Don Bikoff - Celestial Explosion (Composia for 6-String Guitar) (1968, 2013)⭐

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Don Bikoff - Celestial Explosion (Composia for 6-String Guitar) (1968, 2013)⭐

Artist: Don Bikoff Title: Celestial Explosion: Composia for 6-String Guitar Year Of Release: 1968 (2013) Label: Tompkins Square Genre: American Primitivism, Psychedelic Folk, Folk Quality: FLAC (tracks+scans) Total Time: 38:29 Tracklist: 01. Rindler's Metamorphosis (03:08) 02. My Baby's Bass (03:25) 03. To Ellen (02:49) 04. Riverside Park Blues (02:40) 05. Bathing Prohibited In The River (02:45) 06. The Ellipses of Your Mind (02:36) 07. Earth (Revisited) (02:39) 08. Sonata #7, Opus 11 (04:08) 09. Today Was No Tomorrow (04:06) 10. The Formentera Moors Are Stomping Tonight (03:29) 11. Crystal Lakes of Frangipani (03:39) 12. Celestial Explosion (03:05) Don Bikoff released one lone, rare solo album, 'Celestial Explosion', on Keyboard Records in 1968, now reissued on LP/CD/DL by Tompkins Square. Watch the YouTube video of Bikoff playing on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, taped May 12, 1968. You'll see the sheepish, long-haired, mustachioed musician spinning gold in a style (still?) so foreign to the mainstream listener. The befuddled host concludes after Don's performance, "That's unusual to say the least." A kid from Oyster Bay, LI, Bikoff got his start in Greenwich Village, annoying Dave Van Ronk and playing the folk/blues circuit where he met Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Jesse Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt. The comparisons to John Fahey's and Robbie Basho's work stated in the LP liner notes touched a nerve with Fahey himself at the time. Today, those comparisons are still inevitable, however they are for lazy ears. Bikoff has his own approach