Asher Gamedze - Another Side with Another Time Ensemble (Live in Cairo) '2024

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Asher Gamedze is a cultural worker based in Cape Town, South Africa, involved in
music, education and history. As an independent musician he works as a drummer,
composer and bandleader. A versatile drummer with an open sound and sensibility,
Gamedze plays across and between multiple traditions of music including free
improvisation, soul music, rock ‘n roll, and many locally situated
traditions from Southern Africa. He has performed extensively in South Africa
and other parts of the African continent including Egypt, Lesotho and Malawi.
Gamedze has been on multiple European tours and has also played in the USA,
particularly in Chicago where he has a big community. Gamedze’s debut
record as a bandleader, ‘Dialectic Soul’, was released to critical
acclaim in 2020. The record received a rating of 8.0 from Pitchfork, was ranked
in the New York Times’ Top Ten Jazz Albums of the Year and won
‘Best Traditional Jazz Album’ at the Mzantsi Jazz Awards. His
second release, ‘Out Side Work’, consisting of two improvised duets
with saxophone players Alan Bishop and Xristian Espinoza, came out in April
2022. He toured that record with reedman Xristian Espinoza in Europe in
September 2022 and, in November 2022, toured ‘Dialectic Soul’,
playing venues and festivals such as Jazzfest Berlin, Le Guess Who? and Flagey.
He has recently also played on the following albums: Luh’ra’s
‘Nice’ (2022), Xhanti Nokwali’s ‘Umthombo’
(2022), On Our Own Clock’s ‘On Our Own Clock’ (2021), Manny
Walters’ ‘Dark Halo’ (2019) and ‘Live at
Milestone’ (2021), and Angel Bat Dawid and Tha Brothahood’s
‘Live!’ (2020) amongst many others. He has performed live with Ben
LaMar Gay, Nduduzo Makhathini, Salim Washington, Alabaster DePlume, and many
others.



Tracklist:
1.01 - Asher Gamedze - Melancholia (Live in Cairo) (4:39) 
1.02 - Asher Gamedze - If It Rains. To Pursue Truth (Live in Cairo) (9:52) 
1.03 - Asher Gamedze - Out Stepped Zim (Live in Cairo) (7:42)

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