In 2013 composer/lutenist Jozef van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award … Read Full Bio ↴In 2013 composer/lutenist Jozef van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for best score at the Cannes Film Festival for Only Lovers Left Alive, a vampire film by Jim Jarmusch. He is both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist, and thus no stranger to dichotomy, according to the New York Times.
Van Wissem collaborates with Jim Jarmusch and Zola Jesus. He made three records with Jarmusch and played both in Europe and in United States as a duo. He does live scores to silent films, scored several award winning soundtracks and is also acting in film. He makes music which is hypnotic, in a way that is just as challenging as more confrontational music. Van Wissem has been pushing the lute's agenda out of the academy and into more accessible circles (Pitchfork). He has performed over 1000 solo lute shows at concert venues around the world, including prestigious rock festivals like All Tomorrow's Parties and Primavera Sound, playing his all black, one-of-a-kind baroque lute custom build for him. "You do not need to understand [his] compositional idiom to be mesmerised by his hall-of-mirrors instrumentals" (MOJO), "his compositions are mystic and set in hypnotic darkness" (NPR's All Things Considered). Wire Magazine described one of his albums as a masterpiece.
http://www.jozefvanwissem.com
Van Wissem collaborates with Jim Jarmusch and Zola Jesus. He made three records with Jarmusch and played both in Europe and in United States as a duo. He does live scores to silent films, scored several award winning soundtracks and is also acting in film. He makes music which is hypnotic, in a way that is just as challenging as more confrontational music. Van Wissem has been pushing the lute's agenda out of the academy and into more accessible circles (Pitchfork). He has performed over 1000 solo lute shows at concert venues around the world, including prestigious rock festivals like All Tomorrow's Parties and Primavera Sound, playing his all black, one-of-a-kind baroque lute custom build for him. "You do not need to understand [his] compositional idiom to be mesmerised by his hall-of-mirrors instrumentals" (MOJO), "his compositions are mystic and set in hypnotic darkness" (NPR's All Things Considered). Wire Magazine described one of his albums as a masterpiece.
http://www.jozefvanwissem.com
Only Lovers Left Alive
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Jon Harbour
Totally groovy video. love seeing the record playing. looks like a studio quality production.
Johannes Kulesza
I'm so addicted to this soundtrack.
Mary Jo
I'm addicted to the movie!!!
Sapientia
Looks absolutely amazing! Love the songs and the record playing! You should even try putting it as thumbnail, looks SO amazing!
Best soundtrack ever :)
Morning Star
Enamorada de este soundtrack
Lady Stardust
Beautiful!!! I love this film and this music too. :P
Annika M
Me too! I watch it over and over because the film and the music harmonize together so well!
Sahra Helton
Me too! 🙂
Resonancia Cosmológica
MASTERPIECE!!! 😍
Dan Cross
Great video to an awesome soundtrack. I only just found out about this film (not even seen it yet, but will do - looks fab) because I was listening to some Brian Jonestown Massacre at work and my collegue said: "that sounds like the music on Only Lovers Left Alive"!