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+ Skinny Wolves and Munitions Family DJs
Saturday 29th May 2010
Space54, Smithfield, Dublin 1 - Beside Luas stop
BYOB
10 Euro
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WE ARE ALL ONE, IN THE SUN
Important Records has just released an album in tribute to Robbie Basho entitled "We Are All One, In The Sun", which features a contribution from Cian Nugent alongside Steffen Basho-Junghans, Helena Espvall, Meg Baird, Glenn Jones, Arborea, Rahim AlHaj and Fern Night.
In Robbie Basho's lifetime he set out to champion the steel string guitar as an expressive and dignified concert instrument. His guitar playing was first brought to light in 1965, when John Fahey released Basho's debut The Seal of the Blue Lotus on Fahey's own Takoma Records. Armed with a unique and powerful singing voice, his 6 & 12 string guitar and a collection of special guitar tunings that he created (even originating a unique chart titled 'The Esoteric Doctrine of Color and Mood' denoting a color and mood for each of his special tunings). Basho's output was prodigious, but after three decades of recordings and touring, this unique American musical voice went largely unnoticed and in 1986 his voice was forever silenced by a tragic accident. Basho's music which displays an intense passion for different cultures from around the world, was heavily influenced by Japanese (his self-chosen last name was even inspired by the Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho), Persian, Classical Indian, and a culture much closer to home, Native Americans. Forty-five years later, his recording legacy displays an emotional depth and pure vision that few musicians have ever achieved, and now his music is influencing a whole new generation of acoustic musicians around the world.
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