Jonas Schilling - We Tried To Turn Back Time - Traum V301


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We welcome Jonas Schilling!

Jonas Schilling is an electronic music artist, composer and music producer from Berlin. After years of playing with different bands and soaking up Berlins vibrant electronic music scene, he started his solo project in 2019. Besides releasing music as a solo artist Jonas Schilling composes music for theater and contemporary dance projects. He received great acclaim for his track "Rising Tide", which has been streamed over 7 million times to date. His music was played by countless radio stations and featured on BBC introducing.


In 2023 Jonas Schilling was scholarship holder of music board Berlin’s Co-Creation Residency Berlin - Tel Aviv. For two months he collaborated with Israeli singer "Odelly". Together they performed at Popkultur Festival Berlin, as well as Kuli Alma Club, Tel Aviv.


As a composer and musician for theatre, Jonas Schilling has worked with many theaters and independent projects all over Germany, in Switzerland and Turkey. Jonas Schilling was born into a family in which music was an everyday expression of joy and togetherness. The experience of music as an immersive room that is not divided into performer and listener shaped his way of thinking about music and sound. Growing up with jazz, gospel and rock music he later recognized the transcendent potential of electronic dance culture and started to integrate its concepts to his own music.


His tracks are often in search of an optimism and positivity that emerge through the experience of breaking and transgressing. He tries to question genre traditions and combine the seemingly contradictory: complex polyrhythms with immersive harmonies, elements of modal jazz with techno beats, "underground" with „mainstream".


His Traum EP "We Tried To Turn Back Time" pays tribute to the rave culture while at the same time incorporating „classic“ instruments like piano, electric basses and jazz drums. The titles allude to the messianic hope of stopping time itself as well as the utopian localization of a space- and timeless place.




Release Date:                                                             06. September 2024