fabric x Sennheiser: Takuya Nakamura - The View From The Shard

Takuya Nakamura plays The View from The Shard on Thursday 5 November, the final date in the fabric x Sennheiser series of sunset sessions. It's a hybrid set — DJing, live electronics, vocals and trumpet all in one — played high above the London skyline as the sun goes down. Nakamura actually opened the series back in August, so this brings him full circle to close it out.

He's a Japanese trumpeter and producer who records for fabric Records, and his musical life spans nearly 35 years. He started in Tokyo's jazz clubs, studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and found jungle in the early 1990s before settling in New York. That's a lot of ground to cover, and his sets reflect it, moving between jazz, jungle, dub and fusion. The trumpet is the constant, but it sits alongside the electronics rather than on top of them.

He's recently released the album Shape The Future, which pairs studio recordings with a live set recorded in fabric's Room 03. Its first single, 'Broken Jazz', is a collaboration with London jungle producer Tim Reaper, so there's a direct link to the city's jungle scene in the new material. This show is billed as an intimate hybrid performance, and given the venue, the view is as much a part of it as the music.

It's the fifth of five sunset dates at the viewing gallery, following Sven Väth, Goldie, Kölsch and East End Dubs. The session runs from 7:00 pm to midnight, and tickets are £96.31.