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Enso: Strings & Percussion – Reviews
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 MusikStrings & 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.
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New Album: Enso – Strings & Percussion
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.
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New Album: Leif Berger – Hinweis auf die Sonne
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.
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New Album: Schmid’s Huhn – Layers (live)
Very happy to announce this new release on shoebill music:
Schmid’s Huhn – Layers (live)It is our third album, recorded at a five-days-residency at Club Subway Cologne in 2020. With music by Stefan Karl Schmid (tenor sax, clarinet, effects) and Leonhard Huhn (alto sax, clarinet). With Fabian Arends on drums.
Available via shoebill music, Stefan Karl Schmid and bandcamp. Enjoy!
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Enso: Strukturen – Reviews
Here is a review by Hans-Jürgen Linke in Frankfurter Rundschau
https://www.fr.de/kultur/musik/stefan-schoenegg-strukturen-um-der-zeit-selbst-willen-91358355.htmlHere is a review by Martin Hufner in Neue Musikzeitung
https://hoerbar.nmz.de/2021/11/schoenegg-enso-strukturen/Felix Klopotek writes in Stadtrevue
„[…] eine Aufnahme von befreiender No-Bullshit-Attitude. Strukturen ist von der ersten Minute an von Klarheit und Einfachheit geprägt, die so präzise gespielt wird […], dass jedes Klangdetail hörbar ist und jeder Klang zugleich eingeschmolzen wird in den Gesamtprozess.“And Joseph Neff writes for The Vinyl District
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New Album: Enso – Strukturen
I am incredibly happy to announce the new Enso-Album called Strukturen! Available as download or vinyl via bandcamp.
Thanks to everybody involved, especially the wonderful Michael Thieke, Sandra Weiss, Nathan Bontrager, Etienne Nillesen. Also recording engineer Jonathan Hoffmann and video artist Karl-F. Degenhardt.
Enjoy!
supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH and Neustart Kultur