Steffen Basho-Junghans

Steffen Basho- Junghans ( born November 27, 1953 in Vielau as Steffen Junghans ) is a German fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter. According to the Jazzthetik he considered " one of the most brilliant guitar virtuosos on the international scene " and is recognized primarily in North America and Britain.

Life and work

Basho- Junghans taught himself to play the guitar at the age of 17 years even with. During its construction technology studies he founded in 1978 in Cottbus, the folk band Juniper, one of the first bands of this genre in the GDR. Influenced by American guitarist Leo Kottke he began in 1979 the guitar as a solo instrument for instrumental music to conceive. In 1980 he gave his first solo concert; In 1981 he initiated and designed the first style cross guitar festivals of the GDR, Potsdam. His main influences are musicians from John Fahey's Takoma Records label and Robbie Basho (after whom he called himself ), but also Terje Rypdal, Ralph Towner, Egberto Gismonti and Derek Bailey and Indian ragas have been reflected in its stylistics. Therefore, he was of an initially quite folk - oriented style " to always ausgreifenderen and abstract forms " and has been through a series of albums, the first on his own label Blue Moment Arts and then mainly due to the American label Sublingual, Strange Attractors and Locust appeared, " acquired an excellent reputation. "

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