Stefan Schönegg

Here is a review by Martin Hufner in Neue Musikzeitung
https://hoerbar.nmz.de/2022/12/enso-strings-percussion/

Here Ken Waxman writes on jazzword.com about Enso and Metaculture
https://www.jazzword.com/reviews/stefan-schonegg/

The focus of Stefan Schönegg’s formation Enso is sound. And there is nothing to shake about that. Already the four previous releases of the quartet – which optionally even grows to an octet – testify to the tireless, as it were precise urge to get on the track of the sound and its production. […] Enso’s music is and has always been there. […] On the foil of suspended time, the ear loses itself in an infinite landscape. Rarely has resolution been more beautiful.
Gerardo Scheige, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik

Strings & Percussion is the latest project of Cologne bassist, composer and label producer Stefan Schönegg in his Enso series, with which, album after album, he plays himself free of jazz and improvisation clichés, but also refrains from any ingratiation with new music standards. An exercise in autonomy. If you ask around in the local jazz scene about originality, independence and persistence, you will always hear Schönegg’s name.
Strings & Percussion is exactly that: three string players, two percussionists, who, without any vanity, circle themes and ideas collectively and to the point of sonic indistinguishability, perhaps formulating an idea or not, letting the sounds swell but never overflow.
Felix Klopotek, Stadtrevue

I am incredibly happy to announce the new Enso-Album called Strings & Percussion! Available as download or vinyl via bandcamp.

Thanks to everybody involved, especially the wonderful Kari Rønnekleiv, Judith Hamann, Toma Gouband and Etienne Nillesen. Also recording engineer Patrick Leuchter, mastering engineer Alex Kloss and video artist Leonhard Huhn.

Enjoy!

Funded by the Cultural Office City of Cologne and Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR recovery programme.

Very happy to announce this new release by my friend Leif Berger: Hinweis auf die Sonne.

It is a beautiful self-release on vinyl with the wonderful Rebekka Ziegler on vocals, Yannis Anft on synthesizer, Leif Berger on drums and myself on electric bass.