Robbie Basho

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Rocky Mountain Raga 07:36 Tools
Blue Crystal Fire 04:55 Tools
Eagle Sails the Blue Diamond Waters 00:00 Tools
Green River Suite 07:41 Tools
Variations on Easter 03:57 Tools
Rodeo 02:35 Tools
Orphan's Lament 03:46 Tools
Leaf in the Wind 02:02 Tools
Cathedrals Et Fleur de Lis 00:00 Tools
Night Way 06:17 Tools
Seal of the Blue Lotus 00:00 Tools
Bardo Blues 00:00 Tools
redwood ramble 00:00 Tools
Elk Dreamer's Lament 04:17 Tools
Call on the Wind 03:07 Tools
Clair de lune (For Twelve-String) [Live] 00:00 Tools
The Grail and the Lotus 00:00 Tools
venus in cancer 00:00 Tools
Variations On Claire De Lune 00:00 Tools
Sansara in Sweetness After Sandstorm 00:00 Tools
Black Lotus - Hymn to Fugen 00:00 Tools
Dravidian Sunday 00:00 Tools
california raga 00:00 Tools
Kowaka D'Amour 00:00 Tools
Fandango 00:00 Tools
song of the stallion 08:30 Tools
The Hajj 00:00 Tools
Song for the Queen 00:00 Tools
The Falconer's Arm 00:00 Tools
(Variations on) 'Easter' 00:00 Tools
The Falconer's Arm - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Pavan Hindustan 00:00 Tools
Mountain Man´s Farewell 00:00 Tools
Roses And Snow 00:00 Tools
Lost Lagoon Suite 00:00 Tools
Khatum 00:00 Tools
The Lady She Is Waiting 00:00 Tools
Pavan India 00:00 Tools
zarthus 00:00 Tools
Wine Song (Sweet Wine of Love) 00:00 Tools
German Chocolate Cake 00:00 Tools
The Dharma Prince 00:00 Tools
a north american raga 00:00 Tools
Oriental Love Song 00:00 Tools
Silky Jane 00:00 Tools
The Golden Shamrock 00:00 Tools
mehera 00:00 Tools
bride divine 00:00 Tools
khalil gibran 00:00 Tools
Pasha 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Snowy Ranges 00:00 Tools
rhapsody in druz 00:00 Tools
Pavan Hindustan - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Street Dakini 00:00 Tools
Lost Lagoon Suite - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Mountain Man's Farewell 00:00 Tools
The Hajj (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Snowy Ranges - Vocal 00:00 Tools
A North American Raga (The Plumstar) 00:00 Tools
Tassajara 09:47 Tools
Babs 00:00 Tools
Salangadou 00:00 Tools
A North American Raga (The Plumstar) - Vocal 00:00 Tools
The Falconer's Arm (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Pasha - Vocal 00:00 Tools
Twilight Peaks 00:00 Tools
The Hajj - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Roses And Snow - Vocal 00:00 Tools
Nice Enough For Love 00:00 Tools
Khatum - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Variations on Clair de Lune 00:00 Tools
Afternoon and Evening 00:00 Tools
Wounded Knee Soliloquy 00:00 Tools
Where Butterflies In Winter Go 00:00 Tools
Voice Of The Eagle 00:00 Tools
Wine Song 00:00 Tools
Japan Idyll 00:00 Tools
Camelot II 00:00 Tools
Song of God 00:00 Tools
Golden Dragon 04:32 Tools
Lament For The Earth 00:00 Tools
Variations on "Shakespeare Wallah" 00:00 Tools
Redwood Ramble (live) 00:00 Tools
Roses And Gold 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei-The Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
Omaha Tribal Prayer 00:00 Tools
Joseph 05:21 Tools
Moving Up a Ways 00:00 Tools
Sweet Medicine 00:00 Tools
Apres Midi American 00:00 Tools
Ackerman Special 00:00 Tools
The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose 00:00 Tools
A Study for Steel String 00:00 Tools
Basket Full Of Dragons 00:00 Tools
Katari Takawaitha 03:50 Tools
Pasha II 00:00 Tools
Scottish Rites 00:00 Tools
Tibetian Bach 00:00 Tools
Song of the Stallion (Live) 00:00 Tools
Variations on Grieg 00:00 Tools
Variations on Ezumi 00:00 Tools
Lost Lagoon Suite (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Basho's Blues 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei - The Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
Black Mare Moan 06:16 Tools
Pavan Hindustan (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Blue Corn Serenade 00:00 Tools
Soliloquy 00:00 Tools
khoda e gule abe 00:00 Tools
Dance Calinda 00:00 Tools
The Grail and the Lotus (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pasha (Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Cathedral et fleur de lis (Live) 00:00 Tools
German Chocolate Cake (Live) 00:00 Tools
Interlude, No. 1 (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Grail & The Lotus 00:00 Tools
Khoda é Gul é Abe 00:00 Tools
Interlude, No. 2 (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pavan India (Live) 00:00 Tools
