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Unknown Music 1: Alien Letter

Label: Sillyboy Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: One; Two (Kottke on Mars 1); Three; Four; Five; Six a; Six b (Kottke on Mars 2); Seven; Eight; Nine; Ten.

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Steffen Basho-Junghans: Unknown Music 1: Alien Letter

Read "Unknown Music 1: Alien Letter" reviewed by Dennis Hollingsworth


Painter, guitarist, composer, and free author Steffen Basho-Junghans lives in Berlin and Thuringia, Germany. He has been highly influential on the eastern German guitar scene since the late '70s. Largely a self-taught artist and musician, his style is best categorized as eccentric and highly personal. Junghans uses steel-string acoustic guitars, combining archaic sounds with altered tunings ...

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Waters in Azure

Label: Strange Attractors Audio House
Released: 2002
Track listing: Waters, Part I-III; Inside the Rain; ONE No. 1, Part I-III; Azure No. 1: The Suntreader.

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Steffen Basho Junghans: Waters in Azure

Read "Waters in Azure" reviewed by AAJ Staff


I have to admit it: the first time I heard Steffen Basho Junghans, I honestly didn't get it. Junghans is an iconoclast of the highest order. His solo guitar performances sound like intergalactic symphonies, weird extraterrestrial voyages through timbre and texture. One cannot fully appreciate this music by inspecting its meticulous detail--instead, you must zoom out ...

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Inside

Label: Strange Attractors Audio House
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1st Movement; 2nd Movement, Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; 3rd Movement.

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Steffen Basho-Junghans: Inside

Read "Inside" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Apparent simplicity can often disguise depth of thought. Guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans demonstrates this point convincingly on his new disc, double-entendred Inside.. Recorded live to tape, this performance relies on resonance, stark repetition, juxtaposed rhythmic units, and ornamentation to achieve its effects. Basho-Junghans abandons any conventional sense of melody or harmony, instead structuring his music upon gradual ...

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Song of the Earth

Label: Sublingual Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: The Grand Entry; Red In The Rainbow; Song of the Earth; Sweet Moonlight Revelation; The Gates of Delight; Warrior's Lullaby; Silent Skies.

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Steffen Basho-Junghans: Song of the Earth

Read "Song of the Earth" reviewed by AAJ Staff


In this striking departure from the free/avant sound of other Sublingual material, guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans operates his instrument in the continuum extending from Leo Kottke through John Fahey and Ralph Towner. On Song of the Earth, his fourth record and first American release, Junghans plays 6- and 12-string guitars. Using resonance and repetition to achieve an ...


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