London-based trio IFULKI features musicians shaped by a culture of improvisation, openness and collaboration:

• Queen Kaltoun, a Moroccan-Italian vocalist, who relocated to London when she was 189 to pursue a career in music
• Charlie, an English-born bassist and synth player with Irish and Ghanian roots
• Ayman, a Sudanese drummer and percussionist

Each member of the trio have spent years performing across London’s live music circuit, playing sets at Ronnie Scott’s, Jazz Cafe and Village Underground and a long list of others, while collaboration with a collection of boundary-pushing artists including David Mrakpor, Rebekah Reid, Mei Kirby, Ayo Salawu, Arowah, Tay Grace, and NK-OK.

The London-based trio have quickly established a unique blend of Gnawa inferences, electronic textures and live instrumentation helps to create a sound that’s deeply rooted in ancient traditions while being remarkably modern. Rather than remaining within the boundaries of jazz, the project for the trio became the meeting point of everything the inspired them — the freedom of improvisation, the emotional depth of electronic music, trip-hop and soul, and the philosophy of Queen Kaltoum’s Amazigh heritage.

Driven by spacious electronics, hypnotic rhythms and deeply instinctive interplay between the trio, the band’s music consistently prioritizes deep feeling over sterling perfection. That philosophy stems directly from their name: “‘Ifulki’ means ‘beautiful’ in the Amazigh language,” Queen Kaltoum shares. “It’s a celebration of the beautiful people and beautiful connections we encounter in this life. I’m Moroccan, and I come from the Amazigh people, an Indigenous people from North Africa. I want to pay homage to my ancestors. They’ve carried such a strong sense of community through generations, and that’s something I want to celebrate.”

For Queen Kaltoum beauty isn’t something superficial. Beauty exists in kindness, generosity, solidarity and the relationships we build and maintain with each other. Those values, which are deeply embedded within Amazigh culture, quietly shape every aspect of the emerging London-based trio’s creative vision — one, ultimately born, as Queen Kaltoum says, “from a need to bring people together.”

The rising London-based trio’s debut EP Something Greater is slated for a December 4, 2026 through [PIAS]’s new imprint SOURCE. The EP will feature the previously released EP title track “Something Greater,” and the EP’s latest single “Moment.” Built around a strutting and irresistible bass line, skittering hi-hats and atmospheric synths, “Moment” is a seamless blend of soul, trip hop and dance music rooted in a urgent, empowering message about calming one’s space and embracing the present with an unapologetic confidence delivered by an equally powerful vocal. In tone and message, the new single nods a bit of Aretha Franklin’s 1994 cover of C+C Music Factory’s “Pride (A Deeper Love).” But at its core, the result is a much-needed blast of affirmation and uplift — and a reminder that you can’t let anyone dim your shine, ever.

 The track is a call to recognise your moment when it arrives and refuse to let it pass you by,'” IFULKI’s Queen Kaltoum explains. “It’s about claiming your space, pushing through resistance and refusing to let anyone diminish what you’re building. At its heart, though, ‘Moment’ is also a reminder that strength doesn’t have to be solitary: sometimes, the right people beside you make all the difference.”