Garth Erasmus

about

Garth Erasmus’ career has spanned decades of music-making and activism; as an anti-Apartheid activist in the 1980s he was a co-founder of two important Cape Town-based community arts organisations, Vakalisa Artists and Community Reflections. His musical career started in the mid-1980s when he began to research his Khoisan (South Africa`s First Nation People) ancestry and bringing these influences into his work. This culminated in the formation of artist activist group Khoi Khonnexion in 1999 that performed in the ritual-ceremonial return of the remains of Sara Baartman in 2002. He creates self-designed musical instruments and sound-objects based on indigenous knowledge systems and experiments with the combination of ancient sounds and contemporary technology in art and theatre performances. Alongside his art practice, collaboration across genres and disciplines has been vital to Eramus’ long-standing career, including with 48Nord, Mongolian vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak, Japanese Taiko master Shuichi Hidano and dancer Jacki Job, Greek double-bassist and ECM recording artist Kostas Theodorou. He is the co-founder of the Greatmore Street Artists’ Studios in Cape Town (1996). The Smithsonian Museum of African Art (Washington, DC) has more of his work in their collection than any other continental African artist. you wanna more info: look here pls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Erasmus or https://www.last.fm/music/Malika+Ndlovu+&+Garth

top songs

albums

Threnody for the KhoiSan

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All Broken EP

Listened to by Others (A TAL compilation of different voices)

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Retrieving Beirut part 3/4

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Thrednody for the KhoiSan

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Aushtomato

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Channel 2

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2024-03-28 Shane Woolman: Dub Organiser Special

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Listened to by Others (A TAL compilation of different voices)

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Walk My Way, Volume Four

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The Lock-In, S1E6: The Fourth Who Burns Beside

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