{"id":23693,"date":"2026-01-08T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23693"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:48:05","slug":"asher-gamedze-offers-new-glimpse-into-a-semblance-of-return-with-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23693","title":{"rendered":"Asher Gamedze offers new glimpse into <em>A Semblance: Of Return<\/em> with &#8216;War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23695\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/AsherGamedzebyLeilaKhan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the tail end of 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/one.stab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asher Gamedze<\/a> announced the release of his forthcoming album <em>A Semblance: Of Return<\/em>, sharing then the staggering and sublime first single \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23525\">Following Up<\/a>\u2019 as an introduction to the project\u2019s collective vision and his ongoing \u201cpractices of assembly\u201d. This week, the visionary and virtuosic drummer, composer and activist unveiled a second offering from the album with the astounding and compelling \u2018War\u2019. Of the track, Gamedze says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;War (of maneuver): The national question&#8217;s irresolution and the misapplication of position&#8217;s analytic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to &#8216;War&#8217; below and grab the album when it drops on\u00a0February 27th through <a href=\"https:\/\/northernspyrecs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Spy Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2280048839\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=89727331\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ashergamedze.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-semblance-of-return\">A Semblance: Of Return de Asher Gamedze<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the tail end of 2025, Asher Gamedze announced the release of his forthcoming album A Semblance: Of Return, sharing then the staggering and sublime first single \u2018Following Up\u2019 as an introduction to the project\u2019s collective vision and his ongoing \u201cpractices of assembly\u201d. This week, the visionary and virtuosic drummer, composer and activist unveiled a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2319],"class_list":["post-23693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-asher-gamedze"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23697,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions\/23697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}