Kai Horsethemke Bio

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Kai Horsthemke

Contact details:
Cell -0829024387

Born 2 June 1957 in Witten/ Germany
Married to Edda; 2 sons, Tau and Vusi
‘Real’ job: lecturer in Philosophy in Wits University’s School of Education
Passions include: animal rights and welfare; vinyl/ LP records; drive-in movies

Instruments
fretless 4- and 5-string bass guitars, electric double bass

Styles
Rock, blues, reggae, crossover/ fusion, acid jazz; personal favourites also include Native American, Celtic and Asian folk musics

Live Work
Began playing professionally in 1983, with Wildebeest and later Khaya;
longtime residency at legendary nightclub ‘No. 58’ in Hillbrow, from 1985-91;
show and theatre work includes ‘Déjà Vu’ (a tribute to Crosby Stills Nash & Young), Didi Kriel’s ‘Legends I & II’ and ‘Total Eclipse’, Fiona Ramsay’s tribute to Marianne Faithfull, ‘Telegrams from Hell’, and Graham Weir’s ‘Psychodelic Cowboy and Sister Nun’; additional work with Thembi Mtshali, Thandi Klaasen, Larry Amos, Jax Myth (Terence Reis & Kate Normington), and Leonel Bastos & Be Like Water; various cruise ships between 1991 and 1995 (most memorable experience: being on the ‘Achille Lauro’ on its last ill-fated journey, when it went down); recent work with Little Sister, Kathy van Rensburg’s Feather Doctors, Jonathan Crossley, and Highway Jam (voted jazz combo of the year in Old Mutual’s ‘Jazz Encounters’ 2000).

Select Discography
(with other artists)
Be Like Water – ‘Um…’
League of Nations – ‘Let me be your Pilot’
Little Sister – ‘While no-one was looking’
(with Highway Jam)
‘Grasslands’
‘Always Being’
‘Wild Life’
(solo albums)
‘Grasslands – Slight Return’
‘as if.’
‘21st Century Grasslands’

Track Listings


Title: Always Being Artist: Highway Jam Musicians: Kai Horsthemke, Mike Meiring, Lynne Poulsen, David Novis, David Gordon, Ekkie Eckhart, Debbie Rivett Description: 12 track album Length: 58:41 Format: CD Titles of Tracks 1. Looking For Adventure 2. Always Been 3. It Means Nothing 4. Down 5. Hot Blood 6. Chasing Rainbows 7. Highway Jam 8. Out In The Woods 9. I Will Survive 10. Run 11. Fire And Rain 12. Seeds of Greed	Title: Grasslands (Slight Return) Artist: Kai Alami Musicians: Kai Horsthemke, Brett Collings,, Terence Reis Kaolin Thomson, Fem Belling, Luke van der Merwe, Ekkie Eckhart, Kai Ruder. Description: 7 track album Length: 37:11 Format: CD Titles of Tracks 1. Hipmonk 2. Grasslands – Slight Return 3. Lurching Blues 4. Horse Nation 5. Hipmonk (Plugfree) 6. Harlem Nocturn 7. Horse Nation (Unvoiced)

Title: Grasslands Artist: Highway Jam Musicians: Kai Horsthemke, Mike Meiring, David Novis, David Gordon, Ekkie Eckhart, Kathy van Rensburg, Sean Fourie, Glen Veale Description: 11 track album Length: 58:44 Format: CD Titles of Tracks: 1. Smoothies 2. Mongoose 3. Paris, Texas 4. Bacterial Witnesses 5. Sun Dance 6. Blue Cigar 7. Grasslands 8. Leap Week 9. Heya 10. Arniston 11. In A Sacred Manner I Live	Title: As If Artist: Kai Alami Musicians: Kai Horsthemke, Mike Meiring, Lynne Poulsen, David Novis, David Gordon, Ekkie Eckhart, Kaolin Thomson, Rhakim, Terence Reis, Luke v.d. Merwe, McCoy Mrubata, Scorpion Madondo, Tonia Selley, Brett Collings, Dio Santos Kai Ruder. Description: 9 track album Length: 54:47 Format: CD Titles of Tracks 1. Highway Jam 2. Heartland 3. Promenade Sentimentale 4. 7th Street 5. 21st Century 6. The Emancipation of Animals 7. As If 8. Sky Burial 9. Unkraut & The Maldaves

Title: Let Me Be Your Pilot Artist: League of Nations Bassist: Kai Horsthemke Description: 4 Track Single Length: 17:58 Format: CD Titles of Tracks: 1. Let Me Be Your Pilot 2. Desire and Passion 3. Every Second 4. Still Crazy	Title: Just to see you now Artist: Jimmy Wagner Bassist: Kai Horsthemke Description: 6 Track Album Length: 25:44 Format: CD Titles of Tracks: 1. Steal Your Heart 2. Developing A Thing For You 3. To See You Now 4. Better The Devil 5. Back To You (Unplugged) 6. Developing A Thing For You (Remix)

Title: Goes Wild Artist: Highway Jam Musicians: Mike Meiring, Kai Horsthemke, Ekkie Eckhart, Brett Collings Description: 13 track Album Length: 69:32 Format: CD Titles of Tracks 1. Chuitar 2. G Raph 3. Hip Monk 4. Dardanelles 5. The Hunt 6. Πthon 7. Grasslands 8. As if 9. Mere Cat 10. Mon Goose 11. Dung B Tell 12. Hip Ou 13. Papa Pachyderm	Title 21st Century Grasslands Artist: Kai alami Musicians: Kai Horsthemke, Mike Meiring, David Novis, Ekkie Eckhart, Brett Collings, Terence Reis, Lynne Poulsen, Maurice Judge, Eliot Lloyd, Short, Jonathon Crossley, Rob Watson, Rhakim Scorpion Madondo, Willem Möller Description 14 track album Length, 75:18 Format, CD Titles of Tracks 1. 21st Century (Polite Mix) (4:43) 2. Grasslands (8:31) 3. Om Mani Padme Hum (2:58) 4. Coexistence (3:39) 5. Irgendwie (10:01) 6. September 8 (5:36) 7. Wide awake in Ullapool (3:18) 8. Release (The Emancipation of Animals, Part 3) (4:51) 9. Autumn in New York (4:44) 10. Tau’s Lullaby (5:38) 11. The Magic Farmer/Sam’s song/Heartland (7:08) 12. 21st Century (Rude Mix) (5:53) 13. Variation on Clair de Lune (5:03) 14. Little Sandman (2:49)

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