Gabi Motuba & Tumi Mogorosi

Gabi Motuba:

Gabi Motuba is a South African multi award-winning jazz vocalist, composer and University of Witwatersrand Music School Voice lecturer. Over the years she has produced several albums, ranging from jazz to avant-garde which include Tefiti-Goddess of Creation (her debut album released in 2018), Sanctum Sanctorium (A duo album which features Swiss pianist Malcom Braff released in 2015) and The Wretched (which is a sonic experimentation collab that focuses on the literary text The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon released in 2020). Gabi Motuba’s music and sound studies are in conversation with world politics, black studies, religion and genre studies. Motuba was selected for a 2023 Artist Fellowship Award from the University of Western Cape as part of the Oscillations program and she showcased her sound installation in Berlin in early 2024. Motuba’s recent work is the release of her greatly anticipated album, The Sabbath, which has received local and international reviews and assumedly her greatest work to date.

Tumi Mogorosi:

Tumi Mogorosi is a South African jazz drummer, composer, and social activist, currently enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand for a Phd in Political Studies. A founding member of Shabaka & the Ancestors, he has also worked in the Amandla Freedom Ensemble and Nicola Conte's Spiritual Galaxy. Mogorosi won global notice for his debut album, 2014's Project Elo, which featured a jazz sextet and four classically trained singers. After touring and recording with several of the aforementioned groups at home and in Europe, Mogorosi co-founded the Wretched with singer Gabisile Motuba and bassist electronicist Andrei Van Wyk. They offer a sonic interpretation of the philosophy of Frantz Fanon, author of the liberation classic the Wretched of the Earth. They recorded and released an acclaimed self-titled album in 2020 and appeared on the Brownswood South African showcase, Indaba Is. In 2022, Mogorosi released Group Theory: Black Music, that included his quintet, three vocal soloists, and a nine-voice choir.