I spent September 2015 in Lucerne, Switzerland via the CLAER Program, as a Cultural Ambassador for CSCI —Chicago Sister Cities International. I’ll return to Lucerne —or Luzern— in April and September 2022 to collaborate with resident artist Jonas Raeber for the program’s 20th Anniversary celebration (click the banner below).

Here’s a beat I produced after my first visit, called A-YO, for the traditional Swiss alphorn and yodel samples (the Busta/Dilla vocal was a fitting afterthought)…