(July 27, 2023) The band Zaimie is a merger in the truest sense. It began when musicians Zaidi Kiggundu and Jamie McShane met at a 2016 music festival. The two bonded off their shared love of funk, jazz and soul music and decided to collaborate. They worked on demos in McShane’s Scotland studio that became the foundation for their debut album, Fortuitus.
They assembled a band that featured topflight horn players, Ewan Mains, Konrad Wisniewski, and James Steele. Kiggundu and McShane then selected a name that reflected the unified nature of this musical venture. Zaimie combines the first three letters of Kiggundu’s first name and the last three letters of McShane’s first name
“I Feel For You,” a track from Fortuitus and the song featured in this First Listen is a funky, midtempo number that shows that Kiggundu and McShane learned all the right lessons during their hours of studying funk.
(July 27, 2023) The band Zaimie is a merger in the truest sense. It began when musicians Zaidi Kiggundu and Jamie McShane met at a 2016 music festival. The two bonded off their shared love of funk, jazz and soul music and decided to collaborate. They worked on demos in McShane’s Scotland studio that became the foundation for their debut album, Fortuitus.
They assembled a band that featured topflight horn players, Ewan Mains, Konrad Wisniewski, and James Steele. Kiggundu and McShane then selected a name that reflected the unified nature of this musical venture. Zaimie combines the first three letters of Kiggundu’s first name and the last three letters of McShane’s first name
“I Feel For You,” a track from Fortuitus and the song featured in this First Listen is a funky, midtempo number that shows that Kiggundu and McShane learned all the right lessons during their hours of studying funk.
The cut has a distinctive smooth but bumping bass line that will get your head bopping and serves as the foundation for some tight horn play, wah wah guitars, deft tempo changes and Kiggundu’s smooth, conversational falsetto vocals to lay down his sentiments on how he feels about his lady,
Check out Zaimie’s funky jam “I Feel For You” here.
By Howard Dukes
Zaimie – “I Feel For You”