features one of the few moments of vocals; in addition to Van Wissem himself from Irish guest vocalist Hilary Woods. Consequently, the atmosphere on the mostly instrumental album The Night Dwells In The Day can be called haunting and ominous at times. Especially given the references to a world in decay, apocalypse or the Last Judgment. (SvdP)more
