{"id":23804,"date":"2026-02-05T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23804"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:28:09","slug":"listen-to-asher-gamedzes-new-single-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23804","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Asher Gamedze&#8217;s new single &#8216;Air&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23805\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Asher-Gamedze-A-Semblance-Of-Return.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>As we\u2019re getting excitedly close to the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/one.stab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asher Gamedze<\/a>\u2019s forthcoming album <em>A Semblance: Of Return<\/em>, the South African drummer, scholar, activist and composer has shared a third and final preview from the record. The new track, \u2018Air\u2019, follows the staggering and sublime lead single \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23525\">Following Up<\/a>\u2019 and more recently the astounding and compelling \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23693\">War<\/a>\u2019. &#8216;Air&#8217; arrives ahead of the album\u2019s release on February 27th through <a href=\"https:\/\/northernspyrecs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Spy Records<\/a>, and offers another glimpse into the collective vision Gamedze has been shaping with his ensemble, A Semblance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gamedze shares his thoughts on the track:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAir (of involvedness): Pretentious presence in the folding over of reality&#8217;s dissonant perception.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Absorbing and imbued with buoyancy, \u2018Air\u2019 can be streamed below.<\/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=1232474964\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ashergamedze.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-semblance-of-return\">A Semblance: Of Return by Asher Gamedze<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we\u2019re getting excitedly close to the release of Asher Gamedze\u2019s forthcoming album A Semblance: Of Return, the South African drummer, scholar, activist and composer has shared a third and final preview from the record. The new track, \u2018Air\u2019, follows the staggering and sublime lead single \u2018Following Up\u2019 and more recently the astounding and compelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2319],"class_list":["post-23804","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\/23804","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=23804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23812,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions\/23812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}