Following the recent singles, ‘The Call of the Deathbird‘ featuring guest vocals from Hilary Woods, and the album’s foreboding instrumental opening track ‘The Devil is a Fair Angel and the Serpent a Subtle Beast‘, Jozef Van Wissem has shared his ghostly new single ‘With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise’. This is the third single to be taken from his forthcoming album ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’, set for release on the 19th of January via Incunabulum Records. Along with the new track, he has also announced more mainland European live dates for the coming months – see dates below.
“I wrote “With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise” as a theme for a silent film score I was working on at the time” Van Wissem explains. “The film” Der Müde Tod/ Destiny” is a 1921 German expressionist romance, directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover.”
Following the sonic theme of the previous two tracks, ‘With Our Hearts…’ is as much haunting and hypnotic as it is gothically beautiful. The notes sound almost torturous in nature as they are plucked out of the lute over a sombre backing. This is music that is very much needed to be heard.
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