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photo: R.Gaskin Amsterdam 2004
ROUGHIDEA presents
JOZEF van WISSEM (NL) - Lute + effects
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Offshore Matinee at 3:00PM
St. Andrew's by-the-Lake
The Toronto Island Church
$15/PWYC
"Jozef Van Wissem continues to liberate the lute.
Once the most popular of portable instrument, it then entered 250 years of neglect, but today suffers from being regarded as a museum piece, only to be played in accordance with theories about authenticity. Van Wissem has improvised with guitarists Gary Lucas and Tetuzi Akiyama, while his solo Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear alternated his own palindromic compositions with processed field recordings of airport lounges. The excellent A Rose By Any Other Name is a 'straight' lute record, though Van Wissem's scary monochrome cover photo harks back to a more innocent age when lute playing, like vegetarianism, would have been evidence of mild insanity.
Van Wissem's playing is unfetterd and lacks tea-party politeness. He ranges from moody to muscular, and coaxes a good range of colors from his ten-course, Canadian-built lute, evoking African kora as well as blues guitar. My favorite, "Untitled", by Anonymous, is a stirring, spacious Scottish lament, conjuring up windswept wastes."
Clive Bell - The Wire
www.jozefvanwissem.com
www.myspace.com/vanwissem
www.hugeradio.fm
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