This Is My Blood finds Jozef van Wissem deepening his long project of dragging the lute out of its historical frame and into the present, this time with a gaze fixed on deserted, contemporary landscapes. The album is literally framed by two “cinematic hypnotist slide lute” pieces, improvised for Maquina, a psychedelic road‑movie shot in the Colorado desert by filmmaker Joaquim Pujol.
Rather than moving through tidy song forms, these bookending tracks feel like mirages: scorched, hallucinatory reveries that “seem to shimmer in the heat of abandoned horizons rather than unfold in time,” as the press material puts it. Long, bent notes, slowly evolving figures and smeared overtones turn the slide‑treated lute into a kind of broken lap‑steel choir; the music…

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