A Semblance: Of Return

Credits from Bandcamp

Album and all songs composed, arranged and produced by Asher Gamedze.
Recorded by Ben Jamieson at Concept Records in Cape Town. Additional recording by
Asher Gamedze at home in THE LAB in Cape Town.
Mixed by Ben Jamieson and Asher Gamedze at Concept Records in Cape Town.
Mastered by Chris Weiss in New York City.

Text:
Excerpts from A Semblance reading group of Steve Biko’s “On Death” (available in the
collection of Biko’s writings I write what I like, Picador Africa: Johannesburg, 2004) appear on
“Stranger No Death”, “Progressive”, “Air”, and “Lowland.”
All other words, poems and lyrics on the album written by Asher Gamedze.

A Semblance:
Asher Gamedze – drums, reading group, group vocals.
Ru Slayen – percussion, reading group, group vocals.
Nobuhle Ashanti – keyboards and synths, reading group, group vocals.
Zwide Ndwandwe – bass, reading group, group vocals.
Keegan Steenkamp – trumpet, reading group, group vocals.

Acknowledgement: This project has been a DIY effort made possible through the dedication, skills, love, grit, commitment, and generosity of many people. Principally the musicians – Ru, Nobuhle, Zwide and Keegan – thank you for putting yourselves in the middle of this music and for everything on the music’s out sides which makes the music possible. Lungiswa, who is basically part of the band, and graciously tolerates our rehearsals, comes to all our gigs, shouts, sings, dances and listens. Big Thanks to the deep waters in which we swim and to those who’ve come and gone before us. To Ben Jamieson and Benjy de Kock at Concept Records – this record couldn’t have been done anywhere else. Chris Weiss, Rob Scott, Clem Carr, FMFP, Dulie, Micaela, Louis Moholo-Moholo (rest easy), melrocque, Leila and Nish, Northern Spy, Amilcar Cabral and the PAIGC, and the Gamedze sisters, we give thanks. And to the broader community that we are part of, bands we have played with, everyone who has booked us for a gig, anyone who has come to watch us play and bought our shirts to support the making of this album, we love you: The Commons, Babbi, Densen, Operation Khataza, Awakening Social Sessions in Kimberley, Chimurenga and the Pan African Space Station, Native Rebels in Soweto, Thania Petersen. No thanks to Untitled Basement.

To all those kindred of spirit and sensibility who refuse to accept that everything is in its right place, let’s keep it moving.