Jozef Van Wissem wants to make the lute the new electric guitar — with a pickup and a bottleneck slide

The minimalist composer and collaborator with Jim Jarmusch is electrifying a 24-string relic — and scandalizing classical ...
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“When I do this at a show, the first people who leave are the classical people.”

Jozef Van Wissem wants to make the lute the new electric guitar — with a pickup and a bottleneck slide ...

‘It needs to be loud’: Jozef Van Wissem’s one-man mission to make the lute rock again

The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ ...
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Kharkiv's lute-playing publisher champions 'cultural resistance'

With his eyes closed, Oleksandr Savchuk plucks the strings on his bandura, a lute-like Ukrainian folk instrument, as he delivers a gently melancholic performance in the frontline city of Kharkiv.
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Kharkiv's Lute-playing Publisher Champions 'Cultural Resistance'

With his eyes closed, Oleksandr Savchuk plucks the strings on his bandura, a lute-like Ukrainian folk instrument, as he delivers a gently melancholic performance in the frontline city of Kharkiv. The ...