SOLOMON ASH
Cape Town · 2025
Music for when therapy is too slow, lawyers are too expensive, and silence is too loud.
I'M STILL HERE
"I'm Still Here" is dark blues for anyone who's been through something they don't have words for yet.
Eight tracks document what survival actually looks like: lawyers who bill while you bleed, therapy that excavates your own demons, false accusations that defy reality, and faith borrowed from others when yours runs empty.
Not a concept album. A testimony from someone still standing in the wreckage.
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Waking Up Is Warfare Solo · Raw Opening3:52
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Good Enough (The Provider's Hymn) Gospel Explosion4:15
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03
Eight Years Old About Miss A3:45
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04
Billable Hours Protest Blues4:02
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Mirror, Mirror Self-Reckoning4:38
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Generational Debt Inherited Trauma4:22
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3AM Testimony Faith Wrestling4:55
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08
Still Here (The Closer) Full Gospel Finale5:12
About
Solomon Ash grew up in Umlazi, south of Durban, in a house where gospel played on Sundays and blues played every other day. Music was always present, but it wasn't his plan. It was his inheritance.
His family relocated to Pretoria when he was a teenager, chasing better opportunities. Ash threw himself into academics, eventually earning a place to study software engineering in England. He returned to South Africa with a degree and settled in Johannesburg, building what looked like a stable, conventional life in tech.
For years, it was exactly that. Steady work, marriage, fatherhood. Music remained something private, tucked away for late nights when the house was quiet.
But when life shifted in ways he couldn't control, words failed. Songs remained. When certainty crumbled, melodies held.
Ash's sound pulls from the deep blues tradition of truth-telling. Artists who didn't look away from pain or pretend they had all the answers. His debut album "I'm Still Here" blends raw acoustic blues with gospel choir arrangements that represent borrowed faith: the community that holds hope when yours runs empty.
Solomon Ash makes music for 3AM. For people who are still standing but barely. For anyone who's ever needed to borrow someone else's belief to make it through the night.
Eight tracks that refuse redemption or resolution. Just documentation. The kind of music you make when you're too broken to perform but too alive to stop creating.
— I'm Still Here