Props to Bling47‘s own wunderkind Kenny Fresh, who has singlehandedly been unearthing gems over on his Fresh Selects blog for some time now. Definitely one for your Google Reader. If you keep an eye on  our Twitter feed though, you’ll sometimes find us sharing the goodness he has to offer on a weekly basis. However when this baby dropped into our inbox late this afternoon, we just had to post about it right here.

For anyone who’s been asleep for the past month or so LA-based SA-RA Creative Partners finally released an album on Ubiquity Records some five years after first debuting material on the label. But this isn’t that story (expect an album review soon, as soon as I can pin down some listening time). This is about one third of that trio, namely  a Mr Shafiq Husayn, former producer for Ice T, who now  spends his time alongside band mates Taz Arnold and Om’Mas Keith, melding the futuristic hip hop beats and cosmic soul grooves you hear on the new LP, “Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love”.

Since that album has now hit the shelves, it seems the man is getting busy readying his first solo project “Shafiq En A-Free-Ka”, due to be released in October on Plug Research. Kenny set two tracks from the LP free  into the open this morning and both are absolute killers. The one we’ve posted below is a low slung, smoothed out, future soul cut entitled ‘Lil Girl’ and features the unmistakeable vocal talents of Eglo’s first lady Fatima.

To cop a listen to the second track, Nirvana, featuring singers Nia Andrews, Noni Limar and Rozzi Daime, head on over to Kenny’s blog post where its available to stream. Put this on your radar now, as the album should be one to look out for this Autumn.

Download Shafiq Husayn (Sa-Ra Creative Partners) feat Fatima – Lil Girl

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