Jonas Engel & OWN YOUR BONES

Jonas Engel & OWN YOUR BONES

24.05.2024 Kühlspot
Chino Shuichi – piano 
Asgar Thomsen – double bass
Jonas Engel – saxophone 

Jonas Engel is active as an improviser and composer in the young European creative music scene. His works and projects are moving between acoustic noise music (Solo, Our Hearts As Thieves) electronic progressive music and creative jazz (OWN YOUR BONES, Just Another Foundry). He is constantly researching on any kind of technique and instrument extensions to produce sound and silence.

Jonas is based in Cologne and Copenhagen where he is next to his own bands active in the local music scene as sideman and coleader in several projects

Straight outta Hörgewohnheit: Jonas Engel vom Impakt-Kollektiv über Improvisation in Köln
 - von Viola Blomberg 2023

Jonas Engel – prepared wind instruments /// Asger Thomsen – double bass, objects

Asger Thomsen - Jonas Engel, Live @ Mayhem, Copenhagen, part 2

Their music leans heavily on the history of free improvisation
that has been practiced since the 60s, especially in Europe but with
a hyper detailed inventive approach they push this music forward.


And while the duo generally tend to operate in a dense high-information musical
environment their taste for non-idiomatic textural noise-based interplay can be
perceived as an almost vernacular or neo-primitive avant-garde style.