Garth Erasmus – Threnody For The Khoisan

Garth Erasmus. Never heard of him. And for months I didn’t have the name right in my head when it came to telling friends that this could be the album of the year. »Threnody for the KhoiSan« is one for the ages. The South African sound tinkerer Erasmus plays a kind of minimal spiritual jazz on instruments, some of which he built himself, that finds its grace somewhere between Don Cherry and Pierre Bastien .