The Duo met on a rainy day in Tilburg (NL) while working for a dance project. They came down from very different roads. 
Sven, an established musician living between Hamburg/Nairobi, who released several records on Bureau B, Honest Jons, Naïve Records and Pingipung and collaborated with several artists like Sofia Jernberg, Nils Frahm, Shabaka Hutchings, Stefan Schneider, Hauschka, John McEntire and Marc Ribot. Fhunyue, a stage director-performer-musician chameleon, working alone/collaborating with under others, Annalena Fröhlich (ROBINROBIN, J.A.W.I.S. Just Another Woman In Space). Thom Luz, Unplush, Peeping Tom, Dorit Chrysler, Ko Murobushi, Damien Jalet, The Scottish Dance Theatre, Bern Ballett, for a most colourful variety of venues in Europe. Member of the music association Bongo Joe (CH).

Their encounter quickly revealed that both their musical sensitivity and their instruments (Marimbas, Drums/Percussions, Electronics, Theremin, Buchla Synthesizer, Piano) matched stunningly, and that they had to play together. After a short while of rocky life adventures and theatre projects in which they collaborated, their off rehearsal sessions would become a lively necessity. The wish to give birth to a project entirely their own, grew so strong that one January 2020 they locked themselves in Sven’s studio at Jaffestrasse in Hamburg, and started working on the debut of their duet. They are happy to present and share with you their labour of love, in hope that it will be good to your heart.

fhunyue gao // sven kacirek