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Title:  Simulacrum - Mirror Images For Solo Lute And Electronics Artist:  Jozef van Wissem Label:  Bvhaast Format:  CD Price:  € 13.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

other Titles by.. Jozef van Wissem Narcissus Drowning (CD) Objects In Mirror are closer than they appear (CD) A Rose by any Other Name - Anonymous Lute solos of the Golden Age (CD) Stations of the Cross (CD)

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1. Precession 2. Reconnaissance 3. U.S. Drone Strikes Again 4. Smoke and Mirrors 5. John F. Kennedy 6. Marja' I Taqled 7. Mimicry and camouflage 8. Regression

Jozef van Wissem - lute, electronics, field recordings

Recorded fall 2003 at Harvestworks, NYC, USA

Dispatches from the front lines of EuroImprov, these unusual CDs provide fresh evidence of the inventiveness enlivening the thought processes of many musicians on the other side of the Atlantic.
Subject at hand is strings, and the sessions are unusual in more ways than one. Second volume in a series that also showcased German reed players, BERLIN STRINGS is made up of four three-inch CDs, each showcasing one Berlin-based stringslinger: three guitarists and Andrea Neumann on inside piano and mixing deck.
Two of the other plectrumists -- Michael Renkel on guitar, zither and preparations and Serge Baghdassarians on guitar and mixing desk -- take advantage of 21st century electronics, as does the player on SIMULACRUM. On his fourth solo release, AmsterdamÕs Jozef van Wissem adds electronics and field recordings to solo playing on an instrument that was already commonplace in European music by the middle of the 15th century: the lute. However van Wissem does play a special 10 course -- that is 20-string -- lute built for him by a Toronto craftsman. Plus the compositions altered by electric impulses here are palindromes or musical verses that sound the same played backwards and forwards.

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