A Priori, by Jozef van Wissem

A Priori

by Jozef van Wissem

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1.	How the Soul Has Arrived At Understanding of Her Nothingness 09:42	buy track
2.	Aerumna 03:25	buy track
3.	Into the Abyss of Perdition 03:54	buy track
4.	Thelema 04:12	buy track
5.	The Heaven Are Parting and the Spirit Descends Like a Dove 03:54	buy track
6.	De Anima 05:24	buy track
7.	The Soul Leaves the Body In Eternal Glory 07:03	buy track

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“Once some music dropped through my letter-box; let’s summon their sounds into our world now, and deliver their names as Roses or Stations. The picture they imagined was both clear and cryptic: the certainties of the 17th century holding tight the ugly beauty that we now see scattered around us. I loved these CDs by Jozef van Wissem, A Rose by any other Name and Stations of the Cross. And then I received a new album, A Priori, and I immediately played it and heard its stark and repetitive intensity, its stately and glacial march. There is nothing quite like it that I have heard before—it is timeless, breathing deeply and exhaling showers of snow, endless circles, mirrors, spirals, the sea. When Jozef plays the lute, he pours out endless space. What can I say but let the rain come, close your eyes and watch the stars fall and rise and fall again.”
David Tibet

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released January 9, 2015

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jozefvanwissem Rotterdam, Netherlands

Van Wissem is ‘both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist, and thus no stranger to dichotomy,’ (New York Times). He has been ‘pushing the lute’s agenda out of the academy and into more accessible circles’ (Pitchfork).

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