Jonas Van Den Bossche

Jonas Van den Bossche is a Belgian guitarist and drummer, formerly based in Estonia, now based in the United States. He explores music both through written songs and improvised playing.Jonas embraces contradiction and change, which enables his improvised playing to flow seamlessly from noise to melody to silence and back. He has been exploring noise, free jazz, and improvised music on guitar and drums for well over two decades.

In recent years, Jonas has performed in Europe, Russia, and the U.S. with Karen Willems, Jean De Lacoste, Jef Mertens, Bauke Meersman, Ilia Belorukov, Marie Carroll, Gian Perez, Tatsuya Nakatani, Dylan Fujioka, Paul Lai, Adam Goodwin, Ryosuke Kyasu, Tom Weeks, Thomas Milovac, Sean Hamilton, Bonnie Kane, Juozas Milasius, Gaile Griciute, Lauri Hyvarinen, Roomet Jakapi, Taavi Kerikmäe, Yuri Landman, and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson.

Jonas’s composed songs deal with the difficulties of change and persevering hope. The instrumentation is both romantic and sparse—primarily featuring guitar, violin or cello, and drums—giving the music a cinematic quality. Perhaps best described as beautiful songs for sad people - or sad songs for beautiful people, Jonas’s songwriting and melodies paw at the listener’s emotional core.