Basho-Junghans, Steffen - 7 Books 2 x CDs
SKU
SAAH020-021
Pretty darn great, as is basically everything I've heard from this great guitar artist. "After re-exposing his roots in the compositional acoustic guitar traditionwith the pastoral, utterly grandiose Rivers and Bridges, steel-string guitar maverick Steffen Basho-Junghans ups the ante with his ninth album, a sprawling and vastly intricate double album entitled 7 Books. The final entry in a series of inter-related albums exploring a new sound possibility and approach to the acoustic guitar, 7 Books returns to the remarkable excursions into the heart and soul of the instrument that first raised eyebrows towards the Berlin-based artist. With over two hours of music spread across two discs, 7 Books finds Basho-Junghans stretching way out, mutating the steel string tradition into the most elaborate excursion into sound and composition that has ever fluttered from his fingertips...Tone, color, timbre, rhythm and space are explored and exposed across the entire expanse of the album, the music comprising a degree of intricacy that compels the listener to fully engage, for attentive listening reveals a host of various sound-worlds. All the more awe-inspiring when you consider that Basho-Junghans, as always, recorded 7 Books in real time, with absolutely no effects, implements or alternate instrumentation used. Minimalism, Eastern raga, trance-inducing repetition, Spectralist tonal investigations, folk and American fingerstyle steel-string tradition coalesce into one astounding epic for the solo acoustic guitar." [Strange Attractors]