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Project ELO

by Tumi Mogorosi

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The Nonsemble
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The Nonsemble Favorite Track. Well, I'm super into the part where Tumi and his band absolutely blow the walls out of the way. oh. wait... that's pretty much every single song on this INCREDIBLE album. [who ARE the players on this album? I have work to do... must have MORE].

The entire album does speak to a very modern and very spiritual mind/body state. A near perfecly peaceful sound-scape for any intimate moments alone or with all.

I absolutely love this record. Thank You so very much.

J
Alan Hall
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Alan Hall What an original album. Nice use of operatic voices and quite an original suite of music. worth supporting just to see what comes next... Favorite track: Inner Emergence.
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Breathtaking Contemporary Spiritual Jazz from South Africa

When Tumi Mogorosi composed this suite for jazz musicians and opera vocalists he had never heard the previous successful attempts by Donald Byrd, Max Roach or Mary Lou Williams to combine these seemingly 'unfriendly'aesthetics. Tumi, born in 1987 and already an accomplished drummer on the Jo'Burg scene, was at the time studying music at the Tshwane University of Pretoria where he became close friends with opera singers working on the same campus. So unlike some of his US peers Tumi's beliefs are not 'religious'.

Surprisingly, Tumi's suite wasn't influenced by these great elders' masterpieces, but anyone who listens to this album will agree that the suite encaptures the soaring spirituality that made these experiments of the '60s the beloved classics that they are today. Tumi does not belong to any religious group.

This album is neither a jazz mass like Mary Lou William's Black Christ of the Andes, nor a compilation of devotional pieces like Donald Byrd's Christo Redentor. Project Elo stands for Project Elohim, the angelic entities of the spiritual scriptures which are in the drummer's philosophy, a symbol for accomplished human beings.

The spirituality the album conveys is attuned to a 21st century syncretic, non dogmatic vision infused with esotericism. Recorded live with no overdubs in two days by a group of friends, this album captures a moment of Eternity and will defy any idea you may have of what South African jazz is. Tumi's music transcends labels and styles. When composing or playing he is only concerned with being true to the primodial source of life, which cannot be confined to any genre.

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released June 30, 2014

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Tumi Mogorosi Johannesburg, South Africa

Since his international debut on Jazzman Records in 2014 with Project ELO, Mogorosi has been in the vanguard of the South African creative music scene’s burgeoning outernational dimension, taking the drummer’s chair in both Shabaka Hutchings’ Shabaka and The Ancestors formation and with avant-garde noiseniks The Wretched. ... more

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