Louise Van Den Heuvel ’SONIC HUG’

Louise van den Heuvel is a dynamic Dutch bass player and composer. She’s known for blending modern music technologies and effect pedals in her compositions rooted in the contemporary electronic/jazz scene. Louise founded the up-and-coming Belgian electronic jazztrio Dishwasher_, collaborated with renowned artists on stage such as Zwangere Guy & Lander Gyselinck and Bruno Vansina Orchestra, and is part of Stéphane Gallands’ The Rhythm Hunters, The Gallands, and the neo-soul artist STACE.

Her own creations expose themselves as elaborated melancholic songs filled with elegant grooves, crystalline vocals and experimental jazz excursions. She’s brilliantly using her own musical voice — even literally, since you will also hear her sing (for the first time!) on some of the tracks.
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Surrounded by three equally inevitable peer musicians in the front of the new Belgian jazz generation Sonic Hug became a very personal, unique new project. Influenced by the sounds of Scandinavia and artists such as ADHD, Nala Sinephro, Floating Points, Y Otis and Joni Mitchell, the vibe of Sonic Hug is etheric, elegant, melodically narrative, and always searching for a grasping groove.