Moving Up A'Ways 00:00 Tools
New Lhasa New Years Chorale 00:00 Tools
crashing thunder 00:00 Tools
California Raga (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Golden Medallion 00:00 Tools
Rainbow Thunder 00:00 Tools
Home Again 03:59 Tools
Khoda è gul è abe 00:00 Tools
Roses And Snow (Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 00:00 Tools
Aons Au Ball 00:00 Tools
The Pathfinder 00:00 Tools
The Long Lullaby 00:00 Tools
The Polish Rider 02:37 Tools
Allons Au Ball Colinda 00:00 Tools
The White Buffalo 00:00 Tools
Interlude, No. 3 (Live) 00:00 Tools
El Cid 05:57 Tools
The White Swallow 00:00 Tools
Khatum (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Legend of Mount Tamalpias 05:33 Tools
Black Hills Sololoquy 00:00 Tools
Blue Corn Serende 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Snowy Ranges (Vocal) 00:00 Tools
The Song Of Leila 00:00 Tools
Tears Of Teresa 00:00 Tools
The White Princess 00:00 Tools
Khoda É Gul É Abe (The Lord Of The Blue Rose) 00:00 Tools
A North American Raga (The Plumstar) (Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Land Of Our Fathers (Hopi Hymn) 00:00 Tools
Blues from Lebanon 00:00 Tools
Cathedral et Fleur de Lis 00:00 Tools
Death Song 00:00 Tools
Kowaka D'Amour (Live) 00:00 Tools
Easter 00:00 Tools
Lightening Thunder 00:00 Tools
Kowaka D'Amour - Live 00:00 Tools
khoda e gul e abe 09:35 Tools
Chocolate Cake (Ackermann Special) 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei - Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
Kingdom of Love 00:00 Tools
Variations on "Clair de Lune" 00:00 Tools
Mountain Manґs Farewell 00:00 Tools
04 Khalil Gibran 00:00 Tools
The Falconer’s Arm 00:00 Tools
02 Khoda é Gul é Abe 00:00 Tools
Khali Gibran 00:00 Tools
Orphan’s Lament 00:00 Tools
Elk Dreamer’s Lament 00:00 Tools
Twilight Peaks (live) 00:00 Tools
Seal of the Blue Turtle 00:00 Tools
Pavan India (Pavan Hindustan) 00:00 Tools
Kowaka D'Amour [Live] 00:00 Tools
Nice Enough for Love (Live) 00:00 Tools
Kowaka d’amour 00:00 Tools
Dance Colinda 00:00 Tools
Claire De Lune (California Version) 00:00 Tools
Mountain Man's Fairwell 00:00 Tools
New Lhasa New Year's Chorale 00:00 Tools
Kahlil Gibran 00:00 Tools
Tassajara - Zen Shinji 00:00 Tools
Moving Up A' Ways 06:34 Tools
Mountain Man’s Farewell 00:00 Tools
Memorial 00:00 Tools
A Day In the Life of Lemmeria 00:00 Tools
The Butterfly of Wonder 00:00 Tools
Land Of Our Fathers 00:00 Tools
Song of Great Mystery 00:00 Tools
Kateri Takawaitha 00:00 Tools
Thunder Sun 00:00 Tools
Laughing Thunder, Crawling Thunder 00:00 Tools
Thunder Love 00:00 Tools
Lightning Thunder 00:00 Tools
Moving Up Aways 00:00 Tools
A North American Raga (The Plumstar) [Vocal] 00:00 Tools
Black Hills Soliloquy 00:00 Tools
(Variations on) ‘Easter’ 00:00 Tools
Soilioquy 00:00 Tools
Four Ladies across the Board 00:00 Tools
Song of Kings 00:00 Tools
Omar Khayyam Country 00:00 Tools
Legend of Mount Tamalpais 00:00 Tools
Khoda 09:35 Tools
Falconer's Arm 00:00 Tools
The White Swallow (solo vocal) 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei – Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
The White Princess (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
Lightning Thunder (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
02 Tassajara 00:00 Tools
Clair de Lune (For Twelve-String) 00:00 Tools
Black Lotus – Hymn To Fugen 00:00 Tools
Variations On “Shakespeare Wallah” 00:00 Tools
Interlude 1 00:00 Tools
Interlude 2 00:00 Tools
New Lhassa New Year's Chorale 00:00 Tools
Druz 19:52 Tools
Interlude 3 00:00 Tools
05 Babs 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei/The Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
Venus in Cancer 06 - Wine Song 00:00 Tools
Lost Lagoon Suite [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
04 - Khalil Gibran 00:00 Tools
Variations On "Claire de lune" 00:00 Tools
02 - Khoda E Gule Abe 00:00 Tools
Venus in Cancer 05 - Cathedrals et Fleur de Lis 00:00 Tools
Prologue for Cathedrals et Fleur de lis 00:00 Tools
Solilquoy 00:00 Tools
The Falconer's Arm [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Venus in Cancer 03 - Kowaka D'amour 00:00 Tools
Venus in Cancer 02 - Eagle Sails the Blue Diamond Waters 00:00 Tools
Venus in Cancer 01 - Venus in Cancer 00:00 Tools
Khoda č gul č abe 09:35 Tools
Basho’s Blues 00:00 Tools
