Concert with Garth Erasmus (vocals, bow, alto sax), Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Ruth May (viola), Peter Thiessen (cello), Stefan Schneider (electronics)
Garth Erasmus is an artist and musician based in Cape Town, South Africa. Threnody for the KhoiSan is his first album under his own name. Since 1985 his artistic interests have broadened to include music-making, designing and making his own instruments based on indigenous Khoisan knowledge.
From 1999 to 2012 he was a member of the South African First Nation activist group Khoi Khonnexion. His works in music are predominantly characterized by a restless quest for alternative forms of expression and materials including self build instruments, field recordings or various electronic music devices. In this context the music on Threnody for the KhoiSan takes on a primal and metaphorical meaning. ‘When I started to make my own instruments in the 1980s, my intention was to create art objects but when I discovered the sound they made, it unlocked a door that transported me deeper in my quest in the realization that I was on the right path.’ In fact all instruments which appear on Threnody for the KhoiSan are products of a process of discovery starting from square one. All this is based and founded on the beauty of simplicity and minimalism as symbolized by the single string Khoisan musical bow and arrow as trance musical instrument.
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With the financial support of the Goethe-Institut and the Federal Foreign Office.
