Sipho Gumede

Sipho Gumede: African Sunrise

by Seton Hawkins
November 18, 2005

Listening to the hauntingly beautiful African Sunrise, released several months after Sipho Gumede's death, one can understand why Gumede is held up as one of South Africa's great musicians. His fat, warm bass sound, his compositional gifts, his genre-defying musical creativity, and his skills as a band leader are all in full bloom here.The album's tracks are drawn from four different sources: a collaboration Gumede had been working on with guitarist Ernie Smith; tracks recorded for Outernational Meltdown ...