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A 'world fusion' trio from Eastern Bavaria produced three gorgeous private press LPs in the 1980s

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Bauer, Barthel, Böhm in the 1980s (photo courtesy of W. Barthel)

In 1976, a young Bavarian psychology student traveled to Turkey and heard local musicians playing the saz or bağlama, a traditional long-neck lute.

“I got goosebumps from its microtones”, Wolfgang Barthel recounts almost half a century later, on the phone from his home in Regensburg.

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