Joost Willemze
Rhapsodos
Physical- and digital album release: 13 March 2026
Distribution: PIAS – Integral NL
Contact persons:
Label: 7 Mountain Records: Frerik de Jong info@7mntn.com
PR NL: Johan Kloosterboer – De Nieuwsmakelaar johan@nieuwsmakelaar.nl
Joost Willemze joost.willemze@gmail.com
Short description album:
Rhapsodos presents Dutch harpist Joost Willemze as a modern storyteller and a wide-ranging performer. It brings together music that has shaped him and works written for him, showing the harp in many roles: expressive and lyrical, rhythmically driven and percussive, intimate and theatrical, acoustic and electronic. Mythology fuels the drama at the heart of the album, as emotions are explored in their rawest forms. Other works move through folk tradition and vividly drawn scenes, and open into sound worlds inspired by space and distance, taking the listener from the underworld to the cosmos. Rhapsodos unfolds as a journey in sound and as a portrait of the artist.
Promo video (Dutch):
Click here for Soundcloud link to full album
Audio fragments:
Marcel Grandjany: The Colorado Trail
Carlos Micháns: Trois Moments d’Orphée – II. La descente d’Orphée dans l’Hadès
Anne-Maartje Lemereis: Me•de•a
Caroline Lizotte: Suite Galactique, Op.39 – III. Scherzo del pueblo
Ramin Amin Tafreshi & Soheil Shayesteh: Event Horizon: the point of no return
Guillaume Connesson: Toccata
Fullk tracklist:
Marcel Grandjany (1891 – 1975)
1. Rhapsodie [9’15]
Anne-Maartje Lemereis (1989)
2. Me•de•a * [6’30]
Carlos Micháns (1950)
Trois Moments d’Orphée *
3. I. Orphée enragé après la mort d’Eurydice [4’37]
4. II. La descente d’Orphée dans l’Hadès [7’29]
5. III. La tête d’Orphée emportée par l’Hèbre [4’48]
Ramin Amin Tafreshi (1992) & Soheil Shayesteh (1989)
6. Event Horizon: the point of no return * [8’10]
Caroline Lizotte (1969)
Suite Galactique, Op.39
7. I. Exosphère [5’11]
8. II. Hymne au bon combat [4’43]
9. III. Scherzo del pueblo [3’19]
Guillaume Connesson (1970)
10. Toccata [4’48]
Pearl Chertok (1918 – 1991)
Around the Clock Suite
11. I. Ten past two [2’57]
12. II. Beige nocturne [2’18]
13. III. Harpicide at midnight [2’24]
14. IV. The morning after [3’36]
Marcel Grandjany
15. The Colorado Trail [4’44]
* premiere recording