S.O. S Baixo [Import]

Product Description
Mix of Jazz, Samba, Rock and Latin Jazz. Bass Solo.

S.O. S Baixo,Celso Pixinga,Mix House,Brazilian,World Music

Average customer rating: Worth the wait! At long last!

Venus in Cancer Robbie Basho Manufacturer: Tompkins Square ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bashovia Re-Inventions: Best Of The Vanguard Years Still Valentine's Day 1969: Live at the Matrix, San Francisco E Pluribus Unum Guitar Soli ASIN: B000GIWH02 Release Date: 2006-08-15

Tracks:

1. Venus In Cancer
2. Eagle Sails The Blue Diamond Waters
3. Kowaka D'Amour
4. Song For The Queen
5. Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis
6. Wine Song (Sweet Wine of Love)

Album Description

"His voice is from another world. Robbie is special" - Pete Townshend, 2006

Robbie Basho released Venus in Cancer in 1969 on the Blue Thumb label. After five albums for the Takoma label in the 60's, Basho had cemented his reputation alongside John Fahey and Leo Kottke as one of the most brilliant guitarists of his genera- tion. His wide range of musical influences from around the globe set him apart from other blues-based players, incorporat- ing Arabic, Himalayan and Indian themes; Japanese and Chinese scales, and classical and European folk music. All are on magnificent display on this sprawling, spiritually-charged album. Released on CD for the very first time, the album has been remastered from the original tapes. The package includes origi- nal album artwork and new appreciations from Windham Hill label founder Will Ackerman, Basho college friend and fellow Takoma recording artist Max Ochs, German guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans, and Pete Townshend of The Who. Twenty years since his death in 1986, Basho's legend continues to grow, having strongly influenced a new generation of guitarists including Jack Rose, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and James Blackshaw, among many others. The first ever live recording by Robbie Basho, a version of "Kowaka D'Amour" from Venus in Cancer, can be found on Tompkins Square's recent compilation, Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 2.

Customer Reviews:

Worth the wait!.......2006-10-21

This music has taken a long time to reach CD. My old BLUE THUMB LP has long worn out, so I am delighted to welcome an old friend in CD format. In agreeing absolutely with Richard S Osborn, I would add that I have always thought KOWAKA D'AMOUR to be one of the finest guitar pieces I have ever heard. Add to that, the title track and CATHEDRALS... and you have perhaps the essence of Robbie Basho as a unique and wonderful guitarist. If you enjoy this music, you may want to explore the recordings of STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS. I hope the good folk at Windham Hill will issue Basho's ART OF SIX AND TWELVE STRING GUITAR at some time.

At long last!.......2006-09-10

I salute Tompkins Square for reissuing this album of Robbie's. If you have never heard this incredible visionary/musician, this album would not be a bad introduction. After hearing a guitarist so accomplished and unique in his technique and passionate in his vision, maybe, like me, you will wonder why there are not more successors to lift our souls through music....

The Fantasy reissues ("Guitar Soli" and "Bashovia") contained a compilation of Robbie's best early work ( "Soli") and later work ("Bashovia") on the Takoma label. "Bashovia" gathers most of the best works from Robbie's "Falconer's Arm" LP's; unfortunately, they left out "Variations on Shakespeare Wallah", one of Basho's best straight-ahead raga-style explorations. Robbie had studied with the incomparable Ali Akbar Khan for a couple of years, and the results really show in some of his raga-style work.

I studied with Robbie in the late 1960's and then performed with him a little in the early 1970's. Even today, I feel somewhat evangelical about wanting to promote his music: I don't feel he ever got the audience or recognition he deserved. In part, this was his own fault. He was fairly strange as a person, and had some severe faults as a musician. I say this last because of all of his later albums (except those mentioned), I would recommend ONLY this "Venus in Cancer" album, as containing music of the highest order. When I speak of musical faults, in Robbie's case, I fear the worst was his belief that he could write poetry and that the content of his songs was as important (or more) than the music itself. This single fact destroyed (in my opinion, of course) almost all of his later albums.... EXCEPT "Venus in Cancer". This album contains one of the most successful fusions of Robbie's astounding voice with his guitar playing in the song "Eagle Sails the Blue Diamond Water." Also, never to be forgotten is "Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis", that magically weaves one into a vast tapestry played as on huge chimes. And (the exception proving the rule) his "Wine Song" is one of the few that are entirely successful as mystical devotional singing; you will notice that the imagery is constrained, kept under control: traditional Sufi imagery well handled.

