Jozef van Wissem

Releases

imprec 222 cd The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With the Lamb

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  1. The Sun Tears Itself From The Heavens And Comes Crashing Down Upon The Multitude
  2. The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With the Lamb
  3. Into the Dust of the Earth
  4. I Am a Flower Of Sharon and a Rose In The Valley

The duo project from guitarist James Blackshaw and lutenist Jozef van Wissem returns for a second long-player. Curiously, The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb is mixed in mono, meaning that the two performers blur into one another, meaning that considerable passages of the album sound like they’re derived from a single, very strange stringed instrument. There are harp-like natural harmonics running through the opening track The album only really marks out its intentions with the title track—a cascade of flurried notes and beautiful, symbiotic harmony, leading into the more obviously Baroque intervals of Into The Dust Of The Earth  Blackshaw and van Wissem save the best for last with the interlocking phrases and 16th century string-bending of I Am A Flower Of Sharon And A Rose In The Valley whose downbeat, highly expressive meanderings probably represent the closest the lute will ever come to playing the blues.