NICA live: Stefan Schönegg "Enso: On the withered tree a flower blooms"

For his ensembles, all under the title Enso, the Cologne-based bassist, composer and improviser Stefan Schönegg writes contemporary chamber music for various instrumentations. Since the project was launched in 2016, Schönegg has focused on minimal material that allows for a patient exploration of timbres and melodic gestures and blurs the boundary between improvisation and composition. Enso has thus developed into a collective term for a growing number of participants who interpret Schönegg's music sensitively and attentively.

"On the withered tree a flower blooms" is Enso's 7th release and the second with Marlies Debacker on piano and Etienne Nillesen on snare drum. The almost 45-minute piece is drone music, a slow, subtle layering of meandering textures. While the previous album "A Simplified Space" was mainly about silence and the spontaneous expression of the moment, the upcoming album, which will be released on December 13, 2024, invites you to immerse yourself in the moment in a completely different way: Through the finest rhythmic and harmonic ramifications, the music develops an immediate pull, into its pure essence - the sound.