Prologue for Pavan India 00:00 Tools
Pavan Hindustan [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
New Lhassa New Year’s Chorale 00:00 Tools
03 - Mehera 00:00 Tools
Venus in Cancer 04 - Song for the Queen 00:00 Tools
Kowaka De'amour 00:00 Tools
Hymn to Fugen 00:00 Tools
Rocky Mountain Raga (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei / The Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
Kowaka D'Amour (Album) 00:00 Tools
North American Raga (The Plumstar) 00:00 Tools
Moving Up Aways (6 string, vocal) 00:00 Tools
Khatum [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Moving Up A’ways 00:00 Tools
German Chocolate Cake (6 string) 00:00 Tools
the haji-khatum 00:00 Tools
Rocky Mountain Raga (12 string, vocal) 00:00 Tools
06 Orphan's Lament 00:00 Tools
Lost Lagoon Suite: Walking Into the Forest/Prelude/Blue Wolf/Sky Medicine/Finale/Walking Out the Forest 00:00 Tools
Claire De Lune 00:00 Tools
Rhapsody In Druz: Main Theme / Wine Section / Flower Of The Heart / The Flight / Nightingale / Darshan / Ocean Section / Allah Meher / Ships / Baba's Mountain / Look Into Your Heart / March / Rolling Home 00:00 Tools
California Raga (dedicated to Anise and Selma) 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei -- The Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
Rainbow Thunder (6 string, vocal) 00:00 Tools
Basho sings 00:00 Tools
variations on shakespeare 00:00 Tools
Khatum (a sealing) 00:00 Tools
Variations On 'Shakespeare Wallah' 00:00 Tools
The Blue Lotus 00:00 Tools
The Hajj [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
05 Blue Crystal Fire 00:00 Tools
Charles Ives Paints Modern America 00:00 Tools
09 Elk Dreamer's Lament 00:00 Tools
Redwood Ramble (6 string) 00:00 Tools
eagle sails the blue diamond w 00:00 Tools
French Song 00:00 Tools
08 night way 00:00 Tools
07 Leaf in the Wind 00:00 Tools
01 Green River Suite 00:00 Tools
03 Rocky Mountain Raga 00:00 Tools
Rhapsody in Drz 00:00 Tools
The Blue Lotus (12 string) 00:00 Tools
The Voice of the Eagle 00:00 Tools
The Grail and the Lotus (6 string) 00:00 Tools
Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis (12 string) 00:00 Tools
California Raga (6 string, vocal) 00:00 Tools
Pavan India (6 string) 00:00 Tools
Robbie Basho - Seal Of The Blue Lotus 04:45 Tools
The Legend of Mount Tamalpias 00:00 Tools
10 Call on the Wind 00:00 Tools
02 Rodeo 00:00 Tools
Theme on Autumn 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Fahey as a Young Dragoon 00:00 Tools
Claire De Lune (12 string) 00:00 Tools
Tassajara (Zen Shinji) 00:00 Tools
Variations On Shakespeare Wallah 00:00 Tools
Blue Crystal Fire (How To Dress Well Cover) 00:00 Tools
(Variations on) `Easter' 00:00 Tools
Omar Khayyam Country (Live) 00:00 Tools
Khoda и gul и abe 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Stallion-B 00:00 Tools
The Falconer\'s Arm 00:00 Tools
Clair De Lune (For Twelve String) 00:00 Tools
Golden Medallion 00:00 Tools
04 Variations On Easter 00:00 Tools
Rocky Montain Raga 00:00 Tools
Lost Lagoon Suite - Vancouver, Canada 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Stallion-A 00:00 Tools
Black Lotus Hymn To Fugen 00:00 Tools
Black Lotus / Hymn to Fugen 00:00 Tools
Mountain Man’s Fairwell 00:00 Tools
Moving Up A Ways (original) 00:00 Tools
Prologue For Rocky Mountain Raga 00:00 Tools
Khoda й Gul й Abe 00:00 Tools
Variations on Shakespeare in Wallah 00:00 Tools
New Ihasa New Years Chorale 00:00 Tools
Variations on "Shakespeare Wal 00:00 Tools
Druz #4 00:00 Tools
Khoda E Gul Abe 00:00 Tools
Chung Mei – The Chinese Orchid 00:00 Tools
Variations on Shakspeare Wallah 00:00 Tools
Cathedrale et Fleur de Lis 00:00 Tools
Haji 00:00 Tools
Rhapsody in Druz: Main Theme / Wine Section / Flower Of The Heart / The Flight / Nightingale / Darshan / Ocean Section / Allah Meher / Ships / Baba's Mountain / Look into Your Heart / March / Rolling Home 00:00 Tools
Blues For Lebanon 00:00 Tools
The Black Hills Soliloquy 00:00 Tools
Druz #3 00:00 Tools
Clair de Lune 00:00 Tools
Bare Mare Moan 00:00 Tools
(Variations On) "Easter" 00:00 Tools
The Grail and The Lotus - Rob 00:00 Tools
Cathedrals et Fluer de Lis 00:00 Tools
