Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs - Constitution Artist_Rival Consoles

Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs - Constitution Artist_Rival ConsolesMembers of the dispossessed, wont you lend me your ears! This is the repeated call and the rallying chorus of the nearly 40 minute centerpiece to composer and percussionist Asher Gamedzes new album Constitution. The expansive double album, a minoritarian fellowship in breath, is Gamedzes follow up to 2023s Turbulence and Pulse (IARC0057 M3H013), and his first with The Black Lungs, a ten piece ensemble. The album recorded in one day at Cape Towns Sound

Julia Jacklin and Mary Lattimore

“Each step a story

Although Shiho Yabuki continued her career in Japan

Pepper Adams (bar)

Dennis Brown’s Want More is a rare steppers’ version and Max Romeo’s Reverend isn’t the album cut

Johnny Hammond

Airto Moreira & Flora Purim

Tomohiro Higashida

“I think as ten is such a milestone album

shot through with the exuberantly experimental subversion and playful

because though his name is seldom seen in marquees

The majority of songs are covers which Cash performs in his own sparse style