Billy Cobham & Asere Press Section
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I’m at a point where I’m searching for the handle of why I play a particular way. It was once written that I play drums like a timbale player, in fact my cousins back in Panama made timbales ......

It’s very, very interesting for me to hear this music and to play music like the Mahavishnu Orchestra or play even with Jack Bruce - my approach is fundamentally the same; it’s got a latin root and it kinda sets me off from everybody else. I think that is one of the things about music that is very clear; music will tell the world who you are based on what you present and how you present it, you can’t lie through that medium so, therefore, I find myself trying to connect the dots, to learn and this relationship with Asere is helping me make that connection. Things become clearer for me when I listen to the music of latin america. I’m on a search to find out who I am and it is coming through the music.’
Billy Cobham

‘The City that never sleeps, New York City, is the insomniac cradle where Cuban music met jazz and salsa was born. And from this potent melting-pot, decades on, new generations of artists take the music forward - and none more exciting than the brilliant collective of Asere and Bill Cobham. The intricacies of Afro-Cuban rhythms are taken to breathtaking places by these fantastic musicians and this 2006 Autumn UK tour will be a real highlight of the concert season.
Thomas Brooman WOMAD

‘A huge success, an inspiring collaboration ..... it was truly awesome’.
Dilwyn Davies - Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan

‘A fabulous show with a good contrast of moods and emphasis; a high quality production with great musicianship. The only problem was we didn’t have enough seats to meet the demand!’
Sybil Crouch - Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea