Tumi Mogorosi – Group Theory: Black Music

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 Moholo-Moholo, 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.

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Tracklist

Side 1
1.    Wadada (4:43)
2.    The Fall (4:59)
3.    Panic Manic (5:15)
4.    Where Are The Keys? (feat Andile Yenana & Lesego Rampolokeng) (7:11)
Side 2
1.    Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (feat Andile Yenana & Siya Mthembu) (4:56)
2.    At The Limit Of The Speakable (5:50)
3.    Thaba Bosiu (feat Andile Yenana) (5:13)
4.    Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (feat Gabi Motuba) (5:42)