Deadbeat & Camara
Trinity Thirty is the result of a unique collaboration between Scott
Monteith and Fatima Camara, both accomplished and acclaimed solo artists
working in dance- and downbeat-inflected electronic idioms, and both
Canadian ex-pats currently based in Berlin. After overhearing the Cowboy
Junkies' now-classic cover of "Sweet Jane" in a Brazilian airport, Monteith revisited his
longstanding affection for The Trinity Session, the album from which the song was drawn, which he realized was
quickly approaching its 30th anniversary. Knowing their shared love for
the record, Monteith reached out to Camara, and, with the blessing of
Cowboy Junkies guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins, the pair
undertook a 2-year process of experimentation and recording sessions at
Berlin's Studio Chez Cherie. Deadbeat & Camara's re-envisioning
of The Trinity Session yielded Trinity Thirty, at once a reverent tribute and a wholly
original work in its own right, which will release on Constellation in
Spring 2019.
Scott Monteith is a musician, sound artist and music technology educator
best known for his work under the stage name Deadbeat. Having launched
his production career at the turn of the millennium, the Canadian-born,
Berlin-based producer's 11 Deadbeat albums, two-dozen singles, and countless remixes and collaborations represent
one of most prolific and consistently rewarding catalogues in the modern
electronic-music canon. A tireless innovator of vast creative vision, 20
years on Scott Monteith's restless creative spirit shows no signs of
being quieted for many years to come.
A decade living in
Montreal left an indelible mark on Monteith's earlier studio-based work,
while his move to Berlin in 2006 shifted his creative focus to the live
stage - resulting in performance invitations from the most respected
clubs and festivals the world over. As a DJ, Monteith is a dub archivist
second to none, with a collection spanning the genre's early Jamaican
roots, through the “steppers” versions of the 80s and 90s championed in
the UK and Europe, to the current crop of global producers pushing the
dub techno sound into previously unheard directions and widely divergent
rhythmic structures. This was most clearly highlighted with the release
of his critically acclaimed DJ mix Radio Rothko in 2010, rated by various publications as one of the most
genre-defining mix CDs of all time.
Fatima Camara is a musician and producer who creates textured
compositions combining samples of sentimental sounds, classic studio
components, and live bass and vocals. Owing to her unique production
process, Camara’s work straddles sub-genres and has found a variety of
champions across the music media. Her personal style of layering
sentimental sounds on an electronic backdrop, with her own voice set
deep, almost drowning in the mix, renders a unique optimistic
melancholy.
Born in Canada, Camara was raised in a large
Portuguese family where traditional song and dance were as integral to
her family gath- erings as food, laughter and wine. From participation
in a church choir from the age of seven, Camara's musical formation
included inter- ests in new wave and folk, before becaming enmeshed in
her teenage years in the burgeoning electronic music scene of eastern
Canada and the US, as a DJ and event promoter. Having moved to Berlin in
2008, Camara now runs a digital music club and teaches children how to
use Ableton Live and drum machines, while secretly developing her own
solo work. As well as numerous contributions to various film soundtracks
- including the award-winning films Joe Boots, Stress, and Indarella - Camara released her stunning debut album, Before We Sleep, in 2016 to wide critical acclaim. The record was hailed as “already a
classic... not only sonically rewarding but emotionally so” by London’s
NTS Radio, a “heart-rendering... remarkable debut” by Fact magazine, and
featured among NTS’s top 5 albums of the year.
