(Catalogue no. 14836)
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| Title: |
Objects In Mirror are closer than they appear |
| Artist: |
Jozef van Wissem |
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Label: |
Bvhaast |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 13.00 |
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Title Description:
In recent years, Amsterdam-based Jozef van Wissem has been discreetly reconfiguring the repertoire of the Renaissance lute with some remarkable solo and collaborative projects (the latter including Diplopia with Gary Lucas and Proletarian Drift with Tetuzi Akiyama). On Objects he's taken the instrument even further away from its early music cloister by interleaving his gently minimal compositions with and superimposing them on recordings of the interior of an international airport (Amsterdam's Schipol, presumably). "To me, an airport links multiple realities together, but it also concentrates and unifies them. [..] There are also a lot of different interesting sounds there, which when you single them out, make for an eerie listening experience and a great acoustic comment on contemporary society," van Wissem states in the accompanying liners. It's an original and thought-provoking juxtaposition of the personal / impersonal Ð and not necessarily as odd as one might think: how many times have you wandered across an airport concourse in your own musical world with a pair of tiny speakers stuck in your ears? Ð and serves to highlight both van Wissem's virtuosity as a performer and his skill as a composer.ÐDW
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