Asher Gamedze is a British drummer, composer and bandleader based in Cape Town. His music is a deep fusion of various South African musical traditions, free improvisation and jazz. Gamedze is self-taught and has gained recognition over the years through his work with bands such as Angel Bat Dawid and Nduduzo Makhatini, and as a studio player for many other South African artists. In 2020, he released his critically acclaimed debut album ‘Dialectic Soul’, which was named one of the best jazz albums of the year by The New York Times, for example. He followed that up in 2022 with the release of ‘Out Side Work’ and released ‘Turbulence and Pulse’ in 2023 on the International Anthem label. His project Another Time Ensemble was included in the program of Le Guess Who? 2024 festival and this year he is even one of its curators.

In December 2020, Asher traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where he assembled a quintet of the best improvisers living there. This new project, called Another Time Ensemble, features Maurice Louca on synthesizers (The Dwarfs of East Agouza (Rachot 2023), Elephantine, Northern Spy Recs), Adham Zidan on bass (The Invisible Hands, Baskot Lel Baltageyya), Chérif El-Masri on guitar (Eskenderella, Dimension Machine) and Alan Bishop on alto saxophone (The Invisible Hands, Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies). It is with this line-up that Asher Gamedze comes to Prague for the first time.

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