Jozef Van Wissem - Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (c) 2005 BVHaast
Artist....: Jozef Van Wissem
Album.....: Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 10
Genre.....: Avantgarde
Rel.Date..: 24 May 2006
Label.....: BVHaast
Catalogue#: 0905
Encoder...: Lame 3.90.3 mod
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44,1Hz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.bvhaast.nl/
Tracklist:
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01 Epitome 00:13
02 Gods Own Country 03:53
03 Of Gladder Flowers than Gardens Wear 04:36
04 A Box with the Sound of its own Making 02:28
05 Reiterate Paean 02:38
06 Analogon 06:10
07 Stichomythy 04:21
08 At Night the Silence seems to Flow 04:07
09 Lost in Transit 02:11
10 The Edge of Doom is set to the Root of all your State 06:18
Total:39.9 MB / 36:55
Release Notes:
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"From the extended subtitle, ôSolo Lute Palindromes, Airfield Recordings
and Electronicsö replete with cover photograph of Jozef Van Wissem
grasping a lute one could be easily lulled into a zone of frowning
medieval regurgitations, but nothing could be further from the truth.
"An urbane field recording parts curtains for æGods Own CountryÆ, an
almost methodical rock rhythm on the lower register of solo lute,
abounding in visceral string buzz, finger squeals, but a rhythm that
develops a tableau of complexity until the melody takes on a mournful
elegance with higher register notes that drive pedal point until its
completion. This is no classical peristaltic forte, thereÆs something
dark and unique in Jozef Van WissemÆs composition, arrangements not
constricted by rules but evocative and experimental. æOf Gladder Flowers
than Gardens WearÆ disturbs with minor arpeggios compounded with
dissonant sounding harmonics augmenting fraying nerve endings. Subtle
electronics salt and pan amidst recorded airport-like or other
metropolitan surrounds with nary a lute or melody other than the swaying
pulse of generated sound throughout æA Box with the Sound of its own
MakingÆ. Mordents mark allusions to the past in æReiterate PaeanÆ,
but even this is rewired to more modern cinΘmavΘritΘ, where JozefÆs
musical motif of palindrome truly becomes noticeable in clusters of
three notes mirrored back and forth. æAnalagonÆ marks the first track
integrating sparse veins of lute with skeins of sampled urbanity. With
an almost Appalachian banjo hop, æStichomythyÆ struts to congeries of
bells and hammered bones and drum, where instruments other than stringed
feature prominently. The eerie terraces of æAt Night the Silence seems
to FlowÆ trembles in the quiet moments, umbrageous membranes web betwixt
the anxious triads a dΘcor of uncertainty. æLost in TransitÆ continues
the sampled sounds of a hurried modern life abutted by balls of low end
rumble. Lastly, æThe Edge of Doom is set to the Root of all your StateÆ
summons insidious chords occluding empty spaces that may have been
sources of solace. This album breathes like the air pushed through the
sound hole and body of the lute like the very breathing of the
animated metropolitan life and it mirrors the facets of sound reflecting
evocative and emotive aspects of human existence with skillful subtlety.
"Released in a simple jewel-case on textured black card with silver
print, a twelve page booklet features a lengthy interview with Jozef
Van Wissem in discourse on his theories of mirror and the palindrome
as it relates to this album."