Nicole Johänntgen - a virtuoso instrumentalist – uses an impressively opulent sound palette. Her saxophone sighs and screams, sings and whispers, wheeps and cries. Stefan Johänntgen contributes earthbased hard bop piano fillings, funky sounds and gospel chords. Christian Konrad is on percussive slap bass riffs as brilliantly staged as on delicate guitar melodies. Elmar Federkeil plays a wide range of rhythms – from straight swing to groove and latin rhythms to rock pointed accents. NICOLE JO crosses boundaries between genres. NICOLE JO - creating a sound all their own.