Strange Attractors
2001
Inside
About This Album
Inside is only the second recording acoustic guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans has released in the United States (there were three in his native Germany that are all but unavailable at this time). His previous release, Song of the Earth, was a treatise on how the acoustic guitar can be used to represent the four elements in both composition and technical execution. Whatever "new age" connotations its title conjured were quickly dismissed upon first listen. Inside is a another dimension of the universe that was explored so melodically. In his liner notes, Byron Coley likens Basho-Junghans to only two other guitarists in terms of his individual approach to the instrument: his compositional and improvisational mentor, Robbie "Basho" Robinson, and Loren Mazzacane Connors. Coley's not comparing music, but merely the radical approaches to expression each man offered the instrument and therefore the world at large. Inside is a suite of five parts, all linked in harmonic aether to one another by Basho-Junghans' complex musical system. It is elemental, but this time it doesn't come from the earth. Whether melodic ideas are recognizable as such or they appear seemingly from nowhere, they are bits and pieces of space, pure and vibrational, that Junghans rolls from the depths of his vast, dark heart, to his fingers and off the strings into that same universe that bore him in its space.
Track List (try tracks 2 and 4)

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