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Guitar Soli

Robbie Basho Format: Audio CD
3.9 out of 5 stars 8 customer reviews
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. Seal Of The Blue Lotus
  2. Mountain Man's Farewell
  3. Dravidian Sunday
  4. The Grail And The Lotus
  5. The Dharma Prince
  6. Oriental Love Song
  7. Sansara In Sweetness After Sandstorm
  8. Salangadou
  9. The Golden Shamrock
  10. Street Dakini
  11. Chung Mei-The Chinese Orchid

Product Details

  • Audio CD (July 19, 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Takoma
  • ASIN: B000003Z94
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,505 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 starsExpression is the Aim
By chrisjr on November 5, 2001
Format: Audio CD Verified Purchase
Robbie Basho is always lumped in with Leo Kottke and John Fahey since he shared the Takoma label and was an innovative talent himself, however it's not fair to compare Robbie Basho to either aforementioned guitarist. Basho has been referred to as "psychedelic" and "spiritual". His compositions don't draw on the same roots as Kottke or Fahey, and though his raw passionate sound certainly parallels the power of Kottke's plucking and Fahey's experimental out standings, Basho still traverses a land all his own. True, Basho may be an acquired taste especially when one is familiar with the precision of Kottke, as precision wasn't Basho's aim--expression was. Basho had a punk attitude; he was more interested in making the music then making it "technical". In a sense he comes off as more an idealist and romantic than Kottke, and not as spiritually gimmicky, for lack of a better term, as Fahey.
Kottke and Fahey aside. Let's look at Basho. This CD represents a good sampling of his earliest recorded work, it's very raw and edgy and when Basho "sings" (in tongues) or whistles it's eerie but beautiful. Basho's later works are more accomplished in the traditional guitarist sense, but to me less interesting and less obviously innovative than his first few recordings. Basho is endlessly experimental and endlessly expressive. You'll here subtle ambient sounds behind his guitar like bells and chimes. It sounds authentic; one can imagine sitting on a monastery porch next to the guitarist in some far away Eastern land.
And I don't know this for sure, but I get the sense that Basho improvises some of the material, there seems to be a basic structure that he will work around, but I imagine he throws in alterations to some degree each time he plays a composition.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars5 Stars for the Good Stuff; Listen with Interest to the Bad
By Richard S. Osborn on March 30, 2003
Format: Audio CD
If this were to be just a successful "listen" album, it should probably have only 6 cuts, but they would be ones of absolutely unique and strange beauty. No one had ever treated the folk steel-string guitar like this before Robbie.
There are several truly atrocious pieces on this album. But keep in mind that all of the music comes from his earliest recordings. To understand what is going on here, remember Robbie's own guiding axiom: "Vision first, technique second". You are listening to a kind of musical record of one man's inner spiritual journey, someone whose soul expanded with visions from India, Tibet, China, Iran, Armenia. So, to the reviewer who trashed this album, I would say: you have missed a rare glimpse into the creative process itself, what jazz musician's call "deep in the shed", LONG before it gets polished and prettified for public consumption.
I agree pretty much whole-heartedly with the review Amazon put up top. Even as a student and colleague of Robbie's, I always felt his later music suffered from his terrible "purple poetry" and an unmastered overuse of his wonderful voice. However, on "Guitar Soli", you will enjoy perhaps the one greatest piece where his voice rose in perfect, even eerie, integration with its musical form in the song, "Salangadou". And I am hoping that several of these pieces can get transcribed into sheet music for later generations, as they are a great contribution to the body of music for the guitar.
And reviewer Mike McGonigal's wish came true: some of Robbie's greates later pieces have been reissued on "Bashovia".
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5.0 out of 5 starsHis guitar did more than "talk"
By A Customer on April 22, 1998
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Robbie Basho has been lost to too many. This was a man whose fingers could turn a six string into a sitar. He could invoke the Spirit of American Indian princesses, so they would spin on your turntable. And this CD is all that's left for those he didn't hear the glory. It's as wonderful compilation. Some of his best work. If you think John Fahey and Leo Kotke are guitarists, then you need to listen to Basho and meet the Ravi Shankar of the guitar.
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5.0 out of 5 starsgreat stuff
By Michael Todd on January 2, 2012
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I was very happy to find this cd since i have been relying on a cassette copy of my album of The Lotus & the Grail. The music is peaceful, ethereal and i listen a lot
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