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Neva Pilgrim Sings Music of Ernst Krenek (Zwei Zeitlieder; Three Verhaeren Songs) / Richard Wernick (Haiku of Basho - 1967) / George Rochberg: Songs in Praise of Krishna (1970) / R. Murray Schafer: Requiem for the Party Girl (1966) Manufacturer: Composers Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Krenek, Ernst | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000JWLJ Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

1. Trois Chansons Op. 30a: La barque
2. Trois Chansons Op. 30a: Un soir
3. Trois Chansons Op. 30a: L'heure mauvaise
4. Haiku Of Basho
5. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 1. It Was In Bitter Maytime ...
6. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 2. After Long Sorrow ...
7. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 3. Her Slender Body ...
8. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 4. As The Mirror ...
9. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 5. O Madhava ...
10. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 6. Lord Of My Heart ...
11. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 7. I Brought Honey ...
12. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 8. My Mind Is Not On Housework ...
13. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 9. I Place Beauty Spots ...
14. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 10. Shining One ...
15. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: 11. My Moon-faced One ...
16. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: Beloved, What More Shall I Say ...
17. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: Let The Earth ...
18. Songs In Praise Of Krishna: O My Friend ...
19. Zwei Zeitlieder, Op. 215: 1. Kennst du den Augenblick
20. Zwei Zeitlieder, Op. 215: 2. Hab Hande
21. Requiem For The Party-Girl

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Last Days of the Dragons Steffen Basho-Junghans Manufacturer: Locust ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Waters in Azure Yellow House ASIN: B000GI3Q20 Release Date: 2006-08-22

Tracks:

1. The Immortal Chimes (Azure No. 12)
2. A Lost Moment
3. Days Of The Dragons
4. A Secret Song
5. Dance Of The Young Spirits
6. Southern Crossings
7. And Only The Stars Know...
8. The End's Waltz

Album Description

This is Berlin-based Basho-Junghans' wondrous collection of eight freewheeling, finger picking 6- and 12-string guitar tunes. It marks the third in Locust's perennial series of "Wooden Guitar" solo discs since the 2003 release of the compilation. "Where Fahey, Peter Walker, Sandy Bull, Basho, and some others have explored before him the raga guitar style, Steffen learned it all and transformed it to his personal style" - Psyche Van Het Folk. "He's so sure-fingered on the fretboard that it frequently sounds like there are two or three people picking away at the steel string, but it's always just him and his craft, which by this point, he's completely mastered" - Pitchforkmedia.com.

Average customer rating: Music of substance: the story of a soul

Bashovia Robbie Basho Manufacturer: Takoma ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Guitar Soli Venus in Cancer Re-Inventions: Best Of The Vanguard Years E Pluribus Unum America ASIN: B00005N83V Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

1. The Falconer's Arm
2. Lost Lagoon Suite
3. Pavan Hindustan
4. Song Of The Snowy Ranges
5. Pasha
6. A North American Raga (The Plumstar)
7. Roses And Snow
8. The Hajj
9. Khatum

Customer Reviews:

Music of substance: the story of a soul.......2002-12-28

Must admit from the outset that I studied and performed with Basho in the late 60's, early 70's. Still, he is the hidden progenitor of the fusion of world music with the spiritual for all today. He studied with the matchless sarod master Ali Akbar Khan. This album has some of his greatest compositions, but shows some flaws also. Robbie was an intuitive: always put vision first & technique a far second ("Guitar Soli" has several of his greatest early compositions, but also some downright funky messes from the first recordings). "Pavan" is among his most raga-like; "Pasha" is most santur-like. At the risk of sounding New Agey (Robbie was a true wayfarer, not interested in channeling entities or sweet substitutes) I hope you might approach his music with the expectation of meeting a person of deep heart and pure intention, trying to see the highest peak man can aspire to, and let his wings help you up a ways....

