ASHER GAMEDZE & A SEMBLANCE - Of Return LP

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ASHER GAMEDZE & A SEMBLANCE - Of Return LPCLEAR SMOKE VINYL. With A Semblance: Of Return, South African drummer, composer, and bandleader Asher Gamedze gathers a close ensemble of longtime collaborators to explore what he calls practices of assembly ways of coming together, making sound, and imagining new and old modes of freedom. Based in the independent music scenes of Cape Town and rooted in Pan Africanism and Black Consciousness, Of Return extends the political and musical commitments

This blurred approach to sound is underscored by the use of an off-key Walheim piano

melding vivid poetry with long rolling melodies

echoing the pulsating rhythm of bustling city streets and the quiet solitude of introspective moments

but Ambarchi manages to do just that

reimagining the Magic City-sculpted bumps as hypnagogic Actavis- 'n Xanax-hued ambient music

The most significant difference

long-time collaborator

The group has written and performed a large number of cross-aesthetic pieces over the years

lack of perspective

John Parish

living far away from a major music outpost

saxophonist Josh Johnson (Jeff Parker