Talk about music and the word “soul” crops up a lot. The word ‘dialectic”? Not so much. Cape Town-based drummer Asher Gamedze puts the two together for the title of his debut album, Dialectic Soul (On ...

Dialectic Soul, the South African drummer's debut as a bandleader, is a stunning protest album meant to soundtrack resistance anywhere in the world. Asher Gamedze's music is meant to realign your ...

U.S. artists like Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders expressed peace in their work; Albert Ayler and Sonny Sharrock exorcised inner turmoil. With Dialectic Soul, out now, Gamedze speaks to the brutal ...

Asher Gamedze was first heard on Angel Bat Dawid's 15-minute "Capetown" from 2019. Dialectic Soul is his debut album as a bandleader. The song "siyabulela" best summarizes the album's thematic focus, ...

Asher Gamedze's music is meant to realign your spirit, to carry you from melancholy to utopia. On his debut album, Dialectic Soul, the South African drummer makes elegant, astral jazz seemingly ...