Nosferatu the Call of the Deathbird Vinyl Jozef Van Wissem

Brand new and sealed Nosferatu, The Call Of The Deathbird Limited edition
JOZEF VAN WISSEM
Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. "In 2019 I was commissioned by Cinémathèque Française in Paris to compose the soundtrack to the restored original version of the Nosferatu film (1922). When I was writing the score, I found a Dutch double 7 inch record with sounds of extinct birds on the streets of Rotterdam. I manipulated these found bird sounds by using electronics and added them to the score." - Jozef Van Wissem (composer) this is the soundtrack to the restored orignal 1922 film Nosferatu.Records.

“La Cinémathèque Française in Paris commissioned me to write and perform the score at the presentation of the restored version of Nosferatu. I was a bit overwhelmed by its success. It was sold out! I wasn’t going to repeat it. But people kept asking…” – explains Jozef van Wissem, speaking about the series of events that lead to the recording of his newest LP – ‘Nosferatu. The Call Of A Deathbird’.

Over the years, Jozef van Wissem has collaborated with Zola Jesus, Tilda Swinton as well as with his long-time collaborative partner and friend, Jim Jarmusch, with whom Jozef recorded four albums together. In December 2017, van Wissem was invited to perform the madrigal depicted in Caravaggio’s painting The Lute Player (1596) at the Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg. In February 2021 Jozef van Wissem premiered a new black Baroque lute on Dutch National TV. The instrument had the Latin words “Ex Mortis” inscribed in the neck.