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Studying in a musical primary school and learning to play several musical instruments (three years of piano) both played a very important role in developing his musical competence. 1996: At this time, leaving the serious part-songs behind, he starts to be interested in electronic music instead. At first clomping through melodic songs and then through deeper lines he settled down at techno. In 2000 being a producer was a part of his life and, though with elementary equipment he only reached to elementary music, he devoted almost his whole life to this. 2002: Smaller parties were lost in the shadows...

Nový Svět was a musical group formed in 1997 in Vienna, Austria that, while related with the apocalyptic folk scene, created an avant-garde melange of industrial, minimal electronic, krautrock, free jazz and noise. The lyrics, sung by Jürgen Weber, are mostly in Spanish or Italian, but also in English, Pseudo-Esperanto and German. Nový Svět was one of the very first projects to be released on Albin Julius' HauRuck! label where it found a home for its own recordings but also for many collaborations with other groups from the label's roster (Mushroom's Patience, Dernière Volonté, Foresta Di Ferro), as well as...

Back in the 1990s, before his current job as stay-at-home dad to two beautiful children, Jon headlined at dozens of folk clubs, colleges and coffeehouses throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Club Passim, The Bluebird Cafe, Eddie's Attic, Caffe Lena, Canal Street Tavern, Cafe Carpe, The Blue Moon Coffeehouse at Illinois Wesleyan, Skidmore College, WPI, Brandeis University and Indiana University is just a partial list. He shared co-bills and "writers-in-the-round" nights with the likes of Kristian Bush, Shawn Mullins, Peirce Pettis, Dar Williams, Jonatha Brooke, Martin Sexton and Carrie Newcomer. He was privileged to open for legendary songwriters like Richard Thompson,...