Artist: Josef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch

I can honestly say that featuring a Dutch lutist on The Daily Choices is a first for us. I'm not usually drawn to songs that feature descriptions like "Baroque spirituals" or "experimental" but the fact that it was a collaboration between filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (a favorite of mine) and the aforementioned lutist Jozef Van Wissem [...]

• Josef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - 02-Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity 4

Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem has always lent a unique strain of spirituality to the acoustic folk song. His ability to skirt the lines of Baroque and experimental, edging one genre into the folds of the other, has long been lauded and it's been celebrated in the entirety of his catalog. Here Van Wissem hooks up with previous collaborator Jim Jarmusch, a pairing that seems on paper an abstract connection if Jarmusch's credit is seen only as a filmmaker. In truth Jarmusch's guitar playing is sorely under appreciated and here it adds a stormy dissonance to Concerning The Entrance [...]

• Josef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - 02-Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity 4