Jason Del Campo

Somewhere between his contemporaries Nils Frahm and Philip Glass, “the delicate Jason Del Campo distills his cinematic music” (Radio France).

The French guitarist of Spanish origin, part of a lineage of neo-classical and post-minimalist composers, explores a living written music that dissolves the boundary between art music and popular culture.

He can be found in cinema as the composer of the soundtrack for Atlantic Bar (Fanny Molins, Cannes Film Festival 2022 – César Awards 2024), in theatre where he scored Les Justes by Albert Camus (staged by Maxime d'Aboville, Molières 2015 and 2022), and in Birdsland, collaborating with German choreographer Nadine Gerspacher.

At the heart of his research, like a guiding thread, is the exploration of the classical guitar in all its forms.

Raised in a family of craftsmen, Jason Del Campo in turn explores materials through the sounds he creates: the strings are plucked, of course, but the instrument is also hit to produce unconventional percussive effects, and bowed to evoke a strange and mesmerizing string orchestra.

While each generation of guitarists seeks its own singular voice, Jason Del Campo is no exception, inventing new playing techniques to express the emotional upheavals that move through him : grief to overcome, absence, love accepted or refused and all that weighs upon our shoulders.

With his new album Atlas, he reinvents the production of the classical guitar and unveils an inner road trip where the infinitely small meets the infinitely vast. In an intimacy reminiscent of ASMR, the ear is drawn close to still water to hear the subtle friction of skin against strings. Then, suddenly, one is overwhelmed by successive instrumental waves crashing down. Between tender melodies and musique concrète, Atlas is at times a delicate sanctuary where silence is shared, at others a chaos explored with a bare heart.