Average customer rating: early acoustic global fusion 5 Stars for the Good Stuff; Listen with Interest to the Bad Expression is the Aim All Thumbs Down Not very accessible, but quite creative

Guitar Soli Robbie Basho Manufacturer: Takoma ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bashovia Re-Inventions: Best Of The Vanguard Years Venus in Cancer The Thing at the Nursery Room Window E Pluribus Unum ASIN: B000003Z94 Release Date: 1996-09-03

Tracks:

1. Seal Of The Blue Lotus
2. Mountain Man's Farewell
3. Dravidian Sunday
4. The Grail And The Lotus
5. The Dharma Prince
6. Oriental Love Song
7. Sansara In Sweetness After Sandstorm
8. Salangadou
9. The Golden Shamrock
10. Street Dakini
11. Chung Mei-The Chinese Orchid

Amazon.com

Robbie Basho, a guitarist active in the 1960s who passed away in 1986, played his instrument with what you might call a visceral spirituality: his music is spooky, intense, and experimental at the same time that it is soothing and transportive. Listening to his music, one is keenly aware of the sound of his fingers as they mellifluously pick and strum, and of the strange tunings at work, but one is also carried out of body. Really. Basho has been called "the father of New Age guitar," but why anyone would want to blame this subtle and masterful musician for the sins of his followers is a mystery. This is an excellent compilation of Basho's early work from the mid-'60s--it steers mercifully clear of Basho's whistling and bizarre "singing," for instance. Nothing from either of the long out-of-print, late-'60s Falconer's Arm albums was included, which is unfortunate as they are likely his most intense recordings (perhaps they will be issued as a disc of their own?). Basho's genre-bending acoustic guitar playing is on the surface similar to the work of John Fahey, Sandy Bull, and Rick Bishop, but his music is highly original, and demands to be heard. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

early acoustic global fusion.......2006-11-07

Tune your guitar to all kinds of tunings, and improvise music that incorporates tonalities and phrases from countries all across the globe.
Recently discovering that Robbie Basho pioneered it several decades ago was encouraging. This is the kind of thing I have been doing for about ten years and I thought maybe I was just a lone nut.
This would be a better album if the guitar sounded like it was in tune. Sometimes it sounds way off. But, I guess when you are accessing higher levels of creativity with rusty old strings in a tree house, perfection is not the key. The moment and the energy are.

5 Stars for the Good Stuff; Listen with Interest to the Bad.......2003-03-31

If this were to be just a successful "listen" album, it should probably have only 6 cuts, but they would be ones of absolutely unique and strange beauty. No one had ever treated the folk steel-string guitar like this before Robbie.

There are several truly atrocious pieces on this album. But keep in mind that all of the music comes from his earliest recordings. To understand what is going on here, remember Robbie's own guiding axiom: "Vision first, technique second". You are listening to a kind of musical record of one man's inner spiritual journey, someone whose soul expanded with visions from India, Tibet, China, Iran, Armenia. So, to the reviewer who trashed this album, I would say: you have missed a rare glimpse into the creative process itself, what jazz musician's call "deep in the shed", LONG before it gets polished and prettified for public consumption.

I agree pretty much whole-heartedly with the review Amazon put up top. Even as a student and colleague of Robbie's, I always felt his later music suffered from his terrible "purple poetry" and an unmastered overuse of his wonderful voice. However, on "Guitar Soli", you will enjoy perhaps the one greatest piece where his voice rose in perfect, even eerie, integration with its musical form in the song, "Salangadou". And I am hoping that several of these pieces can get transcribed into sheet music for later generations, as they are a great contribution to the body of music for the guitar.

And reviewer Mike McGonigal's wish came true: some of Robbie's greates later pieces have been reissued on "Bashovia".

Expression is the Aim.......2001-11-06

Robbie Basho is always lumped in with Leo Kottke and John Fahey since he shared the Takoma label and was an innovative talent himself, however it's not fair to compare Robbie Basho to either aforementioned guitarist. Basho has been referred to as "psychedelic" and "spiritual". His compositions don't draw on the same roots as Kottke or Fahey, and though his raw passionate sound certainly parallels the power of Kottke's plucking and Fahey's experimental out standings, Basho still traverses a land all his own. True, Basho may be an acquired taste especially when one is familiar with the precision of Kottke, as precision wasn't Basho's aim--expression was. Basho had a punk attitude; he was more interested in making the music then making it "technical". In a sense he comes off as more an idealist and romantic than Kottke, and not as spiritually gimmicky, for lack of a better term, as Fahey.

