Fika

Al Wreaves and Sam Hutton AKA fika strive to balance nuanced musicality, multi-instrumentalism, and a love of home-cooking with a passion for songwriting & collaboration; the likes of which include El Train, Fabich, Bambie Thug, Jackson Mathod, edbl, Cam Bloomfield, Benedict Quinn and Sami Switch. The pair met in the final month of their year at The Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, bonding over music tastes and their upcoming attendance of the University of Southampton. First as friends, then as bandmates fika was born with Sam Hutton producing and singing and everything else (song writing, instrumental recording, arranging etc) being split between the pair. fika’s ever-growing community of collaborators and irresistible releases has seen them perform at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s and garner support from BBC presenters Phil Taggart (BBC Radio 1), Jess Iszatt (BBC Radio London) & Abbie Mac (BBC Radio Kent). Working with Tru Thoughts in 2021, the release of the “Coffee & Clouds” EP sees fika teaming up with the dazed hypnotic tones of songwriter, vocalist and artist Bambie. The full release looks at the beauty and ugliness of love, stemming from a cathartic emotional outpouring for Bambie across the two days of recording with fika and the band’s ‘godfather’, Fabich. A project born out of collaborative joy and mutual admiration, the release is set to further cement fika’s place as a one-to-watch in the realms of Neo-Soul, Hip Hop and Contemporary RnB.