NICA live: Jonas Engel - OWN YOUR BONES

"He doesn't try to fulfill expectations that he doesn't even know if they really exist, but intuitively lets out what drives him deep inside", says the liner notes to Staring is Caring (Tangible Records, 2023), the second release by the international quartet OWN YOUR BONES led by Cologne-based saxophonist and composer Jonas Engel.

The band has already toured in Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium and now Engel - NICA artist 2024 - is taking the opportunity of his concert in the NICA live series to play in front of a home audience and continue spinning musical threads: OWN YOUR BONES deals with complex musical themes and spectral sounds without shying away from free improvisation or folkloric melodies. Four musicians who strive for playful freedom translate the compositions into a gripping concert experience between power play and complex sound language.