Steffen Basho-Junghans

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Name = Steffen Basho-Junghans


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Origin = flagicon|Germany North Thuringia, Germany
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Years_active = 1979-
Label = Blue Moment Arts Strange Attractors Locust Sillyboy Preservation Kning Disk
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Steffen Basho-Junghans (born Steffen Junghans in 1953) is a German guitarist and composer. He was born in North Thuringia in the former German Democratic Republic. At the age of 17 he taught himself to play acoustic guitar and in 1978 formed the folk band Wacholder. In 1979, influenced by the American guitarist Leo Kottke, he began performing solo instrumental music on 6- and 12-string guitar. Throughout the 1980s he became influenced by artists on John Fahey's Takoma Records label. During this period he discovered the music of Robbie Basho, and consequently became interested in Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō, who had influenced Robbie Basho. Steffen Junghans incorporated the name 'Basho' into his own, as a mark of respect. Throughout the 1980s he lectured on acoustic guitar history and performed numerous concerts.

Steffen Basho-Junghans has released recordings on the German label Blue Moment Arts; the American labels Sublingual,Strange Attractors and Locust; the Italian label Sillyboy; the Australian label Preservation; and Kning Disk in Sweden, appears on several compilations. His music, unorthodox explorations between traditions and experimentation, is influenced by North American Indian, Asian, New music and European classical music.

Discography

*"12-String Solo" MC (Blue Moment Arts, 1989)
*"In Search of the Eagle's Voice" CD (BMA, 1995)
*"Fleur De Lis 1 & 2" 2x CD (BMA, 1996)
*"Song of the Earth" CD (Sublingual Records, 2000)
*"Inside" CD (Strange Attractors, 2001)
*"Landscapes in Exile" CD (Blue Moment Arts, 2001)
*"Waters in Azure" CD (Strange Attractors, 2002)
*"Rivers and Bridges" CD (Strange Attractors, 2003)
*"7 Books" dbl CD (Strange Attractors, 2004)
*"Unknown Music I: Alien Letter" CD (Sillyboy, 2005)
*"Unknown Music II: Transwarp Meditation" CD (Preservation, 2005)
*"In the Morning Twilight" CD (Kning Disk, 2006)
*"Last Days of the Dragons" CD (Locust, 2006)
*"Late Summer Morning" CD (Strange Attractors, 2006)

External links

* [http://www.bluemomentarts.de/ Profile at Blue Moment Arts website/+ Robbie Basho-Archives]
* [http://www.strange-attractors.com/Artists/SBJ/ Profile at Strange Attractors website]
* [http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/feature_detail.php?id=130 A feature article on Basho at the Foxy Digitalis website]