Turbulence and Pulse, by Asher Gamedze

Turbulence and Pulse

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1.	Turbulence's Pulse
2.	Wynter Time 09:27	buy track
3.	Locomotion
4.	If It Rains. To Pursue Truth
5.	Melancholia
6.	Alibama
7.	Can't See The Sun
8.	Sometimes I Think To Myself
9.	Out Stepped Zim
10.	Underground Formation
11.	Melancholia (Live in Cairo)
12.	If It Rains. To Pursue Truth (Live in Cairo)
13.	Out Stepped Zim (Live in Cairo)

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Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze explores relationships of time between music and history on his new album Turbulence and Pulse, out May 5th 2023.

Gamedze’s critically-acclaimed debut album Dialectic Soul was released at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020. Around the release of that record, with friend and writer Teju Adeleye he organized and participated in a joint online discussion “Poesis,” with historian Robin D.G. Kelley and others. One of the notable comments made in this session was by the poet and scholar Fred Moten, who described Gamedze’s drumming as an “amazing interplay between turbulence and pulse. Pulse is supposed to regulate and also be regular, but the turbulence underneath it and on top of it, it’s just extraordinary.” Moten added that this concept is a fundamental element of the percussive approach in Black music more broadly.

Turbulence and Pulse takes its title from this moment of synchronicities. Inspired by this description, Gamedze developed the metaphor further, expanding the concept of turbulence and pulse through the lens of history. “Time in music is a metaphor for thinking about time in history and how time moves,” he says. “The way we’re taught history is generally in a way that robs people of agency in imagining themselves as part of history and how it unfolds. It is something that happens to us. I think there's a productive metaphor in that because the sense of time in music is created by musicians playing together. If we can use that to think about history and time in history, you can see that, actually, history is created by people in a whole range of ways. At the heart of it, historical motion is created by people organized and acting together, whether for progressive or reactionary ends.”

For Gamedze, the underlying message of Turbulence and Pulse is “to claim a form of historical agency and realize that the future is not a foregone conclusion. As people we can organize, to transform our world in small and big ways.” This concept comes out of Gamedze’s involvement in radical cultural work and political organizing. He adds: “One of the ideas that I've had for a long time is to unsettle the way that people think about culture as something static or as something fixed. There’s this tension in Africa, because of the way that the colonists have constructed visions of African culture, where people speak about this need to conserve culture and document it. I think that's important, but you also have to understand that these things are moving. And we are the people who have to participate in that movement.”

For the album artwork, Gamedze extends the visual aesthetic of his previous release with a hand-drawn illustration. “I feel like my drawings represent the inside of my mind. It’s very free and improvisational,” he says. Friend and designer Naadira Patel worked with Gamedze to design the final cover layout, which includes liner notes penned by his sister, writer and artist Thuli Gamedze.

Turbulence and Pulse comes via the partnership of Chicago-based International Anthem and Johannesburg-based Mushroom Hour Half Hour, as the first collaborative release by the two labels.

- album writeup by Atiyyah Khan

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releases May 5, 2023

Concepts, compositions and arrangements by Asher Gamedze; except "Alibama" (traditional, arranged by Asher Gamedze and Robin Fassie).

Recorded at Sound and Motion Studios, Cape Town in May 2021; except 'Live in Cairo' sessions (album bundle-only bonus tracks) recorded on the CILAS rooftop, Cairo in November 2020.

Studio ensemble: Asher Gamedze – drums; Robin Fassie – trumpet; Buddy Wells – tenor saxophone; Thembinkosi Mavimbela – double bass; Julian ‘Deacon’ Otis – voice.

Another Time Ensemble (album bundle-only bonus tracks): Asher Gamedze – drums; Maurice Louca – Synthesisers; Adham Zidan – bass; Alan Bishop – alto saxophone; Chérif El-Masri – guitar.

Mixed by Carl Roberts and Dave Vettraino.

Initial mix of the ‘Live in Cairo' sessions (album bundle-only bonus tracks) by Adham Zidan.

Mastered by David Allen.

Produced by Asher Gamedze.

Artwork by Asher Gamedze.

Essay and Diagram by Thulile Gamedze.

Design by Naadira Patel.

A&R by Scott McNiece.

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