01 / RHYTHM
Rhythm
African & Diasporic drumming, interactive drum circles, performances, and cultural rhythm experiences.
Rhythm • Memory • Story • Community
ANCESTRAL TRANSMISSION / MPLS / 001
BROTHA
ASÉ
Traditional drummer, storyteller, teaching artist, and modern-day griot rooted in Minneapolis and Black cultural memory.
DRUM • STORY • MEMORY • COMMUNITY • RHYTHM • ASÉ • CULTURE • MOVEMENT • TRANSMISSION •
DRUM • STORY • MEMORY • COMMUNITY • RHYTHM • ASÉ • CULTURE • MOVEMENT • TRANSMISSION •
The Experience / 01
Ancient memory.
Contemporary voice.
Living rhythm.
African knowledge carried forward through drum language, oral tradition, performance, teaching, and collective participation. The pattern is the circuitry. The drum is technology. The story is transmission.
02 / STORY
Story
Original storytelling, spoken word, oral tradition, memory, history, and lived experience.
03 / COMMUNITY
Community
Youth workshops, school residencies, cultural programming, intergenerational experiences, and shared participation.
Ancestral Technology / 02
THE GRIOT
AS TRANSMITTER.
Past, present, and future live in the same room. Rhythm carries memory. Story carries identity. Community carries it forward.
Enter the story →
Transmission / Living Archive
I don’t just tell the story. I put rhythm inside it.
Visual Archive / 03
THE WORK
IN MOTION.
PERFORMANCE / STORY / RITUAL / PORTRAIT
Selected images from the Brotha Asé visual archive.
Selected images from the Brotha Asé visual archive.
Rhythm. Memory. Story. Community.
Traditional drummer, storyteller, teaching artist, and modern-day griot rooted in Minneapolis and Black cultural memory.
Bring the Rhythm
Bring Brotha Asé to your school, stage, gathering, or community space for rhythm, story, and healing.
RHYTHM
STORY
COMMUNITY
African & Diasporic drumming, interactive drum circles, performances and cultural rhythm experiences
Original Storytelling, Spoken word and oral traditions connecting memory, history and lived experience.
Youth Workshops, School residencies, cultural programming and intergenerational experiences
EXPLORE PAST WORKS
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS AND APPEARANCES