Kottke and Fahey aside. Let's look at Basho. This CD represents a good sampling of his earliest recorded work, it's very raw and edgy and when Basho "sings" (in tongues) or whistles it's eerie but beautiful. Basho's later works are more accomplished in the traditional guitarist sense, but to me less interesting and less obviously innovative than his first few recordings. Basho is endlessly experimental and endlessly expressive. You'll here subtle ambient sounds behind his guitar like bells and chimes. It sounds authentic; one can imagine sitting on a monastery porch next to the guitarist in some far away Eastern land.

And I don't know this for sure, but I get the sense that Basho improvises some of the material, there seems to be a basic structure that he will work around, but I imagine he throws in alterations to some degree each time he plays a composition. Again something I don't think Kottke or Fahey would do as freely.

This is good music, and thoughtful music. It's really one of a kind. Guitar Soli is a fine place to start, and if you become more interested then look into some of the other recent CD reissues, or search for the used LPs. And a little word of advice, don't listen to Basho the same way you would Kottke, you know in your car cruising on the highway with the windows open and Busted Bicycle roaring through the speakers--well anyway that's what I like to do. This is a different kind of music, and you have to respect that. This is almost ambient, put it on at night, light some candles and incense, read, or write, or just relax, have some tea. Take it easy and enjoy.

All Thumbs Down.......2000-12-21

Whilst Leo Kottke plays guitar like a man with three hands and John Fahey like a man with at least 11 or 12 fingers, Robbie Basho plays like a man with about eight thumbs. That this kind of tuneless twanging should be mentioned in the same breath as anything by Kottke or Fahey (or Peter Lang) is puzzling to say the least. But, credit where credit's due: it's not easy to make an acoustic guitar sound this unpleasant.

Not very accessible, but quite creative.......2000-05-24

I don't listen to Robbie Basho very often, but I respect him enormously. He does, as other reviewers have indicated, have an uncanny ability to make his guitar sound like a sitar. Technically, he was virtually without peer. Compositionally, he was inconsistent. At his best, he flowed evenly between meditative ragas and oddly pleasing dissonance. At his worst, he sounded like he was just banging away randomly on his guitar. For those looking for a more accessible blending of eastern and western sounds, Sandy Bull played a more accessible blend (in fact, several pieces that he explicitly called, "Blends") which is not as technically impressive, but is far more fluid, and Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt's collaboration (A Meeting By the River), while I find it a bit boring, may be more to the liking of those who like their music dissonance-free. Incidentally, occasionally, Basho tried to sing, which was a dreadful mistake, but those tracks can be skipped.

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Waters in Azure Steffen Basho-Junghans Manufacturer: Strange Attractors ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Inside 7 Books ASIN: B00005YNNX Release Date: 2002-02-05

Tracks:

1. Waters, Part I
2. Waters, Part II
3. Waters, Part III
4. Inside the Rain
5. One no.1, Part I
6. One no.1, Part II
7. One no. 1, Part III
8. Azure no.1: The Suntreader

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Late Summer Morning Steffen Basho-Junghans Manufacturer: Strange Attractors ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Black Dove The Cloud of Unknowing A Raga for Peter Walker Venus in Cancer ASIN: B000I2J7TU Release Date: 2006-10-24

Tracks:

1. Late Summer Morning
2. In a Secret Garden
3. Woodland Orchestra
4. Sky Dreamer's Gold
5. Azure No 3
6. Northern Winds

Album Description

"Junghans' solo acoustic pieces, written for both six and twelve-stringed instruments, are nothing if not deeply bound to the earth. He's so sure-fingered on the fretboard that it frequently sounds like there are two or three people picking away at the steel string, but it's always just him and his craft, which by this point he's completely mastered ... solo acoustic music doesn't get much better than this." -- PITCHFORK

"With a technique that mixes the sound of his predecessors with a more forward-looking (and sounding) arsenal of experimental methods and concepts, Steffen Basho-Junghans continues to be a leading voice in modern acoustic guitar music." -- DUSTED

"[Steffen Basho-Junghans] works his newly discovered modes and styles into a convincing and highly personal vocabulary." -- THE WIRE

