Garth Erasmus and Broken String Ensemble
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Garth Erasmus is a musician, activist, and visual artist who rose to prominence in the 1980s with his stance against apartheid in South Africa. He guested at the FFT alongside Hamburg-based band Kante, presenting the “House of the Falling Bones” performance, in 2018. His debut solo album (Threnody for the KhoiSan) was released on Düsseldorf-based label TAL. He recorded the music on this album using homemade acoustic instruments that provide a connection between the indigenous music of the KhoiSan community and South Africa’s modern present. Since 2024, he has formed the Garth Erasmus Broken String Ensemble which consists of Ruth May, Peter Thiessen, Carina Khorkhordina, and Stefan Schneider.
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Garth Erasmus is an artist and musician living in Cape Town, South Africa. THRENODY FOR THE KHOISAN is his first album under his own name. His artistic interests have expanded since 1985: He devises and builds his own instruments based on Khoisan knowledge. From 1999 until 2012, he was a member of the South African First Nation activist group Khoi Konnexion. For the last few years, Garth Erasmus played an important part in several different international performance pieces and exhibition projects that regularly brought him to Europe. Most of those activities were developed with Hamburg-based band Kante and his own band Khoi Khonnexion. In April of 2024, Garth Erasmus took part in the “Oscillations” group exhibition at the Academy of Arts Berlin.