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01. Tumi Mogorosi - Wadada
02. Tumi Mogorosi - The Fall
03. Tumi Mogorosi - Panic Manic
04. Tumi Mogorosi - 3:15 (Where It's Darkest) (feat. Andile Yenana)
05. Tumi Mogorosi - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (feat. Andile Yenana & Siya Mthembu)
06. Tumi Mogorosi - At The Limit Of The Speakable
07. Tumi Mogorosi - Walk With Me
08. Tumi Mogorosi - Mmama
09. Tumi Mogorosi - Thaba Bosiu (feat. Andile Yenana)
10. Tumi Mogorosi - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (feat. Gabi Motuba)
11. Tumi Mogorosi - Where Are The Keys? (feat. Andile Yenana & Lesego Rampolokeng)
ARTIST
TITLE
Group Theory: Black Music
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
M3H 010CD M3H 010CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/9/2022

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 outer-national 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 (1962), Andrew Hill's Lift Every Voice (1970), Billy Harper's Capra Black (1973), and Donald Byrd's I'm Trying To Get Home. 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. Also features Lesego Rampolokeng. For fans of: Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), Shabaka Hutchings, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Donald Byrd, Abbey Lincoln, Art Blakey. CD version comes in bespoke tip-on CD jacket.