By every account, Steffen Basho-Junghans is a true master of the acoustic steel string guitar. As a player, composer, scholar, teacher and trailblazer, no living player has a resume as vast as he, nor has anyone so bravely and diligently challenged the tradition by pushing it radically forward. Over the course of nearly thirty years, Basho-Junghans has released fourteen albums, founded festivals and taught seminars, and claims the most thorough archives on the planet of his mentor, the late Robbie Basho. On his many albums, Basho-Junghans has composed music steeped in the classic Takoma Records sound and revolving around Basho's American Raga music, but he has also forged concepts based on unabashed experimentation that have pushed the limits of the acoustic guitar into alien arenas. Through it all, Basho-Junghans has secured his own distinct language, one that often speaks many dialects but is anchored in a clear vision of his own design. Multiple streams of singing steel have flowed across many landscapes, but with Late Summer Morning, Basho-Junghans guides a confluence of them all into one glimmering, gorgeous river of sound. Much in the vein of his pastoral epic Rivers and Bridges, Steffen Basho-Junghans harkens back to the heyday of American Primitive guitar, as defined by Robbie Basho and John Fahey circa Fare Forward Voyagers. The title track is an unabashedly beautiful extended composition for twelve-string guitar, stretching out languidly and effortlessly like a morning raga saturated in crisp, warming hues. With the steel string tradition as a steadfast reference point, Basho-Junghans utilizes unorthodox pacing, fingerpicking and rhythms as "Late Summer Morning" progresses. Themes of tone and minimalism are to be found, while glistening guitar lines wrap into circular patterns to create lovely trance-inducing color wheels. Basho-Junghans' ability to strike out into the unknown while keeping the sounds and tones grounded sets Late Summer Morning apart, something that is evident as multiple sound forms hit the ear with calming bliss. American folk and classical, East Indian Raga, Native American linearity, the resonance of Middle Eastern folk, and melodic Minimalism (i.e. Steve Reich) meld together in a fashion that is tremendously cinematic and vivid. Basho-Junghans has tethered his elaborate language into a pristine wedding of sound, resulting in what surely is the most actualized summation of his musical quest to date.

Average customer rating: Excellent

Inside Steffen Basho-Junghans Manufacturer: Strange Attractors ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: 7 Books Waters in Azure Rivers and Bridges ASIN: B000058TBO Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

1. 1st Movement
2. 2nd Movement: Part 1
3. 2nd Movement: Part 2
4. 2nd Movement: Part 3
5. 3rd Movement

Amazon.com

One traditional route toward enlightenment is to adopt a guru, a wise one who will show you the way. Steffen Basho-Junghans, a 48-year-old guitarist who lives in Berlin, never met his. But he learned every aspect of the late Robbie Basho's highly romantic finger-picking style, which is replete with unusual tunings and Eastern-influenced melodic progressions, and he even honored him by taking the former Takoma Records artist's name. Still, one must eventually leave the guru to find one's own path, and Junghans is entirely his own man on Inside. Despite similarities to the work of Brij Bhushan Kabra, Rod Poole, and of course Basho, his playing here is in a class of its own. He tugs hard at the strings, sustains ringing percussive runs, and coaxes koto-like glisses from his steel-stringed instrument. Junghans's technique is impressive, but never an end in itself; instead, he uses it to articulate hypnotic, propulsive compositions that are as intense as the best Hindustani ragas. --Bill Meyer

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2001-03-22

In the late '60s, the old parable goes, Brian Eno was in a car accident which caused him to be laid up for some time with a broken leg. During this time, a friend dropped by for a visit but didn't leave before putting the stereo on for the immobilized Eno, and, as it happened, setting the volume too low for proper audition. Thus began Eno's conceptual oddyssey into ambient music, blah blah blah. Similarly, "Inside" was recorded by SBJ after a gruelling bout with carpel tunnel syndrome forced him to adapt his playing style. With that as a guiding limitation, the minimalist tendencies of "Song of the Earth" on "Inside" predominate. This is some of the most alien-sounding music I've heard in a long time; the fact that it was performed in real-time on nothing but a steel-string guitar makes it all the more fascinating (although that's ultimately academic). But also, and uncannily, it's deeply emotional music, a forceful, insistent yearning propelled through a lattice of cycling hammer-ons and ringing harmonics.

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Kimi No Kaeru Basho Saburo Tokito Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000PDZNBI Release Date: 2007-07-02

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Sayonara Arigatou: Tatta Hitotsu No Basho Ai Kawashima Manufacturer: Columbia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000666WRI Release Date: 2004-12-16

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