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Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: Jim Jarmusch and Jozef Van Wissem

9th July 2025 - The Clapham Grand

Jim Jarmusch and Jozef Van Wissem met on the streets of New York in 2006. They shared a lot of interest and background so a collaboration and a friendship was born. Jarmusch was looking to have Van Wissem compose a score for a film he had been trying to make for years, what he described as a ?crypto-vampire film? about two lovers, outsider types who have been in love for hundreds of years. Van Wissem?s work comes from a tradition of avant-garde minimalism and lends itself well to the director?s stark cinematic works. Jarmusch has played guitar in bands on and off since the late ?70s. Van Wissem?s compositional style involves hypnotic circular musical phrases that allow for a lot of contemplative space between the notes.

Their first live performance was in Issue Project Room in Brooklyn in October 2011, where they appeared together for a Van Wissem curated concert program called ?New Music for Early Instruments.? The idea for their first album, Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity (Important Records) developed from their live performance. Jarmusch has said that he considers these songs as Van Wissem?s compositions, and sees himself as someone filling in the background to Jozef ?s foreground, like the ?scenic? on a film shoot, the one who paints the backdrops. ?The sound of the lute is as bright as the sun, a beautiful red color and my stuff sounds sort of like the moon, more like blue, like mercury.?

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The Grand was established in 1900 by some of the most popular performers of the time. Launched at the height of the music hall, since then a cinema, bingo hall and a nightclub, The Grand has always remained true to it's original aim: To Entertain.

In recent years the Grand has revived it's original mission: The perfect blend of variety and quality. With themed film screenings or an irreverent take on bingo one night, and world class comedians, musicians and DJ's the next, we're reinventing the best of the past for new audiences.

The opening times shown are for the club nights, for other events please see the individual event listing.

Club nights entry prices are as follows:-
Friday £5 before 11pm £10 after.
Saturday £10 all night.
Club entry fee's are only payable in cash.

21-25 St. John's Hill,

Clapham,

Greater London,

England,

SW11 1TT.

020 7223 6523