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Die Suche nach der Essenz, dem Kern der Dinge: Diese Aufgabe stellten sich sowohl Sängerin Filippa Gojo, als auch Saxophonist Stephan Mattner schon früh in ihrer jeweiligen musikalischen Entwicklung. So war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, dass die beiden in Köln ansässigen Musiker:innen dieses Erforschen gemeinsam fortsetzen. Einerseits reduziert auf Stimme und Sopransaxophon, andererseits erweitert durch gezielt eingesetzte Effekte und Computer-Sounds, vereint das Duo Nucleus auch genau das: Die Reduktion auf das Wesentliche in Verbindung mit dem Abstrakten, dem nicht ganz Greifbaren. Auch die Verhältnisse der Ebenen sind in ständigem Wandel: Mal heben sich die Elemente klar voneinander ab, trennen sich unverkennbar in Begleitung und Melodie, in Elektronik und Akustik, mal verschmelzen sie ohne hörbare Trennung miteinander.

The search for the essence, the core of things: This is a task that both singer Filippa Gojo and saxophonist Stephan Mattner set themselves early on in their respective musical developments. So it was only a matter of time that the two Cologne-based musicians continued this exploration together. On the one hand, reduced to voice and soprano saxophone, and on the other hand expanded through targeted effects and computer sounds, the Duo Nucleus combines exactly that: reduction to the essential in connection with the abstract, the not quite tangible. The relationships between the levels are also constantly changing: sometimes the elements clearly stand out from one another, unmistakably separate in accompaniment and melody, in electronics and acoustics, sometimes they merge with each other without any audible separation.

Music

Cold, Clear and Blue

Hope

Core

Euphoria

recorded at

by Stephan Vester

Video

Live

2026

08/05
Salon de Jazz Köln

18-21/05
DLF Deutschlandfunk CD-Recording

10/10
Jazz à la Cité Paris

08/11
Werkstatt e.V Gelsenkirchen

13/11
Loft Köln

17/11
Goethe Institute Barcelona

19/11
Goethe Institute Madrid

20/11
Domicil Dortmund

22/11
Rüngsdorfer Kulturbad Bonn

27/11
Insel Wuppertal

2027

11/01
Rittergut Orr Pulheim

04/03
Voralberg Museum Bregenz (AUT)

05/03
Jazz Cafe Museum Passau

CD-Release October 14th, 2026

„Every now and again I get to experience a truly new expression in music, and find myself being at once transported and profoundly elevated by it. This is one of those.
Here are just extraordinary, spellbinding intertwining blends of texture beautifully reinforcing carefully considered compositional forms that reveal themselves so succinctly, intricately and intelligently from beginning to end. The icing on this incredible cake has to be the thoroughly captivating performances given throughout the journey by Stephan Mattner and Filippa Gojo – a team of two fabulously forwarding artists so complicit with one another it’s regularly hard to distinguish them as separates. The production levels and sonic excellence only go towards highlighting their interstellar and visionary music as it should be heard.“

A masterpiece.
Thank you for it! You put me in a great place today!”

Gary Husband

Contact

+49 174 1020089
info@stephan-mattner.de