Jozef van Wissem and United Bible Studies - Downland LP

Incunabulum records

inc 012 lp Downland 

Jozef van Wissem (lute) and United Bible Studies LP

€20.00 EUR (includes shipping to European Union)

€22.00 EUR (includes shipping to rest of the world)

1. Downland
2. Seven Tears
3. Trade Boys for Prostitutes Sel Girls for WIne
4. COme Holy Ghost
5. Altars of Brick (The Day is Coming)
6. I Rith Na hOíche
7. The Seas Have Lifted up Their Voice

United Bible Studies are:

• Diarmuid MacDiarmada
• Alison O’Donnell
• Áine O’Dwyer
• Ivan Pawle
• Gavin Prior

Lyrics on Altars of Brick by Jozef van Wissem
Lyrics on Seven Tears by Alison O’Donnell

The album title Downland is a play both on van Wissem’s Lowlands home, and the Renaissance Lute composer John Dowland, rumored to have been born in Ireland. The seeds of this collaboration were sown in late 2007, when United Bible Studies were part of the bill for van Wissem’s first Irish concert. Van Wissem began recording tracks for United Bible Studies to overdub and a postal collaboration began in earnest in 2009. The Bible Students were given a free hand, and different band members were drawn to different pieces. Áine O’Dwyers harp playing goes hand in glove with the lute parts, both players favoring hypnotic figures accruing impact over time.

The Bible Students have woven murk and mystery around the lucid austerity of van Wissem’s compositions,together creating an album which is unlike anything in either of their substantial back catalogues, and more than the mere sum of its parts.

Limited edition, cover silk screen printed silver on black.