CONSTITUTION by ASHER GAMEDZE & THE BLACK LUNGS

SKU134655
ArtistASHER GAMEDZE & THE BLACK LUNGS
TitleCONSTITUTION
LabelINTERNATIONAL ANTHEM RECORDING COMPANY
Catalog #IARC 0084LP
Tag
ReleaseW 35 - 2024
FormatVinyl - EU2LP
EAN Barcode789993994526
Import
 € 31,99 incl. VAT, excl. shipping

Tracks

  1. find each other
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/01_find_each_other.mp3
  2. determining facts
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/02_determining_facts.mp3
  3. antagonism
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/03_antagonism.mp3
  4. elaboration
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/04_elaboration.mp3
  5. constitution
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/05_constitution.mp3
  6. destitution
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/06_destitution.mp3
  7. high land. new home
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/07_high_land._new_home.mp3
  8. melancholia
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/08_melancholia.mp3
  9. deposition a song for the dialect
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/i/iarc_0084lp_constitution/09_deposition_a_song_for_the_dialect.mp3

Description

This is the repeated call and the rallying chorus of the nearly 40-minute centerpiece to composer and percussionist Asher Gamedze’s new album Constitution. The expansive double album, a minoritarian fellowship in breath, is Gamedze’s follow-up to 2023’s Turbulence and Pulse (IARC0057), and his first with The Black Lungs.

The album – recorded in one day at Cape Town’s Sound and Motion Studios – is an elaboration of the possibilities of autonomous constitution in and through polyrhythmic, modal, large ensemble music.

On Constitution, the power of the question, the possibility of an improvised answer and the celebration of being together exists not in the solo but in the group, the ensemble. Here The Black Lungs collectively explore and deconstruct the conceptual, tonal, and atonal possibilities of themes which are at once of old and new dreams - curious and instantiative, melancholic and emergent.


“The Black Lungs is inspired by the revolutionary thought and practice of the Black Consciousness Movement. In particular, the relationship between antagonism – constituting a united front of all the oppressed against white supremacy and racial capitalism – and the possibilities for resistance and elaboration - the creative militant capacities of those assembled – enabled and unleashed by that process of constitution.”

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