If you know anything about Beans as an artist, then you would know that he’s fearless. Through a lengthy and successful career, he has never shied away from taking great creative and artistic risks. He’s done so again with ZWAARD, a collaborative album he recorded with acclaimed producer Sasu Ripatti. What Beans and Ripatti share in common is their originality and their uncompromised approach to left-field music. A collaboration between the two has been in the works for over a decade. Conversations took place, but nothing ever materialized, partially because each party was having success with their solo careers. Beans was previously a member of the New York alternative hip-hop group Antipop Consortium, and around the time the group split is when he and Ripatti first began to throw ideas ar...