Jumpel began life in 2005 when Jo Dürbeck, formerly 

						of the German band Bones, began to write and record

						 his own music.

						 

						Prior to Bones, Jo’s formative musical experiences involved 

						playing with empty detergent cans, boxes and a piano in his 

						parents’ cellar. In 1986 he bought a Commodore C-64 computer 

						and discovered electronic music.

						 

						Jo played keyboards, samples and loops in Bones, who over

						 the course of eight years released three albums and seven

						 singles with EMI Germany, and played over 400 gigs in

						 Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Then, after splitting

						 up the band, Jo and Rene (Bones’ singer) founded their own

						 company and studio and started writing and producing music

						 for films. They wrote scores for numerous films and

						 documentaries, and won the award for Best Score at the

						 Filmfestival Valencia in 2006.

						 

						Despite its obvious mastery of the dizzying possibilities afforded

						 by technology, Jumpel’s debut album Samuel Jason Lies On The

						 Beach (released August 2007 through Hidden Shoal Recordings) 

						is a work of intense intimacy and humanity. The album serves as

						 a testament to the power of careful distillation and minimalism, 

						exuding an emotional complexity that belies its seemingly simple

						 surface. Tracks were borne out of discrete nocturnal recording 

						sessions where ideas sparked from a range of disparate sources: 

						an old drum machine, a radio announcement, a forgotten 

						guitar chord. Through a process of layering and weaving, the 

						album began to take shape. Opaque electronic textures act like 

						sinew, binding themselves to piano and string melodies. The 

						result is an album that must be heard as a whole, yet seems 

						to exist without a real beginning or end

						 

						

						
							

						
							
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