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Born on August 31, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland, he became an orphan in his early childhood and was adopted by Dr Donald R. Robinson and his wife, and grew up as Daniel R. Robinson jr.with a very typical middle-class childhood and youth. He spent his early years, up through high school, in Baltimore attending catholic schools run by nuns. At the high school level, he went to a military school and then on to the University of Maryland, where he was a premed student. He was athletic -playing lacrosse, doing weight lifting and other sports; he sang in school choirs and played the trumpet. After his junior year at the University of Maryland he bought his century-aged mexican 12string from a sailor for §200 and discovered every possible music, classical music, bluegrass, oriental, improvisations on Bing Crosby... He became a beatnik, became interested in Japanese literature, began to write his own poetry, dabbled in painting and guitar. After discovering the most famous Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho he changed his name into Robbie Basho, the musician. Guitar became his main creative outlet and he came into the steelstring after meeting John Fahey in Washington, DC, in the early 60s.He entered the upcoming musical scene of Washington within a few month. Max Ochs (can be heard on Takomas 1st guitar sampler “Contemporary Guitar”) introduced him to folk music. Robbie began playing and singing blues and a mixture of foreign protest songs. The young Leo Kottke heard him perform: “It was the first 12string I heard and he was the first player I heard who was doing something with his fingers that was his own,...I was mesmerized by him.” In 1962 Robbie heard sitarist Ravi Shankar and “nothing was like before”. “I got Shankar´s records and just laid in a dark room and listened for hours...I dropped blues when I came into the raga thing.” He began to use open C (CGCGCE) and a lot of more exotic tunings, developed his `Esoteric Doctrine of Color & Mood for 12&6 string guitar´ and talked about “Zen-Buddhist-Cowboysongs”. Like Fahey he decided “to present the acoustic steelstring guitar as a concert instrument”. After a time full of trouble, experiences he settled in Berkeley. The Bay Area became his home. He became a follower of Meher Baba and studied with sarod master Ali Akbar Khan. Until 1971 he recorded 6 LP´s for Fahey´s TAKOMA Label (and the amazing, nearly forgotten 16 minutes tour de force “The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose” on “Contemporary Guitar”, which was inspired by the Berkeley Rose Garden, not so far from his home) and one for Blue Thumb. After 2 LP´s recorded for Vanguard (1972, 1974) it took 4 years to find a record company again. The 2 LP´s for Windham Hill, the Label, founded by William Ackerman, who calls him one of his main influences, made him touring across different countries. “From the standpoint of my guitar playing, nobody has influenced me more,” says Ackerman, “That 4/4 pick he called the running Himalayan rondo formed the basis of all my early writing.” The look and feel of Windham Hill was influenced by Robbie´s self-image and vision. After an album on Silver Label Recordings he couldn´t find a new label for his album projects again until his death on February 28, 1986, but he published cassette- editions by himdelf. Robbie Basho never made a very good living at his playing, but just before his unfortunate death he had new plans, new ideas for projects. Over the years he had studied classical composition and harmony. “The ideas got too big for the guitar -I had to learn piano to strech them out.” These works include a score for a self-described Sufi symphony -seven years in the writing- and one for piano and orchestra, dealing with “the Spanish culture and the Christ-force coming to America, that took four years. Robbie Basho´s albums span everything from classical European artistry to songs of the Old West -he wove his Hindu, Chinese and Japanese scales and moods and Persian, Arabic or American Indian themes. He was sometimes criticized for taking too seriously the ragas that he offered up to the Beloved Higher Mind, but he also saw the lighter side of his musical cloud-tripping. “If you do it with reverence, it´s not as much of an insult to the Hindu gods,”he once joked in a Guitar Player interview. When his ash was given into the ocean, a circle was rounded: A sensitive soul, that came from `somewhere´ to sing the worldsong of love and peace, was going back to `somewhere´. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.