"Hoya", the first collaborative record from Fhunyue Gao and Sven Kacirek, is a site of encounters. There's the encounter between two different media and artistic conceptions: Gao, on the one hand, a stage director, performer, musician based in Switzerland, a frequent collaborator of Annalena Froehlich's, Thom Luz's and many others, who works for a most colourful variety of venues all over Europe and is a member of the music association Bongo Joe. Kacirek, on the other, an established musician living between Hamburg and Kenya, with several releases on labels such as Honest Jon's and Bureau B under his belt and an equally illustrious and diverse list of collaborators, among them Shabaka Hutchings, Ogoya Nengo, Marc Ribot, John McEntire, Hauschka and Nils Frahm.