80, by Harry Taussig

80

by Harry Taussig

supported by

sbeninger6 Thanks Mr Taussig sounds delightful

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$5 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

117

releases

Get all 117 Tompkins Square releases available on Bandcamp and save 65%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Chaos Emeralds, Imaginational Anthem vol. XIII : Songs of Bruce Cockburn, Raven Shadow / Black Pines, Great Loveday Wonder : The Collected Demo Recordings, Rising to Eternity, I Kept These Old Blues, Imaginational Anthem vol. XII : I Thought I Told You - A Yorkshire Tribute to Michael Chapman, Deve Ser Amor, and 109 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$308.35 USD or more (65% OFF)

	1.	Etude in G Major #7 (take 1) 02:30
	2.	Etude in D Major #2 06:29
	3.	Lullaby in D Modal 02:57
	4.	Etude in G Major #9 03:17
	5.	Recessional for Banjo in D Major 03:51
	6.	Etude in Db Major (take 1) 02:57
	7.	Etude in Db Major (take 2) 03:00
	8.	Sugar Babe 03:31
	9.	Etude in G Major #4 03:45
	10.	Etude in G Minor #3 05:05
	11.	Etude in G Major #7 (take 2) 02:25

about

Released as a short-run private press LP in 1965, Fate Is Only Once has long been a coveted collectible among American Primitive guitar enthusiasts. The album presages the broader movement. Acoustic musicians were still largely stuck in a rigid "folk" mindset in 1965, and there are just not that many other examples of the exploratory guitar sounds found on Fate from this time period. Alternating between haunting originals and jaunty blues-based traditional numbers, the private press LP was reissued by Tompkins Square in 2006. Taussig's only other recorded works appeared on the long out-of-print Takoma compilation Contemporary Guitar Spring '67 alongside John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Max Ochs and Bukka White. Taussig spent years as an educator, published instructional guitar books, and traveled extensively to photograph weird museums.

Taussig returned to music in 2012 with his first album in 47 years, Fate Is Only Twice, and followed with Diamond of Lost Alphabets, Too Late To Die Young, a split album and tour with fellow Takoma pioneer Max Ochs, and a remix album by Kid Millions (Oneida).

Harry Taussig on '80' :

"With a perspective of about 60 years, I finally understand what I’ve been trying to do in my musical compositions over these six decades. I grew up with two musical streams – at home it was European classical music, at college it was American folk music. And I bathed in both streams.

Like several of my contemporary guitarists, I wanted to extend the American folk guitar tradition into previously unexplored territories. Each found their direction: blues, psychedelia, etc. Mine was using the theories of classical musical forms, both traditional and contemporary.

One of the delights of classical music is that the composer will constantly play with the listener, allowing him or her to guess where the music is going and then surprise them by not going there at all, but going to another place unexpected but equally logical. This seems to be the throughline in my musical heroes: Bach, Schoenberg, Glass, and many others. I have adopted many of their structural schemes, rhythmic devices, and harmonic stratagems to counter the comfort and predictability of folk (and popular) music. I delight in the response, “You can’t do that … oh, I guess you can.”

01 – Etude in G Major #7 (take 1)
02 – Etude in D Major #2
03 – Lullaby in D Modal
04 – Etude in G Major #9
05 – Recessional for Banjo in D Major
06 – Etude in D♭ Major (take 1)
07 – Etude in D♭ Major (take 2)
08 – Sugar Babe
09 – Etude in G Major #4
10 – Etude in G Minor #3
11 – Etude in G Major #7 (take 2)

credits

released March 31, 2023

license

about

Tompkins Square San Francisco, California

Tompkins Square label, established in 2005, has released acclaimed recordings by artists such as William Tyler, Gwenifer Raymond, Ryley Walker and Michael Chapman as well as reissues of folk, old-timey, gospel and American Primitive Guitar. The label has received 8 Grammy nominations. ... more

live events

'Imaginational Anthem vol. XIII : Songs of Bruce Cockburn' Listening Party

contact / help

Contact Tompkins Square

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like 80, you may also like:

IH-001: Clockwatching
by Seawind of Battery

supported by 26 fans who also own “80”

Greeeeet meditation music impressivelad
go to album
Femenine
by Julius Eastman

supported by 19 fans who also own “80”

A crucial historical document. Intricate and lovely. Lord Dubious
go to album
Live: September 2022
by Seawind of Battery

supported by 18 fans who also own “80”
go to album
Tides of a Teardrop
by Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange)

The forthcoming album from Mandolin Orange blends rustic Americana melodies with aching, orchestral arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 27, 2018
go to album
Meet Me at the River
by Dawn Landes

On “Meet Me By the River,” Dawn Landes’s self-described “Nashville record,” buoyant country melodies settle deep into lush instrumentation. Bandcamp New & Notable May 7, 2018
go to album
I Need to Start a Garden
by Haley Heynderickx

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 10, 2018
go to album
Noir & Jazz & Dark & Slow...
by NEONNOONE

supported by 17 fans who also own “80”

Lynchian vibes, all around. deafretrospective
go to album