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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 sceneâs burgeoning outernational dimension, taking the drummerâs chair in both Shabaka Hutchingsâ Shabaka and The Ancestors formation and with avant-garde noiseniks The Wretched, who featured on Brownswoodâs acclaimed South African showcase, Indaba Is.
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 sceneâs burgeoning outernational dimension, taking the drummerâs chair in both Shabaka Hutchingsâ Shabaka and The Ancestors formation and with avant-garde noiseniks The Wretched, who featured on Brownswoodâs acclaimed South African showcase, Indaba Is.