Genre-bending artiste Tessellated

is gearing up to release a mini profile series highlighting a group of women

who take centre stage in his latest project, Me and My Lady.

The music video was released late

last month and stars 17 women including singers Lila Iké and Naomi Cowan vibing

to the Afro-jazz record.

“I’m cool with all these women

and they are super dope people,” he said in a recent Instagram post. “Aside from how they look, they are just amazing.They are doing crazy things in their own lives. A lot of them are in the arts,some of them are in other fields as well. I actually want to share more aboutthem with you for you guys to know who they are cause how they look is just thetiniest piece of that. So what I’m going to give you soon is a little miniseries talking with some of these women and just having them introducethemselves to you and find out about everything that’s going in their lives andwho they are.”

The other women include fashion

designer Anna-Lisa Guthrie, stylist Anya Swapp, photographer Destinee Condison

and filmmaker Didi Beck.

Tessellated shared the

inspiration behind the video concept.

“It was a super last minute

thing…all these women here are actually some really good friends and I

reached out to them just to get some videos of them dancing, get some videos of

them enjoying the song just to share on social media. Naturally it was last

minute, I didn’t think everyone would get back to me but everyone loved the

song and hit me back really quick, nuff love to them for that. I realised these

are some dope visuals, let me edit them together, drop some lyrics on that and

this could actually be something… That was just that. It was just one of those

things where things just work out.”

Me

and My Lady was produced by Tessellated and Holland-based Tera Kòrá, and

forms part of the upcoming EP Tropics

Vol 1.