Creatures Yabbalaga

• 1The Machine05:43
• 2The Messenger08:32
• 3The Deconstructor07:20
• 4The Breeder04:21
• 5The Beast04:34
• 6The Diva09:24
• 7The Engineer08:00
• 8The Builder08:20
• Total Runtime56:14

Info for Creatures

Jazz goes rock goes prog goes electronics: Yabbalaga is the name of the new project by Cologne saxophonist Stephan Mattner. Together with bassist Sebastian Räther and drummer Ralf Gessler, he presents eight exciting pieces on Creatures that are far removed from any pigeonhole thinking.

Sometimes more jazzy, then again more inclined to rock, the prog-rock oriented track "The Diva" also sets new standards in this metier with this instrumentation, electro beats and house sound carpets round off the groovy trip through Yabbalaga's musical world.

The loops were played in advance with flute, clarinet and soprano sax, partly edited and played back to live music. This creates a powerful construct that can go hand in hand with coincidences in a clear structure.

Stephan Mattner, saxophone, clarinet, flute, keyboards, computer
Ralf Gessler, drums
Sebastian Räther, bass

Stephan Mattner
studied classical saxophone and instrumental pe- dagogy at the Musikhochschule Detmold/Dortmund and jazz saxo- phone at the Folkwanghochschule Essen with Prof. Hugo Read and Matthias Nadolny. Concerts have taken him throughout Europe and Australia with a wide variety of formations and musicians.

Sebastian Räther
was born in Hamburg and has been in the middle of the Cologne jazz scene for 20 years now, in which he plays very presently. He has played with (almost) all local colleagues of modern jazz and numerous musicians from Düsseldorf, Essen and the Ruhr area, such as Nils Wogram, Jonas Burgwinkel and Niels Klein, Simon Nabatov, Angelika Niescier and many others.

Ralf Gessler
After various workshops and lessons with Wolfgang Haffner, Gerry Hemingway, Hiram Mutschler, Adam Nussbaum, Tom Rainey, John Riley, Chad Wackerman and Dave Weckl, Ralf Gessler studied jazz drums at the Musikhochschule Köln with Michael Küttner and Keith Copeland. Graduated with top marks.

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