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Pianist Bugge Wesseltoft is well known as one of the pioneers of the nu-jazz especially in the 90's with his "New Conception Of Jazz" series releases in which he mixes jazz with dance club. But his album IM dedicated to tragic events in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (and to one particular victim, Zawadi Mongane who Bugge heard interviewed on BBC Radio) is different. In this album BW focuses on solo acustic piano( although it includes the Sami singing and percussion of Mari Boine on ‘YOYK’, and the voice of Rwandan survivor Zawadi Mongane telling her story in ‘WY’ ). The music is slow, gentle, reflective, reminding of Keith Jarrett or Satie, probably the most meditative music he wrote. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, and for sure not every BW fan's cup of tea but as "still water runs deep' , this music can touch you deeply if you give it enough time.