Carsten Rasch

Carsten Rasch has been a camera operator, club owner, earring-maker, drummer, pizza maker, music promoter, film director and occasional dealer in illicit substances. He is presently a music curator and the drummer in the Hearts of Darkness, a band of unapologetically aging reprobates. His book Between rock and a hard place was recently published. 

Johnny Clegg ‒ Uhambe kahle, nkosi!

Carsten Rasch In memoriam 2019-07-18

"I was dead set on Juluka because I recognised that the music Sipho and Johnny were producing was unique, not just in the country, but in the world. The combination of pop and maskandi was a volatile mix, centered mainly around the beat, which was so compelling even inebriated Boerseuns from Pretoria (and further afield) would awkwardly try and emulate the Zulu war dance on Impi, one of their greatest hits. I used to love checking out their moves in Stellenbosch at the time."

Behind the Fifth Wall

Carsten Rasch Musiek 2019-06-27

"To compare this scenario, where songs were routinely banned, musicians harassed and/or locked up, and parties and gigs teargassed, with the rock scene of today is like comparing porcupines with export grapes. It’s not only impossible; it’s simply not useful."

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