steffen Basho-Junghans

Filmed in the ancient heart of Bergamo, Italy, watch the accompanying video for Buck Curran’s Winter Solstice 1, taken from the recently released ‘Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans’. We also have details of his Robbie Basho 12 String Restoration Project.

Featuring music from Joseph Allred, Rob Noyes, Jesse Sheppard, Isasa, D.C Cross, Nick Jonah Davis and many more, Buck Curran has curated a stunning tribute to the guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans. This amount of musical quality and artistic depth is rarely found on one compilation. 

German instrumentalist Steffen Basho-Junghans left this world on the 1st of December 2022. Harry Wheeler pays tribute and shares a new short film titled ‘Nature’.

To celebrate the release of ‘The Dancer on the Hill’ by guitar maestro Steffen Basho-Junghans we have a special show which includes a Q&A with Steffen plus label owner Harry Wheeler takes us on a meandering journey into his appreciation of the solo guitar.

Steffen’s “The Dancer on the Hill” is an album that will demand to be listened to many times. Once the final notes of the beautiful closer drift away, you will want to go straight back to the beginning.

Robbie Basho’s ‘Twilight Peaks’ was originally released on cassette tape in 1984. It has now been picked up and repackaged by a Robbie Basho fan and friend; Glenn Jones and released through Smeraldina-Rima.

A new mix featuring the poetry jamesreindeer and music inspired by his first official spoken word album ‘Shallow Pools’. Includes music from A Band Of Buriers, The Beguilers, Quickbeam, Meg Baird, David A jaycock, I Am Oak, Bard and more.

‘IS’ opens with an epic eighteen-minute six string slide piece entitled ‘When The Plains are Singing’. You can imagine flying over a wide open landscape with cold blue mountains, sweeping down over wild fields of long grass dancing around in the wind, until finally coming back to the imposing natural towers of the mountains. Steffen Basho-Junghans’s work has the uncanny ability to take the listener into almost lucid visual realms …

Tonight our good friends Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records-Moving Image will be presenting a selection of video documentaries from their archives at Leeds Film Festival

Nick Jonah Davis hails from Nottingham, England and it was his discovery of prewar blues and modal British folk upon which he began to develop his improvisational skills. The post-Takoma acoustic guitar solo scene then provided a context for his music which might otherwise have remained a private endeavour.

Steffen Basho-Junghans is an artist in the true sense of the word he manages to conjure up works of extreme intensity, focus and creativity. Watch this great video and catch him live on his upcoming tour in the UK.