Steffen Basho-Junghans

Biography:

Steffen Basho-Junghans, painter, guitarist, composer and free author,
living in Berlin and Thuringia -one of the innovators and protagonists of the guitar- scene in East- Germany since the late '70s.
 
-1978 -co-founder of the folkband WACHOLDER/ solo-concerts since 1979
-1981 -father of the first GDR All-style Guitar-Festival in Potsdam, Initiator and organizer of various projects, workshops and festivals
-1984 -Organization and Direction of the All-style Guitar Festival in Berlin
-1986-1991 -Head of the Berlin Guitar-Center
-1991-1995 -2nd Chairman of PROFOLK,Germany

- The real 12 string and open tuning master fascinates with unorthodox styles and sound-ideas,combining northamerican steelstring traditions, european classic, american indian, oriental, northern and fareastern influences and textures, celebrating archaic sounds of the steelstring 6 & 12, sometimes nearly hypnotic and orchestral, to express a wide range of emotions and colours.Playing techniques of Indian stringed instruments like Vina and Sarod were blended on Guitar with American Indian and Oriental scales and rhythms into atmospheric paintings.In his newer works he often uses uncommon playing techniques to develop new possibilities for his compositions like at "Landscapes in Exile" where he uses "wrong playing techniques" and "sounds of mistakes" as basic elements for the developement of the music, or he explores the possibilities of a new stringed, but still untuned 12string guitar - the result is the 3,5 hours long "Virgin Orchestra No 1".

..12 String Solo - (MC/Blue Moment Arts 1989)
..In Search of the Eagle..s Voice - (CD/Blue Moment Arts 1995)
..Fleur De Lis 1 - (CD/Blue Moment Arts 1996)
..Fleur De Lis 2 - (CD/Blue Moment Arts 1996)
..Song of the Earth -(CD/Sublingual Records 2000)
..INSIDE - (CD/The Strange Attractor's Audio House 2001)
..Landscapes in Exile -(CD/Blue Moment Arts 2001)
..Waters in Azure -(CD/The Strange Attractor's Audio House 2002)
..Rivers and Bridges -(CD/The Strange Attractor's Audio House 2003)
..7 BOOKS -(CD/The Strange Attractor's Audio House 2004)
..UNKNOWN MUSIC I-Alien Letter -(CD/Sillyboy/Italy 2005)
..UNKNOWN MUSIC II-Transwarp Meditation -(Preservation/Australia 2005)
..In the Morning Twilight -live at Hagateatern Göteborg/Schweden July 2005 -(CD/Kning Disk/Sweden 2006)
..Last Days of the Dragons - (CD/Locust/ 2006)
..Late Summer Morning - (CD/Strange Attractors/ 2006)

O SOM NAHA is the third instalment in Steffen's "Unknown Music" series and a true assault on tradition and stagnation. Two microphones, two bottles, one night and one steel-string guitar are the ingredients. On the menu, 90 minutes of devotional melody-collapse, and percussive hypno-symphony. A listening experience that is both meditative and challenging awaits, time is swallowed up as the gentlle tick-tock rhythm entrances, disorientates and mesmerises..

..some voices.... about Late Summer Morning:..

.Left Hip Magazine.....German guitarist Steffan Basho-Junghans has a command of harmonics that would dazzle even Lenny Breau, and a complex sound that would appeal to fans of Steve Reich's mesmerizing minimalism, William Ackerman's beautiful new age guitar, or Junghan's own mentor Robbie Basho, John Fahey and any of the experimental acoustic guitarists that are in vogue these days.... .Terrascope/UK.....A must for any collection....

..Last Days of the Dragons:..

..Unknown Music I:..

..7 BOOKS:..

..Rivers and Bridges:..

LANDSCAPES IN EXILE (BMA 006):.

INSIDE (Strange Attractors Audio House): ..

Song of the Earth (Sublingual Records): ..