I think this collaboration between Henrik Schwarz and Bugge Wesseltoft is the most exciting live project since 2004’s Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto’s cooperation. Here, on RBMA Radio, you can listen to their unique live performance at Royal Festival Hall.
Henrik Schwarz is a long time veteran of the German deep house scene, cutting his teeth as a DJ in the nineties, but it’s been his forays into production and epic approach to tunes that have brought a soulful jazzy groove to the 4×4 groove. On th eotehr hand, Bugge Wesseltoft has been constantly pushing the envelope of what jazz music can be. This Norwegian mastermind is far beyond any tired ideas of ‘fusion’ and has been interested in dance music and working with DJs since the early stages of that culture in Europe. Together they form a duo extraordinaire with a very special live project. Relentlessly improvising, Bugge and Henrik work with each other’s material, create blends and new forms of existing and even previously non-existing pieces. To put it in a nutshell, they just play together – and very well so. During their stay at RBMA’s London edition, Schwarz and Wesseltoft brought their classic yet modern set-up to the stage of the honourable Royal Festival Hall. Get the Bugge!
