Couple of reasons for previewing this: firstly to confuse sometime-contributor Matt Jarrett, who thinks all I do is champion obscure, possibly made up acts. And second, this actually looks really good! At each stage of the bill you have either a raga-folk guitarist, a dude who used to be in Mahar Shalal Hash Baz, or, er, a ‘King of the Theremin’. A sandwich made out of win, as people on the internet who haven’t been punched in the face enough say.
Steffen Basho-Junghans & Naoto Kawate & Alexander Thomas
19:30 04/07/2010
(4th July / 8pm / £6 in advance)
Continuing the Cube’s engagement with the post-Fahey solo guitar tradition, we play host to Steffen Basho-Junghans, whose recordings, alongside those of other Cube favourites Sir Richard Bishop and the late Jack Rose, have graced most of that school’s more important releases of late (Wooden Guitar, Open Strings…what, you haven’t got them? For shame.)
Basho-Junghans’ music melds the American Folk and Indian Raga influences of his namesake Robbie Basho with playful and restless experimentation in extended technique. Nice as it is to kick back and revel in the dusty grooves of an old Leo Kottke LP, this is guitar playing that pushes the Takoma sound thrillingly forward.
Support from Mahar Shalal Hash-Baz member Naoto Kawate & King of the Theremin Alexander Thomas.
