Buck Curran & Nick Jonah Davis tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans

Remembering SB-J

An evening celebrating Artist and guitar maestro Steffen Basho-Junghans featuring an exhibition of his water colours plus live solo guitar music from ‘guitar disciples’ Buck Curran and Nick Jonah Davis.

Steffen Basho-Junghans passed away at the end of 2022 leaving behind him an artistic impression on the cultural landscape and legacy. Steffen was a true artist in that his philosophy and way of being had a consistency from the way he approached his improvised paintings and water colours to his approach to the steel string guitar. He would always live in the moment and although composed pieces for the guitar preferred the ‘instant composition’ approach where pieces would vary from performance to performance. This evening is an opportunity to mark his passing and celebrate his legacy.

Buck Curran

The mournful, elegant tones that neo-folk artist Buck Curran draws from voice and guitar have a capacity to linger in the air long after the notes have faded. Recorded at the American guitarist's home in northern Italy shortly before the area went into lockdown, 'No Love Is Sorrow' is a beautiful piece of work, interspersing space, atmospheric instrumentals with more complete songs like spooky western "Ghost On The Hill', the ballad "Deep In The Lovin' Arms of My Babe'" and the title track. Curran sings with the gravelly decorum of Mark Lanegan but the songs remain, bewitchingly, just over the next horizon.

~ 8/10 Peter Watts/UNCUT Magazine

Nick Jonah Davis

Nick Jonah Davis is a British solo instrumental guitarist and composer drawing primarily on British and American folk traditions. His most recent full-length release, ‘When the Sun Came’, was featured as one of 12 ‘Best of British’ guitar records in Guitarist Magazine, with a 5-page feature on Nick in the same edition. It was also one of Folk Radio’s ‘Best Albums of 2020’.