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For Robbie Basho

from That Summer Oh Creator! EP by Bhajan Bhoy

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  • Limited edition 10" vinyl "That Summer Oh Creator!" EP....only 193 copies pressed up
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Byron Coley / The Wire (December 2023) : "a fine documentation of two projects by the wonderful UK based musician Ajay Saggar. One side is called "For Robbie Basho" and is a tribute designed to evoke the spirit of the late American transcendental guitarist, rather than play Robbie's style. There is an acoustic guitar, but that only sets the stage for a blend of strings, percussion, tapes and a simmering avant garden meditation on Basho's syncretic compositional techniques. The flipside's "Pinecone" is a piece commissioned for a Dutch music festival. It's based on field recordings of birds blended mostly with keyboard figures. The effect is mostly quiet, but both sides are more intensely structured than it might immediately appear".

    A special limited edition 10 inch EP with recordings of two brand new unreleased tracks clocking in at over 17 minutes. Full colour outer and inner sleeves.

    "For Robbie Basho" is a piece I wrote that I thought reflected Robbie's life as it might have been for him. Moments of heightened beauty and exaltation and moments of mental and physical suffering. There's an indirect link to Robbie on this track, as I converted the lyrics to "Call On The Wind" to morse code. I was inspired to write the track having seen the movie about his life "Voice Of The Eagle".

    "Pinecone" I composed, recorded and mixed on Saturday 18 July 2020 during our summer holiday at the studio of Kat Bornefeld (drummer of The Ex) and Olivier Rijcken in Kyllburg....a small village 1km away from our camping site. The song has a very pastoral, laidback feel to it....but its a true reflection of the state of mind and surroundings I found myself in at that particular moment in time. With so much fear and uncertainty in the world at the time it was written, it was meant to provide comfort to those who took the time to listen.

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I've been a big fan of Robbie Basho's music for many years. Listening to his genius hand and finger work at play on a steel-string guitar and his mighty, other-worldly voice singing affected me in a more profound way than when listening to other players from the American primitive stable. There is almost something holy, spiritual, shamanic in his musical outpourings. I recently realised that beyond hearing the music on albums, I had never actually seen any footage of him, or knew anything about his life. This led me on a chase to track down information about him, but all I found was footage of two songs he performed on an arts programme in the USA in 1971. Beyond that....nothing. Until Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) told me of a film that had been released about his life some years previously. I tracked down "Voice Of The Eagle" on Vimeo, and one Saturday night watched it and was blown away by the account of his life. The influence of Indian classical music (he heard Ravi Shankar in the early 60s) made complete sense with regards to his own "ragas". The fact that he went through different "periods" of his life...relating to philosophy and music...including Indian, Japanese, Persian, and Native American. Being orphaned as an infant and then adopted played greatly on his later psyche. And his conversion to Sufism was also a major factor that affected him personally and musically. His early death at the age of 45 having visited a chiropractor only adds to the pathos of his life story.

When I wrote this piece, I didn't want to make an American primitive piece (I'm simply NOT good enough a guitar player to come anywhere close to doing that anyway) but I wanted to write a piece that reflected Robbie's life as I thought it might have been for him. Moments of heightened beauty and exaltation and moments of mental and physical suffering. There's an indirect link to Robbie on this track, as I converted the lyrics to "Call On The Wind" to morse code.

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from That Summer Oh Creator! EP, released September 3, 2020

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Deep meditative music filled with kosmische guitar psych magick / sonic raga trips / melodic mantras / esoteric electronica that thrill and elevate the listener to a higher sonic plane.

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