Asher Gamedze

Dialectic Soul Asher Gamedze

On The Corner Records is delighted to announce the release of

Dialectic Soul, the debut album from one of Cape Town's most cuttingedge,

visionary artists and musicians, the drummer Asher Gamedze.

This is Jazz at its most spiritual, most progressive and most appealing

form. As Asher himself says: Dialectic Soul is about motion and a

refusal to remain static or stay still. It's the commitment to be continually

moving'.

Recorded live over two days at the Sound and Motion Studios in Cape

Town with renowned musicians (Thembinkosi Mavimbela (bass), Buddy

Wells (tenor sax), Robin Fassie-Kock (trumpet) Nono Nkoane (voc)),

Dialectic Soul is breathtaking in its musical vitality and expression of

soul seeking truth. By incorporating the concept of the Total Art for this

project, it fits perfectly within On The Corner's aesthetic of music, art

and vision for creative innovation. Label art director Victoria Topping

created the sleeve design working with Asher's drawings and concept.

Asher continues: "My composition "state of emergence" introduces the

themes that constitute the album; free drums representing autonomous

African motion, the saxophone reflecting deeply and honestly on

colonialism, the teachings of Coltrane, Steve Biko, Makeba and Malcom

X and positive manifestations of resistance."

"Fundamentally, it is about the reclamation of the historical imperative. It

is about the dialect of the soul and the spirit while it moves through

history. The soul is dialectic. Motion is imperative. We keep moving."