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Fatima “Do I Know You?”
Fatima “Do I Know You?”
For the latest installment in the Fresh Kept Secrets series – I co-present to you (along with my friends & co-workers at the Red Bull Music Academy) some updates from Loose Joints alumna, Fatima. If you’re just now catching on, Fatima is a refreshingly talented singer residing in London, by way of Stockholm, Sweden. RBMA described it best when they said, “mix The Fugees with Sade, Quasimoto, and Minnie Riperton, into one big Studio Chu style collage, and you begin to get an idea of the psychedelic musical journey Fatima has begun.” Comparisons aside, she’s been making a name for herself worldwide through her live shows and collaborations with numerous respected artists – and although she is still currently unsigned, she’s already worked with such heavyweight producers as Shafiq Husayn (SA-RA), Exile, Coleman, Ras_G, Hudson Mohawke, Mike Slott, and more for her upcoming album.
Released by the RBMA earlier this week, we have a free download of a new song from Fatima, entitled “Do I Know You?,” which was co-produced by Cohen, Dorian Concept & Cuthead. The track was recorded when all four of the aforementioned attended the Barcelona session of the RBMA last year, and it is one of the first tracks leaked from the upcoming Various Assets compilation, on which Fatima is featured on a handful of other songs as well. For more info and insight on the track, be sure to check out the full article on the Academy’s site.
But before we get to that, I’ve also selected two of her more well-known collaborations, as well as an unreleased solo demo. First, we have the extremely buzzworthy title track from the debut album of the production trio, TettoryBad (a supergroup consisting of Jazzy Sport affiliates Masaya Fantasista & Grooveman Spot as Tettory BLK from Japan, alongside London’s own Simbad). The song was one of my personal favorites of 2008 and apparently I’m not alone in that opinion, as it appeared on tastemaker Karen P’s …Broadcasting compilation for Sonar Kollektiv and was also played on almost every respected radio show and podcast last year.
Following that up, we have “Coming Home (Parts 1 & 2)” – one of the highlights from Hygher Baby’s debut album, Let Me Play U Something U Have Never Heard. Hygher Baby is another supergroup of sorts, this time consisting of Fatima’s old friends from Sweden, producer Pure P and singer, Melo, coming together for their debut release, which dropped in Japan through the Circulations label last year & will be available everywhere else via Raw Fusion in the coming months. You may remember the song from my album preview post a few months back.
And closing out the set is an unreleased demo, “Garbageband vs. Quas,” which features Fatima recording herself as a one-woman band in her living room using household objects as shakers & her own backing vocals – all coming together as a tribute to everyone’s brick-wielding alien alias, Lord Quas.
Streams of all three of those tracks are available below, and be sure to get your free download of “Don’t I Know You?” at the bottom. For more on Fatima, links are provided for her guest selector mix on RBMA Radio, as well as a link to the Loose Joints mix .zip which includes her solo song, “Wildchild,” produced by VeeBeeO.
TettoryBad “Unite (One)” (feat. Fatima)
from Unite (Jazzy Sport, 2008)
Hygher Baby “Coming Home (Parts 1 & 2)” (feat. Fatima)
from Let Me Play U Something U Have Never Heard (Circulations, 2008)
Fatima & Herlivingroomfloor “Garbageband vs. Quas”
10 Comments
I only received a 10 sec clip when i downloaded it. Is it just me or is there a glich?
thanks 5
“Do I Know You?” still works for me
try right-clicking (CTRL+click on a mac) and saving the file
it should get the whole thing then
Lemme know if that doesn’t work 6
thanks for the heads up.
“Coming Home” is fixed now.
sorry bout that 7
found this video of her at Devotion in London from last year. Bad soundquality, but still: 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b__UhQTyKA 9