{"product_id":"asher-gamedze-a-semblance-of-return","title":"ASHER GAMEDZE - A Semblance: Of Return","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - \"Emulsive Return\" Clear Smoke Vinyl, Obi Strip, Black Poly-lined Inner Sleeves\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"147\" data-end=\"559\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"147\" data-end=\"164\"\u003eAsher Gamedze\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cem data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"191\"\u003eA Semblance: Of Return\u003c\/em\u003e is the new album from South African drummer, composer, and bandleader Asher Gamedze, available on Northern Spy Records as a limited “Emulsive Return” clear smoke 12” LP and digipak CD. Gamedze gathers a close ensemble of longtime collaborators to explore what he calls “practices of assembly” — ways of making sound and imagining new and old modes of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"995\"\u003eBased in the independent music scenes of Cape Town and rooted in Pan-Africanism and Black Consciousness, \u003cem data-start=\"666\" data-end=\"677\"\u003eOf Return\u003c\/em\u003e extends the political and musical commitments that have defined Gamedze’s work from \u003cem data-start=\"766\" data-end=\"782\"\u003eDialectic Soul\u003c\/em\u003e (On The Corner, 2020), to \u003cem data-start=\"809\" data-end=\"831\"\u003eTurbulence and Pulse\u003c\/em\u003e (International Anthem, 2022), and \u003cem data-start=\"866\" data-end=\"880\"\u003eConstitution\u003c\/em\u003e (International Anthem, 2024), while opening a newly collective chapter in his practice, this time on Northern Spy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1341\"\u003eThe band on the album — \u003cstrong data-start=\"1021\" data-end=\"1034\"\u003eRu Slayen\u003c\/strong\u003e (percussion), \u003cstrong data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1068\"\u003eNobuhle Ashanti\u003c\/strong\u003e (keys \u0026amp; synth), \u003cstrong data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1103\"\u003eZwide Ndwandwe\u003c\/strong\u003e (bass), and \u003cstrong data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1136\"\u003eKeegan Steenkamp\u003c\/strong\u003e (trumpet), with Gamedze on drums — formed as a social unit: a group for whom music is part of a broader shared life, full of playing, thinking, laughing, and struggling. That ethos animates the music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1835\"\u003eAcross the album’s two sides, \u003cem data-start=\"1373\" data-end=\"1384\"\u003eOf Return\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a gathering place: a living room, a rehearsal, a shady club, a study group, a home. The music moves with a grounded, searching energy, shifting between group vocals, groove-heavy ensemble passages, and moments of stark melodic clarity. The grooves are earthy and lived-in; the improvisations feel like conversations; the lyric fragments echo the project’s probing around notions of return as integral to any forward, future-oriented motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"2113\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"1848\"\u003eOf Return\u003c\/em\u003e enacts both return and departure, or more precisely, extension\/elaboration. This it does through a rootedness in the traditions and politics of the Cape underground, and by opening a sonic invitation to dream, to struggle together, and, fundamentally, to assemble.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Spy","offers":[{"title":"LP - \"Emulsive Return\" Clear Smoke Vinyl","offer_id":56694363390297,"sku":"SDZ-02224","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/ASHERGAMEDZE-ASemblanceOfReturn-LP-EmulsiveReturnClearSmokeVinyl_FEB27.jpg?v=1763737629","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/asher-gamedze-a-semblance-of-return","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}