Tumi Mogorosi - Group Theory: Black Music [CD]

Mushroom Hour Half Hour

£13.18

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: M3H10NS23CD
Barcode: 4062548047950
Release Date: 22 Jul 2022
Genre: Jazz

TRACKLIST:
CD
01. Wadada
02. The Fall
03. Panic Manic
04. 3:15 (Where it’s Darkest) (feat. Andile Yenana)
05. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (feat. Andile Yenana & Siya Mthembu)
06. At the Limit of the Speakable
07. Walk with Me
08. Mmama
09. Thaba Bosiu (feat. Andile Yenana)
10. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (feat. Gabi Motuba)
11. Where are the Keys? (feat. Andile Yenana & Lesego Rampolokeng)

• A bold new project by feted South African drummer Tumi Mogorosi (Shabaka and The Ancestors, The Wretched) – his first recording as leader since 2014’s Project ELO.
• Dramatically powerful compositions played by Mogorosi’s quintet alongside a nine-person choir, creating spiritualised choral music in the tradition of Max Roach, Andrew Hill and Billy Harper.
• Features a cross-generational line-up of celebrated South African musicians including guitarist Reza Khota, pianist Andile Yenana, and vocalists Gabi Motuba and Siyabonga Mthembu (The Brother Moves On / Shabaka & The Ancestors).
• A collaborative project between South Africa and the UK, linking up Johannesburg pacesetters Mushroom Hour Half Hour (SPAZA, Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O) with rising UK imprint New Soil (Theon Cross, Ill Considered)

Group Theory: Black Music is a stunning new statement from South African drummer and composer Tumi Mogorosi. Standing in the lineage of South African greats such as Louis MoholoMoholo, Makaya Ntshoko and Ayanda Sikade, Mogorosi is one of the foremost drummers working anywhere in the world, with a flexible, powerful style that brings a distinctive South African inflection to the polyrhythmic tradition of Elvin Jones, Max Roach and Art Blakey. Since his international debut on Jazzman Records in 2014 with Project ELO, Mogorosi has been in the vanguard of the South African creative music scene’s burgeoning outernational dimension, taking the drummer’s chair in both Shabaka Hutchings’ Shabaka and The Ancestors formation and with avant-garde noiseniks The Wretched, who featured on Brownswood’s acclaimed South African showcase, Indaba Is.

Where Group Theory: Black Music moves an established format dramatically forward is in the addition of a nine-person choir. Their massed voices soar powerfully above every track as a collective instrument of human breath and body, and enter the album into the small but significant number of radical recordings to have used the voice in this way, such as Max Roach’s It’s Time, Andrew Hill’s Lift Every Voice, Billy Harper’s Capra Black, and Donald Byrd’s I’m Trying To Get Home