Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch (born 1953 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) is an American film director who has also made music since the New York No Wave years. In the early 1980s he played keyboards and sang in the Del-Byzanteens, and he later formed Sqürl, an avant-garde rock band that also scores his films. Since 2012 he has recorded a series of duo albums with the lutenist Jozef van Wissem, setting lute against electric guitar. The Del-Byzanteens released the LP Lies to Live By in 1982.