Celestial Explosion, by Don Bikoff

Celestial Explosion

by Don Bikoff

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1.	Crystal Lakes Of Frangipani 03:39	buy track
2.	Bathing Prohibited In The River Styx 02:45	buy track
3.	Celestial Explosion 03:05	buy track
4.	Earth (Revisited) 02:39	buy track
5.	My Baby's Bass 03:25	buy track
6.	Rindler's Metamorphosis 03:08	buy track
7.	Riverside Park Blues 02:39	buy track
8.	Sonata #7, Opus 11 04:08	buy track
9.	The Ellipses Of Your Mind 02:36	buy track
10.	The Formentera Moors Are Stomping Tonight 03:29	buy track
11.	To Ellen 02:49	buy track
12.	Today Has No Tomorrow 04:06	buy track

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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.

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released March 8, 2014

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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

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