In addition to London and Chicago, Cape Town in South Africa is also increasingly becoming a city with a lively and original jazz scene. Think of the two special albums that were released in the first half of 2020 by and . Music that connects spiritual jazz and free jazz with South African roots and is often also engaged. Dialectic Soul by Asher Gamedze is in line with this. In his drawn-out songs,
… this drummer looks for connections between American and South African jazz and exposes the centuries-long oppression of Western colonialism. His approach to the themes is almost academic, but fortunately that does not prevent an album full of intuitive and whimsical jazz, dancing African rhythms, solemn folk songs and spoken word. As with the aforementioned artists, Gamedze's music is simultaneously worldly and deeply rooted in his culture of origin. (MR)more
