Experimental musician Paul de Jong is known for his work as one-half of The Books, which presented de Jong’s compositional work and complex cello playing within an aural landscape of spoken audio collage and other sounds that nearly nine years after the band’s final album still stand as a body of work like no other. Since then, de Jong has released three solo records that take the aesthetic of The Books and expands on it into other often darker territories. In this episode, de Jong speaks with John Seven about how his creative life in many ways transitioned seamlessly into lockdown life during the pandemic, how he’s prepared his kids for circumstances just like these, and how he looks forward creatively into an unknown tomorrow. Find Paul de Jong online at dejongpaul.com.
